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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"One cold fall day, high school junior Liz Emerson steers her car into a tree. This haunting and heartbreaking story is told by a surprising and unexpected narrator and unfolds in nonlinear flashbacks even as Liz's friends, foes, and family gather at the hospital and Liz clings to life"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In the year following their son's death, May Chen's parents face racist accusations of putting too much pressure on their son and causing his death by suicide, and May attempts to challenge the racism and ugly stereotypes through her writing, only to realize that she still has a lot to learn and that her actions have consequences for her family as well as herself.
7) Dead silence
Author
Series
Body finder novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Violet, a high school senior, learns that an underground group has been carrying out murders on the order of their Charles Manson-like leader, she is pulled into a deadly hunt, where even her ability may not save her"-- Provided by publisher.
8) Plan B
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lucy has her life mapped out, thinking she will join her boyfriend Luke at college, become a Spanish teacher, get married, and live happily ever after, but when Lucy learns she is pregnant, she is forced to make the most difficult decision of her life.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tamsen married her muscian sweetheart and dropped out of high school, so when her equally young husband dies she is still only seventeen, and totally lost--but when she is caught trespassing the judge insist that she return to the school life that she thought she had escaped, and forced to face the reality that her life has really just begun.
11) Losing Faith
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brie tries to cope with her grief over her older sister Faith's sudden death by trying to learn more about the religious "home group" Faith secretly joined and never talked about with Brie or her parents.
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: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
Billy, recently deceased, keeps an eye on his best friend, fourteen-year-old Eddie, who has added to his home and school problems by becoming mute, and helps him stand up to a conservative minister and English teacher who is orchestrating a censorship challenge.
15) Lost for words
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Sophie struggles to find normalcy after an incident she chooses not to remember took her sister's life. By keeping a journal, making a new friend, and seeing a therapist she finally begins to recover.
17) Twisted fate
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told from separate viewpoints, unfolds how sisters Sydney and Ally Tate's relationship changes as they get involved with their new neighbor, Graham, an artist with a videocamera who has a mysterious--and dangerous--past.
18) Deadline
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben Wolf decides to fulfill his greatest fantasies, ponders his life's purpose and legacy, and converses through dreams with a spiritual guide known as "Hey-Soos."
20) Thin space
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Consumed by guilt and secrets about his twin brother's death, Marsh Windsor is looking for a thin space--a place where the barrier between this world and the next is thin enough for a person to cross over--in hopes of setting things right.
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