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1) Joy school
Author
Series
Katie Nash novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
A lonely thirteen-year-old girl moves to Missouri with her distant and occasionally abusive father and falls in love with an older--and married--gasoline station attendant, an affair that teaches her some hard-won lessons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Louise Wolfe's first real boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. It's her senior year, anyway, and she'd rather spend her time with her family and friends and working on the school newspaper. The editors pair her up with Joey Kairouz, the ambitious new photojournalist, and in no time the paper's staff find themselves with a major story to cover: the school musical director's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Evelyn Bucknow is happy living with her single mother, Tina, in a small apartment outside Kerrville, Kansas, until Tina's failed romance with her married boss leaves her jobless and desperate, forcing Evelyn to distance herself and turn to her conventional grandmother for help.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply in love. Though they were from opposite sides of the tracks, their love for each other seemed to defy the realities of life in the small town of Oriental, North Carolina. But as the summer of their senior year came to a close, unforeseen events would tear the young couple apart, setting them on radically divergent paths. Now, twenty-five years later, Amanda...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
"A beautifully illustrated version of the original 1925 edition of F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic work. Widely considered to be the greatest American novel of all time, The Great Gatsby is the story of the wealthy, quixotic Jay Gatsby and his obsessive love for debutante Daisy Buchanan. It is also a cautionary tale of the American Dream in all its exuberance, decadence, hedonism, and passion. First published in 1925 by Charles Scribner's Sons, The...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Dalloway chronicles a June day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway-a day that is taken up with running minor errands in preparation for a party and that is punctuated, toward the end, by the death of a young man she has never met. In giving an apparently ordinary day such immense resonance and significance-infusing it with the elemental conflict between death and life-Virginia Woolf triumphantly discovers her distinctive style as a novelist. Originally...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
In 1960s Norfolk, England, seventeen-year-old Clem Ackroyd lives with his mother and grandmother in a tiny cottage. But his life is transformed when he falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy farmer in this tale that flashes back through the stories of three generations.
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...
9) Grace
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A man remembers a girl, Grace, from his childhood, and details how she, a runaway that he cared for, came to be his first kiss and his first love over the course of one life changing winter.
10) Phantom limbs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Separated from his best friend in the aftermath of a terrible accident that ended his little brother's life, Otis becomes the unlikely protégé of a former champion swimmer before he is forced to confront painful memories when his best friend returns.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old James lies about himself to be considered "cool" when he gets into an exclusive boarding school, but soon unnaturally vivid dreams of being a demon-hunting warrior lead to self-destructive acts while he is awake.
12) Midnight sun
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Katie Price has a rare disease that makes exposure even to the smallest amount of sunlight deadly. Confined to her house during the day, she is limited to the company of her widowed father and her best (okay, only) friend. It isn't until after nightfall that Katie's world opens up, when she takes her guitar to the local train station and plays for the people coming and going. Charlie Reed is a former all-star athlete at a crossroads...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Natalie's last summer in her small Kentucky hometown is off to a magical start, until she starts seeing the "wrong things.' At first, they're just momentary glimpses her front door is red instead of its usual green, there's a preschool where the garden store should be. But then her whole town disappears for hours, fading away into rolling hils and grazzing buffalo, and Nat knows something isn't right.
14) Breathless
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
From Jennifer Niven, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places, comes an unforgettable new novel about a sensitive girl ready to live her bravest life--sex, heartbreak, family dramas, and all. Before: With graduation on the horizon, budding writer Claudine Henry is focused on three things: college in the fall, become a famous author, and the ever-elusive possibility of sex. She doesn't even need to be in love--sex is all she's...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hildy has only had two-and-a-half dates in her whole life, and she isn't counting the half. It's starting to look as if she's never going to have a third date, or be kissed, or know a boy who is more than just a friend. Then, on an ordinary day, she meets Connor of the melt-that-ice-cap smile-- and a summer that was going to be ordinary as toast turns into Hildy's summer of love. But love for Hildy is a little more complicated than the songs and...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Lily and her ex-husband, Ryle, have just settled into a civil coparenting rhythm when she suddenly bumps into her first love, Atlas, again. After nearly two years separated, she is elated that for once, time is on their side, and she immediately says yes when Atlas asks her on a date. But her excitement is quickly hampered by the knowledge that, though they are no longer married, Ryle is still very much a part of her life--and Atlas Corrigan is the...
17) It ends with us
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Lily hasn't always had it easy, but that's never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She's come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up--she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily's life suddenly seems almost too good to be true. Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant....
18) Persuasion
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
1100L
Language
English
Description
At twenty-seven, Anne Elliot is no longer young and has few romantic prospects. Eight years earlier, she had been persuaded by her friend Lady Russell to break off her engagement to Frederick Wentworth, a handsome naval captain with neither fortune nor rank. What happens when they encounter each other again is movingly told in Jane Austen's last completed novel. Set in the fashionable societies of Lyme Regis and Bath, Persuasion is a brilliant...
20) Loving
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The answers Bailey Flanigan once longed and prayed for are finally becoming clear. Bailey is planning a wedding and making decisions that will shape her future. Bailey enjoys the beginning of her new career and time spent with Brandon while Cody faithfully coaches his team on and off the field. Will she spend her life with Brandon Paul in Los Angeles, or will her heart draw her back to Bloomington, Indiana and Cody Coleman, her first love? Bailey...
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