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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Told in alternating voices, when Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school--both teetering on the edge--it's the beginning of an unlikely relationship, a journey to discover the "natural wonders" of the state of Indiana, and two teens' desperate desire to heal and save one another"
3) Tricks
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love.
5) Fallout
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.
6) Speak
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
Author
Series
If I stay volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Adam, now a rising rock star, and Mia, a successful cellist, reunite in New York and reconnect after the horrific events that tore them apart when Mia almost died in a car accident three years earlier.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Rosaline Caplet and Rob Monteg have finally become a couple at their high school, but when Rosie's cousin Juliet moves back into town and pursues Rob, Rosie starts to worry not just about Rob's emotions, but about his very life.
"What’s in a name, Shakespeare? I’ll tell you: everything. Rosaline knows that she and Rob are destined to be together. Rose has been waiting for years for Rob to kiss her—and when he finally does, it’s perfect....
Author
Series
Publisher
David & Charles [distributor]
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Provides parents advice on dealing with defiant children, with information on how to defuse the negativity, hostility, antagonism, and explosive anger that can ruin a child's relationship with family, friends, teachers, and other authority figures.
11) Orbiting Jupiter
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice"--
12) The crossing
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Manny, a street kid fighting for survival in a Mexican border town, develops a strange friendship with an emotionally disturbed American soldier who decides to help him get across the border.
13) Yolk
Author
Language
English
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Description
Struggling with emotional problems and an eating disorder, Jayne, a Korean American college student living in New York City, is estranged from her accomplished older sister June, until June gets cancer.
14) I will save you
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Kidd Ellison runs away to work for the summer at a beach campsite in California where his hard work and good looks lead to friendship and love but painful past memories surface in menacing ways.
15) Bait
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Diego keeps getting into trouble because of his explosive temper until he finally finds a probation officer who helps him get to the root of his anger so that he can stop running from his past.
16) Cut me free
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"A seventeen year old barely escapes her abusive parents and creates a new identity that is quickly compromised when her attempt to save a young girl attracts a deadly stalker"--
17) Amandine
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Her first week at a new school, shy, plain Delia befriends Amandine, not anticipating the dangerous turns their friendship would take.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, sixth-grade cousins Hannah and Cal learn a lot about family when circumstances throw them together under one roof and Hannah's love of order clashes with Cal's chaotic behavior.
20) Finding perfect
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"With some help from her siblings and friends, Molly is able to face her OCD and be strong enough to get help for it"--
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