Ramon de Ocampo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Aaron Soto learns about a memory-reprogramming procedure pioneered by the Leteo Institute. Aaron is determined to try it to forget his father's suicide, the murders of his friends, his poverty, and the fact that he's gay. But when Aaron begins growing close to fellow teen Thomas, Aaron is forced to question whether giving up a future with Thomas is really what he wants.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Description
Told from alternating perspectives, Bunny takes a basketball scholarship to an elite private school to help his family, leaving behind Nasir, his best friend, in their tough Philadelphia neighborhood.
4) Firestorm
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
After learning that he has been sent from the future for a special purpose, eighteen-year-old Jack receives help from an unusual dog and a shape-shifting female fighter.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In powerful, vivid verse, the master behind The Watch That Ends the Night recounts one of history's most harrowing--and chilling--tales of survival. In 1846, a group of emigrants bound for California face a choice: continue on their planned route or take a shortcut into the wilderness. Eighty-nine of them opt for the untested trail, a decision that plunges them into danger and desperation and, finally, the unthinkable. From extraordinary poet and...
8) In the break
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Surfing is Juan Barrela's life but when his best friend Jamie faces a violent home situation, the tenth-grader steals his mother's car and drives with Jamie's sister Amber to Mexico to help her brother hide until tragedy strikes the trio.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
After fourteen-year-old Andy slips away from his kayaking group to visit the wilderness site of his archaeologist father's death, a storm strands him on Admiralty Island, Alaska, where he manages to survive, encounters unexpected animal and human inhabitants, and looks for traces of the earliest prehistoric immigrants to America.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Rex Ogle's companion to Free Lunch and Punching Bag weaves humor, heartbreak, and hope into life-affirming poems that honor his grandmother's legacy. In his award-winning memoir Free Lunch, Rex Ogle's abuela features as a source of love and support. In this companion-in-verse, Rex captures and celebrates the powerful presence a woman he could always count on-to give him warm hugs and ear kisses, to teach him precious words in Spanish, to bring him...
11) Be more chill
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Jeremy Heere is your average high school dork. Day after day, he stares at beautiful Christine, the girl he can never have, and dryly notes the small humiliations that come his way. Until the day he learns about the "squip." A pill-sized supercomputer that you swallow, the squip is guaranteed to bring you whatever you most desire in life. By instructing him on everything from what to wear, to how to talk and walk, the squip transforms Jeremy from...
12) Punching bag
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The companion to Rex Ogle's award-winning Free Lunch is a searing account of adolescence in a household torn by domestic violence. Punching Bag is the compelling true story of a high school career defined by poverty and punctuated by outbreaks of domestic abuse. Rex Ogle, who brilliantly mapped his experience of hunger in Free Lunch, here describes his struggle to survive; reflects on his complex, often paradoxical relationship with his passionate,...
Author
Series
Riverdale volume 04
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Betty and Veronica's cheerleading retreat with the River Vixens was supposed to be fun -- not deadly. Betty, Veronica, Cheryl, and the rest of the River Vixens are heading out of town for the weekend on a cheerleading retreat. So Archie, Jughead, and the rest of the guys decide to have a poker night at La Bonne Nuit. But a storm causes the power to go out, and the speakeasy goes into lockdown. When the lights come back on, all of the cash is gone....