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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
What if you aren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you're like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again. Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world, and sometimes...
2) Dry
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A collection of essays and original stories by some of today's most influential young adult authors that speaks directly to teens on how to find hope and comfort in today's turbulent society.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After Grace learns of a girl who was run out of town for accusing the popular guys at school of gang rape, she convinces her friends Rosina and Erin to help her form an anonymous group of girls, called The Nowhere Girls, to resist the sexist culture at Prescott High. As their group grows in number their movement becomes about more than sex, and transforms the lives of its members, their school, and the entire community.
5) Countdown
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, Myles gets a text from someone threatening to expose a dark secret."--
Myles is popular, has an amazing girlfriend, and won a full athletic scholarship to a top university. But on the day of his high-school graduation ceremony, while struggling to write his valedictorian speech, Myles receives a text that could ruin everything. He has only six hours to discover who is threatening to reveal...
6) Serenity
Author
Publisher
Realbuzz Studios
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Serenity Harper is the new girl in school and she seems determined to make everyone hate her. Derek, Kimberley, and the rest of the Prayer Club make it their project to be nice to her no matter how she treats them in order to bring her around to a Christian way of life.
Author
Publisher
in association with Realbuzz Studios
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Serenity Harper is the new girl in school and she seems determined to make everyone hate her. Derek, Kimberley, and the rest of the Prayer Club make it their project to be nice to her no matter how she treats them in order to bring her around to a Christian way of life.
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Presents three novels--"Book of Shadows," "The Coven," and "Blood Witch,"--chronicling the adventures of Morgan Rowlands, who learns she is a witch and with the help of handsome coven leader Cal struggles to control the power that could destroy them both.
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