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Challenged in Washoe County Libraries
NYT - Young Adult
YA Books that Inspired Movies
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Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
The New York Times bestselling novel that inspired the hit film! This is the funniest book you’ll ever read about death. It is a universally acknowledged truth that high school sucks. But on the...
3) Prom
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Ash wants nothing to do with senior prom, but when disaster strikes and her desperate friend, Nat, needs her help to get it back on track, Ash's involvement transforms her life.
6) Woods runner
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
From his 1776 Pennsylvania homestead, thirteen-year-old Samuel, who is a highly-skilled woodsman, sets out toward New York City to rescue his parents from the band of British soldiers and Indians who kidnapped them after slaughtering most of their community. Includes historical notes.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Small but fast twelve-year-old Will Tyler, an avid football player in the down-and-out town of Forbes, Pennsylvania, takes matters into his own hands to try and finance the city's football team, giving the whole community hope in the process.
8) Powerless
Author
Series
Supers of Noble's Green volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Soon after moving to Noble's Green, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Daniel learns that his new friends have super powers that they will lose when they turn thirteen, unless he can use his brain power to protect them.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
After a tornado, Axel, who loves birds, finds an injured eaglet, and helps to rescue it--and also helps to resolve the problems in his broken family, and draw his father back home.
10) Love, Stargirl
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.
11) Killer
Author
Series
Pretty little liars volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Former best friends Emily, Aria, Hanna, and Spencer continue to live in fear as they struggle to keep hidden even more secrets and someone new begins stalking them via their cell phones.
12) Saving Marty
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"When Lorenzo adopts a runt piglet destined for auction, an unexpected, life-changing friendship forms"--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After discovering that her father has multiple sclerosis, fifteen-year-old Payton begins counselling sessions at school, which lead her to become interested in a boy in her biology class, have a falling out with her best friend, develop an interest in bike riding, and eventually allow her to come to terms with life's uncertainties.
Author
Series
Nate volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When E.T.: The Musical closes, Nate reluctantly returns home to begin high school and, with his best friend, Libby, makes a project of turning Dickens' Great Expectations into a musical.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After an injury ends former star pitcher Peter Friedman's athletic dreams, he concentrates on photography which leads him to a girlfriend, new fame as a high school sports photographer, and a deeper relationship with the beloved grandfather who, when he realizes he is becoming senile, gives Pete all of his professional camera gear.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
cp2011
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Cole's behavior causes his mother to drive him from Detroit to Philadelphia to live with a father he has never known, but who soon has Cole involved with a group of African-American "cowboys" who rescue horses and use them to steer youths away from drugs and gangs.
17) My own lightning
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
It’s been several months since the tragic events set in motion by bully Betty Glengarry, and the routine of daily life in Wolf Hollow has slowly returned. But for Annabelle McBride it’s hard to move forward and make peace with what feels like threadbare justice. Newly warm summer days are about to bring a jolt of change on the winds of a powerful storm. In its wake, the search for her brother’s missing dog will set Annabelle on a new path...
19) Witch twins
Author
Series
Witch twins volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
Troubled about being separated at school and preoccupied with sabotaging their father's marriage, ten-year-old witches, Claire and Luna, have little time to think of something good, smart and tricky to do that will finally make them one-star witches.
20) Crow call
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Liz accompanies the stranger who is her father, just returned from the war, when he goes hunting for crows in Pennsylvania farmland.
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