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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Language
English
Description
Adam, now a rising rock star, and Mia, a successful cellist, reunite in New York and reconnect after the horrific events that tore them apart when Mia almost died in a car accident three years earlier.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
After being acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finds himself forced to face his past as he learns more about his strange young cousin Lily.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
Having trespassed and explored the empty Hutchinson mansion, which seems haunted by the presence of a long-dead young girl, sixth-grader Neely and her little brother become regular visitors when emotionally disturbed Curtis Hutchinson moves inches.
5) Speak
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Speak up for yourself - we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows that this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only...
Author
Series
Middle school novels volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
When Rafe Khatchadorian enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.
8) The crossing
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1150L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Manny, a street kid fighting for survival in a Mexican border town, develops a strange friendship with an emotionally disturbed American soldier who decides to help him get across the border.
9) Amandine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Her first week at a new school, shy, plain Delia befriends Amandine, not anticipating the dangerous turns their friendship would take.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Already a leader in New York's underground world of homeless children, Buddy Clark takes on the responsibility of protecting the overweight, emotionally disturbed friend with whom he has been playing hooky from eighth grade all semester.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
DON’T MISS THE BOOK BEHIND THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!
In the hilarious and awkward start to this #1 mega-bestselling series, beloved misfit Rafe Khatchadorian takes on his first year of middle school…by breaking all the rules!
Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily, he's got a foolproof plan for the best year ever, if...
In the hilarious and awkward start to this #1 mega-bestselling series, beloved misfit Rafe Khatchadorian takes on his first year of middle school…by breaking all the rules!
Rafe Khatchadorian has enough problems at home without throwing his first year of middle school into the mix. Luckily, he's got a foolproof plan for the best year ever, if...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Blaming herself for the car accident on the Tappan Zee Bridge that killed her mother, fifteen-year-old Jenna undergoes a difficult physical and emotional recovery. Includes a biographical sketch, interview with the author about this work, and a scene deleted from the original manuscript.
13) Time bomb
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
"Six students are trapped in their school after a bomb goes off, and must fight to survive while discovering who among them is the bomber"--
14) Trouble
Author
Publisher
Simon & Shuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
"When Aaron willingly signs on to be the pretend father of Hannah's unborn baby, he is looking for redemption from a past that has a stranglehold on him. Hannah, more simply, needs support in the absence of the real father, but she'll discover so much more"--
15) After the woods
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Description
"On the eve of the year anniversary of the Shiverton Abduction, two former best friends grapple with the consequences of that event"--
?Statistically speaking, girls like me don?t come back when guys? like Donald Jessup take us.? Julia knows she beat the odds. She escaped the kidnapper who hunted her in the woods for two terrifying nights that she can?t fully remember. Now it?s one year, and a dead girl turns up in those same woods. The terrible...
16) Pictures of Adam
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Lisa, a talented amateur photographer, becomes involved in a bittersweet relationship with an emotionally disturbed boy when she does a photo essay on his run-down home up in the hills.
17) The empty summer
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[1993]
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
Maggie, an insecure fifteen-year-old, is drawn into an obsessive friendship with Kimberley, a beautiful but troubled young model.
18) One more flight
Author
Publisher
Frederick Warne
Pub. Date
1976.
Language
English
Description
Unable to adjust to foster homes and the Residential Center, an emotionally disturbed boy runs away and is befriended by a man who cares for wounded birds.
19) Hate list
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.
20) Blink & Caution
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Description
Two teenagers who are living on the streets and barely getting by become involved in a complicated criminal plot, and make an unexpected connection with each other.