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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Melville Heights is one of the nicest neighborhoods in Bristol, England; home to doctors and lawyers and old-money academics. It's not the sort of place where people are brutally murdered in their own kitchens. But it is the sort of place where everyone has a secret. And everyone is watching you. As the headmaster credited with turning around the local school, Tom Fitzwilliam is beloved by one and all--including Joey Mullen, his new neighbor, who...
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A follow-up to the Newbery Medal-winning Merci Suárez Changes Gears finds Merci embarking on a seventh grade year shaped by high teacher expectations, a crush on a school-store co-worker and a bossy classmate's plan for the annual Heart Ball.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Tess has a bad habit. She can't stop snooping through her guests' belongings . . . When Tess is forced to rent out her late sister's old room to pay the bills, the urge to rummage through her guests' belongings overtakes her every thought. Teasing herself with forbidden glimpses into the lives of strangers is a momentary thrill, but it's the closest she's felt to anyone since the mysterious death of her sister, Rosie. After her newest lodger, Arran,...
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A star-studded collection of essays from acclaimed and bestselling authors and celebrities that illuminates the lasting power of desire and longing, and celebrates our initiation into the euphoria, pain, and mystery that is our first celebrity crush. A few channeled their devotion into obsessively writing embarrassing fan letters. Some taped pics in school lockers. Others decorated their bedroom walls with posters. Here are funny, whimsical, sometimes...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Raquel Margarita Raquel Álvarez is hard-working, stays on the straight and narrow, and focuses on her future. She's got one goal--make that two goals: become a psychologist...and get Ares Hildago to look at her. Ares is the hot, rich, local playboy, and Raquel's been obsessed with him since she was eight-years-old--even though they've never spoken...After a chance encounter reveals her crush, Raquel decides it's time to stop hiding and make Ares...
Author
Series
Cricket Creek novels volume 11
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In her small shop on Main Street, Susan Quincy sells handmade gifts and repurposed items. But she can't part with the beautiful rocking chair she bought at an estate sale when its maker turns out to be Danny Mayfield. Even years later, Susan still cringes over how her handsome, popular high school crush only asked her to prom out of pity -- or so she thinks. Danny doesn't know why Susan has avoided him for years, especially after the electric kiss...
9) Virtue
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A powerful novel of youth, aspiration, and moral conflict, as a young man is seduced by the mirage of glamour -- at a terrible cost"--
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 12
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
As Nikki plans how she's going to spend her summer, things get more complicated after she starts hanging out with a visiting student.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Find the confidence to rock out to your own beat in this big-hearted middle grade novel. Not to be missed by fans of Raina Telgemeier's Drama and Tim Federle's Better Nate Than Ever ! Melly only joined the school band because her best friend, Olivia, begged her to. But to her surprise, quiet Melly loves playing the drums. It's the only time she doesn't feel like a mouse. Now she and Olivia are about to spend the next two weeks at Camp Rockaway, jamming...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Greta lives with her friend Sabine in an ancient Dutch farmhouse in Hudson, New York. The house, built in 1737, is unrenovated, uninsulated, and full of bees. Greta spends her days transcribing therapy sessions for a sex coach who calls himself Om. She becomes infatuated with his newest client, a repressed married woman she affectionately refers to as Big Swiss, since she's tall, stoic, and originally from Switzerland. Greta is fascinated by Big...
13) One last stop
Author
Language
English
Description
Cynical twenty-three-year old August doesn't believe in much. She doesn't believe in psychics, or easily forged friendships, or finding the kind of love they make movies about. And she certainly doesn't believe her ragtag band of new roommates, her night shifts at a 24-hour pancake diner, or her daily subway commute full of electrical outages are going to change that. But then, there's Jane. Beautiful, impossible Jane. All hard edges with a soft smile...
14) Legacy
Author
Language
English
Description
"Adrian Rizzo was seven when she met her father for the first time. That was the day he nearly killed her-before her mother, Lina, stepped in. Soon after, Adrian was dropped off at her grandparents' house in Maryland, where she spent a long summer drinking lemonade, playing with dogs, making a new best friend-and developing the stirrings of a crush on her friend's ten-year-old brother. Lina, meanwhile, traveled the country promoting her fitness brand...
16) Southern comfort
Author
Publisher
Urban Renaissance
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
Longing to win the heart of her university's track star, a young British woman studying in America infiltrates her crush's tight-knit group of friends, with whom she forges family-like bonds that are tested by difficult challenges.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eyes aren't the windows to the soul. Emails are. Cassie Woodson is adrift. After suffering an epic tumble down the corporate ladder, Cassie finds the only way she can pay her bills is to take a thankless temp job reviewing correspondence for a large-scale fraud suit. The daily drudgery amplifies all that her life is lacking--love, friends, stability--and leaves her with too much time on her hands, which she spends fixating on the mistakes that brought...
18) Lucas
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When a quiet high school boy finds the girl he is interested in attracted to the football captain, he tries out for the team, despite the risks.
19) End of the line
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
J-Rite is 100% blackhearted. New to the city of Grand Rapids but not new to making money, she was born a straight gangster. The pint-sized exotic dancer turned street hustler is caught up in living the "Black American Hood Dream." She has no off button or filter when it comes to getting paid. With a team of murder-minded goons ready to do nothing but win, win, win, J-Rite makes enemies of everyone, including the man she loves, all because they dare...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Paige suffers from a paralyzing fear of making the wrong decision, so when presented with the choice between two life-long dreams Paige is forced to face the truth about her struggle with anxiety.
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