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1) The Replaced
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Series
The Taking (Kimberly Derting) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Kyra is on the run along with her fellow Returned from the government organization that experiments on their kind and determined to rescue the boy she loves, but this may put the group in danger as he is being held by the organization pursuing her.
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English
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"All's fair in love and (food truck) war. Everyone knows Jordan Plazas and Cindy Ortiz hate each other. According to many viral videos of their public shouting matches, the Plazas and Ortiz families have a well-known food truck rivalry. Jordan and Cindy have spent all of high school making cheesesteaks and slinging insults at each other across their shared Philadelphia street. But the truth? They're in love, and it's all just an act for the tourists....
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
HL 600L
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English
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Jake's friend Maria is the daughter of undocumented immigrants who have been living and working in the country for a long time. But the new government has implemented a crackdown. Maria's parents are detained and quickly sent out of the country. Maria, who was born here, decides to hide out in Jake's basement rather than risk becoming a ward of the state. But when she returns to her old apartment to retrieve her hidden birth certificate, Maria is...
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English
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"The pinball arcade is the only piece of his dad that Adam Stillwater has left. Philadelphia's newest tech mogul wants to turn it into another one of his cold, lifeless gaming cafés. Whitney Mitchell's parents split up, she lost all her friends, her boyfriend dumped her...and now she's spending her senior year running social media for her dad's chain of super successful gaming cafés. Most of the job consists of trading insults with that decrepit...
5) The long run
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Sebastian Villeda is over it. Over his rep. Over being "Bash the Flash," fastest sprinter in South Jersey. His dad is gone, his mom is dead, and his stepfather is clueless. Bash has no idea what he wants out of life, and everything is exhausting. Until he meets Sandro. Sandro Miceli is too nice for his own good. The middle child in an always-growing, always-screaming Italian family, Sandro walks around on a broken foot because he doesn't want to...
6) Kicked out
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Dime can't get along with her parents. When she moves in with her older brother, she finds out that if she starts believing in herself, other people will too.
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English
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Before going out into the world, we usually get our first lessons in social graces, etiquette, and manners from those closest to us: parents, grandparents, and other family members. Home is hopefully a place of comfort and safety for most young people, but it is also a place where they might stand to refine their interpersonal etiquette with household members. This book explores different types of etiquette teens can employ to keep relationships with...
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Lexile measure
830L
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English
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Description
Holly's mom is a hoarder, and Holly is fed up with being picked on at school for being weird . . . and having the wrong clothes . . . and sticking out. All she wants is to fit in. She loves swimming, because in the water everyone is the same. Ed goes to the swimming pool because everything else in his life has changed. In his old life, he had money, was on the swim team, knew who he was and what he wanted. In his old life, his dad hit his mom. Holly...
9) Life before
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English
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Xander hopes to get through what he hopes is a great summer, and then start college with a clean slate; however, his graduation day from high school brings terror, and he runs away.
10) Stella rising
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
HL 490L
Language
English
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"In this high-interest novel for teen readers, 16-year-old Stella is suddenly famous after her music video goes viral."--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Good manners matter with your parents! Learn which behaviors to use and which to avoid to show respect for your mom and dad. Then see how these simple lessons can be used in fun stories of etiquette in action. Sidebars and back matter offer advice and did-you-knows about good manners in a number of cultures around the globe. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades PreK-4.
12) Absolutely maybe
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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When living with her mother, an alcoholic ex-beauty queen, becomes unbearable, almost seventeen-year-old Maybelline "Maybe" Chestnut runs away to California, where she finds work on a taco truck and tries to track down her birth father.
13) Shark
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Series
Lexile measure
HL 590L
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English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Mark "Shark" Hewitt is good at playing pool. Really good. When he, his mom and sister move to a new town, Mark immediately seeks out the local pool hall. He loves to play, but even more than that, he just loves hanging out with the regulars. It reminds him of good times with his dad, who is no longer in the picture. When one of the patrons notices Mark's natural gift for the game, he forces Mark to use his talent for profit. Now...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
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Description
When Mara's twin brother Owen is accused of rape by her friend Hannah, Mara is forced to confront her feelings about her family, her sense of right and wrong, a trauma from her past, and the future with her girlfriend, Charlie.
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English
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"Set in a small town in the 1990s, this is the story of a girl on the edge--of a breakdown, of family secrets, of learning who she really is. Life has been a struggle for Toby Goodman. Her mother died by suicide five years ago, and her father left before Toby was born. Now a teenager living on her grandparents' dairy farm, Toby has trouble letting people in. Convinced that she is destined to follow her mother's path, she creates a plan to escape her...
17) Bronxwood
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Tyrell's life is spinning out of control after his father is released from prison, his little brother is placed in foster care, and the drug dealers he's living with are pressuring him to start dealing.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
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Description
At seventeen Simone Thibodeaux is fed up with her over-protective mother's insistance on micro-managing her life, like picking her prom date from a "nice" Haitian immigrant family, and anyway she is determined to attend with Gavin Stackhouse (even if he does not know that yet); so together with her fellow late-bloomer friends Simone comes up with a bucket list of rule-breaking (like cutting classes, and sneaking out of the house)--but soon things...
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