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41) Desert slam
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
For spring break, sixteen-year-old Maya travels from Vancouver to Palm Springs to visit her grandparents, soak up the sun and play some tennis. When they surprise her with tickets to the Indian Wells tennis tournament, she can't believe her luck. This is going to be the best vacation ever. But on the way back from the match they get into a fender bender. The other driver suggests they just square up and not involve the police or insurance companies....
42) 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...
43) Identify
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Ethan's new friend Gabe is being harassed for being different than all the other girls."--
44) In plain sight
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
When Megan "Cause Queen" Caliente is detained by police after the protest she organized takes an unexpectred turn, she learns her whole life has been a lie.
45) Pinch me
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
After another night of girls, music and booze, seventeen-year-old pop star Darius Zaire falls out of bed and lands on the cruddy floor of his old bedroom. No mansion, no luxury cars, no platinum records. Now he's just ordinary Darren Zegers. Some kind of nightmare has erased everything that happened to change Darren the dweeb into Darius the multimillionaire. Now Darius has to face an ordinary day in the twelfth grade, suffering through remedial...
46) Up North
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Rob is involved in a violent incident in a northern community."--
Rob Maclean and his mom have moved to a small community in northern Ontario in order to be closer to Rob's imprisoned brother, Adam. One night after a rowdy party, Rob and some friends end up in a van speeding through a First Nations reserve. The driver of the van has a deep hatred for Indigenous people, and he lobs rotten fruit at a group...
47) Impossible
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Jemma witnesses a drive-by shooting but is afraid to speak up because it would mean revealing that she left her infant daughter alone.
49) Shark
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
Seventeen-year-old Mark "Shark" Hewitt is good at playing pool. Really good. When he, his mom and sister move to a new town, Mark immediately seeks out the local pool hall. He loves to play, but even more than that, he just loves hanging out with the regulars. It reminds him of good times with his dad, who is no longer in the picture.
When one of the patrons notices Mark's natural gift for the game, he forces Mark to use his talent for profit. Now...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Jake's friend Maria is the daughter of undocumented immigrants who have been living and working in the country for a long time. But the new government has implemented a crackdown. Maria's parents are detained and quickly sent out of the country. Maria, who was born here, decides to hide out in Jake's basement rather than risk becoming a ward of the state. But when she returns to her old apartment to retrieve her hidden birth certificate, Maria is...
51) The bodyguard
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Ryan Hale, aka Replay, is the most successful running back in his high school's history. With university scouts making him offers he can't refuse, his future seems set. The problem is, Ryan would much rather go to film school. But his dad doesn't want to hear it. His teammates sure don't. He can't afford the application fees anyway. But then a solution appears when Markus, a strange exchange student with outrageous stories about mobsters and hackers,...
52) Crime club
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
In this high-interest novel for teen readers, sixteen-year-old Penny is surprised when her dog digs up a skeleton in the backyard.
53) Cub
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Theo enters a cooking contest and catches the eye of a celebrity restaurant owner."--
54) Girls like me
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"In this high-interest novel for teen readers, sixteen-year-old Emma is raped by a popular boy from school."--
No one believes her. After accepting a ride home, Emma Kennedy is raped by a boy from school. But handsome, popular Ross Schroeder tells everyone that sex was consensual, and Emma is immediately branded a slut. Even Emma's best friend, Jen, doesn't believe Emma's version of events. In fact, she is angry with Emma because she feels betrayed....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Ever since her mom died of Huntington's disease, Logan has been in a permanent state of neutral. Her dad has been depressed and lonely, but Logan is . . . something else. So much so that she doesn't even see that her best friend, Cole, is head over heels in love with her. To make matters worse, Logan's dad is now hosting a bereavement group in their basement. That was Logan's place to escape; it's where she keeps her darkroom and where she and Cole...
57) Watch out
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"In this high-interest novel for teen readers, fifteen-year-old Charlie investigates a series of break-ins in his neighborhood."--
Charlie has to stay home from school to help his brother, who is in a hip-to-toe cast after breaking his leg in a football game. But that means Charlie has time to investigate a series of break-ins that have the whole neighborhood on edge. Who could be behind the thefts, and whose house will be next? As Charlie tries...
58) Blood sport
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Jason is determined to find out the truth about his sisters death."--
60) Hey Jude
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, seventeen-year-old Penny tries to balance the last year of high school, a new romance, and looking after her sister with mental health issues."--