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41) Gem and Dixie
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Gem has never known what it is to have security. She’s never known an adult she can truly rely on. But the one constant in her life has been Dixie. Gem grew up taking care of her sister when no one else could: not their mother, whose issues make it hard for her to keep food on the table, and definitely not their father, whose intermittent presence is the only thing worse than his frequent absence. Even as Gem and Dixie have grown apart, they’ve...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"After Sharkey's best friend commits suicide (or was it an accident?) in front of him, he spends the summer processing his grief on an abandoned beach resort island where his dad is the caretaker"--
43) Tagged
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The city is cracking down on graffiti and guerilla art, but the Wiz is fighting back by taking on the mayor himself.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
When some quirky art donated to a school fundraising effort to help a Pakistani American family, victims of a possible hate crime, is revealed to be an unknown work by a famous outsider artist, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, adults and teenagers alike debate who should get the money and begin to question each other's motivations.
45) Are u 4 real?
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After meeting "online" in an Internet chat room and helping each other deal with family problems, Kyla and Alex, two very different sixteen year olds, decide to meet in person.
46) Loser
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Even though his classmates from first grade on have considered him strange and a loser, Daniel Zinkoff's optimism and exuberance and the support of his loving family do not allow him to feel that way about himself.
47) Munmun
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In a society where a person's size is directly proportional to his or her wealth, littlepoor Warner, thirteen, and Prayer, fifteen, struggle to improve their lot in a world built against them.
Author
Series
The amateurs (Sara Shepard) volume 2
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When twenty-one-year-old social media star Chelsea Dawson disappears, Seneca, Maddox, Aerin, and Madison, noticing that she looks exactly like Aerin's murdered sister, Helena, investigate, determined to find the connection.
49) Wasted
Author
Series
Publisher
James Lorimer & Co. Ltd., Publishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Jason is brought face-to-face with his own addictions when his alcoholic father ends up in the hospital, and he discovers just how powerful dependency can be.
50) Gemini
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
In a small town, as high school graduation approaches, two conjoined sisters must weigh the importance of their dreams as individuals against the risk inherent in the surgery that has the potential to separate them forever.
51) Trail of crumbs
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In this young adult novel, Greta and her twin brother are abandoned by their father and stepmother, and Greta struggles with the confusion and shame she feels after being raped."--
52) Very in pieces
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A straight-A student in a family of free-spirited artists must come to terms with the hard truths about those she loves most
Very Sales-Woodruff is done being a good girl. Done being the only responsible one in a family that?s unraveling. Done being the obliging girlfriend in a relationship that?s sinking. Done saying no to what she wants?like Dominic, her rebellious classmate. With her mom?s drinking, her dad?s extended absences from home, and her...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
An account of addiction, marketing, and the making of an epidemic looks at the campaign to market OxyContin, while a massive influx of black tar heroin took the country by storm.
From a small town in Mexico to the boardrooms of Big Pharma, an explosive and shocking account of addiction and black tar heroin in the heartland of America.
In fascinating detail, Sam Quinones chronicles how, over the past 15 years, enterprising sugar cane farmers in a...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
During a party a tsunami hits the coast of California. Denver and a handful of others escape death and are swept out to sea. One of her fellow castaways is her ex-BFF, Abigail, who can barely stand the sight of her. Trapped on a small boat with the most popular kids in school and waiting to be rescued, Denver wonders what might kill her first--dehydration, sunstroke, or the girl she used to think of as a sister?
56) The midnight lie
Author
Series
Forgotten gods (Rutkoski) volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Strauss and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Nirrim endures a grim and punishing life as a Half Caste until she encounters Sid, a rakish traveler from far away who whispers rumors that the High Caste possess magic and tempts Nirrim to seek that magic for herself.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Kept as forced labor on a chocolate plantation in the Ivory Coast, Amadou and his younger brother Seydou had given up hope, until a young girl arrives at the camp who rekindles the urge to escape"--
59) Legacy
Author
Series
Keeper of the lost cities volume 8
Publisher
Aladdin
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
"Sophie Foster wants answers. But after a lifetime of lies, sometimes the truth is the most dangerous discovery. Even the smallest secret comes with terrifying new responsibilities. And Sophie's not the only one with blank spots in her past, or mysteriessurrounding her family. She and her friends are part of something much bigger than they imagined--and their roles have already been chosen for them. Every clue drags them deeper into the conspiracy....
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
A beautiful and evocative look at identity and creativity, The Gallery of Unfinished Girls is a stunning debut in magical realism. Perfect for fans of The Walls Around Us and Bone Gap. Mercedes Moreno is an artist. At least, she thinks she could be, even though she hasn't been able to paint anything worthwhile in the past year. Her lack of inspiration might be because her abuela is in a coma. Or the fact that Mercedes is in love with her best friend,...
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