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1) Speak
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"'Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say.' From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Christian Cage lives with his uncle in Winter, Wisconsin, where his nightmares, visions, and strange paintings draw him into a mystery involving German prisoners of war, a mysterious corpse, and Winter's last surviving Jew.
5) Belzhar
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jam Gallahue, fifteen, unable to cope with the loss of her boyfriend Reeve, is sent to a therapeutic boarding school in Vermont, where a journal-writing assignment for an exclusive, mysterious English class transports her to the magical realm of Belzhar, where she and Reeve can be together.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others.
8) Boy21
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences.
9) Identical
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told in alternating voices, when Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school--both teetering on the edge--it's the beginning of an unlikely relationship, a journey to discover the "natural wonders" of the state of Indiana, and two teens' desperate desire to heal and save one another.
11) Bleed like me
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Two emotionally scarred teenagers enter into a passionate, dangerous romance.
12) Freak magnet
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Two teenagers, both burdened by grief and loss, find each other and gradually develop a strong connection to one another.
13) Hunger
Author
Publisher
Graphia
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lisabeth has anorexia, and even turning into Famine--one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse--cannot keep her from feeling fat and worthless.
14) Walking on glass
Author
Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A teenage boy recounts, in a free verse journal, his attempts to come to terms with the realities of his mother's near-death coma.
15) Tangled
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The lives of four very different teenagers become entangled in ways that none of them could have imagined after a short stay at a Caribbean resort.
16) Rush
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Award-winning author and former schoolteacher Jonathan Friesen has a knack for crafting exciting stories teenagers want to read. Rush features 18-year-old Jake King, an adrenaline junkie who jumps at the chance to join an elite group of firefighters who rappel into wildfires. Known as the Immortals, these heroes have a habit of dying young. But Jake's sort-of girlfriend thinks there's more to the Immortals' high death rate than bad luck. "The up-tempo...
17) Empty
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Deeply depressed after her father cheated on and divorced her mother, seventeen-year-old Adele has gained over seventy pounds and is being bullied and abused at school--to the point of being raped and accused of being the aggressor.
18) I will save you
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Kidd Ellison runs away to work for the summer at a beach campsite in California where his hard work and good looks lead to friendship and love but painful past memories surface in menacing ways.
19) Night train
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2000, c1998
Language
English
Description
His family, peers, and teachers despair of eighteen-year-old Luke, who seems to have turned himself into a loser, failing at school, paralyzed with fear and indecision, losing touch with reality.
Author
Publisher
Poppy
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The stress of hiding a horrific incident that she can neither remember nor completely forget leads sixteen-year-old Cassidy "Sid" Murphy to become alienated from her friends, obsess about weight loss, and draw close to Corey "The Living Stoner" Livingston.
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