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21) Creep
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Teenager Olivia Danvers knows that the previous residents at 16 Olcott Place moved out in the middle of the night, but nobody really knows why; the new family, the Donahues, have three children including a daughter, Janie, Olivia's age, and the two become close friends--but when the threatening letters start arriving from the "Sentry of Glennon Heights" the two girls realize that the house and town are hiding sinister secrets, which could tear their...
22) Boy21
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After committing suicide just before high school graduation, Ellie Walker haunts her home and school, reflecting on her life of domestic violence, friendship with August, and dreams of a writing career. Includes list of resources for people in crisis.
24) The Outsiders
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society. When it was first published in 1967, The Outsiders defied convention with its immediate, deeply sympathetic portrayal of Ponyboy and his struggle to find a place for himself in a difficult world. Thirty years later, it speaks to teenagers as powerfully as ever. Puffin is proud to publish...
25) Firewall
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Josh discovers a virtual town that is eerily similar to his own."--
Josh is a gamer. After his parents' divorce and his move from Chicago to a small town where he doesn't know anybody, he copes by staying up way too late playing Killswitch online. Then he discovers a "mod" version of the game that is an exact reproduction of his new town. Strange things start to happen in the game, and they are somehow...
26) Homeboyz
Author
Series
Hoopster trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When Teddy's little sister, Tina, is gunned down in a drive-by shooting, the gang members who rule the streets in the Anderson family's rapidly deteriorating neighborhood dismiss the indcident as just another case of RP, RT -- wrong place, wrong time. While the Anderson family mourns, Teddy plots revenge. He is arrested for attempted homicide and thrown in to the dark reality of California's juvenile prisons, his plans for revenge foiled. An innovative...
Author
Series
Murder Complex series volume 2
Description
With short, fast-paced, alternating point-of-view chapters, The Death Code starts several weeks after The Murder Complex ends. Zephyr keeps the secret about Meadow close that if she dies, The Murder Complex will be destroyed, too. Meadow, desperate to find her brother, father, and little sister, is determined to fight fearlessly to the end, even if it means sacrificing herself and her friends, new and old. The Death Code introduces a memorable cast...
Author
Pub. Date
2005, c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Later, I would think of it as crossing over. From a known territory into an unknown. From a place where people know you to a place where people only think they know you. It began with me a year ago this past July. A few weeks after my fourteenth birthday. When Freaky Green Eyes came into my heart. When her parents separate, Franky Pierson has no trouble deciding whose side she's on. After all, her mother is the one who chose to leave. And when...
30) Bog child
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles," eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.
Author
Series
Birthright (Gabrielle Zevin) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
In 2083, seventeen-year-old Anya Balanchine seeks a way to make Balanchine Chocolate legitimate, and although a trip to Mexico gives her new insights and ideas, escaping her mobster family's legacy of violence may prove impossible.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Badly injured, fourteen-year-old Blade must continue to use his exceptional "street smarts" and waning strength to outsmart dangerous thugs while he considers surrendering to the police to face the consequences of a past he has tried to forget.
34) Past forgiving
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Fifteen-year-old Alexandra finds that her boyfriend Cliff demands all her time, isolates her by his jealousy, and finally becomes physically abusive.
35) Lost and found
Author
Series
Bluford series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"'Someone is stalking me!'...Darcy Wills is in big trouble. And she does not know where to turn for help. First there was the mysterious stranger who started following her. Then there was the threatening note left on her desk at Bluford High School. And now her sister has disappeared. Forced into a desperate race against time, Darcy must take action to save her sister--and her fragile family--before it is too late"--Book description.
38) The pack
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Akhil Vyas, a new boy in school, reluctantly decides that in order to prevent a violent crime, he must tell Omar and Becky his secret.
39) If I grow up
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Growing up in the inner-city projects, DeShawn is reluctantly forced into the gang world by circumstances beyond his control.
40) Leverage
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
High school sophomore Danny excels at gymnastics but is bullied, like the rest of the gymnasts, by members of the football team, until an emotionally and physically scarred new student joins the football team and forms an unlikely friendship with Danny.