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Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Thirteen-year-old TJ tries to cope with the emotional upheaval in her life when the father who kidnapped her ten years earlier and raised her under a different identity is injured, and she goes to visit her recently-discovered twin sister, mother, and future stepfather.
43) 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.
44) Looking for JJ
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Seventeen-year-old Alice, released from prison with a new identity after serving six years for murdering a child, tries to keep her anonymity from the British tabloids, while haunted by memories of her past trauma.
45) Draw the dark
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Seventeen-year-old Christian Cage lives with his uncle in Winter, Wisconsin, where his nightmares, visions, and strange paintings draw him into a mystery involving German prisoners of war, a mysterious corpse, and Winter's last surviving Jew.
46) Boy toy
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Description
After five years of fighting his way past flickers of memory about the teacher who molested him and the incident that brought the crime to light, eighteen-year-old Josh gets help in coping with his molestor's release from prison when he finally tells his best friends the whole truth.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"One cold fall day, high school junior Liz Emerson steers her car into a tree. This haunting and heartbreaking story is told by a surprising and unexpected narrator and unfolds in nonlinear flashbacks even as Liz's friends, foes, and family gather at the hospital and Liz clings to life"--
49) Cracked
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When Bull Mastrick and Victor Konig wind up in the same psychiatric ward at age sixteen, each recalls and relates in group therapy the bullying relationship they have had since kindergarten, but also facts about themselves and their families that reveal they have much in common.
50) Nothing special
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Continues the story of Wisconsin teenager and high school football player Felton Reinstein, how he relates to his friends Gus and Aleah and what he does when his little brother Andrew runs away on his way to orchestra camp.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"When Petula de Wilde, who is anything but wild, meets Jacob in their school's dorky art therapy program, his friendship (and something more) helps her overcome intense fears since her sister died. And he has a secret of his own"--
Since her sister's death, Petula de Wilde sees danger in everything. A mandatory art therapy class with a groups of teenage misfits is the worst part of each week. She wants nothing to do with them-- especially Jacob and...
52) Some girls are
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Regina, a high school senior in the popular--and feared--crowd, suddenly falls out of favor and becomes the object of the same sort of vicious bullying that she used to inflict on others, until she finds solace with one of her former victims.
53) Burnout
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Months after coming out of alcohol and drug rehab, high school student Nan wakes up on the subway the day after Halloween wearing a torn Halloween costume, her long hair cut, and "HELP ME" scrawled across her chest, feeling sick and having no idea how she got there.
54) Bait
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Diego keeps getting into trouble because of his explosive temper until he finally finds a probation officer who helps him get to the root of his anger so that he can stop running from his past.
55) What if?
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Josh Baker isn't sure why his brain tells him to do things that other people don't need to do: checking his locker again and again, counting cracks in ceilings, and always needing to finish a song, for starters. He is a talented drummer, a math genius, and he knows everything about rock and roll. Yet, he knows his problems have the power to hurt his family and make him fail at school. When Josh is diagnosed with OCD, it's a blessing and a curse....
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Shavonne, a fierce, desperate seventeen year-old in juvenile lockup, wants to turn her life around before her eighteenth birthday, but corrupt guards, out-of-control girls, and shadows from her past make her task seem impossible.
57) Sea
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Appears on list
Description
Despite recurring nightmares about her mother's death and her own fear of flying, fifteen-year-old Sienna accepts her father's birthday gift to fly to Indonesia with his team of disaster relief workers to help victims of a recent tsunami, never suspecting that this experience will change her life forever.
58) Take me there
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Description
After violating his parole, seventeen-year-old, semi-literate Dylan Dawson drives from California to Texas to try to see his father on death row in an attempt to figure out how his own life has gone so terribly awry.
59) The blue mirror
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Seventeen-year-old loner Maggy Klass, who frequently seeks refuge from her alcoholic mother's apartment by sitting and drawing in a local cafe, becomes involved in a destructive relationship with a charismatic homeless youth named Cole.
60) Heck, superhero
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Abandoned by his mentally ill mother, thirteen-year-old Heck tries to survive on his own as his mind bounces between the superhero character he imagines himself to be and the harsh reality of his life.