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3061) Words and their meanings
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Anna O'Mally is a gifted writer but for the past year, since her beloved uncle Joe died, she has been wrapped in grief that seems impenetrable until a strange email suggests she did not know Joe as well as she thought--and he was not the saint she believed he was.
3062) If only
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
At sixteen Bridget is pregnant--and her boyfriend has dumped her for another girl. She's trying to envision a future for her baby. But as she sifts through the many paths and the many people who want to parent her child, she can't help but feel that there is no right decision. Fifteen years later: Ivy knows that she is now the same age Bridget was when she placed Ivy for adoption. She knows that Bridget was the one who named her. When Ivy goes in...
3063) The Chandler legacies
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Beth Kramer is a "townie" who returns to her sophomore year after having endured a year of tension with her roommate, Sarah. But Sarah Brunson knows there's more to that story. Amanda Priya "Spence" Spencer is the privileged daughter of NYC elites, who is reeling from the realization that her family name shielded her from the same fate as Sarah. Ramin Golafshar arrives at Chandler as a transfer student to escape the dangers of being gay in Iran,...
Author
Publisher
Fulcrum Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In 1874, the U.S. Army sent troops to subdue and move the Native Americans of the southern plains to Indian reservations, and this chronicles the brief and brutal war that followed. Told from the viewpoint of two youths from opposite sides of the fight, this is a tale of conflict and unlikely friendship in the Wild West"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
George has always felt burdened by his princely duties, and even more by the need to hide the magic through which he speaks with animals, but when he is betrothed to the strange princess of a neighboring kingdom, his secret, and the persecution of people like himself, must come to an end.
3066) Ready to fall: a novel
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Max, struggling to come to terms with his mother's death, is cast as the ghost in Hamlet and finds strength in his new theater friends.
3067) Breathing underwater
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to keep a journal, sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with Caitlin, examines his controlling behavior and anger, and describes living with his abusive father.
3068) A sudden silence
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
Jesse Harmon searches for the hit and run driver who killed his brother Bry.
3069) Hancock Park
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While attending an exclusive prep school in Los Angeles, a smart but anxiety-ridden high school junior tries to deal with boys, popularity, and her parents' divorce.
3070) The new normal
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
With her younger sisters dead and her parents overcome with grief, Tamar's life feels out of control, and her troubles are only deepened when she begins losing her hair.
3071) The iron prince
Author
Series
Iron fey volume 5
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Don't look at Them. Never let Them know you can see Them. That is Ethan Chase's unbreakable rule. Until the fey he avoids at all costs begin to disappear, and Ethan is attacked. Now he must change the rules to protect his family. To save a girl he never thought he'd dare to fall for. Ethan thought he had protected himself from his older sister's world--the land of Faery. His previous time in the Iron Realm left him with nothing but fear and disgust...
3072) Timelock
Author
Series
Caretaker trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Jack discovers that the only way to protect the Earth from ecological disaster at the hands of the Dark Army is to lock time, and he must choose between staying in the present or returning to the future world from which he came.
3073) Gold mountain
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Tam Ling Fan disguises herself as her twin brother, journeys from her village in China to California, and works as a laborer on the Transcontinental Railroad--where she faces danger on multiple fronts--to earn the money her family desperately needs. Includes Authors Note (pages 274-276) and Questions for Discussion (pages 277-278).
3074) Girls like us
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Graduating from their school's special education program, Quincy and Biddy are placed together in their first independent apartment and discover unexpected things they have in common in the face of past challenges and a harrowing trauma.
3075) Clash of fate and fury
Author
Series
Labors of Gen volume 2
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
With the help of Castor and Pollux, seventeen-year-old Gen tries to fulfill her end of a bargain with the Olympian Empresses and bring them the legendary golden apples of Hesperides and the monstrous Cerberus while also avoiding war with neighboring Elysium.
3076) Kingdom of ice & bone
Author
Series
Frozen Sun saga volume 2
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Lira and Reyker have lost everything. Including each other. Lira of Stone watched her home burn and her clan fall beneath the sword of the warlord known as the Dragon. She believes the man she loves, a warrior who defected from the Dragon's army, is dead. Alongside her exiled brother and his band of refugees, she will fight the forces that conquered her island. But the greatest danger may come from Lira herself--with the blood of banished gods running...
3077) Keeper
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In an interview with a young journalist, World Cup hero, El Gato, describes his youth in the Brazilian rain forest and the events, experiences, and people that helped make him a great goalkeeper and renowned soccer star.
3078) Whirlwind
Author
Series
Caretaker trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Jack finds himself embroiled in another dangerous adventure when, after a six-month absence, he returns to the Hudson River town where he grew up to find his girlfriend PJ only to discover that she is missing and everyone believes him to be responsible for her disappearance and the death of his family.
3079) Shattered
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Pub
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After March shoves her boyfriend and he ends up in a coma, she tries to figure out what it means to have a perfect life.
3080) The sledding hill
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Billy Bartholomew has an audacious soul, and he knows it. Why? Because it's all he has left. He's dead. Eddie Proffit has an equally audacious soul, but he doesn't know it. He's still alive. These days, Billy and Eddie meet on the sledding hill, where they used to spend countless hours -- until Billy kicked a stack of Sheetrock over on himself, breaking his neck and effectively hitting tilt on his Earthgame. The two were inseparable friends. They...
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