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3) Steroids
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things returns with a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis. The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center a women's reproductive health services clinic its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage....
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
January 1988. Martin Pistorius, aged twelve, fell inexplicably sick. First he lost his voice and stopped eating. Then he slept constantly and shunned human contact. Doctors were mystified. Within eighteen months he was mute and wheelchair-bound. Martin's parents were told an unknown degenerative disease left him with the mind of a baby and less than two years to live. Martin was moved to care centers for severely disabled children. The stress and...
Author
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Tamar is admitted to Lime Grove, a psychiatric ward for teenagers, where the psychologists ask her endless questions. How did the self-harming start? Will you tell us what happened? How do you feel, on a scale of one to ten? But there's one question Tamar can't - won't - answer: What happened to her friend Iris? A uniquely powerful, devastating novel of friendship, fragility and forgiveness. Contains scenes of suicide and self-harm that some readers...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1848 Vermont, railroad foreman Phineas Gage sat above a hole, preparing to blast through some granite. A 13-pound iron rod fell from his hands into the hole, triggering the explosion and sending the rod straight through Phineas' head. Thirty minutes after this terrible accident, Phineas sat on the steps of a hotel, patiently waiting for the town doctor to arrive. He chatted with his amazed coworkers as if nothing had happened. But something terrible...
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial Modern Classics
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Johnny Gunther was only seventeen years old when he died of a brain tumor. During the months of his illness, everyone near him was unforgettably impressed by his level-headed courage, his wit and quiet friendliness, and, above all, his unfaltering patience through times of despair. This deeply moving book is a father's memoir of a brave, intelligent, and spirited boy."--Back cover.
11) Alcohol
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Discusses the effects of alcohol on the human body, the dangers of alcohol abuse, and alcoholism treatment and prevention.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When hospitalized for her clinical depression, Whimsy connects with a boy named Faerry, who also suffers from the traumatic loss of a sibling, and together they work to unearth buried memories and battle the fantastical physical embodiment of their depression.
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books-Viking
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Steel Magnolias" meets "The Help" in this Southern debut novel sparkling with humor, heart, and feminine wisdom. Laugh-out-loud funny, Hoffman's charming work offers the story of a young girl who loses one mother and finds many others.
For years, 12-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille-the tiara-toting, lipstick-smeared laughingstock of an entire town. But when Camille is hit by a truck and killed, CeeCee...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A journey into one of the most fascinating minds alive today--guided by its owner. Daniel Tammet sees numbers as shapes, colors, and textures, and he can perform extraordinary calculations in his head. He can learn new languages from scratch, in a week. He has savant syndrome, a rare condition that gives him almost unimaginable mental powers. But in one crucial way Daniel is not at all like the Rain Man: he is virtually unique among autistic people...
16) Speak
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
A traumatic event near the end of the summer has a devastating effect on Melinda's freshman year in high school.
17) Paperweight
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Stevie is trapped. In her life. In her body. And now in an eating-disorder treatment center on the dusty outskirts of the New Mexico desert. Her dad has signed her up for sixty days of treatment. But what no one knows is that Stevie doesn't plan to stay that long. There are only twenty-seven days until the anniversary of her brother Josh's death--the death she caused. And if Stevie gets her way, there are only twenty-seven days...
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Discusses teen pregnancy as a social problem and outgrowth of the sexual culture in the United States, as well as ways to avoid pregnancy and options for the teen that does become pregnant.
19) Things change
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Johanna, one of the best students in her class, develops a passionate attachment for troubled seventeen-year-old Paul and finds her plans for the future changing in unexpected ways.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fink provides a landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina-- and a suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice. After Katrina struck and the floodwaters rose, the power failed, and the heat climbed, exhausted caregivers chose to designate certain patients last for rescue. Months later, several health professionals faced criminal allegations that they deliberately injected numerous patients...
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