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Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A love story spanning the history of two teenagers' lives and all the moments when if one little thing had been different, their futures would have been together instead of apart.
Author
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Atria Books trade paperback ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
317 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Layken struggles with holding her family together after her father dies, until she develops a relationship with her new neighbor, Will, who has a passion for poetry slams and gives her a new sense of hope.
3) Dear Martin
Author
Series
Dear Martin volume 1
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
210 pages : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Justyce McAllister is top of his class at Braselton Prep, captain of the debate team, and set for an Ivy League school next year--but none of that matters to the police officer who just put him in handcuffs. He's eventually released without charges (or an apology), but the incident rattles him. Despite leaving his rough neighborhood, he can't seem to escape the scorn of his former peers or the attitude of his new classmates. The only exception: Sarah...
4) In limbo
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Set between New Jersey and Seoul, this coming-of-age story follows the author as she goes to South Korea, where she realizes something that changes her perspective on her family, her heritage and herself"--
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Set against the backdrop of Tehran and Los Angeles, this sweeping intergenerational story, examining queer identity at the end of different decades, follows three boys in the same Iranian family as they each gain a new understanding of their history, culture--and themselves.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
390 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Based on the author's grandmother's true experiences during the Holocaust in Romania, this harrowing story follows Rieke Teitler as she must decide whether holding on to her life might mean letting go of everything that has ever mattered to her.
Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When brothers Max and Jay help a classmate in trouble, they struggle with the consequences of their violent actions and worry they may be more like their abusive father than they thought, so the brothers turn to their Bribri roots to find their way forward.
8) Damned
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
416 pages
Language
English
10) Forever is now
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When sixteen-year-old Sadie, a Black bisexual recluse, develops agoraphobia the summer before her junior year, she relies on her best friend, family, and therapist to overcome her fears.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury YA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
341 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Jade Nguyen arrives in Vietnam for a visit with her estranged father, she has one goal: survive five weeks pretending to be a happy family in the French colonial house Ba is restoring. She’s always lied to fit in, so if she’s straight enough, Vietnamese enough, American enough, she can get out with the college money he promised.
But the house has other plans. Night after night, Jade wakes up paralyzed. The walls exude a thrumming sound, while...
Author
Series
The Tiger saga volume 1
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
�2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Oregon teenager Kelsey forms a bond with a circus tiger who is actually one of two brothers, Indian princes Ren and Kishan, who were cursed to live as tigers for eternity, and she travels with him to India where the tiger's curse may be broken once and for all.
14) The great hunt
Author
Series
Eurona duology volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
406, 11 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a savage beast attacks in Eurona, the king proclaims that whoever kills the creature will win the hand of his daughter, Princess Aerity. Things get complicated when Aerity grows fond of hunter Paxton Seabolt.
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Meredith's family's annual game of assassin at Martha's Vineyard during a summer wedding is the perfect chance to honor her sister's legacy, and finally join the world again. But when she forms an alliance with a cute groomsman, she's at risk of losing both the game ... and her heart.
When Meredith Fox lost her sister, Claire, eighteen months ago, she shut everyone out. But this summer she's determined to join the world again.
The annual family...
16) Ten
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
294 pages : 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten teens. Three days. One killer.
It was supposed to be the weekend of their lives—an exclusive house party on Henry Island. Best friends Meg and Minnie are looking forward to two days of boys, booze, and fun-filled luxury. But what starts out as fun turns twisted after the discovery of a DVD with a sinister message: Vengeance is mine. And things only get worse from there.
With a storm raging outside, the teens are cut off from the outside world...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
l, 235 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of four seekers who arrive at a notoriously unfriendly place called Hill House: Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of a "haunting;' Theodora, his lighthearted assistant; Eleanor, a friendless, fragile young woman well acquainted with poltergeists; and Luke, the future heir of Hill House. At first, their stay seems destined to be merely a spooky encounter with inexplicable phenomena. But Hill House is gathering its...
Author
Series
Red queen volume 4
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 29
Physical Desc
662 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Resolved to overthrow the kingdom of Norta, Mare must side with the boy who broke her heart, while King Maven, vows to have Mare as his own.
Author
Series
Red queen volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
444 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The electrifying next installment in the Red Queen series escalates the struggle between the growing rebel army and the blood-segregated world they've always known -- and pits Mare against the darkness that has grown in her soul. Mare Barrow's blood is red -- the color of common folk -- but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
234 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Thien's first memory isn't a sight or a sound. It's the sweetness of watermelon and the saltiness of fish. It's the taste of the foods he ate while adrift at sea as his family fled Vietnam.
After the Pham family arrives at a refugee camp in Thailand, they struggle to survive. Things don't get much easier once they resettle in California. And through each chapter of their lives, food takes on a new meaning. Strawberries come to signify struggle as...