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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being involved in a drunk driving accident in the spring, Paige Sheridan spends the summer in Paris as an au-pair and then returns to her suburban Iowa existence for her senior year of high school, where she begins to wonder if she wants more out life than being popular, having a handsome boyfriend and all the latest clothes, and being a member of the social elite.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
The daily class discussions about the nature of man, the existence of God, abortion, organized religion, suicide and other contemporary issues serve as a backdrop for a high-school senior's attempt to answer a friend's dramatic cry for help.
83) Piper Perish
Author
Series
Piper Perish volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Piper Perish and her two friends, Kit and Enzo, have long planned on getting out of Houston and going to art school in New York City together, but halfway through their senior year Enzo breaks up with her at a dance in the most public, spectacular, and embarrassing manner possible--and suddenly Piper is faced with a series of life and relationship changing events that threaten her dream.
84) The fallen
Author
Series
Bluford series volume 11
Publisher
Townsend Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
This sequel to Brothers in Arms picks up the story of Martin Luna as he struggles to rebuild his life after the death of his little brother. In trouble at Bluford High School for fighting, Martin faces an even bigger problem at home: Frankie, the most feared homeboy from his neighborhood, is hunting him.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gabi Hernandez chronicles her senior year in high school as she copes with her friend Cindy's pregnancy, friend Sebastian's coming out, her father's meth habit, her own cravings for food and cute boys, and especially, the poetry that helps forge her identity.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
What if you aren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death? What if you're like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again. Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world, and sometimes...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At the start of their senior year in high school, James (a girl with a boy's name) and Kat are inseparable, but by graduation, they're no longer friends. James prepares to head off to college as she reflects on the dissolution of her friendship with Kat while, in alternating chapters, Kat thinks about being newly in love and having a future that feels wide open"--
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adam not only is trying to understand his OCD, while trying to balance his relationship with his divorced parents, but he's also trying to navigate through the issues that teenagers normally face, namely the perils of young love.
89) Game
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing college, then professional, basketball, he will have to improve at being coached and being a team player, especially after a new--white--student threatens to take the scouts' attention away from him.
Author
Series
Pretty little liars volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Struggling to return to normalcy after surviving Alison's attempt to kill them, Spencer, Aria, Emily and Hanna endure a series of disasters before realizing that they are being stalked by a new "A" who knows all of their secrets.
Author
Series
Bookish boyfriends volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Boys are so much better in books. At least according to Merrilee Campbell, fifteen, who thinks real-life chivalry is dead and there'd be nothing more romantic than having a guy woo her like the heroes in classic stories. Then she, her best friend, Eliza, and her younger sister, Rory, transfer to Reginald R. Hero Prep—where all the boys look like they've stepped off the pages of a romance novel. Merri can hardly walk across the quad
...92) Slide
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vee Bell, able to slide into other people's minds, sees someone standing over the body of her sister's best friend, Sophie, holding a bloody knife but she is afraid that anyone she tells will think her crazy and so she must find a way to identify the killer herself, before he or she strikes again.
93) Crash into you
Author
Series
Pushing the limits volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"[A] good girl with a reckless streak, a street-smart guy with nothing to lose, and a romance forged in the fast lane. The girl with straight As, designer clothes and the perfect life-- that's who people expect Rachel Young to be. So the private-school junior keeps secrets from her wealthy parents and overbearing brothers-- and she's just added two more to the list. One involves racing strangers down dark country roads in her Mustang GT. The other?...
94) Dare you to
Author
Series
Pushing the limits volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forced to choose between her mom's freedom and her own happiness, skater girl Beth Risks moves in with an aunt. At her new school friends of Ryan Stone, a popular baseball jock, dare him to ask Beth out on a date. What follows is an intense attraction that neither Ryan nor Beth expected.
Author
Series
Heartstopper volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Charlie and Nick's relationship has been going really well, and Charlie thinks he's ready to say those three little words: I love you. Nick feels the same way, but he's got a lot on his mind -- especially the thought of coming out to his dad and the fact that Charlie might have an eating disorder. As a new school year begins, Charlie and Nick will have to learn what love really means."-- cover page 4.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After failing to come to Belinda's aid while she was being attacked, Emily and another classmate are punished by being forced to work at a community center for people with disabilities, but they are put the ultimate test when Belinda finally returns to school and they must find a way to make amends to her"--
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.
98) The cheerleaders
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As a town prepares for the anniversary of the deaths of five cheerleaders who were killed in three separate, horrific accidents, two teens uncover long-buried truths about what really happened years ago"--
99) P.S. I like you
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Every day in chemistry class, high school student and aspiring songwriter Lily Abbott is finding notes left to her by a mystery boy, love letters really, and she hopes they are from Lucas, a boy she is attracted to--so when she finds out they are really from, she is shocked and unsure about how to respond.
100) We all looked up
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
The lives of four high school seniors intersect weeks before a meteor is set to pass through Earth's orbit, with a 66.6% chance of striking and destroying all life on the planet.
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