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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Mathilda (Tilly), fourteen, and Ruth Anne (Roo), sixteen, are sisters and best friends in Connecticut, but when Roo crashes her car while texting she is confined to a hospital bed with "locked-in syndrome," aware of her surroundings, but apparently comatose--and Tilly must find a way to communicate with her sister, while dealing with her own sense of guilt.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old 'Hank,' who can't remember his identity, finds himself in Penn Station with a copy of Thoreau's Walden as his only possession and must figure out where he's from and why he ran away."
7) Fallout
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tara's sister died a year ago, on the day that Tara didn't answer her phone when Hannah called. And Hannah stepped in front of a bus. Now Tara lives with the guilt of wondering if things would be different if she had been there when Hannah needed her most. Competing in slam poetry competitions is the only way Tara can keep her sister's memory alive and deal with all the unanswered questions. But at some point, Tara is going to have to let Hannah rest...
8) The Presence
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While visiting her grandmother in California, seventeen-year-old Catherine comes in contact with a mysterious stranger who says he can help her contact a friend who died in a car crash for which Catherine feels responsible.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
On June 15th, twenty-three people boarded Bus 21 in New York City. On June 15th, nineteen people died when Bus 21 exploded. Less than a year later, the four teens who survived the explosion attempt the impossible - to return to New York City and board an art installation made of the remnants of Bus 21. There's Golden "Go" Jennings, a commune-raised girl who refuses to cry; Chandler Clayton, Go's boyfriend, who refuses to talk about that day; Rudy...
10) Blackwater
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
When a boy and girl are drowned in the Blackwater River, thirteen-year-old Brodie must decide whether to confess that he may have caused the accident.
11) Paralyzed
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Linebacker Reggie Scott is forced to deal with the repercussions of an incident that shakes his belief in the game he loves. When he is persecuted by angry fans for being a "dirty" player, Reggie is forced to confront his own guilt and decide whether he can continue to play his senior season and beyond.
12) Black chuck
Author
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this gritty young adult novel, Réal struggles with his guilt over a friend's violent death and his feelings for the dead boy's pregnant girlfriend.
13) Wrecked
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a car accident seriously injures her best friend and kills her brother's girlfriend, sixteen-year-old Anna tries to cope with her guilt and grief, while learning some truths about her family and herself.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Kyle texted five girls that day. Only Jamie was kind enough to respond. Ad it got her killed. On the eve of Kyle's sentencing a year after Jamie's death, all the other "chosen ones" are coping in various ways. But the unnamed narrator is full of anger, stuck somewhere between the horrifying past and the unknown future. She tries to piece together why she gets to live, while Jamie is dead. Drawn to Charlie, Jamie's boyfriend--knowing their relationship...
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
James' life changes the day he meets the Awfulizer, a strange monster who follows him everywhere, reminding him about all his mistakes and shortcomings. But after a talk with his parents, James begins to feel better about himself. Includes parent/teacher tips page.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
As often as possible high school senior Reiko Smith-Mori drives to the nearby California desert to escape from the increasingly claustrophobic life at home and her parents expectations, and there she meets Seth Rogers, a boy from school who shares her love of the desert but also wants a closer relationship with Reiko, which is just adding to her problems--because Reiko has a secret: in her mind her older sister, Mika, who died years ago, is always...
17) Back on track
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Addison Jones would love to try out for the track team, and she knows that she is faster than the other girls, but her single mom is working two jobs and every day after school Addison has to take care of her little brother--without telling her mom Addison and her best friend, Sofia, work out a plan that will allow her to run, but soon the strain and guilt of lying to her mother begins to take its toll.
18) Without Tess
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Lizzie Cohen recalls what it was like growing up with her imaginative but disturbed older sister Tess, and how she is striving to reclaim her own life since Tess died.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Lena Wise is always looking forward to tomorrow, especially at the start of her senior year. She's ready to pack in as much friend time as possible, to finish college applications and to maybe let her childhood best friend Sebastian know how she really feels about him. For Lena, the upcoming year is going to be epic--one of opportunities and chances. Until one choice, one moment, destroys everything. Now Lena isn't looking forward to tomorrow. Not...
20) The goldfish boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Emotionally crippled by his obsessive-compulsive disorder, teenager Matthew Corbin rarely leaves his room on a cul-de-sac in London, and he passes the day observing and writing down his neighbors doings from his window--but when a toddler staying next door disappears Matt is the key to solving a mystery and possibly saving a child's life...if he can manage to expose himself, and his secret guilt to the outside world.
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