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1) Holes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Author
Series
Broken wings series (V. C. Andrews) volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
3) Broken wings
Author
Series
Broken wings series (V. C. Andrews) volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
4) Troublemaker
Author
Publisher
Follett Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[1974]
Language
English
Description
Violence, loneliness, and hardship are the only companions of a thirteen-year-old boy until he finds a mangy brown dog named Buster.
Author
Language
English
Description
On a summer's evening in Amsterdam, two couples meet at a fashionable restaurant for dinner. Between mouthfuls of food, the conversation remains a gentle hum of polite discourse. But behind the empty words, terrible things need to be said. Each couple has a fifteen year- old son. The boys are united by their accountability for a single horrific act. As civility and friendship disintegrate, both couples show just how far they will go to protect those...
6) Wilder
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The lives of Jason Wilder and Meili Wen intersect in the delinquent-proof room for in-school suspension, known as the Rubber Room, and Jason's growing, fierce protectiveness of Meili explodes into violence when her chance to return to her wealthy lifestyle in Hong Kong--and his opportunity to escape poverty, loneliness, and the past--is threatened.--
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A group of teens at the Hope Juvenile Treatment Center are shocked to discover their guards have abandoned them, but their joy turns to fear when they learn a catastrophic pandemic has occurred outside their walls, turning their new-found freedom into a fight for survival.
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