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Author
Series
Initial insult volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Ostracized by the elite community of Amontillado, Ohio, after the disappearance of her parents, Tress organizes a Halloween costume party at an abandoned house, where she launches a macabre plan to force a popular former friend to confess what she knows.
82) The obsession
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After freeing her mother from an abusive relationship, Delilah Wong refuses to play a part in Logan's delusional romance -- but how can she convince him to let her go?
83) The fascinators
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"San doesn't know where he'd be without James and Delia. Living in a small town where magic is frowned upon, he needs their friendship--and their time together in their school's magic club--to see him through to graduation. But as soon as senior year starts, little cracks in their group begin to show. Sam may or may not be in love with James, who may or may not have a crush on a girl from his church. Delia wants to get into a hyper-competitive magic...
84) Our cursed love
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When a love potion gone wrong causes Cam to forget his best friend Remy completely, they travel through Tokyo to rediscover his memories, make new ones, and maybe even fall in love all over again.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
High school teacher Cole Conner tells three of his students the story of his father, Rex, whose lapse in lifeguard duties as a teen resulted in tragedy, but the event did not stop him from continuing to work for the greater good.
86) Goldfish
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Lou Brown is a fast individual medley swimmer, training for the Olympics. But when she tanks the time trials, she starts over and goes back to school. It's hard to fit in with the existing social groups. But then, she begins to coach boys in a different type of swimming activity, for a different type of competition.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster/BFYR
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Knowing that the friendships she depends on will change when her parents split up, Beth witnesses a private act of violence in her crush's home before forging a pact with her friends to offer support in the face of a life-altering decision.
Author
Publisher
Oni Press, Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Annie is a smart, antisocial lesbian starting her senior year of high school who's under pressure to join the cheerleader squad to make friends and round out her college applications. Her former friend BeBe is a people-pleaser, a trans girl who must keep her parents happy with her grades and social life in order to maintain their support of her transition. Through the rigors of squad training and amped up social pressures (not to mention micro-aggressions...
90) Shooter
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A lockdown catches five Grade 12 students by surprise and throws them together in the only unlocked room on that empty third floor wing: the boys' washroom. They sit in silence, judging each other by what they see, by the stories they've heard over the years. Stuck here with them--could anything be worse? Told in five unique voices through prose, poetry, text messages, journals and homework assignments.
92) Devil's advocate
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the spring of 1979, fifteen-year-old Dana Scully is the new girl at school in Craiger, Maryland. But worse than that, her dreams--some of which, in the past, came true--have become more vivid and disturbing, and are haunted by a shadowy figure which could be an angel--or the devil. When a classmate who recently died in a car accident appears in Dana's dreams, she begins to investigate, uncovering more suspicious deaths. With the evidence mounting,...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Joining a secret group called the "Minus-One Club," whose members have all suffered the tragic loss of someone they loved, fifteen-year-old Kermit finds his crush Matt's headstrong approach to life helping to relieve his constant despair.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
High-school senior Alexa Brooks is trying to forget about her former potential boyfriend, Carson Knight, who is now a heartthrob actor renamed Cayden McKnight, so when a school assignment brings them together, Alexa must enter the world of bright lights to try to make amends.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Seventeen-year-old Santi Arboleda finally feels settled in his new life in Los Angeles with a growing found family and a relationship with musical prodigy Suwa--until Suwa is offered the chance to step into the spotlight that he has always denied himself and they must finally face their dreams, their pasts, and their futures, whether together or apart.
Author
Series
St. Rosetta's Academy volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, Jaya Rao, an East Indian princess, and Grey Emerson, an English lord, suffer the effects of a centuries-old feud when they meet at an elite Colorado boarding school.--
98) The fight
Author
Series
Drama High volume 1
Publisher
Kensington Pub. Corp
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Jayd Jackson returns to South Bay High, she discovers that her former best friend is out to get her and her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend wants to fight, which forces Jayd to turn to Mama and her bag of tricks for help.
Author
Series
Monster High (Gitty Daneshvari) volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"The three ghoulfriends, Robecca Steam, Venus McFlytrap, and Rochelle Goyle, are on the case to solve the mystery of the missing headmistress!"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"After the loss of her mother, high school junior Soledad finds herself struggling to balance classes and her new job in California to support her family in Tijuana, Mexico, in this thoughtful story about identity, immigration, and family"--
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