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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Jazz Dent, who has been shot and left to die in New York City, his girlfriend, Connie, who is in the clutches of Jazz's serial killer father, Billy, and his best friend, Howie, who is bleeding to death on the floor of Jazz's own home in tiny Lobo's Nod, must all rise above the horrors their lives have become and find a way to come together in pursuit of Billy.
2) Gym candy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Mick Johnson works hard for a placement on the varsity team during his freshman year, and decides to use steroids in order to hold onto his edge, despite the consequences to his health and social life.
Author
Series
Dragons in our midst volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Billy thinks he is just a typical teenager until his abnormally hot breath accidentally sets off the fire sprinklers in the school bathroom, prompting his parents to reveal a long-kept secret: Billy is actually part dragon. Shortly after, a new girl, Bonnie, arrives at school with her own secret. Unsure of who else to trust, Billy and Bonnie team up to discover their part in an Arthurian legend that started with their parents over a millennium ago....
4) Ironman
Author
Series
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
While training for a triathlon, seventeen-year-old Bo attends an anger management group at school which leads him to examine his relationship with his father.
5) Bullet point
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The only thing seventeen-year-old Wyatt knew about his biological father was that he was serving a life sentence, but circumstances and a new girlfriend bring them together and soon Wyatt is working to prove his father's innocence.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Raised by an unstable father who keeps constantly on the move, Sam Border has long been the voice of his silent younger brother, Riddle, but everything changes when Sam meets Emily Bell and, welcomed by her family, the brothers are faced with normalcy for the first time.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teens D.J. and Russell, life-long friends and neighbors, had drifted apart but when their firefighter fathers are both killed, they try to help one another come to terms with the tragedy and its aftermath.
12) Loveboat reunion
Author
Series
Loveboat volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Sophie Ha and Xavier Yeh have what some would call a tumultuous past, but at least they're friends now. They left the drama behind them at the summer program in Taipei. Sophie is determined to be the best student Dartmouth's ever had. Xavier just wants to stay under his overbearing father's radar, collect his trust fund when he turns eighteen, and concentrate on what makes him happy, for the first time ever. But Sophie's college professor thinks...
13) Samurai
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Simon St. George and his father, the last members of the Order of Dragonhunters, must join forces with a group of Japanese samurai to destroy the dragons in the Far East.
14) Strong like you
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An impoverished fifteen-year-old linebacker grapples with ideas about strength and masculinity after the dope-dealing father he idolized goes missing"--
15) Dark sons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Alternating poems compare and contrast the conflicted feelings of Ishmael, son of the Biblical patriarch Abraham, and Sam, a teenager in New York City, as they try to come to terms with being abandoned by their fathers and with the love they feel for their younger stepbrothers.
Author
Series
Ravenscliff series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Every kid fears the monsters in the closet -- but for Devon March, the monsters are all too real. Horrible things come slithering out across his floor, determined to drag him with them back down their Hellhole. But Devon is no ordinary young man. He can move objects with his mind, summon incredible strength, disappear at will -- and that's only what he has discovered he's capable of so far. Yet his powers -- and the demons in his closet -- remain...
18) Personal effects
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Matt has been sleepwalking through life while seeking answers about his brother T.J.'s death in Iraq, but after discovering that he may not have known his brother as well as he thought he did, Matt is able to stand up to his father, honor T.J.'s memory, and take charge of his own life.
19) The August 5
Author
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tommy Shore, one of the twin sons of the chief administrator of Seahaven, learns to his dismay that the government has been keeping secrets, and when he joins up with some rebels at the Seminary, he must go against everything his father stands for.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
Sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to keep a journal, sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with Caitlin, examines his controlling behavior and anger, and describes living with his abusive father.
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