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2) Panic
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the poor town of Carp, New York, a group of teens enters a high-stakes game that involves a series of secretive, possibly deadly challenges throughout the summer, with the winner receiving more than $50,000--enough money to start a new life"--
Author
Language
English
Description
On a warm June evening, the students of Nantucket High gather for the traditional graduation bonfire on the beach. But the celebration ends in tragedy after a horrible car accident leaves the driver, Penny Alistair, dead, and her twin brother, Hobby, in a coma. Penny's boyfriend, Jake, and her friend Demeter are unhurt but haunted by the events of that night, and by the questions that linger about what happened in the car -- and what happened in the...
4) Avalon
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"AVALON follows Bran, a high school graduate in California who is raised by her 'common-law-stepfather' in a rowdy home following her mother's death. After graduating from high school, Bran stays in town and is introduced to Peter, a college student who is engaged, and the two begin an intense relationship revolving around philosophy, literature, and their attraction for one another. Encouraged by Peter, Bran begins writing scripts for their friend,...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just graduated high school. His only desire: collect a little beer money and enjoy his final summer before college. So he lands a job as a laborer on a construction crew. Working alongside two Vietnam vets, one suffering from PTSD, Vincent gets the education of a lifetime. Now forty years later, with his own son leaving for college, the lessons of that summer--Vincent's last taste of innocence and first taste of real life--dramatically...
Author
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Julián Luna has a plan for his life: Graduate. Get into UCLA. And have the chance to move away from Corpus Christi, Texas, and the suffocating expectations of others that have forced Jules into an inauthentic life. Then in one reckless moment, with one impulsive tweet, his plans for a low-key nine months are thrown--literally--out the closet. The downside: the whole world knows, and Jules has to prepare for rejection. The upside: Jules now has the...
10) The mall
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
New Jersey, 1991. Cassie Worthy is psyched to spend the summer after graduation working at the Parkway Center Mall. In six weeks, she and her boyfriend head off to college in NYC to fulfill The Plan: higher education and happily ever after. But you know what they say about the best laid plans.... -- adapted from jacket
With her plans for the future crushed at the start of the summer of 1991, seventeen-year-old Cassie Worthy finds friendship, love,...
11) Losers: Part 2
Author
Publisher
Harley Laroux
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
I made one foolish mistake and ended up with a debt I had only one way to pay...by bowing my head and submitting to the men I swore I hated. But in their dominance I found catharsis. In the darkness we share, parts of myself were brought to the light. I've been wearing a mask for far too long. Now I'm torn between the future I thought I wanted, and a life I once believed was only fantasy. These feelings between us were never just a game. What am I...
Author
Language
English
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Description
Every town has its secrets... In idyllic Alara Cove, a California beach town known for its sunny charm and chill surfer vibe, it's graduation day at the elite Thornton Academy. At Thornton, the students are the worldly and overindulged children who live in gated enclaves with spectacular views. But the class valedictorian is Nikki Graziola, a surfer's daughter who is there on scholarship. To the shock of everyone in the audience, Nikki veers off script...
Author
Series
Evan Delaney mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Obsidian
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
School's out forever......and the school reunion is a killer. For something, or someone, is eliminating Evan Delaney's graduating class. China Lake was a tough place to grow up. But Evan didn't realize just how tough until, returning for her high school reunion, she discovers that a disturbing number of her classmates have died young. Then another one is savagely butchered. She is just the first. There's a serial killer on the loose. One with an axe...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Have just graduated from high school, Josie Hazeldine is ready for a summer full of sunshine, beekeeping... and lying to her mom. Instead of going to college, Josie wants to stay in her California hometown and take over the family business, Hazeldine Honey. In town for the summer, Ezra is into Josie and the feeling is very mutual. But he's a Blumstein: the sworn enemy of the Hazeldines and their number one competition in the annual Honey Show at the...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
High school is over but events conspire to reunite Ryan, Seth and Summer in posh, seaside Newport. There may even be a new Core Four, because after Taylor Townsend says a quick if not passionate au revoir to her education in France, she just might pursue Ryan until he catches her.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
The summer after graduating from an Iowa high school, eighteen-year-old Dade Hamilton watches his parents' marriage disintegrate, ends his long-term, secret relationship, comes out of the closet, and savors first love.
Series
Yokai girls volume 1
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"20-year-old virgin Nishizuru Yatsuki has always considered himself a fairly normal guy-he's a high school graduate, works a part-time job, and hangs out at a maid cafe. He does have one very special ability: he can see yokai spirits! Usually he copes with these ghostly visions by ignoring them - but everything changes when he meets a beautiful young woman named Rokka. Now Yatsuki's normal days have taken a notably abnormal turn, as he finds himself...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A group of seven high school graduates manages to escape from a deadly roller-coaster disaster, only to discover that their own deaths have been only temporarily avoided. Wendy spots clues of impending doom in digital photos of her soon-to-be-expiring classmates, and an ill wind follows her everywhere, suggesting the presence of a supernatural force that makes her a catalyst for deadly events, as each of her friends is dispatched in the order they...
Author
Series
Riverdale volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Archie, Betty, Jughead, Veronica, and the rest of the gang are getting ready for life after high school. At least, they're trying to. They begin receiving letters from someone calling themselves the Poison Pen. Letters about their deepest, darkest secrets, directing them to do exactly what their told: at first things like post an embarrassing video online. As the stakes get higher with each letter, the group may not have a future to protect. -- adapted...
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