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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
Leopold Bloom King, our narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo's older brother commits suicide at the age of thirteen, the family struggles with the shattering effects of his death. Eventually he becomes part of a tightly knit group of high school seniors that includes friends Sheba and Trevor Poe,...
2) Hold still
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
As Caitlin struggles to cope with her best friend Ingrid's suicide, she turns inward and quiet, but finding Ingrid's hidden journal, a new classmate, and new projects help Caitlin find a way to reach out again.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Josie Tyrell, teen runaway and fledgling model/actress, thinks she's found her chance at real love and a greater world in Michael Faraday; artist and Harvard dropout, son of a renowned concert pianist, until the day she receives a call from the Los Angeles County Coroner, asking her to identify her lover's body. In the aftermath of Michael's suicide, Josie struggles to hold on to the world they shared. Compounding her grief and rage is Michael's pianist...
4) Swim the fly
Author
Series
Swim the fly series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Matt Gratton and his two best friends, Sean and Coop, always set themselves a summertime goal. This year's? To see a real-live naked girl for the first time. As far as Matt is concerned, they'd have better luck finding the lost city of Atlantis. But seeing a girl in the buff starts to seem like child's play compared to the other summertime goal Matt sets for himself: to swim the 100-yard butterfly (the hardest stroke known to God or man) in order...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Emily has six siblings, but she was also close to her best friend, Lizzie Porter, who died nearly a year ago, and she is still grieving; but Lizzie's family are also grieving, so much so, that they use Lizzie's younger sister, Chloe, as a lure and kidnap Emily, forcing her to dress, talk, and act like Lizzie, and threatening to go after Emily's family if she does not become the replacement for the daughter they lost--and Emily is...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A scientist attempts to bring her younger sister back to life with unexpected results in this Frankenstein-inspired graphic novel about ghosts, identity, and family
When Doctor Frances Ai's younger sister Maura died in a tragic accident six months ago, Frances swore she would bring her back to life. However, the creature that rises from the slab is clearly not Maura. This girl, who chooses the name "M," doesn't remember anything about Maura's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, whom he believes is dying. The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his family, Jay has a car accident and is killed instantly, leaving his wife, brother, and young son to deal with his sudden death.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
"Adrift after her sister Bailey's sudden death, Lennie finds herself torn between quiet, seductive Toby--Bailey's boyfriend who shares Lennie's grief--and Joe, the new boy in town who bursts with life and musical genius. Each offers Lennie something she desperately needs. One boy helps her remember. The other lets her forget. And she knows if the two of them collide, her whole world will explode"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Laurel Daneau has moved on to a new life, in a new town, but inside she's still reeling from the loss of her beloved mother and grandmother after Hurricane Katrina washed away their home. Laurel's new life is going well, with a new best friend, a place on the cheerleading squad and T-Boom, co-captain of the basketball team, for a boyfriend. Yet Laurel is haunted by voices and memories from her past. When T-Boom introduces Laurel to meth, she immediately...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
For eighteen years the Hartes and the Golds have lived next door to each other, sharing everything fro Chinese food to chicken pox to carpool duty. Parents and children alike are best friends-so it's no surprise that in high school Chris and Emily's friendship blossoms into something more. They've been soul mates since they were born. When the midnight calls come in from the hospital, no one is prepared for the appalling truth; Emily is dead at seventeen...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Brutally raped and murdered by a deceptively mild-mannered neighbor, Susie begins with a compelling description of her death. During the next ten years, she watches over her family and friends as they struggle to cope with her murder. She observes their disintegrating lives with compassion and occasionally attempts, sometimes successfully, to communicate her love to them. Although the lives of all who knew her well are shaped by her tragic death,...
12) Web of intrigue
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
HL 600L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Ellis recalls her favorite things as her mother's desire to turn off the machines that have kept Ellis's father alive for two years fill the last four days of her sophomore year with major changes in herself and her relationships.
14) Can't look away
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Torrey Grey's YouTube videos on fashion and beauty for teenagers were famous, but when her younger sister is killed by a drunk driver during a filming her world falls apart--cyber bullies are attacking her, her father moves them to Texas, and she does not know who to trust at her new school or whether her cousin is really a friend.
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