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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A gang leader's son finds his effort to go straight for the sake of his child challenged by a loved one's brutal murder, in a poignant exploration of Black coming-of-age set seventeen years before the events of the award-winning 'The Hate U Give'"--
Author
Series
The maze cutter volume 1
Publisher
Akashic Media Enterprises
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"70 years after the events of THE DEATH CURE, when Thomas and other immunes were sent to an island to survive the Flare-triggered apocalypse, their descendants have thrived. But when a rusty old boat shows up one day with a woman bearing dark news of the mainland, a group of the islanders decide to embark back to civilization. There they find that many have evolved into a more violent, intelligent version of Cranks due to a new string of the virus,...
Author
Series
Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children volume 6th
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face. Suddenly, he and Noor are back in the place where everything began--his grandfather's house. Jacob doesn't know how they escaped from V's loop to find themselves in Florida. But he does know one thing for certain: Caul has returned. Risen from the Library of Souls and more powerful than ever, Caul and his apocalyptic agenda seem unstoppable. Only one hope remains--deliver...
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1682 France, Cendrillion, to escape her wicked stepmother, must compete with the other women at court for the Prince's favor, forcing her to decide if she can bear losing the boy she loves in order to leave a life she hates.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Four years ago, Brynn left Saint Ambrose School following the shocking murder of her favorite teacher--a story that made headlines after the teacher's body was found by three Saint Ambrose students in the woods behind their school. The case was never solved. Now that Brynn is moving home and starting her dream internship at a true-crime show, she's determined to find out what really happened. The kids who found Mr. Larkin are her way in, and her ex-best...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In the year following their son's death, May Chen's parents face racist accusations of putting too much pressure on their son and causing his death by suicide, and May attempts to challenge the racism and ugly stereotypes through her writing, only to realize that she still has a lot to learn and that her actions have consequences for her family as well as herself.
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.
9) Here's to us
Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Ben survived freshman year of college, but he's feeling more stuck than ever. His classes are a slog, his part-time job working with his father is even worse, and his best friend Dylan's been acting weird for weeks. Ben's only real bright spot is his writing partner Mario, who's been giving him a lot of Spanish lessons and even more kisses. Mario's big Hollywood dreams make Ben start to dream bigger--and the choices he makes now could be the key to...
Author
Series
One of us is lying volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A member of the Bayview Crew disappears and everyone feels like they could be next, but the situation suddenly worsens when someone unexpectedly returns to Bayview.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hazel Sinnett is a medical student in 19th century Scotland who, after being kicked out because of her gender, works with new attractive acquaintance Jack Currer to procure dead bodies to study, but they soon discover secrets buried in the heart of Edinburgh society.
Author
Series
To all the boys I've loved before volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Lara Jean keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren't love letters that anyone else wrote for her, these are the ones she's written. One for every boy she's ever loved--five in all. When she writes, she can pour out her heart and soul and say all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are mailed, and suddenly Lara Jean's love life goes from imaginary...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Attending an elite prep school in Connecticut on a scholarship with his best friend (and secret love) science genius Delaney Doyle, sixteen-year-old Cash Pruitt, from a small town in East Tennessee, struggles with emotional pain and loss until his English teacher suggests writing poetry.
14) Punching the air
Author
Publisher
Balzer & Bray
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
386 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. The story that I thought was my life didn't start on the day I was born. Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a...
15) Hollow fires
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After discovering the body of fourteen-year-old Jawad Ali in Jackson Park, seventeen-year-old journalism student Safiya Mirza begins investigating his murder and ends up confronting white supremacy in her own high school.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.
17) Midnight Sun
Author
Series
Twilight saga volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 37
Language
English
Description
The story of Bella and Edward from "Twilight" told from Edward's point of view takes on a new and decidedly dark twist. Meeting Bella is both the most unnerving and intriguing event he has experienced in all his years as a vampire. As we learn more fascinating details about Edward's past and the complexity of his inner thoughts, we understand why this is the defining struggle of his life. How can he justify following his heart if it means leading...
18) Cursed
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Adalheid Castle is in chaos.
Following a shocking turn of events, Serilda finds herself ensnared in a deadly game of make-believe with the Erlking, who is determined to propel her deeper into the castle’s lies. Meanwhile, Serilda is determined to work with Gild to help him solve the mystery of his forgotten name and past.
But soon it becomes clear that the Erlking doesn’t only want to use Serilda to bring back his one true love. He also seeks...