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1) The innocent
Author
Series
Will Robie volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents' disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up.
3) Hold tight
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Worrying about their sixteen-year-old son Adam in the wake of a friend's suicide, Tia and Mike Baye install an activity monitor on their son's computer and are alarmed to learn that the suicide victim's mother believes Adam may have been involved.
4) Rogue Lawyer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
On the right side of the law. Sort of. Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver, who's also his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddy. He lives alone in a small but extremely safe penthouse...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
" For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe that she would be abandoned as a young child, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice's old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries...
6) Night road
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
After a string of foster homes and the death of her heroin-addict mother, Lexi Baill is taken in by a newly discovered great-aunt who lives a spartan life near Seattle. Lexi soon meets Mia and her loving twin brother, Zach. The friendship flourishes, and Mia's mother draws Lexi into the family circle. A slowly growing attraction between Zach and Lexi begins, but then Lexi, Mia, and Zach collectively make a bad decision that results in a tragedy with...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"When 13-year-old Jace Wilson witnesses a brutal murder, he's plunged into a new life, issued a false identity and hidden in a wilderness skills program for troubled teens. The plan is to get Jace off the grid while police find the two killers. The result is the start of a nightmare. The killers, known as the Blackwell Brothers, are slaughtering anyone who gets in their way in a methodical quest to reach him. Now all that remains between them and...
8) First love
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Runaways Axi, sixteen, and Robinson, seventeen, who met on a cancer ward, leave small-town Oregon on a cross-country trip to experience the best of life before it is too late.
Author
Series
The women's murder club volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Lindsay Boxer's long awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a badly injured teenage girl is left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals, but that the victim may be keeping secrets as well. At the same time, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is prosecuting the biggest case of her...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
viii, 230 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author reveals the story of his struggle through the challenges of adolescence, detailing the taunting he endured from bullies, the joys of making his first real friends, and his quest to escape his difficult home life.
11) Asking for it
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's the beginning of the summer in a small town in Ireland. Emma O'Donovan is eighteen years old, beautiful, happy, confident. One night, there's a party. Everyone is there. All eyes are on Emma. The next morning, she wakes on the front porch of her house. She can't remember what happened, she doesn't know how she got there. She doesn't know why she's in pain. But everyone else does. Photographs taken at the party show, in explicit detail, what happened...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Story of Holden Caufield with his idiosyncrasies, penetrating insight, confusion, sensitivity and negativism. The hero-narrator of "The Catcher in the Rye" is an ancient child of sixteen, a native New Yorker named Holden Caulfield. Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex...
13) If only
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Simon Pulse paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents an inspirational tale of hope, love, and faith set during the holiday season of 1962, as portrayed in the lost innocence of a young girl running away from her abusive stepfather and a boy determined to protect her.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Out in the world for the first time since escaping horrifying government experiments, six children make their way toward the Lake House in the hope of being reunited with Kit and Frannie, a couple who once saved their lives.
15) The last song
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father--a former concert pianist and teacher--moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her parents, especially her father ... until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. An unforgettable story of love...
16) Traffick
Author
Series
Tricks volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
First Margaret K. McElderry Books paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
505 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Five teenagers struggle to find their way out of prostitution.
Author
Publisher
Balzer & Bray
Pub. Date
c2019
Edition
First Edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
413 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's 1989 in New York City, and for three teens, the world is changing. Reza is an Iranian boy who has just moved to the city with his mother to live with his stepfather and stepbrother. He's terrified that someone will guess the truth he can barely acknowledge about himself. Reza knows he's gay, but all he knows of gay life are the media's images of men dying of AIDS. Judy is an aspiring fashion designer who worships her uncle Stephen, a gay man...
18) The dysasters
Author
Series
Dysasters volume 1
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
P.C. and Kristin Cast return to the scene with The Dysasters, the first action-packed novel in a new paranormal fantasy series. Adoptive daughter of a gifted scientist, Foster Stewart doesn't live a "normal" life, (not that she'd want to). But controlling cloud formations and seeing airwaves aren't things most eighteen-year-olds can do. Small town star quarterback and quintessential dreamy boy next door, Tate "Nighthawk" Taylor has never thought much...
Author
Series
Dark artifices volume 2
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2017
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 34
Physical Desc
699 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Downworlders turn against the Clave, a new threat arises in the form of the Lord of Shadows, the Unseelie King, who sends his greatest warriors to slaughter those with Blackthorn blood and seize the Black Volume.
Author
Publisher
Yen Press, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
170 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Called in to investigate mass fish die-offs and the destruction of ships off the coast of Hawaii, Max and her team are tracked by criminal mastermind Mr. Chu, who has his own plans for the team.