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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, the intertwined stories of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the mother and daughter who upend their lives. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose...
2) There there
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Twelve Native Americans came to the Big Oakland Powwow for different reasons. Jacquie Red Feather is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind in shame. Dene Oxedrene is pulling his life together after his uncle's death and has come to work the powwow and to honor his uncle's memory. Edwin Frank has come to find his true father. Bobby Big Medicine has come to drum the Grand Entry. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield has come...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Annabelle is running. From Seattle to Washington, DC, through mountain passes and suburban landscapes, from long lonely roads to college towns. She's not ready to think about the tragedy from the past year, or The Taker that haunts her. But Annablle can't outrun it, and becomes a reluctant activist as people connect her journey to the trauma from her past. Followed by Grandpa Ed in his RV and backed by her brother and two friends, she just keeps running....
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The history of the Vietnam war is complex. Partridge explores the war from eight different perspectives: six American soldiers, one American military nurse, and one Vietnamese refugee. Each individual reveals a difference facet of the war and moves us forward in time. Partridge also profiles key American leaders and events, to remind us of all that was happening at home; and highlights veteran's struggles to acclimate to life after Vietnam. -- adapted...
7) Starry eyes
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When teens Zorie and Lennon, a former couple, are stranded in the California wilderness together, they must put aside their differences, and come to terms with lingering romantic feelings, in order to survive.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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NYT - Young Adult Paperback
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Ms. Barbara's Favorites
NYT - Young Adult Paperback
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Seventeen-year-old Zélie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magi, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
9) Invictus
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Farway Gaius McCarthy is the son of a time traveler from 2354 AD and a gladiator living in ancient Rome. His very existence defies the laws of nature. All he's ever wanted was to explore history for himself, but after failing his entrance exam into the government program, Far will have to settle for a position on the black market: captaining a time-traveling crew to steal valuables from the past. During a routine heist on the sinking Titanic, Far...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Tareq lives with his big and loving family... until the bombs strike. The city is in ruins, and in the wake of destruction, he's threatened by Daesh fighters and witnesses a public beheading. Tareq's family knows that to continue to stay alive, they must leave. As they travel as refugees from Syria to Turkey to Greece, facing danger at every turn, Tareq must find the resilience and courage to complete his harrowing journey.
11) Royals
Author
Series
Royals volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"When Daisy's older sister gets engaged to the Crown Prince of Scotland, Daisy makes the royal rule-book all her own"--
"Meet Daisy Winters. She's an offbeat sixteen-year-old Floridian with mermaid-red hair; a part time job at a bootleg Walmart, and a perfect older sister who's nearly engaged to the Crown Prince of Scotland. Daisy has no desire to live in the spotlight, but relentless tabloid attention forces her join Ellie at the relative seclusion...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Brothers Teodoro and Manny Avila take a road trip to address Manny's PTSD following his tour in Iraq, and to help T. change his life and win the heart of Wendy Martinez. Includes information and resources about PTSD.--
13) The cheerleaders
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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"There are no more cheerleaders in the town of Sunnybrook. First there was the car accident--two girls dead after hitting a tree on a rainy night. Not long after, the murders happened. Those two girls were killed by the man next door. The police shot him, so no one will ever know his reasons. Monica's sister was the last cheerleader to die. After her suicide, Sunnybrook High disbanded the cheer squad. No one wanted to be reminded of the girls they'd...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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When enemies from his time in prison put a bounty on his head and target his family, Nate McClusky takes his eleven-year-old daughter Polly from in front of her school into a world of robbery, violence, and the constant threat of capture, or death.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The numbers are staggering: nearly one in five girls ages fourteen to seventeen have been the victim of a sexual assault or attempted sexual assault. This is the true story of one of those girls. In 2014, Prout was a freshman at St. Paul's School, a prestigious boarding school in New Hampshire, when a senior boy sexually assaulted her as part of a ritualized game of conquest. She reported her assault to the police and testified against her attacker...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Maya Aziz is caught between her India-born parents' world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy, and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil. In the aftermath of a terrorist attack hundreds of miles away, the community she's known since birth is transformed by fear, bigotry, and hatred.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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"One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their lives forever. If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a black teen, lived in the crime-plagued...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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When Dimple Shah and Rishi Patel meet at a Stanford University summer program, Dimple is avoiding her parents' obsession with "marriage prospects" but Rishi hopes to woo her into accepting arranged marriage with him.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"At thirteen, bright-eyed, straight-A student Sara Saedi uncovered a terrible family secret: she was breaking the law simply by living in the United States. Only two years old when her parents fled Iran, she didn't learn of her undocumented status until her older sister wanted to apply for an after-school job, but couldn't because she didn't have a Social Security number. Fear of deportation kept Sara up at night, but it didn't keep her from being...
20) Pride
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially can't stand the judgmental and arrogant Darius. Yet as...
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