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1) Crank
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Kristina Snow is the perfect daughter, but she meets a boy who introduces her to drugs and becomes a very different person, struggling to control her life and her mind.
Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter, gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what...
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When his best friend disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, thirteen-year-old Theo uses his legal knowledge and investigative skills to chase down the truth and save April.
3) 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.
4) Rumble
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Matt's atheism is tested when, after a horrific accident of his own making that plunges him into a dark, quiet place, he hears a voice that calls everything he has ever disbelieved into question.
5) 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.
6) Check & mate
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
When eighteen-year-old Mallory begrudgingly agrees to return to chess in one last charity tournament, her surprise upset against Nolan Sawyer, the reigning world champ and bad boy of the chess world, sets her on an worldwin adventure as she rediscovers her passion for the game.
''In this clever and swoonworthy YA debut from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis, life's moving pieces bring rival chess players together in a match...
7) Identical
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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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....
10) Blazed
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When his manic-depressive mother is institutionalized after trying to kill herself, fourteen-year-old Jaime is sent to San Franciso to live with his estranged father, whom Jaime blames for his mother's problems.
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Nic Chen refuses to spend her senior year branded as the girl who cheated on her charismatic and lovable boyfriend. To redefine her reputation among her Ivy Leagueobsessed classmates, Nic begins writing their college admissions essays.But the more essays Nic writes for other people, the less sure she becomes of herself, the kind of person she is, and whether her moral compass even points north anymore.
Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Joey tries to keep his life from degenerating into total chaos when his mother sends him to be home-schooled with a hostile blind girl, his divorced parents cannot stop fighting, and his grandmother is dying of emphysema.
14) Come find me
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, sixteen-year-old Kennedy Jones and seventeen-year-old Nolan Chandler are drawn together by strange signals related to family tragedies, and find they are more connected than they could have imagined.
15) Every day after
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"A young girl fights to keep her mama out of the mental ward, her home away from the bank, and herself out of the orphanage after her father abandons her and her mother in depression era Alabama"--
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.
17) Over you
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"A novel about two girls on the run from their problems, their pasts, and themselves. Max and Sadie are escaping to Nebraska, but they'll soon learn they can't escape the truth"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Nola Sutton has always been friends with the Swift boys, Cannaan, Brian, and Kevin, but when their father leaves them without saying good-bye the boys start to change, and her long-time friends begin to pull away from her at a time when she needs them more than ever.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
In 1966, when his father's attempted suicide causes the ostracism of the family in their small Montana community, fourteen-year-old Nate copes with his sadness and anger by trying to win the school science fair.
20) Season of change
Author
Series
Sisters in all seasons volume 5
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Stephanie's father and Diana's mother go on a marriage retreat to deal with some big problems, Stephanie goes to cheerleading camp and Diana stays with her father, but when everyone returns, things seem worse than ever.
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