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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Mary B. Addison killed a baby. Allegedly. She didn't say much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks that mattered: A white baby had died while under the care of a church-going black woman and her nine-year-old daughter. The public convicted Mary and the jury made it official. But did she do it? She wouldn't say. Mary survived six years in baby jail before being dumped in a group home. The house isn't really...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When Ever Wong's parents sent her away for the summer, she's expecting Chien Tan: a strict, educational immersion program in Taiwan. Instead, she finds the infamous "Loveboat." There, Ever is surrounded by prodigies, like Rick Woo, Chinese American wonder boy and longtime bane of her existence; Ever's roommate, the confident and clever Sophia Ha, as glamorous as she is sharp; and the intimidatingly cool Xavier Yeh, heir to an international tech empire....
4) Hold tight
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Tia and Mike Baye never imagined they'd become spying, overprotective parents. But their sixteen-year-old son Adam has been unusually distant and aloof lately, and after the recent suicide of his classmate, Spencer Hill, they can't help but worry. They install a spy program on Adam's computer and within days they are jolted by a strange message to their son from an unknown correspondent: "Just stay quiet and all safe." Meanwhile, browsing through...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"A thousand-story tower stretching into the sky. A glittering vision of the future where anything is possible -- if you want it enough. Welcome to Manhattan, 2118. A hundred years in the future, New York is a city of innovation and dreams. Everyone there wants something ... and everyone has something to lose." -- From dustjacket.
A hundred years in the future, New York is a city of innovation and dreams. Everyone there wants something... and...
6) Reverie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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While recovering from an attack that leaves him without his memory, gay teenager Kane Montgomery stumbles into a world where dreams known as reveries take on a life of their own, and it is up to Kane and a few unlikely allies to stop them before they spillover into the waking world.
Kane Montgomery was found half-dead in the river. He has no memory of what happened, and why his life seems so different now. The entire world feels off, reality itself...
8) The becoming
Author
Publisher
Volo/Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Tianna no longer knows who to trust when good and evil forces fight over her and rush her toward an uncertain, but crucial, destiny--toward either the moon goddess, Selene, or the ancient evil known as the Atrox. Lately Tianna has been feeling unsettled and she can't understand why. She has a great boyfriend, good friends, and for once a good foster situation too. But she just can't shake the thought that something, or someone, is after her. At a...
9) Adrift
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Matt and Mike are best friends, just two working-class guys trying to earn some money in Montauk for the summer. When they meet Driana, JoJo, and Stef, three friends who live a much different life of privilege, Matt and Mike find themselves in a sticky situation where temptation rivals sensibility. Worlds collide when the group ventures out to sea aboard a small boat that Stef sneaks out from her dad's dock. As the waves rise and the fragile vessel...
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Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"The backstory of the Stranger Things's Robin, and her journey of coming into her own personality, interests, and sexuality."--
Hawkins, Indiana. As sophomore year starts, Robin's Odd Squad friends have decided to try to be just like everyone else. Her best friends couple up, and they can't stop talking about school and college and careers. Robin has been hiding out with the band kids since middle school, hoping nobody would notice that she's gay....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Told in alternating voices, when Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school--both teetering on the edge--it's the beginning of an unlikely relationship, a journey to discover the "natural wonders" of the state of Indiana, and two teens' desperate desire to heal and save one another"
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
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"Queer black girls team up to overthrow the patriarchy in the former kingdom of Cinderella"--
Two hundred years after Cinderella found her prince, the fairy tale is over. Teen girls are now required to appear at the Annual Ball, where the men of the kingdom select wives based on a girl's display of finery. If a suitable match is not found, the girls not chosen are never heard from again. Sophia would much rather marry Erin, her childhood best friend,...
13) Joyride
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"A popular guy and a shy girl with a secret become unlikely accomplices for midnight pranking, and are soon in over their heads--with the law and with each other."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"When Chloe Pierce's mom forbids her to apply for a spot at the dance conservatory of her dreams, she devises a secret plan to drive two hundred miles to the nearest audition. But Chloe hits her first speed bump when her annoying neighbor Eli insists upon hitching a ride, threatening to tell Chloe's mom if she leaves him and his smelly dog, Geezer, behind. So now Chloe's chasing her ballet dreams down the east coast--two unwanted (but kinda cute)...
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Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A group of survivors, originally trapped together in a superstore by a series of escalating disasters, has split in two -- one group heading to Denver airport on a repaired school bus, the other remaining in the Sanctuary trying to rebuild the community they lost. But the world outside is dark and filled with dangerous chemicals that turn people into bloodthirsty monsters.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Henri "Halti" Haltiwanger can charm just about anyone. But his easy smiles mask a burning ambition to attend his dream college, Columbia University. There is only one person who seems immune to Henri's charms: his "intense" classmate and neighbor Corinne Troy. When she uncovers Henri's less-than-honest dog-walking scheme, she blackmails him into helping her change her image at school. Henri agrees, seeing a potential upside for himself. Soon what...
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Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"To escape his abusive stepdad, bad boy Ryan Hess runs from his tiny Texas border town to Mexico. But his plans to keep his head down and stay out of trouble are shattered the minute he meets the beautiful and totally out of his league Dalila Sandoval. Dalila Sandoval shouldn't even know someone like Ryan Hess. The daughter of one of the wealthiest lawyers in Mexico, Dalila is focused on studying and planning for her bright future. Ryan is only a...
Author
Publisher
Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
It's 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing. Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. He's terrified that someone will guess the truth he can barely acknowledge about himself. Reza knows he's gay, but all he knows of gay life are the media's images of men dying of AIDS. Judy is an aspiring fashion designer who worships her uncle Stephen, a gay man...
19) Where I live
Author
Publisher
HarperteenTeen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Linden Rose has a big secret she is homeless and living in the halls of her small-town high school. Her position as school blog editor, her best friends, Ham and Seung, and the promise of a future far away are what keep Linden under the radar and moving forward. But when cool-girl Bea comes to school with a bloody lip, the damage hits too close to home. Linden begins looking at Bea's life, and soon her investigation prompts people to pay more attention....
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