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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
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An Artist's Life: Historical Fiction about Art
Art & Artist Fiction
Coming of Age Stories
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Coming of Age Stories
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"A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds him of his mother: a small, mysteriously captivating painting that ultimately draws Theo into the art underworld. Composed with the skills...
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Millie Price deals with her lovable but introverted dad, her drama club rival, Oliver, and her "Millie Moods," the feelings of intense emotion that threaten to overwhelm, but when an accidentally left-open browser brings Millie to her dad's embarrassingly moody LiveJournal, Millie knows she must find her mom.
5) Ink exchange
Author
Series
Wicked lovely volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Leslie wants a tattoo as a way of reclaiming control of herself and her body, but the eerie image she selects pulls her into the dangerous Dark Court of the faeries, where she draws on inner strength to make a horrible choice.
6) Matched
Author
Series
Matched trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"The hottest YA title to hit bookstores since The Hunger Games."--Entertainment Weekly. This New York Times bestseller is perfect for fans of 1984, Brave New World, Black Mirror, and The Handmaids Tale. Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows he is her ideal mate . . . until she sees Ky Markham's...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Chronic overachiever Prudence Daniels is always quick to cast judgment on the lazy, rude, and arrogant residents of her coastal town. Her dreams of karmic justice are fulfilled when, after a night out with her friends, she wakes up with the sudden ability to cast instant karma on those around her. Pru giddily makes use of the power, punishing everyone from public vandals to mean gossips, but there is one person on whom her powers consistently backfire:...
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Raised by parents so intentionally isolated that they speak their own hybrid dialect, abused youth Marjorie witnesses her parents' submission to a sadistic cult leader before she is rescued by another abuse survivor who teaches her stoneworking skills.
9) 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.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Nanette O'Hare, a star student and athlete, is given a mysterious out-of-print cult classic novel by her beloved teacher that sparks the rebel within her, but as she befriends the reclusive author and attempts to insert her true self into the world with wild abandon, Nanette learns the hard way that sometimes rebellion comes at a high price.
12) The alchemist
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
"A special 25th anniversary edition of Paulo Coehlo's extraordinary international bestselling phenomenon--the inspiring spiritual tale of self-discovery that has touched millions of lives around the world.Combing magic, mysticism, wisdom and wonder, The Alchemist has become a modern classic, selling millions of copies around the world and transforming the lives of countless readers across generations. Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For every woman who has ever fantasized about driving past her exit on the highway instead of going home to make dinner, for every woman who has ever dreamed of boarding a train to a place where no one needs constant attention--meet Maribeth Klein, a harried working mother who's so busy taking care of her husband and twins, she doesn't even realize she's had a heart attack. Afterward, surprised to discover that her recuperation seems to be an imposition...
14) Ash
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In this variation on the Cinderella story, Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress whom she loves.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After losing his brother, mom, and most of his friends, Aaron Stein is left with his shambolic father alone in their moldering secondhand bookstore, but just when he considers selling the store he meets new people and takes on new challenges, helping him come to terms with what he has lost and who he wants to be.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When she comes to the realization that she has no real friends despite her many followers on social media, Mari decides to hike the John Muir Trail using her cousin's boots and trail diary.
17) Dare me: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After a suspicious suicide, the members of a high school cheerleading squad, along with their new, perfectly cool coach, Colette French, are drawn into the investigation.
18) Always a catch
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Jack and his father have never seen eye to eye--until Jack’s dad gives him the chance to transfer to Oakhurst his junior year. His dad sees it as a way for Jack to get into a good college; Jack sees it as refuge from his dad. Oakhurst is more than an escape--it's a chance for Jack to do something new, to try out for the football team. Once Jack makes the team, he’s thrust into a foreign world--one of intense hazing, vitamin supplements,...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
A mixed-heritage dancer's coming of age within the African diaspora is shaped by abuse at the hands of a cousin, her mother's descent into addiction, and her father's efforts to create a Nigerian-inspired home in America.
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