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1) Bang!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
A teenage boy must face the harsh realities of inner city life, a disintegrating family, and destructive temptations as he struggles to find his identity as a young man.
3) Burned
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Pattyn, the eldest daughter in a large Mormon family, is sent to her aunt's Nevada ranch for the summer, where she temporarily escapes her alcoholic, abusive father and finds love and acceptance, only to lose everything when she returns home.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her younger brother, Tyler, commits suicide, Lex struggles to work through her grief in the face of a family that has fallen apart, the sudden distance between her and her friends, and memories of Tyler that still feel all too real.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When his family moves to a secluded area in western New Jersey after his brother is murdered, Gabriel finds himself involved with three other teenagers, each with his or her own problems, in a series of increasingly violent acts.
7) Shooter
Author
Publisher
Amistad/HarperTempest
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Written in the form of interviews, reports, and journal entries, the story of three troubled teenagers ends in a tragic school shooting.
8) Endgame
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Gray Wilton, bullied at school and ridiculed by an unfeeling father for preferring drums to hunting, goes on a shooting rampage at his high school.
9) Doppelganger
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When a sixteen-year-old member of a race of shape-shifting killers called doppelgangers assumes the life of a troubled teen, he becomes unexpectedly embroiled in human life--and it is nothing like what he has seen on television.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In the three years since her father caught her in the back seat of a car with an older boy, sixteen-year-old Deanna's life at home and school has been a nightmare, but while dreaming of escaping with her brother and his family, she discovers the power of forgiveness.
11) Claws: a novel
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Jed and Laura, two popular Minnesota high school students, find their seemingly perfect lives suddenly in chaos when they discover that each has a parent who is having an affair with the other.
12) Parrotfish
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Grady, a transgendered high school student, yearns for acceptance by his classmates and family as he struggles to adjust to his new identity as a male.
14) Cut
Author
Publisher
Push
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While confined to a mental hospital, thirteen-year-old Callie slowly comes to understand some of the reasons behind her self-mutilation, and gradually starts to get better.
15) My kind of crazy
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Hank Kirby's life has been filled with disasters, but when Peyton Breedlove, a budding pyromaniac, witnesses Hank nearly burning a girl's house down, she blackmails Hank into an unusual friendship.
16) Revolution
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
An angry, grieving seventeen-year-old musician facing expulsion from her prestigious Brooklyn private school travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution by a young actress attempting to help a tortured, imprisoned little boy--Louis Charles, the lost king of France.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Isadora, the mortal daughter of Isis and Osiris, is sick of being in the middle of family drama so she jumps at the chance to leave Egypt and start a new life in San Diego with her brother.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In small-town Ohio, fifteen-year-old Jay Baker's popular new blog helps him navigate high school as he faces off against his mortal enemy, meets the girl of his dreams, and watches his parents' relationship implode.
19) Take me there
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After violating his parole, seventeen-year-old, semi-literate Dylan Dawson drives from California to Texas to try to see his father on death row in an attempt to figure out how his own life has gone so terribly awry.
20) Nobel genes
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A boy whose manic-depressive mother has always told him that his father won a Nobel Prize, spends his time taking care of her and searching for clues to the identity of the Nobel Prize-winning sperm donor, eventually finding a truth he must learn to accept.
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