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2) Feed
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
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Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
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Description
Eleven years after a shooting rocked the small town of East Ridge, New Jersey and left eighteen first graders in their classroom dead, survivors and recent high school graduates Matt Simpson and Cole Hewitt are still navigating their guilt and trying to move beyond the shadow of their town's grief. Will Cole and Matt ever be able to truly leave the ghosts of East Ridge behind? Do they even want to? As they grapple with changing relationships, falling...
4) Hit count
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arlo Brodie loves being at the heart of the action on the football field, and while his dad cheers him on, his mother quotes head injury statistics and refuses to watch, but Arlo's winning plays, the cheering crowds, and the adrenaline rush are enough to convince him that everything is OK, in spite of the pain, the pounding, the dizziness, and the confusion.
5) Zac & Mia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"The last person Zac expects in the room next door is a girl like Mia, angry and feisty with questionable taste in music. In the real world, he wouldn't--couldn't--be friends with her. In hospital different rules apply, and what begins as a knock on the wall leads to a note--then a friendship neither of them sees coming"--
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Language
English
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"Since the car accident, Samantha Herring has been in constant pain, not only from a lingering leg injury, but also from her mother's death, which has devastated her family. After pushing away her friends, Sam has receded into a fog of depression. But then Sam meets Eliot, a reckless loner with a carefree attitude and an amazing secret: he can't feel any pain. At first, Sam is jealous--what she would give not to feel the pain she's felt for the past...
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Language
English
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Description
A hilarious and irreverent coming-of-age YA novel in which three teens facing uncertain futures embark on a madcap adventure that challenges each of their identities.Hattie Larken doesn't know if she's ever really been real in her life. A compulsive liar with a quick-witted response to everything, she's willing to do whatever it takes to just skate through the rest of high school until she can graduate and escape it the mind-numbing monotony of this...
8) Cursed
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Depicts young teen Ricky Bloom's struggles with her recent juvenile inflammatory disease diagnosis, which comes amid family upheaval and challenges at school."--
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Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Del is in a healthier place than she was a year and a half ago: She's sober, getting treatment for her depression and anxiety, and volunteering at a suicide-prevention hotline. Her own suicide attempt is in the past, and living in San Francisco with her beloved aunt has helped her see a future for herself. But when Aunt Fran is diagnosed with terminal cancer, Del's equilibrium is shattered. As she struggles to care for her aunt and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Born with cerebral palsy, Amy can't walk without a walker, talk without a voice box, or even fully control her facial expressions. Plagued by obsessive-compulsive disorder, Matthew is consumed with repeated thoughts, neurotic rituals, and crippling fear. Both in desperate need of someone to help them reach out to the world, Amy and Matthew are more alike than either ever realized. When Amy decides to hire student aides to help her in her senior year...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.
13) Paper girl
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Language
English
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Description
I haven't left my house in over a year. My doctor says it's social anxiety, but I know the only things that are safe are made of paper. My room is paper. My world is paper. Everything outside is fire. All it would take is one spark for me to burst into flames. So I stay inside. Where nothing can touch me.Then my mom hires a tutor. Jackson. This boy I had a crush on before the world became too terrifying to live in. Jackson's life is the complete opposite...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"The Hope Juvenile Treatment Center is ironically named: no one has hope for these delinquent teenagers. When the guards don't show up one day, the teens are shocked to learn a catastrophic pandemic has occurred outside their walls. Their new-found freedom is now a fight for survival-- and there is no one watching out for them. As supplies dwindle, the group has to decide whom among them they can trust-- and if they even want to survive in a world...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
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Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of her parents, Luaine, daughter of the warrior Cuchulainn, is forced first into a loveless marriage with aged King Conchobar, and then into hiding after being cursed by jealous poets.
19) Future perfect
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Language
English
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Description
"Ashley is offered the chance to have weight-loss surgery by her exacting grandmother, who promises to provide tuition to her dream college in return"--
20) Sudden impact
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Series
Lexile measure
HL 570L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this high-interest accessible novel for middle readers, Tina tries to find a donor to save her friend Kurt's life."--
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