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Author
Series
Way I used to be volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eden was always good at being good. Band geek, book nerd. Starting high school didn't change that. But the night her brother's best friend rapes her, Eden's whole world capsizes. What was once simple is now complex. What Eden once loved -- who she loved -- she now hates. What she believed was the truth, now lies. Nothing makes sense anymore, and she's never felt so alone in her life. She knows she's supposed to tell someone what happened but she can't....
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Newly involved in his daughter's life shortly after she suffered a breakdown, Lucas takes the teen on a trip to Europe in the hopes that an immersion in regional history and culture will help her forget his past mistakes and her uncertain future.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school--six stories above the ground--it's unclear who saves whom. Soon it's only with Violet that Finch can be himself. And it's only with Finch that Violet forgets to count away the days and starts living them. But as Violet's world grows, Finch's begins to shrink... All the bright place is a heart-wrenching, unflinching story of love shared, life lived, and two teens who find each other...
Author
Series
If I stay volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adam, now a rising rock star, and Mia, a successful cellist, reunite in New York and reconnect after the horrific events that tore them apart when Mia almost died in a car accident three years earlier.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While she is in a rehabilitation facility for drug and alcohol abuse, seventeen-year-old Maddie meets Stewart, who is also in treatment, and they begin a relationship, which they try to maintain after they both get out.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Rosaline knows that she and Rob are destined to be together. Rose has been waiting for years for Rob to kiss her—and when he finally does, it’s perfect. But then Juliet moves back to town. Juliet, who used to be Rose’s best friend. Juliet, who now inexplicably hates her. Juliet, who is gorgeous, vindictive, and a little bit wild...and who has set her sights on Rob. He doesn’t even stand a chance. Rose is devastated over losing Rob to Juliet....
Author
Publisher
New Harbinger Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Parents of teens with intense emotions are often unsure how to respond to their child in a compassionate, constructive way. In this important book, two renowed experts in teen mental health offer parents much-needed advice and skills for dealing with their teen's out-of -control emotions using proven-effective dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT). Parenting a teen is difficult enough, but parenting a teen with intense emotions is especially so. This...
12) I am J
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
J, who feels like a boy mistakenly born as a girl, runs away from his best friend who has rejected him and the parents he thinks do not understand him when he finally decides that it is time to be who he really is.
Author
Publisher
Walker Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Jonah and Brighton are about to have the most awkwardly awful night of their lives. For Jonah, every aspect of his new life reminds him of what he has had to give up. All he wants is to be left alone. Brighton is popular, pretty, and always there to help anyone, but has no idea of what she wants for herself"--
14) Blink & Caution
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Two teenagers who are living on the streets and barely getting by become involved in a complicated criminal plot, and make an unexpected connection with each other.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
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.
16) Jellicoe Road
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.
17) The way I am now
Author
Series
Way I used to be volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Eden and Josh reunite as Eden's rape case goes to trial, testing the strength of their relationship amidst the challenges of college life and Eden's pursuit of justice.
"Eden and Josh never had a fair shot at a healthy relationship. When they dated in high school, they each had their own problems getting in the way of the deep connection they felt toward one another. Unbeknownst to Josh, Eden was carrying the burden of a devastating sexual assault,...
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