Ellen Hopkins
1) Perfect
Author
Series
Impulse volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four teens will stop at nothing to achieve perfection. Cara has to fulfill her parent's high expectations, even if it means sacrificing love. Kendra is willing to do anything to have the perfect body, even drugs and surgery. Sean is prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice on and off the ball field. To achieve the perfect performance and live his dream, Andre will have to forsake his ancestry.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, sixth-grade cousins Hannah and Cal learn a lot about family when circumstances throw them together under one roof and Hannah's love of order clashes with Cal's chaotic behavior.
3) Crank
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter: gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, she meets a boy who introduces her to crank. At first she finds it freeing, but soon Kristina's personality disappears inside the drug. What began as a wild, ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul, and her life.
4) Fallout
Author
Series
Crank volume 3
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
How do you live your life if your past is based on a lie? Find out in this "satisfied and moving story" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) in both verse and prose from #1 New York Times bestselling author Ellen Hopkins.
For as long as she can remember, it's been just Ariel and Dad. Ariel's mom disappeared when she was a baby. Dad says home is wherever the two of them are, but Ariel is now seventeen and after years of new apartments,...
For as long as she can remember, it's been just Ariel and Dad. Ariel's mom disappeared when she was a baby. Dad says home is wherever the two of them are, but Ariel is now seventeen and after years of new apartments,...
6) Sync
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After a rough placement at age 12, twins Storm and Lake were separated by the state and haven't seen each other since. Storm has been in juvie, though he's finally settled, with a decent foster parent and a new girlfriend, Jaidyn. Lake's position living with a strict Christian family is tenuous, complicated by the fact that she's falling for her lesbian roommate, Parker. A reunion allows the 17-year-olds to reestablish "our sync"--reading each other's...
8) Impulse
Author
Series
Impulse volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Three teens who meet at Reno, Nevada's Aspen Springs mental hospital after each has attempted suicide connect with each other in a way they never have with their parents or anyone else in their lives.
Author
Series
Love Lies Beneath volume 2
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In this gripping follow-up to Love Lies Beneath, beautiful, wealthy Tara Lattimore's story continues when her sinful past threatens to derail her current marriage--and her sanity. Tara thought she was finally settling down when she married the handsome Dr. Cavin Lattimore. Just as she was willing to overlook his gambling habits, she discovers his secret meetings with Sophia, his gorgeous ex-girlfriend and his son Eli's occasional girlfriend. Life...
10) Smoke
Author
Series
Burned volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After the death of her abusive father and loss of her beloved Ethan and their unborn child, Pattyn runs away, desperately seeking peace, as her younger sister, a sophomore in high school, also tries to put the pieces of her life back together.
11) Glass
Author
Series
Crank volume 2
Publisher
M.K. McElderberry
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Kristina is determined to manage her crystal meth addiction in order to take care of her newborn son, but when the pull of the drug becomes too strong, her greatest fears are quickly realized.
13) Rumble
Author
Publisher
Audioworks
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Matt's atheism is tested when, after a horrific accident of his own making that plunges him into a dark, quiet place, he hears a voice that calls everything he has ever disbelieved into question.
14) Identical
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
p2008
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.
15) Fly fishing
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the equipment, skills, conservation issues, and safety concerns of fly fishing.