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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Journey hadn't planned for a future, but when her suicide attempt fails she finds the life she never meant to live challenging in more ways than before: her parents don't trust her, her friends have moved on for their own good, her bipolar disorder is overwhelming. At odds with herself and lacking concrete goals, she begins volunteering at a local helpline, where she finds a community as strong yet broken as she is.
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After an incident at school, seventeen year-old Alaine is spending spring break in a "volunteer immersion project", toiling away under the ever-watchful eyes of Tati Estelle and her eagle-eyed mother at a new nonprofit in Haiti. Although it is meant as punishment, Alaine is still able to flirt with Tati's distractingly cute intern, get some actual face time with her mom and experience her family's history in Haiti for the first time.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Told in separate voices, Kat and Robin leave Boston on a church mission to help combat human trafficking in India while Kat recovers from a sexual assault and Robin seeks his birth mother.
4) Lola at last
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen is an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Move over, Elizabeth Bennet. The most infamous Bennet sister is here to tell her story. Join Lola Barnes, a.k.a. a modern Lydia Bennet, at the beginning of a summer gone truly wrong: where a boat party-turned-fiery-fiasco ends with the ship, Lola's summer plans, and her reputation truly sunk. (The boat was barely on fire, for the record--and all the partygoers were just fine.) Luckily, this disaster of a summer has another thing in store for her:...
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