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1) Off the grid
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Sixteen-year-old Cody was born and raised "off the grid" deep in the wilderness by idealistic parents. When his father becomes seriously ill, the family is forced to move into the city so he can get treatment. Attending high school for the first time, Cody is an oddity and has a hard time adjusting. He finds unlikely allies in DeMarco, an inner-city kid, and Ernest, a philosophical homeless man, and he begins a tentative friendship with Alexis. When...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Thanks to a bully in gym class, unpopular Nate suffers a broken finger -- the middle one, splinted to flip off the world. It won't be the last time a middle finger is raised on this day. Dreamer Claire envisions herself sitting in an artsy caf,̌ filling a journal, but fate has other plans. One cheerleader dates a closeted basketball star; another questions just how, as a "big girl," she fits in. A group of boys scam drivers for beer money without...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Exhausted and rebellious after three years of working for her father and mothering her brother, eighteen-year-old Arcadia "Cadie" Wells joins two cousins who are camping their way through Florida, soon learning that one is a murderer.