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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Guy Langman, his best friend Anoop, and other members of the school Forensics Club investigate a break-in and a possible murder, which could be connected to the mysterious past of Guy's recently-deceased father.
2) Pretenders
Author
Series
Pretenders volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Five high school freshmen--the Phoenix Five--reveal their friendships, crushes, school and family dramas, and big secrets, as told in their unique voices through journal entries."--
3) Kick
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, thirteen-year-old soccer star Kevin and police sergeant Brown, who knew his father, try to keep Kevin out of juvenile hall after he is arrested on very serious charges.
4) Bullyville
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of his estranged father in the World Trade Center on 9/11, thirteen-year-old Bart, still struggling with his feelings of guilt, sorrow and loss, wins a scholarship to the local preparatory school and there encounters a vicious bully whose cruelty compounds the aftermath of the tragedy.
5) Touched
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nick is tormented by visions of "future memories," and although he can risk changing these events if he goes "off script," the results are often worse than what he has seen, but when he meets Taryn one summer at the Jersey shore he begins to understand where this hated power comes from and what it means.
Author
Series
Pretenders volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 570L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The second-quarter journal entries of five freshmen at ultra-competitive Noble High detail the students' ongoing quest to become the Phoenix Five - the most outstanding first-year students in the school"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tale told in alternating voices finds Jersey girls Justine, Bianca, Becka, Polly, and Anne struggling with personal issues while batting each other and various school rivals to assert their individual perspectives on fashion and teen life.
8) Accomplice
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
High school juniors and best friends Finn and Chloe hatch a daring plot to fake Chloe's disappearance from their rural New Jersey town in order to have something compelling to put on their college applications, but unforeseen events complicate matters.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Three immigrant girls from different parts of the world meet and become close friends in a small New Jersey town where their mothers have found domestic work, but their relationships are tested when one girl's mother is accused of stealing a precious heirloom.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Mira lives in a small island beach town off the coast of New Jersey year-round, and when a devastating superstorm strikes she will face the storm's wrath and the destruction it leaves behind alone.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
At seventeen Simone Thibodeaux is fed up with her over-protective mother's insistance on micro-managing her life, like picking her prom date from a "nice" Haitian immigrant family, and anyway she is determined to attend with Gavin Stackhouse (even if he does not know that yet); so together with her fellow late-bloomer friends Simone comes up with a bucket list of rule-breaking (like cutting classes, and sneaking out of the house)--but soon things...
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