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421) Bronxwood
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Tyrell's got his hands full with a father who just got out of jail, a little brother stuck in foster care, dealer-roommates who're starting to take bigger and bigger risks, and girls.
422) Shine on, Luz Véliz!
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Eleven-year-old injured soccer player Luz has a hard enough time reframing her identity as a computer programmer, but when her Guatemalan half-sister moves in, she learns what it truly means to start over. Includes author's note.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
It is 1982 and nineteen-year-old Laura Reid is spending a semester in Leningrad studying Russian, but when she meets Alyosha she discovers the dissident Russia--a world of wild parties, underground books and music, love, and constant danger.
424) Unraveling
Author
Series
Chloe by Design volume 3
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Having made it all the way through the Teen Design Diva auditions, sixteen-year-old Chloe Montgomery and her long-time rival, Nina, have arrived in New York where the rest of the competition will be filmed--and the contestants will face seven challenges, and the first takes them to the Central Park Zoo.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"It's the 1980's. Mia and her best friend, Lara, have known each other since kindergarten. But even though they both live in the same cul-de-sac in the coastal fishing town of Prince Rupert, Mia's life is very different from her non-Indigenous, middle-class neighbour.... Their differences never matter to the two friends, but Mia begins to notice how people treat her differently just because she is Indigenous. Teachers, shopkeepers, even Lara's parents...
426) The last Martin
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Thirteen-year-old Martin Boyle struggles to break a family curse after discovering that he has only twelve weeks to live.
427) The option
Author
Series
Red zone volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014].
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
The Central High Trojan's star quarterback, Shane, was arrested for drunk driving and Coach Z may have covered up, so when Shane gets in trouble again, back-up quarterback Gary must decide whether to expose them both.
428) God loves hair
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"A tenth-anniversary edition of Vivek Shraya's first book: a YA story collection that celebrates racial, gender, and religious diversity. In 2010, Vivek Shraya self-published God Loves Hair, her first book; in the ten years since, Vivek has published six more titles, including a novel, poetry collection, graphic novel, and children's picture book, while also working as an artist, musician, and academic. God Loves Hair is a collection of short stories...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
"Before, Taylor Harper is finally popular, sitting with the cool kids at lunch, and maybe, just maybe, getting invited to the biggest, most exclusive party of the year. After, no one talks to her. Before, she’s friends with Brielle Branson, the coolest girl in school. After, Brielle has become a bully, and Taylor’s her favorite target. Before, home isn’t perfect, but at least her family is together. After, Mom won’t get out of bed, Dad...
430) Little blue bunny
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
A boy and his special stuffed friend discover that the greatest adventure is to love and be loved in return.
431) Ghosted
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Larry's got a few problems. In school, he's one of those kids who easily gets lost in the crowd. And Grimm, Larry's best friend in the whole world, has ghosted him. Literally. One minute Grimm was saving a cat in a tree during a lightning storm, and the next, he's pulling pranks on Larry in his new ghostly form. When the two best friends realize that there's something keeping Grimm tethered to their world, they decide that finishing their Totally...
432) Echo's Sister
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"Eleven-year-old Echo finds the courage to help her younger sister fight cancer, and, in the process, finds the love and support of an entire community"--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Emilie Day believes in playing it safe: she's homeschooled, her best friend is her seizure dog, and she's probably the only girl on the Outer Banks of North Carolina who can't swim. Then Emilie's mom enrolls her in public school, and Emilie goes from studying at home in her pj's to halls full of strangers. To make matters worse, Emilie is paired with starting point guard Chatham York for a major research project on Emily Dickinson. She should be thrilled...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Life sucks when you're twelve. You're not a little kid, but you're also not an adult, and all the grown-ups in your life talk about your body the minute it starts getting a shape. And what sucks even more than being a Chinese-Filipino- American-Guatemalan who can't speak any ancestral language well? When almost every other girl in school has already gotten her period except for you and your two besties. Manuela 'Mani' Semilla wants two things: to...
435) At all costs
Author
Series
Red zone volume 4
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Kyle doesn't see much game time. Mike is more successful-even if he's taken some hits. When Kyle realizes a hole in the concussion detection program, he has to decide whether to tell his friend"--
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
After the death of her mother in an automobile accident, seventh-grader Serena, who has gotten the lead in her middle school play, is left to handle the day-to-day challenges of caring for herself and her younger brother when their father cannot pull himself out of his depression.
437) Calvin: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Born on the day the last Calvin and Hobbes comic strip was published, seventeen-year-old Calvin, a schizophrenic, sees and has conversations with the tiger, Hobbes, and believes that if he can persuade the strip's creator, Bill Watterson, to do one more strip, he will make Calvin well.
438) Character, driven
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In his last year of high school, seventeen-year-old virgin Cliff Sparks has to figure out what to do with his life, including how to meet new girl Jillian and how to deal with old issues with his unemployed father.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Sixteen-year-old April, a high school junior, and her friend Vi, a senior, get a crash course in reality as the list of things they should not do becomes a list of things they did while living parent-free in Westport, Connecticut, for the semester.