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1) The bell jar
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 212
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche...
2) Feed
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
3) Zoo
Author
Series
Zoo novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
As coordinated attacks by animals against humans increase and escalate, young biologist Jackson Oz and ecologist Chloe Tousignant warn world leaders that soon there will be nowhere left for humans.
All over the world, animals are going crazy, viciously attacking humans and transforming entire cities into vast killing fields of human prey. After witnessing a savage lion attack, young New York biologist Jackson Oz realizes that these outbreaks have...
Author
Series
Song of the lioness volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
From Tamora Pierce, the final book in the Song of the Lioness Quartet, honored with the Margaret A. Edwards Award.Having achieved her dream of becoming the first female knight errant, Alanna of Trebond is not sure what to do next. She has triumphed in countless bloody battles, and her adventures are already legendary. Perhaps being a knight errant is not all that Alanna needsbut Alanna must push her uncertainty aside when she is challenged with the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
New Jersey high school teacher Mr. McAllister faces a personal and professional crisis when he decides to fix the student body election, while at the same time dealing with an unexpected attraction to his wife's best friend.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
Shaun David Hutchinson was nineteen. Confused. Struggling to find the vocabulary to understand and accept who he was and how he fit into a community in which he couldnt see himself. The voice of depression told him that he would never be loved or wanted, while powerful and hurtful messages from society told him that being gay meant love and happiness werent for him.A million moments large and small over the years all came together to convince Shaun...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
The story of a family in the making and the wondrously neurotic dog who taught them what really matters in life. Is it possible for humans to discover the key to happiness through a bigger-than-life, bad-boy dog? Just ask the Grogans.--From publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
Discusses the interaction between people and horses, the horse as a social animal, its intelligence, abilities to communicate, athletic abilities, and physical evolution.
9) Orphaned
Author
Series
Ape quartet volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Snub is a young female gorilla, somewhat jealous because her mother is occupied with a new baby, curious of the world around her, a world that is being reshaped by shaking ground and mountains that bleed fire, and most terrifyingly by a new form of predator that walks on two legs; when her mother is killed Snub finds herself in charge of her baby brother--and accompanied by one of the not-gorillas, a very young female who has been orphaned by the...
10) For one more day
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In an inspirational debut novel by the author of Tuesdays with Morrie, Charles "Chick" Benetto, grieving over the death of his mother, uses alcohol as a crutch to deal with his loneliness, isolation, and depression and the disintegration of his life, until an encounter with his mother's ghost brings him new awareness and leads him to attempt to put his life back together.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
On a September night in 1971, a few days after getting busted for dropping acid, a sixteen-year-old curls up in the corner of her ratty bedroom and begins to write. Now the truth can finally be revealed about the mysterious day long ago when the authorities found a child, calmly walking in the boiling desert, covered with blood. The girl is Roberta Rohbeson, and her rant against a world bounded by "the cruddy top bedroom of a cruddy rental house on...
12) Defending Taylor
Author
Series
Hundred Oaks volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Taylor, a senator's daughter, was captain of the soccer team and contender for valedictorian at her private school, but gets kicked out, sent to a rival high school, and soon she is falling for her brother's friend Ezra.
13) 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.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After getting in trouble yet again, popular high school senior Liam, who never seems to live up to his wealthy father's expectations, is sent to live in a trailer park with his gay "glam-rocker" uncle.
17) Prep: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
During the late 1980s, fourteen-year-old Lee Fiora leaves behind her close-knit, middle-class Indiana family to enroll in an elite co-ed boarding school in Massachusetts, becoming a shrewd observer of, and eventually a participant in, their rituals and customs.
Author
Series
Saga of Recluce volume 12
Publisher
TOR
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Khari is the best cooper in Brysta, one of the major cities in Nordia, and his life as been as ordered and dependable as his barrels. His trouble begins when he saves a neighbor's daughter from the violent advances of two upper-class men. Then he rescues an actual rape victim he finds unconscious in an alley, a blackstaffer, a young expatriate mage, from Recluce, and that makes his wife very uneasy. The culprit in both cases turns out to have been...
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