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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
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In this gender-flipping reimagining of S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders" set in 1964 Houston, Evie must redefine what it means to be a bad girl and rethink everything she knows about loyalty after she is saved from the unimaginable by a good girl from the "right" side of the tracks.
2) Wicked
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Series
Pretty little liars volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
The four former best friends, Spencer, Emily, Hanna, and Aria, try to overcome their friend Ali's murder, but become alarmed when they receive text messages from the mysterious "A" and learn that their friend's accused killer has been released from jail on bail.
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Series
Pretty little liars volume Related works
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
Rule number one of being an effective stalker: get to know your prey, the trouble they get into, the messes they make, and the secrets they keep. Hanna's desperate for a very personal session with her gym trainer. Emily is number one on Santa's naughty list. Aria's old flame from Iceland is about to land her in hot water. And Spencer's resorting to some backhanded tactics to get what she wants.
4) Sold
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid, only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
Racing to safety after witnessing the first Twin Tower collapse on September 11, 2001, sixteen-year-old Kyle, having been separated from his family, implusively brings home a traumatized girl who has forgotten who she is .
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"There are secrets around every corner in Fayette, Pennsylvania. Tessa left when she was nine and has been trying ever since not to think about what happened there that last summer. She and her childhood best friend, Callie, never talked about what they saw. Not before the trial. And certainly not after. But Tessa still has questions. Things have never quite added up. And now she has to go back to Fayette--to Wyatt Stokes, sitting on death row; to...
8) Roomies
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
While living very different lives on opposite coasts, seventeen-year-old Elizabeth and eighteen-year-old Lauren become acquainted by email the summer before they begin rooming together as freshmen at UC-Berkeley.
Author
Series
Ruby Oliver novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
A Seattle fifteen-year-old explains some of the reasons for her recent panic attacks, including breaking up with her boyfriend, losing all her girlfriends, tensions between her performance-artist mother and her father, and more.
10) Dig two graves
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English
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"Seventeen-year-old film noir fan Neve Lanier is a girl who just wants to be seen, but doesn't really fit in anywhere. When Neve is betrayed by her best friend, Yasmin, at the end of the school year, she heads off to a girl's empowerment camp feeling like no one will ever love her again. So when she grabs the attention of the beautiful, charismatic Diane, she falls right under her spell, and may accidentally promise to murder Diane's predatory step-brother,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Language
English
Description
Madeline Whittier is allergic to the outside world. So allergic, in fact, that she has never left the house in all of her 17 years. But when Olly moves in next door, and wants to talk to Maddie, tiny holes start to appear in the protective bubble her mother has built around her. Olly writes his IM address on a piece of paper, shows it at her window, and suddenly, a door opens. But does Maddie dare to step outside her comfort zone? Everything, Everything...
12) The tiger rising
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
"Walking gthrough the misty Florida woods one morning, twelve-year-old Rob Horton is stunned to encounter a tiger--a real-life, very large tiger--pacing back and forth in a cage. What's more, on the same extraordinary day, he meets Sistine Bailey, a girl who shows her feelings as readily as Rob hides his. As they learn to trust each other, and ultimately, to be friends, Rob and Sistine prove that some things--like memories, and heartache, and tigers--can't...
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Lexile measure
HL 610L
Language
English
Description
Alice had her whole summer planned. Nonstop all-you-can-eat buffets while marathoning her favorite TV shows (best friends totally included) with the smallest dash of adulting-working at the library to pay her share of the rent. The only thing missing from her perfect plan? Her girlfriend (who ended things when Alice confessed she's asexual). Alice is done with dating-no thank you, do not pass go, stick a fork in her, done. But then Alice meets Takumi...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When hospitalized for her clinical depression, Whimsy connects with a boy named Faerry, who also suffers from the traumatic loss of a sibling, and together they work to unearth buried memories and battle the fantastical physical embodiment of their depression.
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Series
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English
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At the Foot of the Rainbow uses fishing as a backdrop to tell the story of Jimmy Malone and Dannie MacNoun, who is in love with Jimmy's wife, Mary. The characters, setting, dialogue/dialect, and virtues are classic Porter; the issues and values are timeless; and the thought-provoking manner in which Stratton-Porter concludes her story leave one considering their own lives on a deeper level.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Language
English
Description
Growing up, Mallory "Mouse" Dodge learned that the best way to survive was to say nothing. After she escaped her terrifying childhood and spent years being homeschooled by loving adoptive parents, she is starting her senior year at a public high school. The first day, she runs into Rider Stark, the friend and protector from her childhood, and Mallory realizes that their bond never really faded. But as Rider's life spirals out of control, Mallory faces...
18) Deeplight
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
The gods are dead. Fifty years ago, they turned on one another and tore each other apart. Nobody knows why. Now, even coin-sized scraps of dead god are worth a fortune because of the strange powers they're said to possess. But few are brave enough to dive and search for them. When fifteen-year-old Hark finds the still-beating heart of one of these deities, he'll risk everything to keep it out of the hands of smugglers, scientists, and cults who would...
19) 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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
"Marin hasn't spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend Mabel. But even thousands of miles away from the California coast, at college in New York, Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she's tried to outrun. Now, months later, alone in an emptied dorm for winter break, Marin waits. Mabel is coming to visit and Marin will be forced...
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