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1) Tamar
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
In England in 1995, fifteen-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death of her beloved grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the last year of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and the climactic events that forever cast a shadow on his life and that of his family.
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."
6) 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.
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) Last ride
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tom struggles to give up street racing after killing his best friend in a race.
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...
Author
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The threat of blackmail lures sixteen-year-old aspiring photographer Ava and nine other teens--all with secrets they intend to protect whatever the cost--to an abandoned amusement park on Portgrave Pier, and when bad weather and magic cut them off from the mainland, Ava and the others begin turning on each other, one by one.
"Ava is one of ten people invited to the abandoned amusement park on Portgrave Pier. The invitation makes it clear that a someone...
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...
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...
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...
16) 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.
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