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61) Keep quiet
Author
Language
English
Description
"Jake Whitmore is enjoying a rare bonding moment with his sixteen-year-old son, Kurt, when disaster strikes. They get in a terrible car accident that threatens to derail not only Kurt's chances at college, but his entire future. Jake makes a split-second decision that saves his son from formal punishment, but plunges them both into a world of guilt, lies, and secrecy. Just when Jake thinks he has everything under control, a malevolent outsider comes...
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Henry Holloway isn't immoral, he's just hungry. His mother died when he was nine, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Andy and his friends, all amiable small-time crooks. When Uncle Andy is sent to prison, Henry takes up residence in an abandoned tree house in order to escape the notice of Social Services. His mission? To survive on his own while preserving his cherished independence. Fortunately, Henry possesses all the skills...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
Description
"Dave is fourteen years old, living with his family in a cabin on Oregon's Mount Hood (or as Dave prefers to call it, like the Native Americans once did, Wy'east). He is entering high school, adulthood on the horizon not far off in distance, and contemplating a future away from his mother, father, and his precocious younger sister. And Dave is not the only one approaching adulthood and its freedoms on Wy'east that summer. Martin, a pine marten (a...
64) Brighton rock
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Set in Brighton among the criminal rabble, the story depicts the tragic career of a 17 year-old boy named Pinkie whose primary ambition is to lead a gang to rival that of the wealthy and established Calleoni
Presents a reprint of Graham Greene's 1938 novel about Pinkie Brown, a teenage gangster who tries to establish himself in the Brighton underworld, describing his criminal ambitions, and the events surrounding the murder of corrupt newspaperman...
66) Almost home
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Why would anyone choose to live on the streets? There is Eeyore, just twelve years old when she runs away from her priveleged home, harboring a secret she's too ashamed to tell anyone. Rusty is a sensitive gay teen who winds up alone when his older boyfriend ditches him in Hollywood. Squid has gone through too many foster homes to count. There's Scabius, a delusional punk from Utah who takes the "me against the world" motto to dangerous extremes....
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
While backpacking in the desert, thirteen-year-old Mark falls into a tube of blue light and is transported into a more primitive world, where he must use his knowledge and skills to survive.
Author
Series
Trailsman volume 353
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Petey Evans wants to become just like his hero, Skye Fargo. Fargo gives the boy a quick course in shooting, scouting, and surviving he won't soon forget. However, Petey soon discovers that there are some things that can't be taught--even by the Trailsman.
73) Infinity
Author
Series
Chronicles of Nick volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Streetwise, tough, and savvy, Nick and his quick sarcasm are the stuff of legend... until the night when his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity. With his fellow students turning into flesh-eating zombies, how can he stop them... without getting grounded by his mom?
74) Anthill: a novel
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Inspirational and magical, this is the story of a boy who grows up determined to save the world from its most savage ecological predator: man himself.
75) The black
Author
Series
Morpheus Road volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Cooper Foley, who has a knack for getting into trouble, ends up in the middle of a border war between the worlds of the living and the dead, trying to find out about the mysterious Morpheus Road.
76) Otherbound
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Amara is never alone. Not when she's protecting the cursed princess she unwillingly serves. Not when they're fleeing across dunes and islands and seas to stay alive. Not when she's punished, ordered around, or neglected. She can't be alone, because a boy from another world experiences all that alongside her, looking through her eyes. Nolan longs for a life uninterrupted. Every time he blinks, he's yanked from his Arizona town into Amara's mind, a...
Author
Series
Intervention novels volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Lance Covington finds the abandoned baby of a drug addict, he is accused of kidnapping, and his mother Barbara looks for help from her old lover, Kent Harlan.
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