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1) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
"First published in 1838, ‘Oliver Twist’ is one of the most admired novels by Charles Dickens, an English writer, and social critic. It is the story of a young orphan who dares to say, ""Please, sir, I want some more."" After escaping from the dark and dismal workhouse where he was born, Oliver finds himself on the mean streets of Victorian-era London and is unwittingly recruited into a scabrous gang of scheming urchins. In this band of petty...
2) Hatchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson is on his way to visit his father when the single-engine plane in which he is flying crashes. Suddenly, Brian finds himself alone in the Canadian wilderness with nothing but a tattered windbreaker and the hatchet his mother gave him as a present-and the dreadful secret that has been tearing him apart since his parents' divorce. But now Brian has no time for anger, self-pity, or despair-it will take all his know-how...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
"A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" is the coming-of-age story of young, sensitive, and idealistic Francie Nolan and her bittersweet fromative years in the turn-of-the-century Williamsburg slums of Brooklyn. This poignant and moving classic of American literature is filled with compassion and cruelty, laughter and heartache, crowded with life and incident.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. The hero-narrator of "The Catcher in the Rye" is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply in love. Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for each other seemed to defy the realities of life in the small town of Oriental, North Carolina. But as the summer of their senior year came to a close, unforeseen events would tear the young couple apart, setting them on radically divergent paths. Now, twenty-five years later, Amanda...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Billy isn't one to back down from a bet. But this one is gross: If he eats fifteen worms in fifteen days, Alan will pay him fifty dollars. Billy takes the bet and tries worms smothered in ketchup, drowned in mustard, even breaded and fried. Worm by worm, Billy gets closer to victory. But Alan won't let him win that easily...
7) Insurgent
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Description
One choice can transform you -- or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves -- and herself -- while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love. Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words-and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet François Rabelais called the “Great Perhaps.” Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young, who will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps.
10) Firefly Lane
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Description
Inseparable best friends Kate and Tully, two young women who, despite their very different lives, have vowed to be there for each other forever, have been true to their promise for thirty years, until events and choices in their lives tear them apart.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
The classic novel follows Stephen Dedalus from his days as a student at the Clongowes Wood School, to the deep religious conflict he experiences at a day school in Dublin, to his college years during which he challenges the conventions of his upbringing.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Description
Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world. A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is...
13) Allergic
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 230L
Language
English
Description
A coming-of-age middle-grade graphic novel featuring a girl with severe allergies who just wants to find the perfect pet!
At home, Maggie is the odd one out. Her parents are preoccupied with getting ready for a new baby, and her younger brothers are twins and always in their own world. Maggie loves animals and thinks a new puppy to call her own is the answer, but when she goes to select one on her birthday, she breaks out in hives and
...14) Before I fall
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
After she dies in a car crash, teenaged Samantha relives the day of her death over and over again until, on the seventh day, she finally discovers why she has been given this chance.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
A discarded chain letter augers a series of bad events for Mary Anne, who is plagued by bad luck and a threatening note demanding a midnight meeting on Old Man Hickory's grave.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club (revised editions) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
"When Kristy Thomas has the great idea to form a baby-sitters club - a chance to earn money and spend time with her friends, all while doing something they each love to do - she has no idea how much the club will change everything. Crank calls, uncontrollable toddlers, wild pets, untruthful clients...running a business is hard work! Kristy and her co-founders, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Stacey, are sure they can handle anything. But only if they stick...
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club (revised editions) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Stacey, a member of the Baby-sitters Club, struggles with her parents who refuse to believe that she has diabetes.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
1290L
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old Polly Milton goes to stay with her friend Fanny for the summer, she finds that the Shaw family's wealthy city life couldn't be more different from her country upbringing. With her plain clothes and more practical interests, Polly is out of place among a crowd focused on following the latest trends and presenting the right image. One of the few people who doesn't pressure her to fit in is Fanny's brother, Tom, but he's also one...
19) The red pony
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Raised on a ranch in northern California, Jody is well-schooled in the hard work and demands of a rancher's life. He is used to the way of horses, too; but nothing has prepared him for the special connection he will forge with Gabilan, a hot-tempered pony his father gives him. With Billy Buck, the hired hand, Jody tends and trains his horse, restlessly anticipating the moment he will sit high upon Gabilan's saddle. But when Gabilan...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A haunting coming of age novel told in a series of letters to an unknown correspondent reveals the life of Charlie, a freshman in high school who is a wallflower, shy and introspective, and very intelligent. It's a story of what it's like to grow up in high school, tracing a course through uncharted territory in the world of first dates, family dramas and new friends.
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