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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE
The elegant and compelling novel about a Pakistani man's abandonment of his high-flying life in New York—an extraordinary portrait of a divided and yet ultimately indivisible world in America post-9/11.
At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. He begins...
SHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE
The elegant and compelling novel about a Pakistani man's abandonment of his high-flying life in New York—an extraordinary portrait of a divided and yet ultimately indivisible world in America post-9/11.
At a café table in Lahore, a bearded Pakistani man converses with an uneasy American stranger. He begins...
3) Monster
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Having been recently dumped for the nineteenth time by a girl named Katherine, recent high school graduate and former child prodigy Colin sets off on a road trip with his best friend to try to find some new direction in life while also trying to create a mathematical formula to explain his relationships.
6) Indigo
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When her mother dies, Martha is so unhappy living in the dried-up town of Oak Grove, that she convinces two unusual brothers who long to return to the ocean to run away with her.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Roddy and Nick, two teenagers with magical powers they are just learning to use, find that they must work together to save Roddy's home world of Blest from destruction by power-hungry wizards.
8) Red rage
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Mara, who has a violent temper, uses rage to offer her relief from the world, but when an unspeakable event occurs, she is forced to look inward and discover something about herself.
9) Boy girl boy
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Three troubled high school seniors, who plan to run away together from Illinois to California after graduation, try to figure out who they are who they want to be.
10) Flipped
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.
11) Chime
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Formats
Description
In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, seventeen-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about.
12) Walking naked
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After being in detention with a girl called "The Freak," Megan finds herself torn between the developing friendship the two share and her involvement with a popular clique.
13) Bruised
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When she freezes during a hold-up at the local diner, sixteen-year-old Imogen, a black belt in Tae Kwan Do, has to rebuild her life, including her relationship with her family and with the boy who was with her during the shoot-out.
Author
Series
Will Carter books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Will Carter's summer gets off to a bad start when his girlfriend leaves him, but then he is cast opposite a major star, Hilary Idaho, in a small movie being filmed in his town and things start looking up.
Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 12
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
During the summer between eighth and ninth grades, Alice and her friends Pamela and Elizabeth decide to improve themselves through exercise.
16) Deadline
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben Wolf decides to fulfill his greatest fantasies, ponders his life's purpose and legacy, and converses through dreams with a spiritual guide known as "Hey-Soos."
17) Locked inside
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After she is kidnapped from the exclusive boarding school she attends, heiress Marnie Skyedottir must rethink her idealized relationship with her mother, her own sense of who she is, and her relationships with others.
18) Have a nice day
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When Anna returns from a three-week stay in a mental hospital she struggles to resume a normal life in the face of her parents' arguments and peers who are afraid to ask her what happened.
Author
Series
Jenna Fox chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the not-too-distant future, when biotechnological advances have made synthetic bodies and brains possible but illegal, a seventeen-year-old girl, recovering from a serious accident and suffering from memory lapses, learns a startling secret about her existence.
20) Talk
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Hoping to escape from himself for awhile, Kit auditions for a controversial school play and discovers his talent for acting, struggles with coming out, and both he and his costar face crises in their view of themselves and in their close relationships. Told from two points of view.
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