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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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GN 690L
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"Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird." A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel-a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The...
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Mix two parts The Great British Bake Off with one-part magical boarding school plus a generous dash of romance and you’ve got Basil and Oregano, a sweetly delicious lower young adult graphic novel.
Porta Bella Magiculinary Academy is the finest school for the art of cooking with magic, and Basil Eyres is determined to be the top student. On the first day of her senior year, Arabella Oregano, the daughter of a renowned...
Porta Bella Magiculinary Academy is the finest school for the art of cooking with magic, and Basil Eyres is determined to be the top student. On the first day of her senior year, Arabella Oregano, the daughter of a renowned...
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Life as a teenager is full of challenges and learning moments, from love triangles to missed appointments and beyond.
Merry-Go-Round features the stories of a group of young people just trying to get through their day-to-day life, all while romance and simply growing up are throwing roadblocks along the way. Based on the Arthur Schnitzler play by the same name, this volume is a perfect encapsulation of growing up, and trying to figure...
Merry-Go-Round features the stories of a group of young people just trying to get through their day-to-day life, all while romance and simply growing up are throwing roadblocks along the way. Based on the Arthur Schnitzler play by the same name, this volume is a perfect encapsulation of growing up, and trying to figure...
4) Dead Mall
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The Penn Mills Galleria is about to be demolished. Five teens sneak into the mall to take a last look around before it's gone.
However, while Penn Mills has been closed for years, the mall is far from abandoned.
A night of exploration becomes a shopping spree from hell. The teens must contend with the sprawling, transformative cosmic horror of Penn Mills or be trapped forever within the Dead Mall.
5) Breaking Up
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Breaking up is something different for the Gossip Girls set: all the drama, all the romance, all the style -- illustrated in juicy graphic novel format."There's a fine line between a friend and an enemy. One minute there's all this trust, and laughter, and love. And the next minute . . . there's hurt. And cruelty. And betrayal."Meet Chloe Sacks: Thoughtful, artistic, and a junior at Georgia O'Keeffe School for the Arts, nicknamed "Fashion High"...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In this middle-grade graphic novel, Nisrin will have to rely on faith, friends, and family to help her recover after she is the target of a hate crime
Nisrin is a 13-year-old Bangladeshi-American girl living in Milwaukie, Oregon in 2002. As she nears the end of eighth grade, she gives a presentation for World Culture Day about Bangladesh while wearing a traditional cultural dress. On her way home, she is the victim of a hate crime when...
Nisrin is a 13-year-old Bangladeshi-American girl living in Milwaukie, Oregon in 2002. As she nears the end of eighth grade, she gives a presentation for World Culture Day about Bangladesh while wearing a traditional cultural dress. On her way home, she is the victim of a hate crime when...
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A human and human-presenting AI slowly become friends-and maybe more-in this thoughtful YA graphic novel by award-winning creators
In a near future, augmentation and AI changed everything and nothing. Indira is a human who had to be cybernetically augmented after a tragic accident. Though she struggles with pain and the strange nightmares haunting her, she lives a mostly normal life, interning at a local gallery. Fawn is a human-presenting AI and...
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Girl called Echo volume 1
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HL 500L
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Echo Desjardins, a 13-year-old Métis girl adjusting to a new home and school, is struggling with loneliness while separated from her mother. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee's history class turns extraordinary, and Echo's life will never be the same. During Mr. Bee's lecture, Echo finds herself transported to another time and place-a bison hunt on the Saskatchewan prairie-and back again to the present. In the following weeks, Echo slips back and forth...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1070L
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English
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Amory Blaine, intent on rebelling against his staid, Midwestern upbringing, longs to acquire the patina of Eastern sophistication. His quest for sexual and intellectual enlightenment at college leads to a series of relationships, until he is cast out of paradise into the frightening labyrinth of the real world.
10) Jane
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A powerful modern day reimagining of Charlotte Bronte's classic novel Jane Eyre. Jane learns that in the world of New York's elite, secrets are the greatest extravagance and she must decide if she should trust the man she loves or do whatever it takes to protect his daughter from the consequences of his deception.
11) Manhattan Girls
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WELCOME TO HAMILTON ACADEMY, THE FINEST OF THE FINEST OF PREP SCHOOLS FROM ALL AROUND, WHERE OPULENCE DWELLS AND SECRETS ABOUND.
Fifteen-year-old Gwen Stevenson gets a chance of a lifetime. Escaping from the depths of small-town boredom, she finally sets her sights of embellishing the wonders of New York City.
While entering the halls of the prestigious Hamilton Academy, she meets reserved bookworm Kyle, Aspiring filmmaker Vera, Valley girl Shawnie,...
12) How it Started
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Melisa hasn't seen her father since he moved to England. She hasn't wanted to. He broke her mother's heart and left them to pick up the pieces of their fractured lives. He's getting married, though, and he's insisting that she's there for his special day. Melisa is sure that the nightmare will begin from the moment she gets on the plane. She doesn't even like flying. Things aren't quite as dark as they seem, though, when the hottest guy she's ever...
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Jason has known Sophie since pre-school, although Sophie didn't even know who he was, until their second year of high school. When Jason's father leaves after having an affair, he turns to food for comfort. Sophie is quick to spot his weight gain and ensures that the next few years of his life are hell. Jason has one thing to look forward to though, college. It's a chance to start fresh and create a cooler version of the person he used to be. He spends...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
890L
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English
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When Alice tumbles down, down, down a rabbit-hole one hot summer's afternoon in pursuit of a White Rabbit she finds herself in Wonderland. And there begin the fantastical adventures that will see her experiencing extraordinary changes in size, swimming in a pool of her own tears and attending the very maddest of tea parties. For Wonderland is no ordinary place and the characters that populate it are quite unlike anybody young Alice has ever met before....
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Quarry volume 1
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English
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After a recent family tragedy, a boy sets out to purchase a Christmas tree with the help of his deceased big brother's girlfriend, Katie. Trying to ease his father's mourning and hold together what's left of the family, Katie and the boy attempt to reclaim a bit of the Christmas spirit and help each other deal with their profound loss. What unfolds changes them both. The Quarry is a coming-of-age story about young love and loss, set against the harsh,...
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A New York Times bestseller. The original graphic novel adapted into the film Blue Is the Warmest Color, winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival; released in the US this fall by IFC Films/Sundance Selects. In this tender, bittersweet, full-color graphic novel, a young woman named Clementine discovers herself and the elusive magic of love when she meets a confident blue-haired girl named Emma: a lesbian love story for the ages that...
17) Dangerous Days
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Part I STORM RIDGE.Wesley Auld, his best friend Graham Finlay, worst enemy, Scott Willis and sixty other classmates take part in a hike up a mountain track in the Victorian high country in late September during a Year Eight school camp. With Graham's help he rescues Scott and nine others after they are caught out by a sudden blizzard. Together they spend a wild night in a small mountain hut. Wesley's acts of bravery impress Scott, just as other...
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All Gifts Have Prices, All Choices Consequences.
In the land of Brad, Classes are how people survive and grow. Shifting from Class to Class, studying and expanding ones skills and leveling up is the way to progress.
Amongst the Classes are the Adventurers, brave souls who delve into the Dungeons emplaced by Erlis, high goddess to cleanse the corruption in her veins. Without cleansing, the monsters formed from the corruption will spill out into the...
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"There are some weird stories about that locker. They don't usually let kids have it."
After her mother commits a terrible crime, Misti is sent to live with her estranged Aunt and Uncle. Welcomed with open arms, Misti finds herself in a safe place for the first time since she can remember. She struggles to navigate life around her cousin, Penny, new friends and the handsome boy in her art class. On top of all of this, Misti is assigned Locker 31,...
20) Evelyn's Pawn
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In the bustling city of Chicago, Illinois, Freshmen Toki Suzuki did not know asingle chess opening, he did not how to play the end game, in short, he did not know how toplay chess more than at the basic level. What he did know however,is that when he ran into Evelyn Hann, the first board of theRiver Park high school chess team, that he had laid eyes onthe most beautiful woman he had ever seen.While discussing the matters with his friend Stewart Young,...
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