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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" is the coming-of-age story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet fromative years in the turn-of-the-century Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn. This poignant and moving classic of American literature is filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and incident.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the moon's gravitational pull increases, causing massive natural disasters on earth, Miranda and her family struggle to survive in a world without cities or sunlight, and wonder if anyone else in still alive.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two familes from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. As the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Indigo is looking forward to becoming a full-time waitress after high school graduation, but her life is turned upside down by a large check given to her by a customer who appreciates that she cares enough to scold him about smoking.
6) My fault
Author
Series
Culpable volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Noah Morgan loves her quiet, normal life in Toronto. But when her mother returns from a cruise unexpectedly married to a billionaire and announces they are moving to L.A., Noah is suddenly shoved out of her comfort zone and into a glittering world of illegal street races, lavish pool parties, and spoiled rich kids. And her new stepbrother Nicholas is the most spoiled of them all. Arrogant, aloof, and viciously attractive, Nick is...
Author
Series
Sea Breeze volume 2
Publisher
Abbi Glines
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Marcus Hardy has to move back home to help his sister deal with their mother after a nasty divorce. The only bright spot is Willow "Low" Foster who is sharing his roommate's bed.
Author
Series
The Davenports (Krystal Marquis) volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
The Davenports are one of the few Black families of immense wealth and status in 1910 Chicago, and the two daughters, Olivia and Helen, are finding their way and finding love--even where they are not supposed to.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"A new love, a secret sister, and a summer she'll never forget. From the beloved author of Tweet Cute comes Emma Lord's You Have a Match, a hilarious and heartfelt novel of romance, sisterhood, and friendship... When Abby signs up for a DNA service, it's mainly to give her friend and secret love interest, Leo, a nudge. After all, she knows who she is already: Avid photographer. Injury-prone tree climber. Best friend to Leo and Connie...although ever...
10) If I stay
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
11) The Outsiders
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Since his parents' death, fourteen year-old Ponyboy's loyalties have been to his brothers and his gang. When his best friend Johnny kills a member of a rival gang, a nightmare of violence begins and swiftly envelopes Ponyboy in a turbulent chain of events.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Millie Price deals with her lovable but introverted dad, her drama club rival, Oliver, and her "Millie Moods," the feelings of intense emotion that threaten to overwhelm, but when an accidentally left-open browser brings Millie to her dad's embarrassingly moody LiveJournal, Millie knows she must find her mom.
13) extraordinary
Author
Publisher
Independently published
Pub. Date
©2019.
Language
English
Description
""i was born different. but maybe not in the way you'd expect." These words begin a stunning literary adventure, taking the reader into a colorless world and the mind of a young boy struggling to accept life as simply, life. Written in a poetic format, follow his explorations into the real world, a place more dangerous, bright, and beautiful than he ever could have imagined." -- cover.
14) Boomerang
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Michael Sterling disappeared from his Maine town five years ago. Everyone assumed he was kidnapped. The truth is worse-he ran away and found the life he always dreamed of. But now, at seventeen, he's Sean Woodhouse. And he's come "home," to the last place he wants to be, to claim the small inheritance his grandparents promised him when he graduated high school, all so he can save Trip, the neighbor boy he developed an intense and complicated relationship...
15) Girl overboard
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After a snowboarding accident, Syrah Cheng, a billionaire's daughter, must rehabilitate both her knee and her self-esteem while forging relationships with those who accept her for who she is.
Author
Series
Vampire kisses volume 6
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While fending off Trevor, her nemesis at school with whom she must work on an important project, sixteen-year-old Raven is distracted by finally meeting her vampire-boyfriend Alexander's parents and trying to foil their plan that could jeopardize her future with him.
17) Andromeda Klein
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
High school sophomore Andromeda, an outcast because she studies the occult and has a hearing impairment and other disabilities, overcomes grief over terrible losses by enlisting others' help in her plan to save library books--and finds a kindred spirit along the way.
18) Frozen tides
Author
Series
Falling kingdoms volume 4
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
While Cleo sets aside her feelings about Magnus to fulfill her royal duties, a betrayed Lucia teams up with a vengeful Fire god; Jonas becomes a pawn in the hunt for the Kindred; and King Gaius sails across the Silver Sea to forge a dubious alliance.
19) Memory boy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Miles and his family must flee their Minneapolis home and begin a new life in the wilderness after a chain of cataclysmic volcanic explosions creates dangerous conditions in their city.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"When Nina Faye was fourteen, her mother told her there was no such thing as unconditional love. Nina believed her. Now Nina is sixteen. And she'll do anything for the boy she loves, just to prove she's worthy of him. But when he breaks up with her, Nina is lost. What is she if not a girlfriend? What is she made of? Broken-hearted, Nina tries to figure out what the conditions of love are. She's been volunteering at a high-kill animal shelter where...
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