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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
HL 590L
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English
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"Cassandra McMurtrey has the best parents a girl could ask for; they've given Cass a life she wouldn't trade for the world. She has everything she needs--but she has questions, too. Like, to know who she is. Where she came from. Questions her adoptive parents can't answer, no matter how much they love her. But eighteen years ago, someone wrote Cass a series of letters. And they may just hold the answers Cass has been searching for. Alternating between...
2) Ophelia
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English
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Ophelia goes to school and works at the dollar store while hardly speaking to anyone. At night she creates graffiti around town. When a famous author gives her a blank notebook, it becomes a kind of lifeline.
3) Shooter
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Written in the form of interviews, reports, and journal entries, the story of three troubled teenagers ends in a tragic school shooting.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"Flat-out addictive, devious, delicious, and gasp-worthy . . . your next binge-read . . . a satisfying tale of class, revenge, privilege, and lies." —Kathleen Glasgow, New York Times–bestselling author
In this genre-defying page-turner from Lygia Day Peñaflor, four teens befriend their favorite novelist, only to find their deepest, darkest secrets in the pages of her next book—with devastating consequences.
Miri Tan loved...
In this genre-defying page-turner from Lygia Day Peñaflor, four teens befriend their favorite novelist, only to find their deepest, darkest secrets in the pages of her next book—with devastating consequences.
Miri Tan loved...
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English
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"Caroline George sweeps readers up into two different time periods with an unexpected love story that prompts us to reimagine what it means to be present with the people we love." --
1821: Elias Roch met Josephine De Clare once and penned dozens of letters hoping to find her again. 2021: In the wake of her father's death Josie De Clare finds Elias's letters--and falls in love with a guy who lived two hundred years ago. Star-crossed doesn't even begin...
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Español
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Yaiza y Yoltic llevan vidas muy distintas pero los une la misma pasiàn por los videojuegos. Tras conocerse en un juego online, un evento trágico amenaza con separarlos: ¡los padres de Yaiza la castigan sin internet! Sin embargo, deciden cartearse y empiezan a descubrir qué es lo que hay más allá de los píxeles. Yoltic vive en Coapa, Ciudad de México, en una casa enorme. Sus padres son los dueàos de una fábrica de papel y a pesar de disfrutar...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 730L
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English
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When her struggles with anxiety worsen in the aftermath of a family death, Lottie is bequeathed a series of letters from her late aunt, a best-selling author, who leaves instructions to help Lottie overcome her fears and explore her own literary voice.
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English
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RuthAnne's own epistolary narrative, The Last Crabtree Girl, takes you on her journey from the first time she toddled up onto the back of a sleeping thoroughbred yearling to becoming a top world show competitor whose love and understanding of horses never faltered. This book is a glimpse of what it was like growing up with horses and ponies and the hard work involved in becoming a champion.
With the help of top instructors from coast to coast, she...
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English
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"Unfolding through letters, texts, and chats, Lauren Strasnick's smart, sexy, page-turning new novel is the ultimate he said/she said breakdown of a relationship gone wrong. Natalie and Dan were electric from the moment they met. Witty banter and sizzling chemistry made falling in love easy-even inevitable. He was in awe of her subversive art and contagious zest for life; she was drawn to his good-guy charm and drive to succeed as a documentary filmmaker....
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It all started with a lie…
When I saw you for the first time I fell in love with your wild spirit, with how free you were and what you made me feel. But it was all a lie, wasn't it? Just one of the thousands we told. It was easier to pretend and ignore the signs. It was easier to write each other letters and hold hands. But that was my mistake, I guess. Going along with your game.
Now you're gone…
One day you simply disappeared, turning...
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English
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Twelve-year-old Annie loves her friends, her animals, and the horse ranch she has lived on her whole life. Ripped from it all at what feels like a moment's notice, she is, placed on a 53-foot sailboat in the Atlantic Ocean with her mom, dad, a captain, a tutor, and her older brother who seems to hate her. Living in such small quarters with her brother DJ is nightmarish all on its own, but her heart was, left on the ranch with her animals and she has...
12) Spooky 13
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English
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Horror stories.Paranormal experiences.These have occupied the popular imagination since time immemorial.What will you do when you encounter a ghost in the classroom or find that your roommate has been possessed?From ghost nurses in hospitals to poltergeists in vacation homes,this epistolatory novel narrates the story of a young medical resident who starts encountering paranormal activity in his line of work.When things get overwhelmingly spooky,he...
13) Dronehunter
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Series
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English
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When a girl from the city shows up, a young falconer starts to get interested in her. But will he manage to win her heart, when he has to survive every day by hunting delivery drones around the city, when things go bad one after another and when she turns out to be too much of a free spirit?
A story with GameLit elements.
14) The Mess of Me
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English
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I remember my Nana once saying everyone should have at least one good summer in their lives, one summer that they never forget. I think, this is not a bad way to start my sixteenth year. This is not a bad way to start our summer. And I give Joe a slow smile.' Sixteen year old Lou wants to be thinner. Joe is her best friend and last night they found something they shouldn't have in his older brothers' wardrobe. Leon and Travis are shady figures, living...
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It's the year of boy-girl parties, the year when they give school dances and you know what is expected of you. Kalhoun tries really hard not to like the boy that he likes in art class, he will write letters to him explaining why he can't like him in this year when the rules get serious, the 7th grade. He won't send the letters, of course, letters that say way too much for the U.S. Mail.
16) The Oyo Empire
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English
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The Oyo Empire is a high-interest novella of magic realism. The fairytale of this mythical Oyo Empire is told by the mononymous gimlet-eyed Ijapa, the endomorph, the folk hero and the fabled protagonist of antiquity of Yoruba folktales. Versed in folk etymology and folk memory, he lets us know that he belongs to the midgets, the small gimlet-eyed fairies with magic carpets and supernatural/magic powers who founded the mythical Oyo Empire about 25,...
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English
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For 13-year-old Krystal, staying in one place for too long isn't an option. Her eternal wanderlust compels her to go wherever the wind takes her. But that's not all that's making her restless. She doesn't have the best relationship with her mother and older sister and hitch-hiking is her only escape.
What Krystal didn't count on was a trip with her absent mother and boastful sister. Suddenly, she'd give anything to go home. Will the three of them...
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English
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For her 18th birthday, Lenora Grace Williams is given a box. Aside from trinkets and photographs, there are three letters from her mother, written before she died. While reading the letters, Lenora wrestles with finding her faith, following her heart, and forgiving the secrets and heartache her mother left behind.
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"This future history of the next thirty years, imagined by bestselling author Thomas Harding, is surprising, compelling and disturbingly believable. In 2020, a researcher is shocked to find a set of notebooks detailing the history of the next thirty years. Is this a hoax? Or could it be real? The notebooks, written in the year 2050, contain interview transcripts between teenage Billy and Gran Nancy. We learn about the great climate SHOCK, when global...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Alaine Beauparlant has heard about Haiti all her life... ...but the stories were always passed down from her dad--and her mom, when she wasn't too busy with her high-profile newscaster gig. But when Alaine's life goes a bit sideways, it's time to finally visit Haiti herself. What she learns about Haiti's proud history as the world's first black republic (with its even prouder people) is one thing, but what she learns about her own family is another....
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