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21) Fatality
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English
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It's been four years since Rose spent the weekend at Angelica's summer home and things went terribly wrong, but now that the police have reopened the murder case, Rose must relive that weekend all over again.
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Language
English
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"Late one night in the quiet Hudson Valley town of Havenkill, a distraught woman stumbles into the police station--and lives are changed forever. Aimee En, once a darling of the '80s pop music scene, claims that a teenage boy stole her car, then ran over another young man who'd rushed to help. As Liam Miller's life hangs in the balance, the events of that fateful night begin to come into focus. But is everything as it seems? The case quickly consumes...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Alex Craft knows how to kill someone. And she doesn't feel bad about it. When her older sister, Anna, was murdered three years ago and the killer walked free, Alex uncaged the language she knows best. The language of violence.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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What do the queen bee, star athlete, valedictorian, stoner, loner, and music geek all have in common? The invitation to a scholarship dinner was a trap, and now they're locked into a room with a bomb, a syringe filled with poison, and a note saying they have an hour to pick someone to kill... or everyone dies. No one know how they're all connected-- or who would want them dead. As the clock ticks down confusion turns into fear, and fear morphs into...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Resolving to avoid high school clichés, friends Dave and Julia maintain a list of everything they vow to never do, but he has already broken a rule by secretly pining for her, a situation complicated when Julia suddenly decides to break every rule.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The Breakfast Club meets We Are the Ants in this timely story for a generation of young activists. If you knew the world was going to end tomorrow, what would you do? This is the question that haunts Amina as she watches new and horrible stories of discord and crisis flash across the news every day. But when she starts at prestigious Gardner Academy, Amina finds a group of like-minded peers to join forces with-fast friends who dedicate their year...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When he moves into the garage apartment at his best friend's house, trouble-prone Tim falls unexpectly in love with Alice, his friend's good-girl sister, but unforeseen consequences of Tim's wild days come back to challenge their relationship.
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Ellie Jenkins definitely didn't peak in high school. She was an outsider, an invisible girl with a desperate crush on Mark Wright, a guy who hardly knew her name. Ten years later, she's living in Los Angeles, trying to write a hit show about cool high school kids, when an invitation for her high school reunion arrives. She doesn't want to go, but her writing has been suffering and her boss makes her an ultimatum: go to this reunion or lose her big...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Lost in the Great Smoky Mountains, rising high school senior Ashley Hawkins must fight for survival without any tools, growing in awareness that the world is not tame, and neither are people.
When Ashley goes hiking in the Smokies with her friends for a night of partying, the falling dark and creaking trees are second nature to her. Catching her boyfriend with another girl, drunken rage sends Ashley running into the night, stopped only by a nasty...
33) Who's that girl
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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"Overachiever Luz 'Lulu' Zavala has straight As, perfect attendance, and a solid ten-year plan ... Middle sister Milagro wants nothing to do with college or a nerdy class field trip ... On a journey from Baltimore all the way to San Francisco, Lulu and Milagro will become begrudging partners as they unpack weighty family expectations ... and maybe even discover the true meaning of sisterhood"--
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Publisher
Paramount Pictures Corp
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A chronicle of the events experienced by a rather magical 17-year-old, who has an overwhelming urge to cut school one spring day and head for downtown Chicago with his girl and best friend to see the sights and experience a day of freedom.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Mary is having an existential crisis. She's a good student, she never gets in trouble, and she is searching for the meaning of life. She always thought she'd find it in a perfect score on the SATs. But by junior year, Mary isn't so sure anymore. The first time, it's an accident. She forgets to do a history assignment. She even crosses "history essay" off in her pristine planner. And then: Nothing happens. She doesn't burst into flames, the world...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"It's Senior Party Week, that magical in-between time after classes have ended but before graduation, chock-full of gimmicky theme parties, last-minute bonding, and family traditions. Olivia couldn't be more ready ... But when the tiny hiccup of an unsigned off-campus P.E. form puts Olivia in danger of not graduating at all, she has one week to set things straight without tipping off her very big and very nosy extended family"--
Author
Series
Missing Clarissa volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In August of 1999, dazzlingly popular cheerleader Clarissa Campbell disappears from a party in the woods outside the rural town of Oreville, Washington and is never seen again. The police question her friends, teachers, and the adults who knew her--who all have something to hide. And thanks to Clarissa's beauty, the mystery captures the attention of the nation. But with no leads and no body, the case soon grows cold. Despite the efforts of internet...
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Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"What would the world be like if 80 percent of the population manifested superpowers called "Quirks"? Heroes and villains would be battling it out everywhere! Being a hero would mean learning to use your power, but where would you go to study? The Hero Academy of course! But what would you do if you were one of the 20 percent who were born Quirkless? It's off to summer camp for Midoriya and the U.A. students! But this is no ordinary vacation--it's...
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Language
English
Description
"Ari Eden's life has always been governed by strict rules. In ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn, his days are dedicated to intense study and religious rituals, and adolescence feels profoundly lonely. So when his family announces that they are moving to a glitzy Miami suburb, Ari seizes his unexpected chance for reinvention. Enrolling in an opulent Jewish academy, Ari is stunned by his peers' dizzying wealth, ambition, and shameless pursuit of life's pleasures....
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