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Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Raised in isolation in a post-apocalyptic world, Ami Miles escapes to seek her long-lost mother after her grandfather, knowing she is one of the few surviving women capable of child-bearing, arranges her marriage to a stranger.
4) Unbecoming
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
375 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Life has just become very complicated for seventeen-year-old Katie; her father walked out a year ago, her mother is stressed out, her brother is a "special needs" teenager, and she is caring for the maternal grandmother she has never met, who is suffering from Alzheimer's--and Katie has a secret of her own that she cannot reveal.
5) Lucky Girl
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
High school senior Rosie Fuller struggles to cope with a sexual assault, a new romance, problems with her best friend, and feeling distant from her mother.
6) Star baby
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
179 p.
Language
English
Description
Despite her interfering stage mother, seventeen-year-old Abby, a former child movie star, pursues her dream of becoming an actress in Hollywood during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Margot doesn't know anything about her family, beyond her quiet life with her mother. But she wants more and when she finds a clue that leads her to a town called Phalene, she leaves to investigate. Only Phalene and her family history are full of secrets, some that may prove more dangerous and deadly than Margot ever could have bargained for"--
Author
Series
The Shadow Game volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin Books Teen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
408 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
New Reyens -- the City of Sin -- is no place for a proper young lady like Enne, who had to leave finishing school early to pursue her missing mother with only one name as a clue. When she finds Levi Glaisyer, however, he is not a proper gentleman but a street lord and con man who brings his own troubles and enemies to tangle with hers and catch them both in a dangerous gamble that could mean their lives.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old June is determined to beat her anxiety and become the lion she knows she is, instead of the mouse everyone sees, and with the help of Homer Juarez, the poetry-reciting soccer star, she starts a secret library garden and hatches a plan to make her dreams come true.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
454 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shelby Cooper, nearly eighteen, has been overprotected by her single mother all her life but after a car accident, Shelby's mother steals her away from the hospital, revealing that Shelby's father is not dead, but rather a violent man who promised to hunt them down.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2021 .
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Overweight sixteen-year-old Charlie yearned for her first kiss while her perfect best friend, Amelia, fell in love, so when she finally starts dating and learns the boy asked Amelia out first, she is devastated.
12) Chasing Lucky
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Simon Pulse edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Returning to her historical New England hometown to help run the family bookstore, a budding photographer reconnects with the local bad boy, her former childhood best friend, during a poorly executed act of revenge that lands the wrong person in trouble.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating voices, years after it began, seventeen-year-old Ivy and her mom Dana's shared story comes down to a reckoning among a daughter, a mother, and the dark forces they never should have messed with.
Author
Series
Debutantes volume 1
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighteen-year-old Sawyer accepts her estranged grandmother's bribe to live with her for a year, participate in the debutante season and ball, and possibly meet the father she has never known.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
376 pages, 11 unnumbered page ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, Nadja grows up in war-torn Bosnia in the 1990s and, in the present, refuses to discuss her youth with her daughter, Zara, until both are traumatized by a terrorist attack in Rhode Island.
16) The lost Dreamer
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this fantasy inspired by ancient Mesoamerica, a lineage of seers defiantly resists the shifting patriarchal state that would see them destroyed.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
408 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Xiang and Anh--ages sixteen and seventeen--hunt the South China Sea for the lost treasure of the fabled pirate queen Zheng Yi Sao.
18) Lawless spaces
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
While a highly publicized sexual assault case threatens to destroy her and her mother, sixteen-year-old Mimi Dovewick tries to understand their tense relationship by reaching out to the women of her maternal line through the journals they all kept.
19) Little women
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
An unabridged edition of nineteenth-century American author Louisa May Alcott's novel about four New England sisters who come of age during the Civil War, which also includes discussion questions and activity ideas for reading groups.
20) Salt & Storm
Author
Series
Salt and storm volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Avery Roe wants to take her rightful place as the sea witch of Prince Island. When she foresees her own murder, a harpoon boy named Tane promises to help her change her fate and keep her island safe and prosperous, but salvation will require an unexpected sacrifice"--