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1) The Healer
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Marlena Oliveira has been given an extraordinary gift. She has been given the power to heal. She can cure paralysis, mental illness, even a broken heart. People with all kinds of ailments come from around the world seeking audiences with her, believing her to be a saint. But her power comes at a price. Marlena can't have friends or go to school. She can't date. She can't even touch anyone. The older she gets, the more trapped she feels." -- From...
Author
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"You heard the story on the news. A girl and a boy went into the woods. The girl carried a picnic basket. The boy wore bright yellow running shoes. The girl found her way out, but the boy never did... Everyone thinks they know what happened. Some say Tabby pushed him off that cliff- she didn't even like hiking. She was jealous. She had more than her share of demons. Others think he fell accidentally-she loved Mark. She would never hurt him...even...
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After her born-again boyfriend breaks up with her, CeCe follows him to Jesus camp to win him back, bringing her best friend Paul with her, but when her ex shows up with a new girlfriend, CeCe begins to doubt her opinion about her ex and senses that she may have feelings for Paul.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
308 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Chasing Shadows is a searing look at the impact of one random act of violence. Before: Corey, Holly, and Savitri are one unit-- fast, strong, inseparable. Together they turn Chicago concrete and asphalt into a freerunner's jungle gym, ricocheting off walls, scaling buildings, leaping from rooftop to rooftop. But acting like a superhero doesn't make you bulletproof. After: Holly and Savitri are coming unglued. Holly says she's chasing Corey's killer,...
Author
Series
Iron fey volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
363 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
244 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Enduring racism when her Pakistani family moves to Texas, 17-year-old Zara resolves to keep her head low while her family awaits green-card approval, before a bullying classmate vandalizes her home, leading to a crime that puts Zara's entire future at risk.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda LAB
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Kitty Granger has always known that others consider her peculiar. She hates noise and crowds, tends to fixate on patterns, and often feels acutely aware of her surroundings even as she struggles to interpret the behavior of people around her. As a working-class girl in London's East End, she's spent her whole life learning to hide these traits. Until the day when she notices the mysterious man on the bus and finds herself following...
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Sydney hates to talk (or even think) about sex. She's also fighting a secret battle against depression, and she's sure she'll never have a boyfriend. When her classmate Paul starts texting and sending her nature photos, she is caught off guard by his interest. Always uncomfortable with any talk about sex, Sydney is shocked when her extroverted sister, Abby, announces that she is going to put on The Vagina Monologues at school. Despite...
10) The chaperone
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
435 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In New America, where adolescent girls are not allowed to go out in public alone, 17-year-old Stella, when her chaperone dies under mysterious circumstances, gets a new chaperone who lets her experience real freedom, inspiring her to fight back against the world she knows.
11) Neferet's Curse
Author
Series
Pub. Date
p2013
Language
English
Description
Neferet, the darkly seductive High Priestess, wasn't always a powerful vampyre, but she has always been beautiful. Raised in turn-of-the-century Chicago, her beauty makes her the prey of unwanted attention and abuse, leaving her with scars that will never heal, and a Darkness that will eventually need to find its way out. But when she is Marked and gains strength, both physical and magickal, she turns her anger into power and looks for a way to regain...
12) Pretties
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Upon Tally's sixteenth birthday she undergoes an operation to turn from an ugly duckling into a stunning girl, but she makes a promise just before the surgery to be the guinea pig for a future experiment.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there's a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett's son, Davis. Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective,...
14) The Cerulean
Author
Series
Cerulean volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
483 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Chosen as the sacrifice needed to break the tether that holds her city in the sky to the planet below, Sera feels betrayed, and as things don't go as planned, she finds herself not only fighting for her own life, but the lives of her people as well.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
391 pages : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"There's nothing worse than peaking in high school. Nobody knows that better than Josie Pie. She was kind of a big deal--she dropped out of high school to be a star! But the bigger you are, the harder you fall. And Josie fell. Hard. Ouch. Broadway dream: dead. Meanwhile, her life keeps imploding. Best friend: distant. Boyfriend: busy. Mom: not playing with a full deck? Desperate to escape, Josie gets into reading. Literally. She reads a book and suddenly...
16) If you're lucky
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Determined to clear the fog from her mind in order to uncover the truth about her brother's death, seventeen-year-old Georgia secretly stops taking the medication that keeps away the voices in her head.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Carolyn Lessing moves from New Jersey to Alabama with her mother, she rattles the status quo of the juniors at Adams High. Gorgeous, stylish, a great student and gifted athlete without a mean girl bone in her body Carolyn is gobbled up right away by the school's cliques. She even begins dating a senior, Shane, whose on again/off again girlfriend Brooke becomes Carolyn's bitter romantic rival. When a make-out video of Carolyn and Shane makes...
18) Vita nostra
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Harper Voyager hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
19) Uglies
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all.
20) Lenobia's vow
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
147 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Caught between two separate lives and face-to-face with evil, how far will one girl go to follow her heart? This is the gripping story of Lenobia, Zoey's mysterious riding instructor and one of her closest allies against evil.