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1) Wringer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.
2) In darkness
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the aftermath of the Haitian earthquake, fifteen-year-old Shorty, a poor gang member from the slums of Site Soleil, is trapped in the rubble of a ruined hospital, and as he grows weaker he has visions and memories of his life of violence, his lost twin sister, and of Toussaint L'Ouverture, who liberated Haiti from French rule in the 1804.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Olivia McAfee knows what it feels like to start over. Her picture-perfect life-living in Boston, married to a brilliant cardiothoracic surgeon, raising a beautiful son, Asher-was upended when her husband revealed a darker side. She never imagined she would end up back in her sleepy New Hampshire hometown, living in the house she grew up in, and taking over her father's beekeeping business. Lily Campanello is familiar with do-overs, too. When she...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
An Irish woman's account of marriage to a drinker and a sadist. The novel follows Paula Spencer, housewife and mother, as she struggles to reclaim her dignity. By the author of Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha.
10) The hoopster
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books For Children
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Andre Anderson is a black teenager who loves to play basketball, When he is viciously attacked, it calls his whole world into question--even his deadly jumpshot.
11) Bloodstream
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
A murderous outbreak of violence among teenagers occurs in a resort in Maine. Dr. Claire Elliot blames a brain-damaging parasite which attacks people when they swim in the lake, but the town ignores her call for a quarantine, fearing for the tourist trade. By the author of Life Support.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Follows six teenagers as they are brought into close contact over the course of one tense week, in a town with political and personal tensions that build until one fires a fatal gunshot.
A gun is sold in the classifieds after killing a spouse. It is bought by a teenager for needed protection. Several people have the incentive to pick up a gun, to fire it. Was it Rand or Cami, married teenagers with a young son? Was it Silas or Ashlyn, members of...
13) Babel Tower
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1996
Language
English
Description
In England, a woman marries into the landed gentry, only to find the life stifling. When she tries to renew with her old milieu, her husband objects. Drama follows drama, ending in a custody battle for their only child. A look at British society.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Told in multiple voices, when popular Mike Parker's girlfriend informs North Bay Academy's principal that he has been hitting her, students react differently, revealing their own insecurities and problems.
15) Dreamland
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
As the city of Chicago tries to recover from the violent gang rule of the Death Mob, Lia Finch, a sixteen-year-old girl with severe asthma, works with an unexpected network of strangers to discover the truth behind her father's murder.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tale spanning a traumatic single day follows Liz Pike, who awakens in her small-town home to discover her husband frantically preparing for what he claims is an IRS audit. She soon realizes, however, that he has discovered the truth about her affair with another man.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ali lives in Bed-Stuy, a Brooklyn neighborhood known for guns and drugs, but he and his sister, Jazz, and their neighbors, Needles and Noodles, stay out of trouble until they go to the wrong party, where one gets badly hurt and another leaves with a target on his back.
20) Boy21
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences.
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