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Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Suffering from a crippling case of post-traumatic stress disorder, sixteen-year-old Loa Lindgren tries to use her problem solving skills, sharpened in physics and computer programming, to cure herself.
Author
Publisher
Umbriel Juvenil
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
Español
Description
After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live."
5) Happyface
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After going through traumatic times, a troubled, socially awkward teenager moves to a new school where he tries to reinvent himself.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Holly Kim, the copyeditor for her San Diego high school's newspaper, accidentally submits a piece ripping everyone to shreds and suddenly finds herself the center of unwanted attention--but when the teacher in charge of the paper asks her to write a regular column her troubles really start.
7) Somebody
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
At the age of fifteen, a girl who has spent most of her life moving around the country with her father and brother, filling the emptiness inside her with chocolate, remembers her real name, Sherica, and searches the Internet to learn the truth about her mother and her own past.
Author
Series
Publisher
Mercury Ink/Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
To everyone at Meridian High School, fourteen-year-old Michael Vey is nothing special, just the kid who has Tourette's syndrome. But in truth, Michael is extremely special--he has electric powers. Michael thinks he is unique until he discovers that a cheerleader named Taylor has the same mysterious powers. With the help of Michael's friend, Ostin, the three of them set out to discover how Michael and Taylor ended up with their abilities, and their...
9) No way out
Author
Series
Publisher
Townsend Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Bluford High freshman Harold Davis is trapped. Medical bills for his sick grandmother are piling up, and a social worker has threatened to put him in a foster home. Desperate for money, he reluctantly agrees to work for Londell James, a neighborhood drug dealer. Will Harold escape the violence that surrounds him?
10) Assassin's heart
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lea Saldana, a trained assassin, falls in love with Val Da Via, a boy from a rival clan, until tragedy intervenes and sets her on a course of revenge against the Da Vias family.
Author
Series
Gifted volume 1
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Amanda Beeson is Queen Bee at Meadowbrook Middle School. If you're not friends with Amanda, you're nobody. But one morning gorgeous, popular Amanda looks in the mirror and sees a very diifferent face staring back at her. The Queen Bee is about to get a taste of life in someone else's shoes."--p. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Victoria escapes an abusive father by joining the VanDrexel Family Circus in 1965, and fifty years later her writings guide her granddaughter, sixteen-year-old Callie, in facing the uncharted waters of public high school.
In 1965 Victoria escapes an unstable home, fleeing to the VanDrexel Family Circus. There she hopes to start a better life. Fifty years later, Victoria's granddaughter Callie is thriving. A gifted and focused tightrope...
14) Generation one
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"It has been one year since the breathtaking events of United as One -- and our world will never be the same. The invasion of Earth was thwarted by our alien allies known as the Garde. But in order to do so, they unleashed their Loric energy and it spread throughout the globe. Now human teenagers have begun to develop incredible abilities -- Legacies of their own. As the world tries to figure out how best to deal with the emergence of these powerful...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Macallan and Levi are best friends from the first day they meet in seventh grade, but over the years their close friendship keeps interfering with their dating life because everyone else regards them as a couple.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Fourteen-year-old Andrea Hernandez-Baldoquin hails from a family of spies working for the Factory, an international organization dedicated to protecting people of color. Andrea has dreamed about getting her first solo mission, but she never imagined that she would have to straighten her hair and go undercover as a white girl to befriend the estranged son of a dangerous white supremacist. In order to gain the boy's trust, Andrea finds herself doing...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When Adam meets Robyn at a support group for kids coping with obsessive-compulsive disorder, he is drawn to her almost before he can take a breath. He's determined to protect and defend her -- to play Batman to her Robyn -- whatever the cost. But when you're fourteen and the everyday problems of dealing with divorced parents and step-siblings are supplemented by the challenges of OCD, it's hard to imagine yourself falling in love. How can you have...
18) Just like that
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
With insight and a light touch, best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students...
Author
Publisher
Poppy, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
As high school junior Michie plans for her future and explores a new relationship, she tries to reconcile with some uncomfortable truths about her life which becomes more complicated when she is contacted by her estranged mother.
Michie has been estranged from her mother since she was seven, and her concept of family has long felt murky. Now a high school junior, she is struggling with her scholarship essays, trying at making it into Brown as a first-generation...
20) Anya's ghost
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Of all the things Anya expected to find at the bottom of an old well, a new friend wasn't one of them. Especially not a new friend who's been dead for a century. Falling down a well is bad enough, but Anya's normal life might actually be worse. She's embarrassed by her family, self-concious about her body, and she's pretty much given up on fitting in at school. A new friend--even a dead one--is just what she needs. But Anya's new BFF isn't kidding...
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