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1) Corbenic
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this modern day version of Perceval and the Holy Grail, a guilt-ridden British teenager leaves his mentally ill mother to live with his wealthy uncle and begins a journey of self-knowledge and redemption after being briefly transported to the Waste Land of Arthurian times.
Author
Series
Vivian Apple volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Vivian Apple returns home after the alleged 'Rapture' to find her devout parents gone and two mysterious holes in the roof. Vivian never believed in the Rapture, or the uber powerful Church of America. Now that she has been left behind, Vivian's quest for the truth begins"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unable to recover from the guilt of his younger sister's death when he was supposed to be watching her, Jude endures a bleak and silent existence the summer before his senior year before finding the strength to move on.
5) Dingus
Author
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Henry finishes fifth grade, his biggest concern is facing a summer with nothing to do. With his best friend, Max, away at summer camp, it's looking so bad he can feel himself "being pulled by the gravitational force of nothingness." But then Henry does something irresponsible, something with real consequences. And suddenly he'd give anything to go back to the nothingness. Has Henry turned into the dingus Max told him not to be? A classic coming-of-age...
6) Okay for now
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
"2011 National Book Award FinalistAs a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him. So begins a coming-of-age masterwork full of equal parts comedy and tragedy from Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt. As Doug struggles to be more than the "skinny thug" that his teachers and the police think him to be, he finds an unlikely ally in Lil Spicer--a...
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