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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 600L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Angie finds herself in her neighborhood with no recollection of her abduction or the three years that have passed since, until alternate personalities start telling her their stories through letters and recordings.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
After shattering his knee in a car accident, Ezra Faulkner loses his athletic ability and status at school. Forced to sit at the table of "misfits," Ezra meets the unusual Cassidy Thorpe, and with her help discovers a side of life he had been overlooking.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Shelley leaves Oregon to spend the winter in California, she feels she is the happiest girl in the world, for in her new high school, she meets Philip--the "only boy."
A sixteen-year-old girl gains perspective into herself and her family when whe leaves her comfortable Oregon home and spends a year visiting with friends in California... She learns, in the midst of the friendly Michie family, that there are many ways to be oneself, and many different...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When her family moves to California, Sana falls for the beautiful and smart Jamie Ramirez but struggles with differences between their diverse friend groups, a boy's sweet but unrequited affection, and her father's increasingly obvious affair.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Since her parents' divorce, Dawn lives in Connecticut with her mother while her brother and father are in California, but after a week's vacation in sunny, healthy southern California, Dawn isn't sure she wants to return to the East Coast.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Finny acquires a horse without her parents knowledge and enlists the help of young Joe, a runaway, to help her train to compete in horse shows, but Joe is kidnapped and it is up to Finny and her horse, Sky, to save him.
7) On the fence
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Charlie has always been a tomboy, but when she accidentally becomes a makeup model, her newfound feminity draws her into an unknown social world, complete with guy troubles she's never had before"--
8) Plague
Author
Series
Gone novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
HL 570L
Language
English
Description
A deadly, flu-like epidemic and a plague of flesh-eating creatures threaten the lives of the children at Perdido Beach while Sam, Astrid, Caine, and Diana each struggle with doubts and uncertainties.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lena, almost sixteen, has always felt drawn to the waters of San Francisco Bay despite the fears of her father, a former surfer, but after she glimpses a beautiful woman with a tail, nothing can keep Lena from seeking the mermaid in the dangerous waves at Magic Crescent Cove.
10) Sophomore switch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Take an administrative snafu, a bad breakup, and what shall heretofore be known as "The Hot-Tub Incident", and you have got two unprepared sophomores on a semester abroad. For American party girl Tasha, an escape to Oxford may be a chance to ditch her fame as a tabloid temptress, but wading deep in feminist theory is not her idea of a break. Meanwhile, the British half of the exchange, studious Emily, nurses an aching heart amid the bikinis and beer...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on vacation in California, sixteen-year-old best friends Anna and Frankie conspire to find a boy for Anna's first kiss, but Anna harbors a painful secret that threatens their lighthearted plan and their friendship.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
During a party a tsunami hits the coast of California, and Denver and a handful of others escape death and are swept out to sea. Of course, one of her fellow castaways is none other than her ex-BFF, Abigail, who can barely stand the sight of her. Trapped on a small boat with the most popular kids in school and waiting to be rescued, Denver wonders what might kill her first--dehydration, sunstroke, or the girl she used to think of as a sister?
13) Little & Lion
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 820L
Language
English
Description
"Suzette returns home to Los Angeles from boarding school and grapples with her bisexual identity when she and her brother Lionel fall in love with the same girl, pushing Lionel's bipolar disorder to spin out of control and forcing Suzette to confront her own demons."--
14) Nothing
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Charlotte and Frankie think their lives are much more boring than the teen novels they read, but when Charlotte decides to write about their experiences, they realize much more is happening than meets the eye"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
California seventh-graders Sarah and Marjorie made a promise in kindergarten to always be friends, but Marjorie is weird and Sarah, wanting to be at least somewhat popular, makes friends with a fellow choir member.
17) Lovetorn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having just moved from India to Los Angeles for two years, sixteen-year-old Shalini struggles to fit in at school and to keep house for her clinically-depressed mother, but the real challenge comes when she begins falling in love with an American boy despite being engaged since the age of three. Includes glossary.
18) Cat running
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When eleven-year-old Cat Kinsey builds a secret hideout to escape her unhappy homelife, she slowly gets to know a poor family who have come to California after losing their Texas home to the dust storms of the 1930s.
19) Suckerpunch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shy, seventeen-year-old Marcus and his sixteen-year-old brother, Enrique, accompanied by two friends, drive from their home in southern California to Monterey to confront the abusive father who walked out a year earlier, and who now wants to return home.
20) Brilliant hues
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Sadie returns to Menlo Park, California, she finds that she no longer fits in, especially when one of her father's cases places her in the spotlight--and in danger--but she turns to her faith, hoping it will see her through.
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