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1) Dunk
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Description
While hoping to work as the clown in an amusement park dunk tank on the New Jersey shore the summer before his junior year in high school, Chad faces his best friend's serious illness, hassles with police, and the girl that got away.
2) Center field
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mike lives for baseball and hopes to follow his idol into the major leagues one day. But he is distracted by a new player who might take his place in center field, an ankle injury, problems at home, and a growing awareness that something sinister is happening at school.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Zoe thought that being cut from her ballet program was the worst thing that could happen, but when her best friend Olivia is diagnosed with a life-threatening disease, Zoe quickly learns that not being able to dance is the least of her problems"--
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Language
English
Formats
Description
A year after Superstorm Sandy, Lucy's life is returning to normal at the New Jersey shore, where she has grown up surfing with her twin brother, crabbing and long-boarding with friends, and working at Surf Taco, but the torch she holds for summer resident Connor, the center of The Big Mistake, still burns.
5) 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.
Author
Language
English
Description
Jen Noonan's father thinks a move to Harmony House is the key to salvation, but to everyone who has lived there before, it is a portal to pure horror. As the forces in the house join together to terrorize Jen, she must find a way to escape the past she didn't know was haunting her--and the mysterious and terrible power she didn't realize she had.
7) Karma bites
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Using the power of a magic recipe box belonging to her hippie grandmother straightens out some of the problems in twelve-year-old Franny Flanders' life, but she learns that when you tamper with karma, it can strike back in unexpected ways.
8) Pinned
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Dealing with family problems, girls, and their own competitive natures, high school seniors Ivan Korske and Bobby Zane face each other in the final match of the New Jersey State Wrestling Championship.
9) 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.
10) Pandemic
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lil is left home alone when a deadly pandemic hits her small town in New Jersey. Will Lil survive the flu and brave her darkest fears?"-- Provided by publisher.
11) Ferocity summer
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Scilla Davis has a drug-addicted best friend, a drug-dealing almost-boyfriend, and huge legal troubles of her own but hesitates to help an FBI agent eager to catch Randy's supplier of the fad drug, Ferocity, despite his promises to help.
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.
13) 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.
14) Ballet breakdown
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Moving to New Jersey from Philadelphia was stressful, but at least Jada has found Ms. Marianne's Academy of Dance, where she can continue to dance ballet--but she is not sure that the other girls at the Academy welcome her, and when she sprains her ankle in practice she is sure that the whole universe is against her.
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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Language
English
Description
"Summer on the New Jersey shore offers Quinn a new start at life and love, but only if she can come to terms with her past"--
ONE LAST SUMMER TO ESCAPE, TO FIND HERSELD, TOFIGURE OUT WHAT COMES NEXT Graduation was supposed to be a relief. Except Quinn can't avoid the rumors that plagued her throughout high school or the barrage of well-intentioned questions about her college plans. How is he supposed to know what she wants to do for the next four...
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