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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
This special edition of the highly acclaimed novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda features art from the major motion picture starring Nick Robinson, Katherine Langford, Jennifer Garner, and Josh Duhamel, which hits theaters on March 16, 2018.
2) Firefly Lane
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Spanning more than three decades and playing out across the ever-changing face of the Pacific Northwest, Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story of two women and the friendship that becomes the bulkhead of their lives.
Author
Series
Under the never sky trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Aria and Perry, two teens from radically different societies--one highly advanced, the other primitive--hate being dependent on one another until they overcome their prejudices and fall in love, knowing they can't stay together"--
Author
Series
To all the boys I've loved before volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Lara Jean didn't expect to really fall for Peter. She and Peter were just pretending. Except suddenly they weren't. Now Lara Jean is more confused than ever. When another boy from her past returns to her life, Lara Jean's feelings for him return too. Can a girl be in love with two boys at once?"--‡cProvided by publisher.
Series
Publisher
Tokyopop Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Interscholastic Auradon Fashion Contest is the biggest fashion event of the year and students across the United States of Auradon are buzzing with anticipation. No one is more excited than Evie, the Villain Kids' (VKs) resident fashionista and designer extraordinaire! The other VKs roll up their sleeves to help their friend, but with another Auradon student competing for the top prize alongside her, will Evie be able to reach the top spot? And...
Author
Publisher
Anaya
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Mason Buttle es el chico más grande y sudoroso de su clase, y todos saben que apenas es capaz de leer y escribir. Estos problemas, sin embargo, no son nada comparados con la aflicción que siente por la muerte de su mejor amigo. Mason, que es el niño más honesto del mundo, no entiende por qué el teniente Baird no se cree la historia que le ha contado sobre lo que ocurrió ese día. Menos mal que su nuevo amigo, el diminuto Calvin Chumsky, un divertido...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A fourteen-year-old boy pretends to seduce a girl to steal a copy of "Playboy" before discovering that she is his computer-loving soul mate, in a humorous coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of late-1980s teen pop-culture trends.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Bunny Lampert is the princess of North Shore - beautiful, tall, blond, with a rich real-estate-developer father and a swimming pool in her backyard. Michael - with a ponytail down his back and a septum piercing - lives with his aunt in the cramped stucco cottage next door. When Bunny catches Michael smoking in her yard, he discovers that her life is not as perfect as it seems. At six foot three, Bunny towers over their classmates. Even as she dreams...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Chiko isn't a fighter by nature. He's a book-smart Burmese boy whose father, a doctor, is in prison for resisting the government. When Chiko is forced into the army by trickery, he must find the courage to survive the mental and physical punishment meted out by the training facility's menacing captain. Tu Reh can't forget the image of the Burmese soldiers burning his home and the bamboo fields of his oppressed Karenni people, one of the many ethnic...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
Description
"Having forged a new identity as a gay man in New York, Daniel Henriquez returns to the floodlands where he went to high school, to mourn Aubrey, the self-identified "redneck" girl he loved back then. His track team buddies--Twig, a long-distance runner; Desmond, a sprinter; Des's girlfriend, Egypt; and Jess, Aubrey's best friend--help him reckon with who they are to him, and he to them. Recklessly, he confronts the good-ole-boy responsible for Aubrey's...
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Mal, Evie, Dizzy, Celia, and even Uma have a special bond. After all, friendships are like family when your parents are wicked. Through the magic of friendship, these Isle of the Lost Ladies have shown the girls of Auradon, like Jane, what it means to be a loyal and true. Follow their poignant and funny stories in this friendship anthology that prove love, trust, and support often comes from the person you'd least expect--even a villain.
Publisher
TokyoPop
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A new original story set in the magical world of Disney Descendants! The original Villain Kids have worked hard to prove they deserve to stay in Auradon, and now its time some of their friends from the Isle of the Lost get that chance too! When Dizzy receives a special invitation from King Ben to join the other VKs at Auradon Prep, at first shes thrilled! But doubt soon creeps in, and she begins to question whether she can truly fit in outside the...
Series
Publisher
Tokyopop, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Interscholastic Auradon Fashion Contest is the biggest fashion event of the year and students across Auradon are buzzing with anticipation. No one is more excited than Evie, the villain kids' (VKs) resident fashionista and designer extraordinaire. The other VKs roll up their sleeves to help their friend, but with another Auradon student competing for the top prize alongside her, will Evie be able to reach the top spot? And just how far are the...
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The bestselling Cupcake Diaries series is now available in graphic novel format! In this adaptation of the first book, after her best friend moves on, Katie finds a new group of friends and they form the Cupcake Club. Katie is miserable when her best friend is invited to join the Popular Girls Club and Katie is left out. Is there an Unpopular Girls Club she can join? Luckily, Katie finds her way with a great new group of friends--Mia, Emma, and Alexis--and...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl: charming, confident, and SO cute. There's just one problem: Laura Dean is maybe not the greatest girlfriend. Reeling from her latest break up, Freddy's best friend, Doodle, introduces her to the Seek-Her, a mysterious medium, who leaves Freddy some cryptic parting words: break up with her. But Laura Dean keeps coming back, and as their relationship spirals further...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twins Nikki and Maya Younger always agreed on most things, but as they head into their senior year they react differently to the gentrification of their Portland, Oregon, neighborhood and the new--white--family that moves in after their best friend and her mother are evicted.
20) Delicates
Author
Series
Sheets volume 2
Publisher
ONI PRESS
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Marjorie Glatt's life hasn't been the same ever since she discovered a group of ghosts hiding in her family's laundromat. Wendell, who died young and now must wander Earth as a ghost with nothing more than a sheet for a body, soon became one of Marjorie's only friends. But when Marjorie finally gets accepted by the popular kids at school, she begins to worry that if anyone learns about her secret ghost friends, she'll be labeled as "a freak who sees...
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