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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Penobscot Indian Molly Ayer is close to 'aging out' out of the foster care system. A community service position helping an elderly woman clean out her home is the only thing keeping Molly out of juvie and worse.... As she helps Vivian sort through her possessions and memories, Molly learns that she and Vivian aren't as different as they seem to be. A young Irish immigrant orphaned in New York City, Vivian was put on a train to the Midwest with hundreds...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Becoming friends with Josef Weber, an old man who is particularly loved in her community, Sage Singer is shocked when one day he asks her to kill him and reveals why he deserves to die, causing her to question her beliefs.
4) Safe haven
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"What should be a cozy and fun-filled weekend deep in the English countryside takes a sinister turn in Ruth Ware's suspenseful, compulsive, and darkly twisted psychological thriller. Leonora, known to some as Lee and others as Nora, is a reclusive crime writer, unwilling to leave her "nest" of an apartment unless it is absolutely necessary. When a friend she hasn't seen or spoken to in years unexpectedly invites Nora (Lee?) to a weekend away in an...
8) Requiem
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
391, 27 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"While Lena navigates the increasingly dangerous Wilds, her best friend, Hana, lives a safe, loveless life in Portland."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there's a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett's son, Davis.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"The story of a teenage girl who's literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she's ever known. The narrative unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists, illustrations, and more"--
11) Chosen ones
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
421 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first novel written for an adult audience by the mega-selling author of the Divergent franchise: five twenty-something heroes famous for saving the world when they were teenagers must face even greater demons-and reconsider what it means to be a hero . . . by destiny or by choice"--
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
296 p.
Language
English
Description
Stephanie's relationship with her best friend, Rachel, changes during her first year in junior high as she tries to conceal a family problem and meets a new girl from California.
13) Heaven to Betsy
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
1994, c1945
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
268 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A novel about the active lives of two rather different high school freshmen in 1906 .
14) We were liars
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.
15) True believer
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Living in the inner city amidst guns and poverty, fifteen-year-old LaVaughn learns from old and new friends, and inspiring mentors, that life is what you make it--an occasion to rise to.
Author
Publisher
Poppy, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Best friends Parisa Naficy and Gabriela Gonzales grapple with the complexities of their relationship even while they spend their senior year apart due to a pandemic that disproportionately affects young people.
17) Aquamarine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A love-struck mermaid named Aquamarine supplies adventure and insights to two twelve-year-old girls, life-long friends who are spending their last summer together before one of them moves away.
18) Chain of gold
Author
Series
The last hours volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 28
Physical Desc
582 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cordelia Carstairs, a Shadowhunter trained to battle demons, travels with her brother to London where they reconnect with childhood friends but soon must face devastating demon attacks in the quarantined city.
19) Hush, hush
Author
Series
Hush hush volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
High school sophomore Nora has always been very cautious in her relationships, but when Patch, who has a dark side she can sense, enrolls at her school, she is mysteriously and strongly drawn to him, despite warnings from her best friend, the school counselor, and her own instincts.
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Meeting on the ledge of their school's bell tower, misfit Theodore Finch and suicidal Violet Markey find acceptance and healing that are overshadowed by Finch's fears about Violet's growing social world.