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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Banned Books Week
Challenged in Washoe County Libraries
One World, Many Stories 9th - 12th
Read-Alikes for Angie Thomas
Challenged in Washoe County Libraries
One World, Many Stories 9th - 12th
Read-Alikes for Angie Thomas
Description
Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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'Leave the World Behind' Read Alikes
NYT - Paperback Mass-Market Fiction
Obama's Reading Lists
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NYT - Paperback Mass-Market Fiction
Obama's Reading Lists
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Description
There she sits, the girl on the train. What she sees gazing out the window, will change everything. Every day the same. Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning and night. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She looks forward to it. She's even started to feel like she knows them. Jess and Jason...
Author
Series
Honeymoon thrillers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When a young investment banker dies under suspicious circumstances, FBI agent John O'Hara pursues a suspicion that the victim's beautiful bride is responsible.
4) What we saw
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"The story of a town torn apart by the events surrounding the rape of drunk girl at a house party, from the perspective of the partygoers who witnessed it"--
5) Ten big ones
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum witnesses a gang-executed robbery and police officer shooting and finds herself targeted by a California-based killer looking to claim the price that is subsequently placed on her head.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Mickey Haller has fallen on tough times. He expands his business into foreclosure defense, only to see one of his clients accused of killing the banker she blames for trying to take away her home. Mickey puts his team into high gear to exonerate Lisa Trammel, even though the evidence and his own suspicions tell him his client is guilty. Soon after he learns that the victim had black market dealings of his own, Haller is assaulted, too--and he's certain...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Stephanie Plum finds herself in trouble when her seatmate on her Hawaii to Newark flight winds up dead and a motley collection of thugs, as well as the FBI, search for a photo the man was reportedly carrying--a photo that only Stephanie has seen.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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"When 13-year-old Jace Wilson witnesses a brutal murder, he's plunged into a new life, issued a false identity and hidden in a wilderness skills program for troubled teens. The plan is to get Jace off the grid while police find the two killers. The result is the start of a nightmare. The killers, known as the Blackwell Brothers, are slaughtering anyone who gets in their way in a methodical quest to reach him. Now all that remains between them and...
9) Gone
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Detective Michael Bennett must stop master criminal and assassin Manuel Perrine who has sworn to find and kill Bennett and everyone dear to him.
Manuel Perrine doesn't fear anyone or anything. A charismatric and ruthless Mexican strongman, Perrine slaughters rivals as effortlessly as he wears his trademark white linen suits. Detective Michael Bennett is the only US official ever to succeed at putting Perrine behind bars -- but now Perrine is out,...
10) How it went down
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
When sixteen-year-old Tariq Johnson is shot to death, his community is thrown into an uproar because Tariq was black and the shooter, Jack Franklin, is white, and in the aftermath everyone has something to say, but no two accounts of the events agree.
12) Fake ID
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"An African-American teen in the Witness Protection Program moves to a new town and finds himself trying to solve a murder mystery when his first friend is found dead"--
13) Bone Gap
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the investigation, and subjects him to even more ridicule and bullying.
15) See Jane run
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Riley Spencer never thought twice about keeping secrets from her parents, but when she finds a birth certificate with the name Jane O'Callahan hidden in her baby book, she must consider that her parents are lying to her.
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.
17) The kitchen boy
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
18) Boy's life
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Description
The witnesses to a horrific murder, Cory Mackenson and his father investigate and come face to face with the vicious Blaylock clan, a secret society united by racial hatred, and a reptilian creature inhabiting the river
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