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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious "Dear Old Dad," but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, so he secretly helps the police apprehend the town's newest murderer, "The Impressionist."
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
Jazz Dent, who has been shot and left to die in New York City, his girlfriend, Connie, who is in the clutches of Jazz's serial killer father, Billy, and his best friend, Howie, who is bleeding to death on the floor of Jazz's own home in tiny Lobo's Nod, must all rise above the horrors their lives have become and find a way to come together in pursuit of Billy.
3) Half wild
Author
Series
Half bad trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, seventeen-year-old Nathan has come into his own unique magical Gift, but he is on the run with the Hunters close behind, and they will stop at nothing until they have captured Nathan and destroyed his father.
5) Half bad
Author
Series
Half bad trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In modern-day England, where witches live alongside humans, Nathan, son of a White witch and the most powerful Black witch, must escape captivity before his seventeenth birthday and receive the gifts that will determine his future.
6) Hero
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Thom Creed, the gay son of a disowned superhero, finds that he, too, has special powers and is asked to join the very League that rejected his father, and it is there that Thom finds other misfits whom he can finally trust.
8) The hero
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Despite his father's rules and his own fear of the water, fourteen-year-old Jamie joins his older cousin in taking the raft they made out onto the river, where a tragic accident leads Jamie to make the most difficult decision of his life.
10) Conviction
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"A small-town boy questions everything he holds to be true when his father is accused of murder"--
11) Pool boy
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When his father is arrested for insider trading and his family loses all their money, Brett Gerson takes a job as an assistant to a 70-something pool cleaner in his former wealthy California neighborhood and learns some valuable life lessons.
12) Bullet point
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The only thing seventeen-year-old Wyatt knew about his biological father was that he was serving a life sentence, but circumstances and a new girlfriend bring them together and soon Wyatt is working to prove his father's innocence.
13) Shadow boxer
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After their father dies of boxing injuries, George is determined to prevent his younger brother, who sees boxing as his legacy, from pursuing a career in the sport.
14) Jason & Kyra
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Handsome and popular Jason tries to come to terms with his irascible, often absent father and his growing attraction to the quiet, studious Kyra.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c1972
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
To a thirteen-year-old Vermont farm boy whose father slaughters pigs for a living, maturity comes early as he learns "doing what's got to be done," especially regarding his pet pig who cannot produce a litter.
16) Epitaph Road
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 2097, men are a small and controlled minority in a utopian world ruled by women, and fourteen-year-old Kellen must fight to save his father from an outbreak of the virus that killed ninety-seven percent of the male population thirty years earlier.
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.
18) Mexican whiteboy
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Danny searches for his identity amidst the confusion of being half-Mexican and half-white while spending a summer with his cousin and new friends on the baseball fields and back alleys of San Diego County, California.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
c2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Finn Easton, sixteen and epileptic, struggles to feel like more than just a character in his father's cult-classic novels with the help of his best friend, Cade Hernandez, and first love, Julia, until Julia moves away.
Author
Publisher
SSBFYR
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Kevin tries to reinvent himself when he runs away from home and the father he hates, but living with a mysterious uncle and befriending two homeless girls just adds more complications.
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