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1) Kidnapped
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.
Author
Series
Works of Charles Dickens volume 1
Airmont classic volume CL 65
Modern Library classics
Everyman's library volume 31
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Airmont classic volume CL 65
Modern Library classics
Everyman's library volume 31
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 66
Language
English
Formats
Description
When David Copperfield's widowed mother remarries, David suffers from his stepfather's abuse. At age 8, David is sent away to a harsh school where the principal routinely beats the students. David's circumstances become even worse when he is removed from school and, at age 10, forced to labor from morning to night in a London warehouse. David then decides to take desperate action. He will run away to his great-aunt, who lives in Dover. Having never...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Teen mother Emoni Santiago struggles with the challenges of finishing high school and her dream of working as a chef." --
Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago has been doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela. The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness. She dreams of working as a chef after...
Author
Series
Summer novels (Jenny Han) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.
5) Paper towns
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Huck escapes from the lonely cabin in which his drunken, brutal father had imprisoned him; on Jackson's island he meets Jim, a runaway slave. Together they float down the Mississippi River on a raft, occasionally stopping at the banks. In these brief episodes Huck participates in the lives of others, witnessing corruption, moral decay, and intellectual impoverishment. He learns from Jim of the dignity and worth of a human being.
Author
Series
Summer novels (Jenny Han) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark. But Kya is not what they say. Abandoned at age ten, she has survived on her own in the marsh that she calls home. A born naturalist with just one day of school, she takes life lessons from the...
11) Miss Quinces
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Sue just wants to spend the summer reading and making comics at sleepaway camp with her friends, but instead she gets stuck going to Honduras to visit relatives with her parents and two sisters. They live way out in the country, which means no texting, no cable, and no Internet! The trip takes a turn for the worse when Sue's mother announces that they'll be having a surprise quinceąera for Sue, which is the last thing she wants. She can't imagine...
12) Long way home
Author
Series
Thunder road novels (Katie McGarry) volume 3
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Forced to live according to her motorcycle club father's strict gender code, 17-year-old Violet takes matters into her own hands to protect her younger brother when their father is killed carrying out gang business, a situation that separates her from the boy she loves and causes her to be targeted by a rival club.
Author
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Nearly a year after his brother's suicide, sixteen-year-old Cliff "Neanderthal" Hubbard gets recruited to make life better at Happy Valley High by the school's quarterback, who claims he had a vision from God.
14) Gap life
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Despite acceptance from his father's college, Cray decides to take a gap year with Rayne, who helps him find a job at a home for developmentally disabled adults, and he learns more about himself and others than any university could teach him.
15) Towelhead
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
“Who are you?” Jasira Maroun’s strict, Lebanese-born father asks. Jasira isn’t sure. She’s a typical 13-year-old. And an Arab-American who’s anything but typical to folks in her Houston suburb. She’s drawn to a boy at school. And to a hunky, married Army reservist neighbor. She’s curious about sex. And clueless about relationships. Then all these “who are you”s collide in a series of fateful, emotional, frequently funny events,...
16) Krystal
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
William H. Macy directs an all-star cast in this comedic drama about Taylor (Nick Robinson), a young, sheltered man with a strange heart condition. When Taylor meets his dream woman, Krystal (Rosario Dawson) — a beguiling ex-addict with a sixteen-year-old son — Taylor pretends to be in AA to try and woo her. Past transgressions collide with young love, causing complications for Taylor, his family, and Krystal, as Taylor learns what it means to...
17) Strive
Publisher
Flourishing Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Kalani (Joi "JoiStaRR" Campbell) is a teenager living in Harlem, New York with her older brother Jacob and her younger sister Bebe while her mother struggles to make ends meet. Her college counselor Mr. Rose (Danny Glover) sees great promise in her future.
18) Measure of a Man
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Bobby (Blake Cooper) is enduring a tortuous family vacation. His summer job is backbreaking, his parents appear on the verge of divorce, his sister is forcing him to keep her secrets, and his best friend is leaving. On top of that, a crazy townie is out to get him. Over the course of an emotional rollercoaster of a summer, Bobby learns what makes up the true measure of a man in this feel-good coming-of-age story co-starring Donald...
19) Northern Soul
Publisher
Freestyle Digital Media
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
John’s boring working-class life in 1974 England gets turned upside down when he’s introduced to the enthralling music and furious choreography of American soul music by a local DJ, Matt. Sharing a passion for the music’s energy, John and Matt leap into the DJ scene, planning underground raves and searching for cover-ups, rare soul recordings kept hidden and exclusive with false labels. Amidst all the insanity of the club scene’s underbelly,...
20) Whale Rider
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new...
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