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21) Bang
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
Sebastian Cody did something horrible, something no one -- not even Sebastian himself -- can forgive. At the age of four, he accidentally shot and killed his infant sister with his father's gun. Now, ten years later, Sebastian has lived with the guilt and horror for his entire life. With his best friend away for the summer, Sebastian has only a new friend -- Aneesa -- to distract him from his darkest thoughts. But even this relationship cannot blunt...
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Drummer in the hit band The Brightsiders, Emmy King lands in the hospital after a night of partying. The paparazzi have branded her the latest tabloid train wreck. Her friends and bandmates help her pick up the pieces of her life. She knows hooking up with a band member like Alfie is exactly the kind of trouble she should be avoiding, and yet Emmy and Alfie Just. Keep. Kissing. Will Emmy be able to navigate family, love, coming out, and life in the...
25) Let's get lost
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
During her cross-country adventures following the tragic death of her family, Leila touches the lives of four strangers -- Hudson, Bree, Elliot, and Sonia. While forever changing the lives of these four, Leila also discovers an important truth about herself.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1971.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Unable to accept or explain his family's newly acquired wealth, his growing interest in sex, and a friend's shoplifting habit, a thirteen-year-old finds the pains in his stomach getting worse and worse.
27) Wish girl
Author
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group USA
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Peter has never felt at home with his noisy family, but begins to find the strength to live and to be himself when he discovers a special valley in the Texas Hill Country and meets Annie, a girl dying of cancer who knows and accepts him from the start.
28) Mid-Air
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A tender-souled boy reeling from the death of his best friend struggles to fit into a world that wants him to grow up tough and unfeeling. It's the last few months of eighth grade, and Isaiah feels lost. He thought his summer was going to be him and his boys Drew and Darius, hanging out, doing wheelies, watching martial arts movies, and breaking tons of Guiness World Records before high school. But now, more and more, Drew seems to be fading from...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When they are thrown together for a year-long science project, Kat, who has a social anxiety disorder, and Meg, who has ADHD, bond over their common obsession with a swoon-worthy online gaming star.
Kat's anxiety makes it hard for her to talk to new people; she only feels safe in front of her computer, playing her favorite video game. Meg hates being alone, but her ADHD keeps pushing people away. When the two girls are thrown together for a year-long...
30) Friends forever
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
HL 420L
Language
English
Description
"Shannon is in eighth grade, and life is more complicated than ever. Everything keeps changing, her classmates are starting to date each other (but nobody wants to date her!), and no matter how hard she tries, Shannon can never seem to just be happy. As she works through her insecurities and undiagnosed depression, she worries about disappointing all the people who care about her. Is something wrong with her? Can she be the person everyone expects...
32) Hidden
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-olds Wren and Darra meet at a Michigan summer camp, both are overwhelmed by memories from six years earlier when Darra's father stole a car, unaware that Wren was hiding in the back.
33) Flash burnout
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 570L
Language
English
Description
"Telephoto lens. Zoom. In a shutter release millisecond, Blake's world turns upside down. The nameless woman with the snake tattoo is not just another assignment. 'That's my mom!' gasps Marissa. Saturated self-portrait: Blake, nice guy, class clown, always trying to get a laugh, not sure where to focus. Contrast. Shannon, Blake's GF. Total. Babe. Marissa, just a friend and fellow photographer. Shannon loves him; Marissa needs him. How is he supposed...
35) Be the girl
Author
Publisher
[K.A. Tucker Books]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Almost sixteen-year-old Aria Jones is starting over. New postal code, new last name, new rules. But she doesn't mind, because it means she can leave her painful regrets behind. In the bustling town of Eastmonte, she can become someone else. Someone better. With the Hartford family living next door, it seems she will succeed. Sure, Cassie Hartford may be the epitome of social awkwardness thanks to her autism, but she also offers an innocent and sincere...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Maybelle Lane collects sounds. She records the Louisiana crickets chirping, Momma strumming her guitar, their broken trailer door squeaking. But the crown jewel of her collection is a sound she didn't collect herself: an old recording of her daddy's warm-sunshine laugh, saved on an old phone's voicemail. It's the only thing she has of his, and the only thing she knows about him. Until the day she hears that laugh--his laugh--pouring...
38) Cut both ways
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Senior Will Caynes must face unsettling feelings for his best friend Angus after they share a drunken kiss, while also embarking on his first real relationship with sophomore Brandy--all as the burden of home-life troubles weigh heavily"--
39) Camp Harlow
Publisher
Grace Alone Films
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
On the brink of a family crisis, Alex finds herself being sent to the last place she wants to be, summer camp. Knowing that a young admirer from school will be at the camp, Alex reluctantly agrees. Thrown into a group of people she has never met, Alex is determined to shut out the world. However, Alex is brought out of the corners of her own heart by the most unlikely of friends: a horse.
Publisher
Studio Ghibli
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Kiki is an enterprising young girl who must follow tradition to become a full fledged witch. Venturing out with only her black cat, Jiji, Kiki flies off for the adventure of a lifetime. Landing in a far off city, she sets up a high flying delivery service and begins a wonderful experience of independence and responsibility as she finds her place in the world.
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