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Mickey Bolitar novels volume 1
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English
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After tragic events tear Mickey Bolitar away from his parents, he is forced to live with his estranged Uncle Myron and switch high schools, where he finds both friends and enemies, but when his new new girlfriend, Ashley, vanishes, he follows her trail into a seedy underworld that reveals she is not what she seems to be.
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Now a major motion picture by Lynne Ramsay, starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, Lionel Shrivers resonant story of a mothers unsettling quest to understand her teenage sons deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the explosive link between them reverberates with the haunting power of high hopes shattered by dark realities. Like Shrivers charged and incisive later novels, including So Much for That and The Post-Birthday World,...
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English
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"True biz? The students at the River Valley School for the Deaf just want to hook up, pass their history final, and have doctors, politicians, and their parents stop telling them what to do with their bodies. This revelatory novel plunges readers into the halls of a residential school for the deaf, where they'll meet Charlie, a rebellious transfer student who's never met another deaf person before; Austin, the school's golden boy, whose world is rocked...
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Publisher
Biblioasis
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English
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"Jamie O'Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of certain objects, books with dust jackets, rivers, cats, and Edgar Allan Poe. At age thirteen, there are two things he wants most in life: to build a Perpetual Motion Machine, and to connect with his mother, Noelle, who died when he was born. In his mind, these things are intimately linked, and at his new school, despite the daily barrage...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Fifteen-year-old high school sophomore Marisa, who has an anxiety disorder, decides that this is the year she will get what she wants--a boyfriend and a social life--but things do not turn out exactly the way she expects them to.
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Golden Age (Carrie Vaughn) volume 2
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Anna, the daughter of a telepath and a powerful businesswoman and granddaughter of two famous superheroes, has trouble hiding her own superpowers as she and her friends train to become the next great team of masked vigilantes.
8) Emory's gift
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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In 1974, when thirteen-year-old Charlie Hall's mother dies and his father retreats into silent grief, Charlie finds himself drifting, nearly friendless, through a northern Idaho junior high school but when a grizzly bear saves his life, Charlie forms an unusual friendship that changes his life.
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English
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"One Perfect Lie is an emotional thriller and a suburban crime story that will keep you guessing until you turn the very last page. On the surface, it tells the tale of the struggling single mother of a high-school pitcher, a shy kid so athletically talented that he's being recruited for a full-ride scholarship to a Division I college, with a future in major-league baseball. But the mother fears that she's losing her grip on her son because he's being...
10) Smiles to go
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Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Will Tuppence's life has always been ruled by science and common sense but in ninth grade, shaken up by the discovery that protons decay, he begins to see the entire world differently and gains new perspective on his relationships with his little sister and two closest friends.
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2019.
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English
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In 1982 in a southern city, David and Sarah, two freshmen at a highly competitive performing arts high school, thrive alongside their school peers in a rarified bubble, ambitiously devoting themselves to their studiesto music, to movement, to Shakespeare and, particularly, to classes taught by the magnetic acting teacher Mr. Kingsley. It is here in these halls that David and Sarah fall innocently and powerfully into first love. And also where, as...
12) A map to the sun
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First Second
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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Follows a year in the life of Ren, dealing with family troubles, her role on a struggling girls' basketball team, and the return of her old friend Luna, who hopes to rekindle their friendship.
13) The Saints
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Series
Quarantine volume 2
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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The world inside an infected Colorado high school quarantined by the government takes a startling turn for the worse when a new gang enters the school and starts gaining power.
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Publisher
Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Overweight, self-assured, high school senior Jamie Carcaterra writes in the school newspaper about her own attitude to being fat, her boyfriend's bariatric surgery, and her struggles to be taken seriously in a very thin world.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Tracy Flick is back and, once again, the iconic protagonist of Tom Perrotta's Election-and Reese Witherspoon's character from the classic movie adaptation-is determined to take high school politics by storm.Tracy Flick is a hardworking assistant principal at a public high school in suburban New Jersey. Still ambitious but feeling a little stuck and underappreciated in midlife, Tracy gets a jolt of good news when the longtime principal, Jack Weede,...
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Series
TJ and the time stumblers volume 1
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After she accidentally makes an enemy of superstar Hesper Breakahart on her first day at Malibu Junior High, thirteen-year-old TJ's troubles multiply when two twenty-third century students, who have traveled back in time to observe her for a history project, decide to help her.
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Series
Hourglass door trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When Dante, a Master of Time, is sent into the past to find Zo, Tony, and V, Abby knows that he will need her help to prevent the trio from destroying time itself, but soon things start to change as Zo targets Abby's past.
18) Invision
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Series
Chronicles of Nick volume 7
Language
English
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Now in possession of the Eye of Ananke, Nick battles the demons within him all while his archnemesis is intent on reclaiming his place as the harbinger of Armageddon.
19) Defying the diva
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Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
During Haley's freshman year of high school, a campaign of gossip and bullying causes her to be socially ostracized, but after spending the summer living with her aunt, working at a resort, making new friends, and dating a hunky lifeguard, she learns how to stand up for herself and begins to trust again.
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Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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When she is almost sixteen years old, Rosemary decides she is sick of being overweight, mocked at school and at Heavenly Hair--her mother's beauty salon--and feeling out of control, and as she slowly loses weight, she realizes that she is able to cope with her mother's cancer, having a boyfriend for the first time, and discovering that other people's lives are not as perfect as they seem from the outside.
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