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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...
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.
5) 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
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.
12) Charlie Bartlett
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor
Pub. Date
2008]
Language
English
Description
Wealthy teenager Charlie Bartlett is failing miserably at fitting in at his new public high school. The school is run by the world-weary Principal Gardner. As he begins to better understand the social hierarchy, Charlie's honest charm and likability gives him the position as the resident 'psychiatrist.' Along with his partner and fellow student, Murphy Bivens, Charlie dishes out advice and the occasional prescription to other students in need. Along...
13) 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.
16) American honey
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A vivacious teenage rebel joins a group of fellow misfits who hustle and party their way across the country.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Percy Jackson is no ordinary teenager, he's the son of Poseidon and is accused of stealing Zeus' lightning bolt, the most powerful weapon ever created! With storm clouds brewing, Percy embarks on an incredible cross-country journey to prove his innocence, recover the bolt, and prevent a war among the gods that could destroy our world!
19) Seventeen
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In their final year at Muncie's Southside High School, a group of seniors hurtles toward maturity with a combination of joy, despair, and an aggravated sense of urgency. They are also learning a great deal about life, both in and out of school, and not what school officials think they are teaching.
20) 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...
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