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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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An eleven-year-old foster child tries to cope with her longings and fears as she schemes against everyone who tries to be friendly.
At eleven, Gilly is nobody's real kid. If only she could find her beautiful mother, Courtney, and live with her instead of in the ugly foster home where she has just been placed! How could she, the great Gilly Hopkins, known throughout the county for her brilliance and unmanageability, be expected to tolerate Maime Trotter,...
3) Firefly Lane
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 22
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"In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all--beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be, but they make a pact to be best friends forever; by summer's end they've become TullyandKate. Inseparable....
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House of Night. Original series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Fledgling vampyre Zoey Redbird has managed to settle in at the House of Night. She's come to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her, and is getting a handle on being the new Leader of the Dark Daughters. Best of all, Zoey finally feels like she belongs, like she really fits in. She actually has a boyfriend or two. Then the unthinkable happens: Human teenagers are being killed, and all the evidence points to the House of...
5) Smile
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Series
Smile volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with family, friends, boys and dental drama.
An autobiography in graphic novel format describes how the author lost two of her front teeth in an accident when she was twelve, and her subsequent struggles with various corrective dental techniques throughout adolescence....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
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Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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On a cool June morning, a woman is walking her dog in the idyllic coastal village of Salten along a tidal estuary known as the Reach. Before she can stop him, the dog charges into the water to retrieve what first appears to be a wayward stick, but to her horror, turns out to be something much more sinister. The next morning, three women in and around London -- Fatima, Thea, and Isabel -- receive the text they had always hoped would never come, from...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Description
It is 1970 in a small town in California. "Bean" Holladay is twelve and her sister, Liz, is fifteen when their mother, Charlotte, takes off, leaving her girls enough money to last a month or two. One day Bean sees a police car outside the house, and she and Liz decide to take the bus to Virginia, where their Uncle Tinsley lives. Bean soon discovers who her father was, and hears many stories about why their mother left Virginia. Bean adores her whip-smart...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Mary Beth Latham is first and foremost a mother, whose three teenaged children come first, before her career as a landscape gardener, or even her life as the wife of a doctor. Caring for her family and preserving their everyday life is paramount. And so, when one of her sons, Max, becomes depressed, Mary Beth becomes focused on him, and is blindsided by a shocking act of violence.
10) Where she went
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If I stay volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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Adam, now a rising rock star, and Mia, a successful cellist, reunite in New York and reconnect after the horrific events that tore them apart when Mia almost died in a car accident three years earlier.
11) Finding Audrey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
An anxiety disorder disrupts fourteen-year-old Audrey?s daily life. She has been making slow but steady progress with Dr. Sarah, but when Audrey meets Linus, her brother?s gaming teammate, she is energized. She connects with him. Audrey can talk through her fears with Linus in a way she?s never been able to do with anyone before. As their friendship deepens and her recovery gains momentum, a sweet romantic connection develops, one that helps not just...
13) Challenger deep
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
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"A teenage boy struggles with schizophrenia"--
14) The Raven Boys
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Series
Raven cycle volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them--not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her. His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble. But Blue is drawn to Gansey,...
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House of Night. Original series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
Description
After banishing an immortal being and a fallen High Priestess, saving Stark's life, biting Heath, getting a headache from Erik, and almost dying, Zoey Redbird would catch a break. Juggling three guys is anything but a stress reliever, especially when one of them is a sexy Warrior who is so into protecting Zoey that he can sense her emotions. The dark force lurking in the tunnels under the Tulsa Depot is spreading, and Zoey is beginning to believe...
17) Savvy
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Series
Savvy (Ingrid Law) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"--a magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is injured in a terrible accident.
18) Before I fall
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Description
After she dies in a car crash, teenage Samantha relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers a way to save herself.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
The son of a Pentecostal preacher faces his personal demons as he and his two outcast friends try to make it through their senior year of high school in rural Forrestville, Tennessee, without letting the small-town culture destroy their creative spirits and sense of self.
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Little blue envelopes volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When seventeen-year-old Ginny receives a packet of mysterious envelopes from her favorite aunt, she leaves New Jersey to criss-cross Europe on a sort of scavenger hunt that transforms her life.