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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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"Jasmine and Chelsea are best friends. This year at their NYC high school, they plan to rock the theater and poetry clubs ... until Chelsea realizes the poetry club is more interested in the "classics" than poems that matter, and Jasmine has an experience that is more drama than theater. Sick over the way even their progressive school fails to listen to their voices, they start a new club, one dedicated to writing and creating work that supports women's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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Otis and Meg were inseparable until her family abruptly moved away after the terrible accident that left Otis’s little brother dead and both of their families changed forever. Since then, it’s been three years of radio silence, during which time Otis has become the unlikely protégé of eighteen-year-old Dara—part drill sergeant, part friend—who’s hell-bent on transforming Otis into the Olympic swimmer she can no longer be. But when Otis...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
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Ollie, who has seizures when near electricity, lives in a backwoods cabin with his mother and rarely sees other people, and Moritz, born with no eyes and a heart defect that requires a pacemaker, is bullied at his high school, but when a physician who knows both suggests they begin corresponding, they form a strong bond that may get them through dark times.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
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Identical twins Nikki and Maya have been on the same page for everything-friends, school, boys and starting off their adult lives at a historically African-American college. But as their neighborhood goes from rough-and-tumble to up-and-coming, suddenly filled with pretty coffee shops and boutiques, Nikki is thrilled while Maya feels like their home is slipping away. Suddenly, the sisters who had always shared everything must confront their dissenting...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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Follows seventeen-year-old Reagan as she tries to escape heartbreak and a bad reputation by going on tour with her country superstar best friend--only to find more trouble as she falls for the surprisingly sweet guy hired to pose as the singer's boyfriend.
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Finishing school volume the 1st
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
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Fourteen-year-old Sophronia is a great trial to her poor mother. Sophronia is more interested in dismantling clocks and climbing trees than proper manners. Mrs. Temminnick is desperate for her daughter to become a proper lady. So she enrolls Sophronia in Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing Academy for Young Ladies of Quality. But Sophronia soon realizes the school is not quite what her mother might have hoped. At Mademoiselle Geraldine's, young ladies...
8) Full Impact
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
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Norval and Arnie are two of the stars on the Southside High football team. They're best friends off the field, too, and they're both hoping to play college ball some day. When Coach Green asks Norval to watch Arnie for signs of a concussion, it sounds like spying. But is betraying Arnie the best way for Norval to help his friend?
9) Hysteria
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
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After stabbing and killing her boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Mallory, who has no memory of the event, is sent away to a boarding school to escape the gossip and threats, but someone or something is following her.
10) Scarlet
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Will Scarlet shadows Robin Hood, with an unerring eye for finding treasures to steal and throwing daggers with deadly accuracy, but when Gisbourne, a ruthless bounty hunter, is hired by the sheriff to capture Robin and his band of thieves, Robin must become Will's protector, risking his own life in the process.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
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Feeling humiliated and confused when his best friend Tessa rejects his love and reveals a long-held secret , high school senior Luke must decide if he should stand by Tessa when she invites a female date to the prom, sparking a firestorm of controversy in their small Indiana town.
12) Shattered
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
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March has a perfect life: beauty, popularity, a great job, a loving family and a hot boyfriend. So when she discovers that her boyfriend is cheating on her, she is hurt and enraged. When she lashes out and him, he falls and is badly injured. March panics, flees the scene and then watches her perfect life spiral out of control. In a misguided attempt to atone for her crime, March changes her appearance, quits her job and tries to become invisible,...
13) Inferno
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
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Dante has a hard time adjusting to school and becomes friends with Parker, a school drop-out who lives with her boyfriend, James, but when James and his friends plan something illegal, Dante begins to reexamine her values and priorities.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
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"Sixteen-year-old Seven McNight is fierce, fly, and fabulous-- but she's got her share of issues. It's not easy being the thickest one in her clique or hiding that her rebellious twin sister Toi is playing wifey to the neighborhood thug. And Seven is definitely not happy that she's feelin' the school's hottest baller, Josiah, especially since he's dating her high maintenance girlfriend, Deeyah. Can she save herself from major heartbreak?"--P. [4]...
16) Almost home
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
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Seven teens who live on the streets of Los Angeles and who each have their own hard-luck story, form their own dysfunctional family, complete with love and belonging, abuse and betrayal.
17) Welcome to Wahoo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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After being told that she must leave her European boarding school to live in Nebraska under an assumed name to be safe from Mafia assassins, Victoria Van Wyck tries to stop a smear campaign directed at her new friend by the school's popular clique.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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Jan Miller is a senior in high school who's convinced she is destined to lead the world's least fabulous life. But in spite of feeling that the forces of the universe have it in for her, Jan's about to learn that in life and romance, being a Not it Girl has some major rewards.
19) Freak the Mighty
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
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At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they make a powerful team. An established writer of adult suspense makes a stunning entry into children's literature with this extraordinary novel about two boys--a slow learner too large for his age, and a tiny, crippled genius--who pair up to create on formidable...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
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This is the story of how a Baggins had an adventure and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected. Bilbo Baggins enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep to whisk him away on a journey to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificient, a large...