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62) The blue mirror
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Seventeen-year-old loner Maggy Klass, who frequently seeks refuge from her alcoholic mother's apartment by sitting and drawing in a local cafe, becomes involved in a destructive relationship with a charismatic homeless youth named Cole.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Shavonne, a fierce, desperate seventeen year-old in juvenile lockup, wants to turn her life around before her eighteenth birthday, but corrupt guards, out-of-control girls, and shadows from her past make her task seem impossible.
64) Take me there
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Description
After violating his parole, seventeen-year-old, semi-literate Dylan Dawson drives from California to Texas to try to see his father on death row in an attempt to figure out how his own life has gone so terribly awry.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Janie Hannagan has been drawn into other people's dreams for years, but it is not until she befriends an elderly nursing home patient and becomes involved with an enigmatic fellow-student that she discovers her true power.
66) Sea
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Appears on list
Description
Despite recurring nightmares about her mother's death and her own fear of flying, fifteen-year-old Sienna accepts her father's birthday gift to fly to Indonesia with his team of disaster relief workers to help victims of a recent tsunami, never suspecting that this experience will change her life forever.
68) I know it's over
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Sixteen-year-old Nick, still trying to come to terms with his parents' divorce, experiences exhilaration and despair in his relationship with his girlfriend Sasha especially when, after instigating a trial separation, she announces that she is pregnant.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Sixteen-year-old Amina Conteh has always believed in using her tongue as her weapon--even when it gets her into trouble. After cursing at a classmate, her father forces her to volunteer at their church with Pastor Johnson. But Pastor Johnson isn't the holy man everyone thinks he is. The same voice Amina uses to fight falls quiet the night she is sexually assaulted by Pastor Johnson. After that, her life starts to unravel: her father is frustrated...
70) Heck, superhero
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Abandoned by his mentally ill mother, thirteen-year-old Heck tries to survive on his own as his mind bounces between the superhero character he imagines himself to be and the harsh reality of his life.
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Danielle Levine stands out even at her alternative high school--in appearance and attitude--but when her scathing and sometimes raunchy English essays land her in a social skills class, she meets Daniel, another social misfit who may break her resolve tokeep everyone at arm's length.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Thirteen-year-old Cynnie has had to deal with her mother's alcoholism and stream of boyfriends all her life, but when her grandparents take custody of her brother, who has Down Syndrome, Cynnie becomes self-destructive and winds up in court-mandated Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.
73) One Trick Pony
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
The mysterious new owner of a nearby coffee bar touches the lives of four teenaged friends in Brooklyn, who are grappling with various emotional issues.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"When Petula de Wilde, who is anything but wild, meets Jacob in their school's dorky art therapy program, his friendship (and something more) helps her overcome intense fears since her sister died. And he has a secret of his own"--
Since her sister's death, Petula de Wilde sees danger in everything. A mandatory art therapy class with a groups of teenage misfits is the worst part of each week. She wants nothing to do with them-- especially Jacob and...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.
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