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1) Firewall
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Author
Series
Chocolate war volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
A high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies.
3) The fort
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Five middle schoolers find a fully stocked bomb shelter constructed decades ago in the local woods by an eccentric tycoon and lost until a hurricane exposes the entrance. So, how to keep the hideout secret from interfering grown-ups--and, more particularly, from scary teen psychopath, Jaeger Devlin.
Author
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Wyatt Green is convinced that the annual spate of violence striking her small Vermont town is caused by a shared sickness, but she begins questioning her assumptions--and her memories about the night of her mother's murder--as she is drawn to her classmate Porter and away from her best friend Cash.
Every November, every teen in Wolf Ridge is overwhelmed with a hunger for violence. At least, that's the urban legend. After her mother was murdered last...
5) The healer
Author
Series
O'Malley volume 5
Language
English
Description
Rachel O'Malley works disasters for a living. Her specialty? Helping children through trauma. When a school shooting rips through her community, she finds herself dealing with more than just grief among the children she is trying to help. One of them saw the shooting, and the gun is still missing.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster/BFYR
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Knowing that the friendships she depends on will change when her parents split up, Beth witnesses a private act of violence in her crush's home before forging a pact with her friends to offer support in the face of a life-altering decision.
With her family splintered and her future a question mark, Beth's friends-- Grace Nakamura, Brandon Lin, Sunny Chen, and Jason Tsou-- are all she has. She's certain she'll never be able to tell Jason how she really...
7) Ghost
Author
Series
Track volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
"Ghost, a naturally talented runner and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school track team. He must stay on track, literally and figuratively, to reach his full potential"--
8) The pack
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Akhil Vyas, a new boy in school, reluctantly decides that in order to prevent a violent crime, he must tell Omar and Becky his secret.
Author
Series
Jericho Prescott volume 3
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Language
English
Description
As Kofi, Arielle, Dana, November, and Jericho face personal challenges during their last year of high school, a misunderstood student brings a gun to class and demands to be taken seriously.
10) No way out
Author
Series
Bluford volume 14
Publisher
Townsend Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
HL 580L
Language
English
Description
Bluford High freshman Harold Davis is trapped. Medical bills for his sick grandmother are piling up, and a social worker has threatened to put him in a foster home. Desperate for money, he reluctantly agrees to work for Londell James, a neighborhood drug dealer. Will Harold escape the violence that surrounds him?
11) Shattering glass
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Rob, the charismatic leader of the senior class, turns the school nerd into Prince Charming, his actions lead to unexpected violence.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
"When her mother is arrested for killing Brooke's abusive father, Brooke must confront the shadow of her family's violence and dysfunction"--
14) The fallen
Author
Series
Publisher
Townsend Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Language
English
Description
This sequel to Brothers in Arms picks up the story of Martin Luna as he struggles to rebuild his life after the death of his little brother. In trouble at Bluford High School for fighting, Martin faces an even bigger problem at home: Frankie, the most feared homeboy from his neighborhood, is hunting him.
15) Wilder
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
HL 520L
Language
English
Description
The lives of Jason Wilder and Meili Wen intersect in the delinquent-proof room for in-school suspension, known as the Rubber Room, and Jason's growing, fierce protectiveness of Meili explodes into violence when her chance to return to her wealthy lifestyle in Hong Kong--and his opportunity to escape poverty, loneliness, and the past--is threatened.
17) Who the man
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Earl Pryor is much too big for his age, and much too powerful for the anger that rages within him when classmates tease him, the girl he likes disappoints him, or his parents' problems get too real.
18) Leverage
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2012.
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
High school sophomore Danny excels at gymnastics but is bullied, like the rest of the gymnasts, by members of the football team, until an emotionally and physically scarred new student joins the football team and forms an unlikely friendship with Danny.
19) Mary underwater
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Gaining courage from Joan of Arc, fourteen-year-old Mary Murphy navigates the waters of Chesapeake Bay in a submersible built with her friend, Kip, escaping the home where her violent father has just returned from prison. Includes facts about domestic violence and submersibles."-- Publisher's description.
20) Boy 21
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences.
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