Kody Keplinger
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
The narrator was with her best friend, Sarah, when the Virgil County High School Massacre happened. She and Sarah were in the bathroom, and the story is that Sarah died after confessing her faith to the gunman. Sarah's parents are about to publish a book about it, so this is the narrator's last chance to tell her version of the truth--what did and did not happen, and why Sarah really died.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Even though Pamela Isley spends most of her time caring for a few small plants and does not trust other people, when cute goth girl Alice Oh comes into her life she starts to open up, but the dark secrets from home could destroy the one person who ever cared about Pamela, or as her mom called her, Ivy." --Publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Hadley is an angry girl: angry at her mother for embezzling money, angry at her estranged older sister, Beth, whom she has to live with while her mother is in jail, angry at having to move to Kentucky away from her friends, and angry at the world because she has retinitis pigmentosa and is slowly going blind; but then she meets Lila, a rescued pit bull who has not responded to anyone else--so if Hadley can train Lila, maybe the dog can get adopted...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
When seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper starts sleeping with Wesley Rush, a notorious womanizer who disgusts her, in order to distract her from her personal problems, she is surprised to find that they have a lot in common.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Suffering a hangover from a graduation party, eighteen-year-old Whitley is blindsided by the news that her father has moved into a house with his fianc©♭e, her thirteen-year-old daughter Bailey, and her son Nathan, in whose bed Whitley had awakened that morning.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Nola Sutton has always been friends with the Swift boys, Cannaan, Brian, and Kevin, but when their father leaves them without saying good-bye the boys start to change, and her long-time friends begin to pull away from her at a time when she needs them more than ever.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
High school senior Sonny Ardmore is an accomplished liar who uses lies to try and control her out-of-control life which has been further complicated by the fact that she is secretly staying every night in her best friend Amy's house because she has been kicked out by her own mother. When she gets into a online conversation with the stuck-up new boy Ryder, who has a crush on Amy, she finds herself caught up in one lie to many.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper starts sleeping with Wesley Rush, a notorious womanizer who disgusts her, in order to distract her from her personal problems, and to her surprise, the two of them find they have a lot in common and are able to help each other find more productive ways to deal with their difficulties.
9) Shut out
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Fed up with the increasingly violent rivalry between the football and soccer teams at Hamilton High, Lissa and other players' girlfriends go on strike, but the girls will succeed only if their libidos can be controlled longer than the boys' can.
10) The duff
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Bianca is a content high school senior whose world is shattered when she learns the student body refers to her as "Designated Ugly Fat Friend" to her prettier, more popular friends. With her universe turned upside down, she ignores words of wisdom from her favorite teacher and enlists Wesley, a slick but charming jock, to help set her apart from the pack and erase her label forever. In doing so, she hopes to land her crush Toby, and to overthrow the...
11) All out
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Take a journey through time and genres and discover a past where queer figures live, love and shape the world around them. Seventeen of the best young adult authors across the queer spectrum have come together to create a collection of beautifully written diverse historical fiction for teens. From a retelling of Little Red Riding Hood set in war-torn 1870s Mexico featuring a transgender soldier, to an asexual girl discovering her identity amid the...
