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1) Elsewhere
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live."
2) Sweethearts
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
After losing her soul mate, Cameron, when they were nine, Jennifer, now seventeen, transformed herself from the unpopular fat girl into the beautiful and popular Jenna, but Cameron's unexpected return dredges up memories that cause both social and emotional turmoil.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
Two years after being airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975, Matt Pin is haunted by the terrible secret he left behind and, now, in a loving adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events forces him to confront his past.
4) Shock point
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Cassie Streng is determined to expose her stepfather after learning that he is giving a dangerous experimental drug to his teenaged psychiatric patients, but he sends her to a boot camp for troubled teens in Mexico in order to keep her quiet.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The First Phone Call from Heaven tells the story of a small town on Lake Michigan that gets worldwide attention when its citizens start receiving phone calls from the afterlife. Is it the greatest miracle ever or a massive hoax? Sully Harding, a grief-stricken single father, is determined to find out. An allegory about the power of belief—and a page-turner that will touch your soul—Albom's masterful storytelling has never been so moving and unexpected....
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Alice Ozma tells the story of how she and her father, an elementary school librarian, set a goal when she was in fourth grade of reading together for one hundred consecutive nights and continued on until she went away to college, and discusses the bond that developed between her and her dad, and the life lessons she learned from their time together.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The Ninth Life of Louis Drax packs an irresistibly twisted wallop . . . An exhilarating, darkly inventive read. -Elle
Now a major feature film starring Jamie Dornan and Aaron Paul
Nine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious, deceitful, and dangerously accident-prone. Every year something violent seems to happen to him. His psychologist is baffled, and his mother lives in constant panic....
Now a major feature film starring Jamie Dornan and Aaron Paul
Nine-year-old Louis Drax is a problem child: bright, precocious, deceitful, and dangerously accident-prone. Every year something violent seems to happen to him. His psychologist is baffled, and his mother lives in constant panic....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
HL 340L
Language
English
Description
In Haley's high school there are two boys named Martin Nathaniel Munroe II (cousins), and one of them has started a text conversation with her, which becomes an all-consuming exchange between two people who see themselves as outsiders, but the only trouble is that Haley really does not know which Martin she is talking to, and actually meeting face-to-face may lead to an epic meltdown.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Author Erin Vincent describes her life after her parents were both killed in a car accident, leaving her parentless at the age of fourteen with a seventeen-year-old sister and a three-year-old brother; and gives a description of the stages of grief she experienced.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. A fantasy? A nightmare? This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn't speak for years, Owen memorized dozens of Disney movies, turned them into a language to express love and loss, kinship, brotherhood....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Paige Rawl was an ordinary girl.
Cheerleader, soccer player, honor roll student. One of the good kids at her middle school.
Then, on an unremarkable day, Paige disclosed the one thing that made her "different": her HIV-positive status.
It didn't matter that she was born with the disease or that her illness posed no danger to her classmates.
Within hours, the bullying began.
They called her PAIDS. Left cruel notes
...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.
15) A monster calls
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Every night, ever since Conor's mother fell ill and started the treatments that don't seem to be working, Conor has had the same dream. But tonight is different. Tonight there's a visitor at his window. It's ancient, elemental, a force of nature. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor, It wants the truth.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Maria leaves her mother and their Puerto Rican home to live in the barrio of New York with her father, feeling torn between the two cultures in which she has been raised.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A hiking trip in the woods in upstate New York is out of the comfort zone for sixteen-year-old city girl Callie Velasquez, but she wants to bond with her new friends Lissa and Penelope, not to mention her new boyfriend, Jeremy. However, nothing could have prepared her for the true human darkness that waits for her in the wood.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Argues that the combination of sugars, fats, and salts "hijacks" the human body's eating habits, creating a dangerous cycle of overeating, and promotes healthy eating habits and methods to avoid overeating.
20) The savage
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
A boy tells about a story he wrote when dealing with his father's death about a savage kid living in a ruined chapel in the woods--and the tale about the savage kid coming to life in the real world.
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