Catalog Search Results
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year old Jessie, still grieving over her mother's death, must move from Chicago to "The Valley," with a new stepfamily but has no new friends until an anonymous fellow student emails and offers to help her navigate the school's treacherous social waters.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After moving to a new town for her father's job, Clara learns that kids go missing from Pender every October and that a monster named the Mumbler may be responsible.
4) Aquamarine
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A love-struck mermaid named Aquamarine supplies adventure and insights to two twelve-year-old girls, life-long friends who are spending their last summer together before one of them moves away.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Following his parents' divorce, seventeen-year-old Evan moves with his mother and sister into an old house where the spirit of a teenager who died there awakens and mistakes him for her long-departed lover.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
While true-crime afficionado Ellery and her twin brother are staying with their grandmother in a Vermont community known for murder, a new friend goes missing and Ellery may be next.
Echo Ridge is small-town America. Ellery's never been there, but she's heard all about it. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen put the town on the map when she was killed. Now Ellery has to move there to live with...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old T.J. and her new friend, sixteen-year-old Elizabeth, a six-inch-high "Little" with a big chip on her shoulder, help one another as T.J. tries to adjust to her family's move from a farm to the big city and Elizabeth tries to make her own way in the world.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A psychological thriller by the author of The Darkest Corners finds Kacey moving from her volatile mother's home to the peaceful home of her father, stepmother and stepsiblings before being welcomed into a tight circle of friends who prove mercurial and manipulative in socially destructive ways.
Author
Series
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Catlyn Youngblood finally learns her family's secret, that they are descended from legendary vampire hunter Van Helsing, when, after she and her brothers settle into tiny Lost Lake, Florida, she feels an overpowering attraction to Jesse Raven, a vampire.
11) The fixer
Author
Series
The fixer (Jennifer Lynn Barnes) volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When her grandfather develops dementia, sixteen-year-old Tess, who has been keeping his Montana ranch going, is whisked away to Washington, D.C., by a sister she barely knows and thrown into a world of politics, power, wealth, love triangles, and family secrets.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Elle falls in love with Frank, the neighbor who helps her adjust to being on her own in a big city, but learning that he is transgendered turns her world upside-down.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Dan Cereill's life is turned upside-down when his father announces he is gay and leaves Dan and his mother with nothing, forcing them to move to an aunt's house, Dan to enroll in public school, and his mother to try to start a business, but the top thing on Dan's list is kissing Estelle, the girl next door.
14) Rotters
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
Grave-robbing. What kind of monster would do such a thing? It's true that Leonardo da Vinci did it, Shakespeare wrote about it, and the resurrection men of nineteenth-century Scotland practically made it an art. But none of this matters to Joey Crouch, a sixteen-year-old straight-A student living in Chicago with his single mom. For the most part, Joey's life is about playing the trumpet and avoiding the daily humiliations of high school. Everything...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When Norris, a black French Canadian, starts his junior year at an Austin, Texas, high school, he views his fellow students as clichés from "a bad 90s teen movie."
16) Chasing Lucky
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Returning to her historical New England hometown to help run the family bookstore, a budding photographer reconnects with the local bad boy, her former childhood best friend, during a poorly executed act of revenge that lands the wrong person in trouble.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
©2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
High school student "Meg" has changed identities so often that she hardly knows who she is anymore, and her family is falling apart, but she knows that two of the rules of witness protection are be forgettable and do not make friends--but in her new home in Louisiana a boy named Ethan is making that difficult.
18) The haunted
Author
Series
Haunted (Vega) volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
To evade her manipulative ex-boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Hendricks' family moves to small-town New York, where she joins the popular crowd, but only her outcast neighbor, Eddie, can help chase vindictive ghosts from her new house.
19) Deviant
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Danny Lopez reviews the path that led him from Las Vegas, Nevada, to an experimental school near Colorado Springs and then to his imminent death at the hands of a cat-killer ready for bigger prey.
20) A heart divided
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Kate, an aspiring playwright, moves from New Jersey to attend high school in the South, she becomes embroiled in a controversy to remove the school's Confederate flag symbol.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request