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1) Wringer
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.
2) 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.
4) Bog child
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles, " eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.
5) Dreamland
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Language
English
Description
On her eighteenth birthday, Cleo is given clues for a mysterious scavenger hunt that sends her around Columbus, Ohio, and through her past relationship with Declan, who drowned on a group rafting trip the previous year.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Rivalry between rich and poor gangs in 1960s Oklahoma leads to the deaths of three teenagers and intense soul-searching for one of the kids involved, a sensitive fourteen-year-old writer named Ponyboy.
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...
10) Firewall
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
11) 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"--
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...
13) Buried onions
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
When nineteen-year-old Eddie drops out of college, he struggles to find a place for himself as a Mexican American living in a violence-infested neighborhood of Fresno, California.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
To help her deal with her separation from her family, worry about her mother's serious operation, and suspicions about a new friend's abusive father, twelve-year-old Dawn creates an imaginary world while spending the summer of 1958 with her great-aunt and uncle in rural North Carolina.
16) Over the wall
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Tyler, who has trouble controlling his anger, spends an important summer with his cousins in New York City, playing baseball and sorting out how he feels about violence, war, and in particular the Vietnamese conflict that took his grandfather's life.
17) Scowler
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a 1981 meteor shower in Iowa, a homicidal maniac escapes from prison and returns to the farm where his nineteen-year-old son, Ry, must summon three childhood toys, including one called Scowler,to protect himself, his eleven-year-old sister, Sarah, and their mother.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
When her abusive boyfriend dies in what seems to be a drunk-driving accident, Sawyer is secretly relieved until she opens her locker and finds a note from a secret admirer that says "You're welcome."
20) 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.
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