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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Obe Devlin has problems. His family's farmland has been taken over by developers. His best friend Tommy has abandoned him. And he keeps getting nosebleeds, because of that thing he doesn't like to talk about. So Obe hangs out at the nearby creek, in the last wild patch left, picking up trash and looking for animal tracks. One day, he sees a creature that looks kind of like a large dog. And as he watches it, he realizes it eats plastic. Only plastic....
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Overburdened by his parents' bickering and a bully's attacks, fifteen-year-old Lucky Linderman begins dreaming of being with his grandfather, who went missing during the Vietnam War, but during a visit to Arizona, his aunt and uncle and their beautiful neighbor, Ginny, help him find a new perspective.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"An emotionally damaged seventeen-year-old boy in Pennsylvania, who was once an infamous reality television show star, meets a girl from another dysfunctional family, and she helps him out of his angry shell"--
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Incorporated
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Middle schooler Liberty likes to make her own maps of the stars, in fact she is obsessed with them, especially since her family is falling apart; her parents are getting divorced, her nine-year-old sister will barely leave the house and carries a stuffed tiger at all times, her father is suffering from depression, but will not talk about it, and the brothers down the street, once friends, have turned into bullies--so when a tiny meteorite literally...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"As her high school graduation draws near, Glory O'Brien begins having powerful and terrifying visions of the future as she struggles with her long-buried grief over her mother's suicide"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Four teenagers are on the verge of exploding. The anxieties they face at every turn have nearly pushed them to the point of surrender: senseless high-stakes testing, the lingering damage of past trauma, the buried grief and guilt of tragic loss. They are desperate to cope, but no one is listening. So they will lie. They will split in two. They will turn inside out. They will even build an invisible helicopter to fly themselves far away...but nothing...
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
An anthology of ten stories by young adult authors about surprising and unusual collections.
In the tradition of E. L. Konisburg, Kristin O'Donnell Tubb's The Story Collector is a historical fiction middle-grade novel inspired by the real life of Viviani Joffre Fedeler, born and raised in the New York Public Library. Eleven-year-old Viviani Fedeler has spent her whole life in the New York Public Library. She knows every room by heart, except the...
Publisher
MiTeen Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In a mind-bending MITeen anthology, ten top YA authors use emerging technologies to explore startling new realities. What doesthe future hold? Ten speculative short stories by leading young-adult authors imagine what the world could be through the lens of technologies emerging today. When the modification industry transforms how humans look, sound, and interact, a nonbinary teen braves the “reinvention room” to accept a gift from the dead. In...