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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.
2) 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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Formats
Description
At cheerleading camp, Hermione is drugged and raped, but she is not sure whether it was one of her teammates or a boy on another team--and in the aftermath she has to deal with the rumors in her small Ontario town, the often awkward reaction of her classmates, the rejection of her boyfriend, the discovery that her best friend, Polly, is gay, and above all the need to remember what happened so that the guilty boy can be brought to justice.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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For Fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid
Life in Middle School
NYT - Children’s Paperback Books
Read-Alikes for the Dork Diaries
Life in Middle School
NYT - Children’s Paperback Books
Read-Alikes for the Dork Diaries
Description
When Rafe Khatchadorian enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.
6) Smoke
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of her abusive father and loss of her beloved Ethan and their unborn child, Pattyn runs away, desperately seeking peace, as her younger sister, a sophomore in high school, also tries to put the pieces of her life back together.
7) 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.
8) Beetle Boy
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Terrible memories resurface when Charlie's girlfriend asks questions about his childhood.
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.
10) Academy 7
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Aerin Renning and Dane Madousin struggle as incoming students at the most exclusive academy in the Universe, both hiding secrets that are too painful to reveal, not realizing that those very secrets link them together.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Adam not only is trying to understand his OCD, while trying to balance his relationship with his divorced parents, but he's also trying to navigate through the issues that teenagers normally face, namely the perils of young love"--
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....
13) Things change
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Johanna, one of the best students in her class, develops a passionate attachment for troubled seventeen-year-old Paul and finds her plans for the future changing in unexpected ways.
14) Splintering
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Relates, in a series of poems from different perspectives, the events and after-effects of an intruder's violent attack on a family.
15) Without Tess
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Lizzie Cohen recalls what it was like growing up with her imaginative but disturbed older sister Tess, and how she is striving to reclaim her own life since Tess died.
16) Pearl
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After fifteen-year-old Bean's beloved grandfather Gus dies, she discovers uncomfortable secrets about him, her mother, and the father she has never known.
17) 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.
18) Shooting stars
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old paparazzo Jo forms an unexpected bond with teen idol Ned Hartnett after going undercover to sneak pictures of him.
20) Blink & Caution
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Two teenagers who are living on the streets and barely getting by become involved in a complicated criminal plot, and make an unexpected connection with each other.
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