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Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Budding costume designer Lola lives an extraordinary life in San Francisco with her two dads and beloved dog, dating a punk rocker, but when the Bell twins return to the house next door Lola recalls both the friendship-ending fight with Calliope, a figure skater, and the childhood crush she had on Cricket.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
As high school graduation nears, Wren Gray is surprised to connect with gentle Charlie Parker, a boy with a troubled past who has loved her for years, while she considers displeasing her parents for the first time and changing the plans for her future.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers & Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Unhappy about being sent to the same summer camp after their fathers start dating, Bett and Avery, two girls, age eleven, eventually begin scheming to get the couple back together after a break-up. Told entirely through letters, emails and text messages.
44) Turning point
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Best friends Rasheeda and Monique navigate the ups and downs of a teenager's summer, Mo at home in the Cove; Sheeda at a sleepaway ballet intensive"--
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 4
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The bestselling Cupcake Diaries series is now available in graphic novel format! In this adaptation of the fourth book, Alexis struggles to fit the messiness of a crush in with her orderly lifestyle. Alexis Becker is by far the most prepared, exact, and organized Cupcake Club member, which is why she's in charge of the business end of the club. But when she suddenly develops a major crush on Matt Taylor--her BFF Emma's brother--things get a little...
46) No boyz allowed
Author
Publisher
Dafina Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gem and her little brother navigate their way through New Jersey's foster care system while Gem tries to hide her attraction to new boy Ny'eem from her friends, who have declared that no boys can come between their friendship.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In a British alternative high school, fifteen-year-old Heidi stands out in many ways, but when she invents a boyfriend--complete with online profile--her friends turn to him for advice and she must decide how far she is willing to go to find acceptance.
Author
Series
To all the boys I've loved before volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Lara Jean's letter-writing days aren't over in this surprise follow-up to the New York Times bestselling To All the Boys I've Loved Before and P.S. I Still Love You. Lara Jean is having the best senior year a girl could ever hope for. She is head over heels in love with her boyfriend, Peter; her dad's finally getting remarried to their next door neighbor, Ms. Rothschild; and Margot's coming home for the summer just in time for the wedding. But change...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twins Nikki and Maya Younger always agreed on most things, but as they head into their senior year they react differently to the gentrification of their Portland, Oregon, neighborhood and the new--white--family that moves in after their best friend and her mother are evicted.
Author
Series
Applewhites volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old E.D. Applewhite, still reeling from her bewildering kiss with former bad boy Jake, embarks on a cross-country road trip in a wildly painted school bus with her eccentric, highly creative family, as they compete in an art educational quest for a big cash prize.
Author
Series
Clique novels. Original series volume 14
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
As the girls face some tough decisions and some life-changing events, the Pretty Committee may come to an end.
52) Don't look back
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Sam seems to have everything until she and her best friend, Cassie, disappear one night and now Sam has returned with amnesia, striving to be a much better person and aware that her not remembering may be the only thing keeping Cassie alive.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
High-school seniors Kimberly Landis-Lilley and Teddy Lin have been together since kindergarten, but then someone starts a rumor that they have broken up, and suddenly the whole William Henry Harrison High School is taking sides, somebody is putting up posters supporting Kim and criticizing Teddy, there are incidents of artistic vandalism, people are talking about having separate proms, and even teachers and parents are getting involved--and nobody...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Ainsley's divorced mother is the director on a summer fairy tale (definitely not Disney) cruise, and nearly-thirteen-year-old Ainsley is annoyed that she is expected to spend her summer vacation helping out in hundred different ways, without much in the way of free time to chat up the cute boy playing the "Pig King"--then once the ship actually sets sail things start to go wrong, and Ainsley begins to wonder whether this fairy tale is cursed.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shannon Carter, who is devoted to her Minneapolis youth community theatre, feels more comfortable staying behind the scenes due to her OCD, but all that changes when the director casts her in a role.
After Shannon accidentally lands a lead role in the summer musical, she realizes she has bigger things to worry about than stage fright in this contemporary middle-school novel about strained friendships, the positive power of theater, and the realities...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"When boyfriend Elliott breaks up with Jenna Sakai before Christmas break, she just about convinces herself that relationships are for suckers and she is better off without them; but unfortunately she finds herself in competition with Elliott for a journalism scholarship, and worse her first assignment for the newspaper club is to write a personal essay, which is difficult when you are someone who prefers to keep your emotions bottled up--and than...
Author
Series
Max's lucha libre adventures volume 2
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Everybody is fighting in sixth-grader Maximilian's world as his elderly aunts battle for the Queen Bingo trophy, his masked uncles wrestle for the tag-team title of the world, and his sweetheart and the "new girl" battle for Max's heart.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf/Random House
Pub. Date
[2010], c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In the last months of high school, charismatic eighteen-year-old Sutter Keely lives in the present, staying drunk or high most of the time, but that could change when starts working to boost the self-confidence of a classmate, Aimee.
Author
Series
Publisher
RBA
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
Español
Description
"Nikki te da la pista definitiva para saber si le gustas a tu amor secreto"--cover p. 4.
Middle-school drama queen Nikki Maxwell worries about asking a boy to her school's "sweetheart dance.".
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