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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year old Jessie, still grieving over her mother's death, must move from Chicago to "The Valley," with a new stepfamily but has no new friends until an anonymous fellow student emails and offers to help her navigate the school's treacherous social waters.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.
The award-winning, genre-defining debut from John Green, the #1 international bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down and The Fault in Our Stars. Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award. Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist. New York...
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Series
Ravenspire volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In this retelling of Rumpelstiltskin, follows the adventures of Ari, an illegitimate princess who in an effort to escape her twin brother's fate, trains to be a fighter so that she can defeat an evil wish granter.
4) The fear
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Somebody in the town of Rock Bay has posted a "share this post and your own deepest death fear" meme and it seems that everybody but Izzy has shared the creepy graphic; nobody knows who posted it, but soon people start dying, and it seems that the meme is part of a plot to extract revenge on the high school students of Rock Bay--Izzy is determined to investigate, but what she uncovers is her own worst nightmare.
5) Vengeance
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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It seems Decker is the only person who does not believe that Falcon Lake under a curse somehow connected to his best friend Delaney, but everything changes when Delaney senses the imminent death of Decker's father and says nothing.
6) The toll
Author
Series
Arc of a scythe volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Description
"Citra and Rowan have disappeared. Endura is gone. It seems like nothing stands between Scythe Goddard and absolute dominion over the world scythedom. With the silence of the Thunderhead and the reverberations of the Great Resonance still shaking the earth to its core, the question remains: Is there anyone left who can stop him? The answer lies in the Tone, the Toll, and the Thunder"--
7) The remedy
Author
Series
The Program. Prequels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Quinn provides closure to grieving families by taking on the short-term role of a deceased loved one, until huge secrets come to the surface about Quinn's own past.
8) Grave mercy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
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In the fifteenth-century kingdom of Brittany, seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where she learns that the god of Death has blessed her with dangerous gifts--and a violent destiny.
9) The Honeys
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
Mars has always been the lesser twin, the shadow to his sister Caroline's radiance. But when Caroline dies under horrific circumstances, Mars is propelled to learn all he can about his once-inseparable sister who'd grown tragically distant. Mars's genderfluidity means he's often excluded from the traditions -- and expectations -- of his politically-connected family. This includes attendance at the prestigious Aspen Conservancy Summer Academy where...
10) Irises
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kate, eighteen, and Mary, sixteen, must make some adult decisions about the course their lives should take when their loving but old-fashioned father dies suddenly, leaving them with their mother, who has been in a persistant vegetative state since an accident four years earlier.
11) Let's get lost
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
As she acts out the role of "Mean Girl"--at school, with her father and brother, and even with her new boyfriend--sixteen-year-old Isabel comes to a dead end and finally confronts issues related to her mother's death.
12) Catalyst
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Kate, who sometimes chafes at being a preacher's daughter, finds herself losing control in her senior year as she faces difficult neighbors, the possibility that she may not be accepted by the college of her choice, and an unexpected death.
13) Light it up
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Told from multiple viewpoints, Shae Tatum, an unarmed, thirteen-year-old black girl, is shot by a white police officer, throwing their community into upheaval and making it a target of demonstrators.
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Summer Stetson has always lived in the shadow of her dead sister, knowing she can never measure up in any way, but on her seventeenth birthday her aunt gives her Shannon's diary, which reveals painful but liberating truths about Summer's family and herself.
16) Coaltown Jesus
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Praying for help after the sudden death of his brother, Walker is astonished by the appearance of an irreverent Jesus in his bedroom who imparts unexpected strength and comfort while helping him understand some of life's biggest questions.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
New York Times bestselling author Adam Silvera reminds us that theres no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day. 4 starred reviews!On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: Theyre going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different...
18) Frío
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
Español
Description
Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
19) How it went down
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.
20) More than this
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
A boy named Seth drowns, losing his life as the pounding sea claims him. But then he wakes. He is naked, thirsty, starving. But alive. How is that possible? He remembers dying. So how is he here? And where is this place? It looks like the suburban English town where he lived as a child, before an unthinkable tragedy happened and his family moved to America. But the neighborhood around his old house is overgrown, covered in dust, and completely abandoned....
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