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Author
Series
Chronicles of Nick volume 5
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Son of a demon Nick Gautier just wants to be a normal guy, but when he is sucked into an alternate reality he realizes the value of his powers.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"After learning the truth about the Laicos Project and surviving betrayal by a Forgery in their midst, Gray Weathersby and his group of rebels plan their final attack on the Franconian Order"--
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In post-war North Carolina, a member of a car-theft ring picks up an innocent nineteen-year-old Bible saleman and recognizes the young man as just the associate he needs--one who will believe he is working as an F.B.I. spy, one who will drive the cars he steals.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A fourteen-year-old boy pretends to seduce a girl to steal a copy of "Playboy" before discovering that she is his computer-loving soul mate, in a humorous coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of late-1980s teen pop-culture trends.
Author
Publisher
Little A
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When the spring thaw of a frozen Minnesota lake brings about shocking revelations that lead to violence, 15-year-old Wes Ballot embarks on a search for his missing father, the truth about his mother's death and a future he must claim for himself."--
66) Brighton rock
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2004,c1938
Language
English
Description
Presents a reprint of Graham Greene's 1938 novel about Pinkie Brown, a teenage gangster who tries to establish himself in the Brighton underworld, describing his criminal ambitions, and the events surrounding the murder of corrupt newspaperman, Charles Hale.
Author
Series
Perfect chemistry series volume 2
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Living on the University of Colorado-Boulder campus with his older brother Alex, a college student and ex-gang member, high school senior Carlos is not ready to give up his wild ways until he meets a shy classmate named Kiara and becomes unwillingly involved in a drug ring.
69) Single dads club
Author
Publisher
Montlake
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Single father Rowan Quinn moves to a tight-knit coastal community in South Africa to give his son the family he never had and meets a former heiress who makes it her personal mission to induct him into the town's circle of single dads to give him the support he needs.
70) Tap out
Author
Publisher
Running Press Teens
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
With his mother's abusive boyfriends and a dead-end life in a trailer park, seventeen-year old Tony tries to find escape in his mixed martial arts classes, hoping it is enough to stave off the drug-dealing motorcycle gang who wants him as a recruit.
71) The water seeker
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Traces the hard life, filled with losses, adversity, and adventure, of Amos, son of a trapper and dowser, from 1833 when his mother dies giving birth to him until 1859, when he himself has grown up and has a son of his own.
Author
Series
Discworld volume 7
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Magic and humor are combined in the whimsical story of the hard life of a teenage pharaoh who does not have a clue about what he is supposed to do as the new ruler of the desert kingdom of Djelibeybi.
74) Brightly burning
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Penguin Putnam
Pub. Date
©2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Lackey's first major stand-alone novel set in Valdemar tells the legend of Lavan Firestorm, a young man blessed and cursed with a special talent for starting fires. His legend has haunted the darkest corners of Valdemar, yet the truth has never been told.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Whiting Award-winning author makes his long-awaited comeback with this epic tale, spanning from the Deep South to the Middle East, that bridges four countries, two cultures, and three families who struggle to love and survive in the face of war, natural disasters, and other calamities beyond their control. Ramadan Ramsey is the improbable love story between Alicia Ramsey, a ninth generation New Orleans African American, and Mustafah Tota, a Syrian...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Harvey Cheyne, the son of a millionaire, learns lessons about life, responsibility, determination, and self-reliance when, saved from drowning by a fishing schooner, he is forced to share the life and hard work of his rescuers.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
After waking up in a German field at the end of World War II, a man with only flashes of his memory intact searches for his identity while getting caught up in a flood of displaced people, including a teenager with whom he forms an unlikely alliance.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Cullen's summer in Lily, Arkansas, is marked by his cousin's death by overdose, an alleged spotting of a woodpecker thought to be extinct, failed romances, and his younger brother's sudden disappearance.
80) Sweet water
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It's what Sarah Ellsworth dreamed of. Marriage to her childhood sweetheart, Martin. Living in a historic mansion in Pennsylvania's most exclusive borough. And Finn, a teenage son with so much promise. Until...A call for help in the middle of the night leads Sarah and Martin to the woods, where they find Finn, injured, dazed, and weeping near his girlfriend's dead body. Convinced he's innocent, Sarah and Martin agree to protect their son at any cost...
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