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Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
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Experts have documented an explosive rise in the number of hate groups since the turn of the century, driven by anger over immigration and demographic projections showing that whites will no longer hold majority status in the United States by 2040. The rise accelerated with the elections of presidents Obama and Trump. Extremists are increasingly diffuse, moving to the web and away from organized, on-the-ground activities. What is a hate group and...
2) Crusader
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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Description
Roberta Ritter has been waiting for a knight in shining armor for most of her humdrum life. She's a doormat, a nobody whose mother died a few years back, a smart girl who wastes her afternoons working in a failing arcade in a failing shopping mall. And then a Crusader arrives. . . .
Only this Crusader is a virtual reality war game, one that does a booming business at the arcade, despite—or perhaps because of—the controversy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
Alex Craft knows how to kill someone. And she doesn't feel bad about it. When her older sister, Anna, was murdered three years ago and the killer walked free, Alex uncaged the language she knows best. The language of violence. While her crime goes unpunished, Alex knows she can't be trusted among other people, even in her small hometown.
Author
Series
Assassin's heart volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lea Saldana, a trained assassin, falls in love with Val Da Via, a boy from a rival clan, until tragedy intervenes and sets her on a course of revenge against the Da Vias family.
5) You
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Kyle discovers the shattering ramifications of the decisions he makes, and does not make, about school, the girl he likes, and his future.
6) Lockdown
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Some days it's just easier not to go to school at all. Adam has been slacking off lately, but today he stuck around to see his girlfriend. When Josh, who has been bullied mercilessly, brings a gun to school, the building is locked down and Adam is forced to risk everything to save himself and to find Zoe before Josh does. Calling on reserves he didn't know he had, Adam could end up a hero—or a victim.
7) Dear killer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Kit, a seventeen-year-old moral nihilist serial killer, chooses who to kill based on anonymous letters left in a secret mailbox, while simultaneously maintaining a close relationship with the young detective in charge of the murder cases"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
For Kalvin Barnes, the only thing that comes close to the rush of playing the knockout game is watching videos of the knockout game. Kalvin's crew always takes videos of their KOs, but Kalvin wants more—something better. He thinks if someone could really see the game for what it was, could appreciate it, could capture the essence of it—that would be a video for all time. The world would have to notice. That's where Erica comes in. She's new in...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Language
English
Description
Victoria Zell doesn't fit in, not that she cares what anyone thinks. She and her homeschooled boyfriend, Andrew, are inseparable. All they need is each other. That is, until Zachary Zimmerman joins her homeroom. Within an hour of meeting, he convinces good-girl Vic to cut class. And she can't get enough of that rush. Despite Vic's loyalty to Andrew, she finds her life slowly entwining with Z's. Soon she's lying to everyone she knows in an effort to...
10) Wringer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.
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Language
English
Description
A blackout and a blizzard leave seventeen-year-old Lottie and her new stepsister Jade trapped in an isolated ski cabin in Tahoe, where they are soon joined by a cute, fast-talking stranger named Alex, who claims to be lost and in need of shelter--but the girls realize Alex is not who he claims to be, and he has dangerous friends.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Language
English
Description
Mary B. Addison killed a baby. Allegedly. She didn't say much in that first interview with detectives, and the media filled in the only blanks that mattered: A white baby had died while under the care of a church-going black woman and her nine-year-old daughter. The public convicted Mary and the jury made it official. But did she do it? She wouldn't say. Mary survived six years in baby jail before being dumped in a group home. The house isn't really...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
After a year in exile on an Alaskan island as punishment for severely beating a fellow student, Cole Matthews returns to school in Minneapolis having made peace with himself and his victim--but he finds that surviving the violence and hatred of high school is even harder than surviving in the wilderness.
14) Devils within
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nate was eight the first time he stabbed someone; he was eleven when he earned his red laces--a prize for spilling blood for "the cause." And he was fourteen when he murdered his father (and the leader of The Fort, a notorious white supremacist compound) in self-defense, landing in a treatment center while the state searched for his next of kin. Now, in the custody of an uncle he never knew existed, who wants nothing to do with him, Nate just wants...
15) Bang
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Two teens engage in a robbery that turns deadly.
16) Self. Destructed
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Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
Themes: Realistic Fiction, Mental Illness, Juvenile Correction, Rehabilitation, Obsession, Guns, Teen, Young Adult, Chapter Book, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Michael Ellis...typical American boy. A little on the geeky side. A good student. An athlete. But something...
17) Foolproof
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Daniel's new girlfriend says she loves him, that she'd do anything for him. She makes Daniel feel like anything is possible. So he ignores her lies. It's not like Cyn is a bad person. Then Daniel finds out that Cyn has been using him to move drugs across the border.
Foolproof is a tough book about the consequences of gang life that asks readers to consider the line between taking risks and taking lives. Daniel crosses...
Foolproof is a tough book about the consequences of gang life that asks readers to consider the line between taking risks and taking lives. Daniel crosses...
18) Jumped
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
HL 600L
Language
English
Description
The lives of Leticia, Dominique, and Trina are irrevocably intertwined through the course of one day in an urban high school after Leticia overhears Dominique's plans to beat up Trina and must decide whether or not to get involved.
19) Blood donor
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
HL 400L
Language
English
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Description
"In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, at-risk teenagers are being kidnapped and forced to donate their blood." --
When Jo McNair is one minute late for her curfew, her controlling father locks her out. Wandering the streets, she has no money and nowhere to sleep. She meets someone who says they're with a group working with at-risk kids, helping them get back on their feet--and walks into a kidnapper's trap. Now Jo and several...
20) Thief's cunning
Author
Series
Assassin's heart volume 2
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"All her life, Allegra, niece of the infamous assassin Lea Saldana, has had to keep her identity hidden. She and her family are constantly watching their backs for an attack from the Da Vias, a rival family whose thirst for retaliation has lasted for almost two decades. But what really happened the night Lea made the Da Vias pay for murdering her family? Allegra wants to know--just like she wants to know her parents' identity, another secret Lea and...
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