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Author
Series
Pushing the limits volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rendered a subject of gossip after a traumatic night that left her with terrible scars on her arms, Echo is dumped by her boyfriend and bonds with bad-boy Noah, whose tough attitude hides an understanding nature and difficult secrets.
2) First love
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Runaways Axi, sixteen, and Robinson, seventeen, who met on a cancer ward, leave small-town Oregon on a cross-country trip to experience the best of life before it is too late.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When Gia Montgomery's boyfriend, Bradley, dumps her in the parking lot of her high school prom, she decides to do the unthinkable ... convince the cute guy waiting to pick up his sister to pretend to be her boyfriend for the night. Will Gia turn her fake boyfriend into a real one without exposing her lie and possibly destroying her friendships and her newfound relationship?
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the acclaimed actor and Stonewall Honor-winning author of The Best at It, Maulik Pancholy, comes a new middle grade novel about a gay Indian American boy who learns the power of using his voice. Thirteen-year-old Nikhil Shah is the beloved voice actor for Raj Reddy on the hit animated series Raj Reddy in Outer Space. But being a star on TV doesn't mean you have everything figured out behind the scenes. . . . When his mom temporarily moves them...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aspiring artist Abby decides that in order to give her art "more heart" she will complete a list of tasks over the summer, ranging from facing a fear to falling in love, but she soon finds the list more difficult than she imagined.
Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Beverly Tapinski has run away from home plenty of times, but that was when she was just a kid. By now, she figures, it's not running away. It's leaving. Determined to make it on her own, Beverly finds a job and a place to live and tries to forget about her dog, Buddy, now buried underneath the orange trees back home; her friend Raymie, whom she left without a word; and her mom, Rhonda, who has never cared about anyone but herself. Beverly doesn't...
9) Day 21
Author
Series
The 100 series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's been 21 days since the hundred landed on Earth. They're the only humans to set foot on the planet in centuries...or so they thought. Facing an unknown enemy, the hundred struggle to survive the only way they can--together, as secrets are revealed, beliefs are challenged, and relationships are tested"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Auditioning for a New York City performing arts high school could help Etta escape from her Nebraska all-girl school, where she is not gay enough for her former friends, not sick enough for her eating disorders group, and not thin enough for ballet, but it may also mean real friendships.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Henri "Halti" Haltiwanger can charm just about anyone. But his easy smiles mask a burning ambition to attend his dream college, Columbia University. There is only one person who seems immune to Henri's charms: his "intense" classmate and neighbor Corinne Troy. When she uncovers Henri's less-than-honest dog-walking scheme, she blackmails him into helping her change her image at school. Henri agrees, seeing a potential upside for himself. Soon what...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper starts sleeping with Wesley Rush, a notorious womanizer who disgusts her, in order to distract her from her personal problems, and to her surprise, the two of them find they have a lot in common and are able to help each other find more productive ways to deal with their difficulties.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Principal Revenant learns that Spectra has brought non-ghosts to the Ghost World, she punishes the student with detention chains that prevent her from returning to Monster High! Now the ghouls have to assume new forms and travel back to Haunted High to save their friend and uncover the true nature of Principal Revenant's punishment.
14) Where she went
Author
Series
If I stay volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adam, now a rising rock star, and Mia, a successful cellist, reunite in New York and reconnect after the horrific events that tore them apart when Mia almost died in a car accident three years earlier.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Natasha, whose family is hours away from being deported, and Daniel, a first generation Korean American who strives to live up to his parents' expectations, unexpectedly fall in love and must determine which path they will choose in order to be together.
16) Emmy & Oliver
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Emmy just wants to be in charge of her own life. She wants to stay out late, surf her favorite beach?go anywhere without her parents? relentless worrying. But Emmy?s parents can?t seem to let her grow up?not since the day Oliver disappeared. Oliver needs a moment to figure out his heart. He?d thought, all these years, that his dad was the good guy. He never knew that it was his father who kidnapped him and kept him on the run. Discovering it, and...
Author
Series
Nico di Angelo adventures volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Percy Jackson fans, rejoice! Nico and Will have a book of their own! As the son of Hades, Nico di Angelo has been through so much, from the premature deaths of his mother and sister, to being outed against his will, to losing his friend Jason during the trials of Apollo. But there is a ray of sunshine in his life—literally: his boyfriend, Will Solace, the son of Apollo. Together the two demigods can overcome any obstacle or foe. At least, that's...
19) Monument 14
Author
Series
Monument 14 volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fourteen kids of varying ages find themselves trapped in a chain superstore, while outside, a series of escalating disasters occur including a monster hailstorm and ending with a chemical weapons spill.
20) Hollywood High
Author
Series
Hollywood High volume 1
Publisher
Dafina KTeen Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Traces the scandals and dramas of Hollywood High teen socialites Rich, London, Spencer, and Heather, whose status as their private school's most popular "it girls" is threatened by respective secrets.
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