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1) Burn girl
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
When her mother dies of a drug overdose, sixteen-year-old Arlie must adjust to living with an uncle she has never met and going to school on a regular basis.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Is it asking too much to live a typical twelfth grade existence? Kelsey Kendler just wants to earn some money for university, hang out with friends, maybe even snag a boyfriend. But her pill-popping mom and distant dad scare off anybody she tries to bring home, making those last two things feel impossible. Her part-time ice cream shop job's a slog, but at least there she can escape her parents' constant fighting ... until the COVID-19 pandemic forces...
Author
Series
Bea catcher chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
The first book in a series about 17 year old Bea Washington, an edgy, charismatic outsider and recovering addict, who discovers that with her newfound sobriety, she has a disturbing new skill: an ability to see, and draw, people's thoughts. Alarmingly, these visions are only getting stronger and increasing in frequency. As another girl in school is raped and left for dead, Bea must come to terms with her talent, learn to face her own truth, and try...
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
Desde hace un tiempo, Gustavo no aparece por el instituto, se encierra en su habitacin̤ y mantiene una actitud hostil. Sl̤o cuando su madre, una mujer de vida aparentemente tranquila, asuma la cruda realidad y la profunda crisis que atraviesa su familia podr r̀eunir fuerzas para luchar e intentar evitar el desastre.
For a long time, Gustavo hasn't been in school. He has shut himself in his room and maintains a hostile attitude. Only when his mother,...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Yaminah Okar left Obsidian and the wreckage of her family years ago. She and her father have made lives for themselves in Brooklyn. She thinks she's moved on to bigger and better things. She thinks she's finally left behind that city she would rather forget. But when a Facebook message about her estranged mother pierces Yaminah's new bubble, memories of everything that happened before her parents' divorce come roaring back. Now, Yaminah must finally...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.