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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Based on an actual crime in 1955, this YA novel is at once a mystery and a coming-of-age story. The brutal murder of two teenage girls on the last day of Nora Cunningham's junior year in high school throws Nora into turmoil. Her certainties—friendships, religion, her prudence, her resolve to find a boyfriend taller than she is—are shaken or cast off altogether. Most people in Elmgrove, Maryland, share the comforting conviction that Buddy...
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Summer novels (Jenny Han) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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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.
3) Crunch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The oldest Marriss brother, fourteen-year-old Dewey, attempts to be the "embodiment of responsibility" as he juggles the management of the family's bicycle repair business while sharing the household and farm duties with his siblings after a sudden energy crisis strands their parents far from home.
5) Peak
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Series
Peak volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below. — Peak Marcello
After fourteen-year-old Peak Marcello is arrested for scaling a New York City skyscraper, he's left with two choices: wither away in Juvenile Detention or go live with his long-lost father, who runs a climbing company in Thailand. But Peak quickly learns that his father's renewed interest in him has strings attached....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns muchof value about the world he lives in.
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Three rancheros volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Separated from her best friends, Raymie and Beverly, twelve-year-old Louisiana struggles to oppose the winds of fate (and her eccentric grandmother) and find a way home.
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DC icons volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The award-winning DC Icons story of the world's greatest super hero: WONDER WOMAN by the # 1 New York Times bestselling author LEIGH BARDUGO.
"You’ll enjoy this book whether you’re a fan of Wonder Woman comics, the Wonder Woman movie, Leigh Bardugo, or just YA lit in general." —Hypable
She will become one of the world's greatest heroes:...
The award-winning DC Icons story of the world's greatest super hero: WONDER WOMAN by the # 1 New York Times bestselling author LEIGH BARDUGO.
"You’ll enjoy this book whether you’re a fan of Wonder Woman comics, the Wonder Woman movie, Leigh Bardugo, or just YA lit in general." —Hypable
She will become one of the world's greatest heroes:...
9) Okay for now
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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While Doug struggles to be more than the thug that his teachers and the police think him to be, he finds an unlikely ally in Lil Spicer, as they explore Audubon's art.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Obayda's father loses one of his legs in a bomb explosion, the family is forced to relocate from Kabul to a small village, where Obayda's aunt decides to invite good luck by dressing Obayda up as a boy, a bacha posh.
11) Zora and me
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Series
Zora and me volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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A fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood with her best friend Carrie, in Eatonville, Florida, as they learn about life, death, and the differences between truth, lies, and pretending. Includes an annotated bibliography of the works of Zora Neale Hurston, a short biography of the author, and information about Eatonville, Florida.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Izzy is used to keeping her thoughts to herself—in school, where her boyfriend does the talking for her, and at home, where it’s impossible to compete with her older siblings and high-powered parents.
When she mistakenly walks into a stand-up comedy club and performs, the experience is surprisingly cathartic. After the show, she meets Mo, an aspiring comic who’s everything Izzy’s not: bold, confident, comfortable in her skin....
14) Private lessons
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
Channeling her grief over her father's death by devoting herself to the piano, seventeen-year-old Claire forgoes a social life to study under a prominent teacher who she gradually realizes has a manipulative and abusive nature.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
From the award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of Once and for All
In her eleventh novel, Sarah Dessen returns to the beach town of Colby, setting of some of her best-loved books. Emaline is a Colby native, and so summer at the beach for her means hard work and a new population of beach goers. During this, her last summer before college, Emaline meets Theo while working for her family’s rental business. He’s a city...
In her eleventh novel, Sarah Dessen returns to the beach town of Colby, setting of some of her best-loved books. Emaline is a Colby native, and so summer at the beach for her means hard work and a new population of beach goers. During this, her last summer before college, Emaline meets Theo while working for her family’s rental business. He’s a city...
16) Chirp
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Moving to Vermont the summer after seventh grade, a young gymnast hides a secret as she makes new friends and investigates her grandmother's claim that someone is trying to destroy her cricket farm.
17) Absolutely Nat
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Series
Nat enough volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Natalie is stuck with her ex-BFF and a girl more annoying than the endless mosquitoes at a summer camp where she is constantly pushed out of her comfort zone, which may be exactly what she needs.
18) Twisted
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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High school senior Tyler Miller used to be the kind of guy who faded into the background. But since he got busted for writing graffiti on the school, and spent the summer doing outdoor work to pay for it, he stands out like you wouldn’t believe. His new physique attracts the attention of queen bee Bethany Milbury, who just so happens to be his father’s boss’s daughter, the sister of his biggest enemy— and Tyler’s secret...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Sometimes it's not the kid you expect who falls through to magicland, sometimes it's…Elliott. He's grumpy, nerdy, and appalled by both the dearth of technology and the levels of fitness involved in swinging swords around. He's a little enchanted by the elves and mermaids. Despite his aversion to war, work, and most people (human or otherwise) he finds that two unlikely ideas, friendship and world peace, may actually be possible.
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Aristotle and Dante volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.
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