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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Whether investigating a solution to global warming or explaining why the price of oral sex has fallen so drastically, Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling to show how people respond to incentives.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
At an exclusive prep school on Long Island, Jill Newman looks forward to her senior year as a member of the school's most elite clique, the Players, until new evidence surfaces about the murder of her close friend Shaila.
4) Monument 14
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six high school kids, two eighth-graders, and six little kids trapped together in a chain superstore build a refuge for themselves inside. Outside, a series of escalating disasters, beginning with a monster hailstorm and ending with a chemical weapons spill, seem to be tearing the world -- as they know it -- apart.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Two families, who would otherwise never have come together, meet by chance at the Baltimore airport--the Donaldsons, a very American couple, and the Yazdans, Maryam's fully assimilated son and his attractive Iranian wife. Each couple is awaiting the arrival of an adopted infant daughter from Korea. After the babies from distant Asia are delivered, Bitsy Donaldson impulsively invites the Yazdans to celebrate an "arrival party" that from then on is...
6) The namesake
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
1140L
Language
English
Description
"With a new afterword from Jhumpa Lahiri, a new edition of the contemporary classic. Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world--conflicts that will haunt Gogol on his own winding path through divided loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. In The Namesake,...
7) Untouchable
Author
Series
Private novels. Main series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Although things aren't going as smooth as they should at Easton Academy for Taylor, Kiran, Noelle, and Arianna, they suddenly take a turn for the worse when Josh becomes the main suspect in the murder of Thomas Pearson.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Stuck repeating her first day at a new school over and over, seventeen-year-old Andie is convinced that a miracle kiss will break the Sisyphean curse, but she instead discovers how a high school filled with cliques and misfits can find common ground despite their differences.
9) Private
Author
Series
Private novels. Main series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Reed Brennan wins a scholarship to an exclusive private school, and thinks she has finally found a way to escape her troubled home life, but when she arrives, the students are not what Reed expected and she struggles to find a way to fit in with the other girls.
10) All but Alice
Author
Series
Alice McKinley. Main series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Seventh grader Alice decides that the only way to stave off personal and social disasters is to be part of the crowd, especially the "in" crowd, no matter how boring and, potentially, difficult.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This book is a guide for every young person who believes in a better world for all"—Malala Yousafzai
Adults are aware of their universal human rights of freedom and equality, but children often are ignorant of the rights they possess before reaching the age of majority. Enter Know Your Rights and Claim Them, written in partnership with Amnesty International, Angelina Jolie, and Geraldine Van Bueren. Know Your Rights and Claim Them details the rights...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Dalton Rev arrives at Salt River High where he must outwit crooked cops and killer cliques in order to solve the mystery of the body found wrapped in duct tape and hanging from the goal posts in the football field.
14) Legacy
Author
Series
Private novels. Main series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of Cheyenne, Reed is elected the new leader of Billings Hall, but her grip on the social scene is tenuous, as she discovers when Easton is the only prep school not invited to a Legacy party and it falls to her to get them back on the list.
15) Lucy and Linh
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Australia, Lucy tries to balance her life at home surrounded by her Chinese immigrant family, with her life at a pretentious private school.
16) Mythology
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
A retelling of Greek, Roman and Norse myths.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Rio Jones dumps the friends she has made at her new Southern California private school in favor of cheerleader Kristie and an exclusive clique, an eye-opening experience for all concerned.
18) Poor your soul
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Guided by the narrative of her mother's tragic loss of a son years earlier, Mira Ptacin confronts an unexpected pregnancy with a child who has no chance of survival outside the womb. At age twenty-eight, Mira Ptacin discovered she was pregnant. Though it was unplanned, she soon embraced the pregnancy and became engaged to Andrew, the father. Five months later, an ultrasound revealed birth defects that would give the child no chance of survival outside...
19) Ambition
Author
Series
Private novels. Main series volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
The higher you climb, the farther you have to fall...Reed Brennan knew being elected president of exclusive Billings Hall would change her life. What she didn't count on was being dumped by her boyfriend, Josh Hollis, or being held responsible for a fire that destroyed Easton Academy's oldest building. And now the administration wants to shut Billings down. Forever.As president, it's up to Reed to save Billings Hall. What better way to win over the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
Ideas, products, messages and behaviors "spread just like viruses do." Behavior can ripple outward until a critical mass or "tipping point" is reached, changing the world. Gladwell develops these and other concepts (such as the "stickiness" of ideas or the effect of population size on information dispersal) through simple, clear explanations and entertainingly illustrative anecdotes.
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