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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
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.
6) Monument 14
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Trapped inside a chain superstore by an apocalyptic sequence of natural and human disasters, six high school kids from various popular and unpopular social groups struggle for survival while protecting a group of younger children.
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
2005,c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
At the request of her social worker, thirteen-year-old Linda gradually reveals how her life with her unstable mother and her younger brother led to her rape and the murder she witnessed.
Author
Publisher
Dutton BOOKS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
At cheerleading camp, Hermione is drugged and raped, but she is not sure whether it was one of her teammates or a boy on another team. In the aftermath she has to deal with the rumors in her small Ontario town, the often awkward reaction of her classmates, the rejection of her boyfriend, the discovery that her best friend, Polly, is gay, and above all the need to remember what happened so that the guilty boy can be brought to justice.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
As Bobby Framingham, quarterback of his high school football team, finally acknowledges to himself that he is gay, events start to spin out of control when his sexual orientation is revealed in the student newspaper and then in the local press, and he learns that his father has cancer.
11) On the come up
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time-- and has massive shoes to fill. She's been labeled a hoodlum at school, and the fridge at home is empty after her mom loses her job. So Bri pours her anger and frustration into her first song, which goes viral -- for all the wrong reasons. Portrayed by the media as a menace, Bri makes a choice-- and becomes the...
12) The wish list
Author
Publisher
Miramax Books/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2003, c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Meg Finn is in trouble. She's dead, but not at peace--she's in limbo, her good deeds perfectly balanced against her bad deeds; Heaven or Hell wait, a tip of the scale away. So she's back on Earth trying to tip the scale to the good by helping her last victim, and her former "partner" is also back, trying to force her to tip the scale to the bad.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Lara Jean didn't expect to really fall for Peter. She and Peter were just pretending. Except suddenly they weren't. Now Lara Jean is more confused than ever. When another boy from her past returns to her life, Lara Jean's feelings for him return too. Can a girl be in love with two boys at once?
Author
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.
18) Savage drift
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The survivors of the Monument 14 have finally made it to the safety of a Canadian refugee camp, but Josie, separated from the group and trapped in a brutal prison camp for exposed Type Os, may lose hope unless her lost love Niko and his companions Astrid, Dean and Jake can rescue her.
20) My tiki girl
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Maggie, still grieving the loss of her mother in an accident that also gave her a limp, has turned her back on old friends but connects with a new student, Dahlia, who makes her part of her quirky family and plans their future together as roving musicians and lovers.
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