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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Sixty seconds. Seven floors. Three rules. One gun.
Will's older brother, Shawn, has been shot. Dead. Will feels a sadness so great he can't explain it. But in his neighborhood there are THE RULES: No. 1: Crying. Don't. No matter what. No. 2: Snitching. Don't. No matter what. No. 3: Revenge. Do. No matter what.
But bullets miss. You can get the wrong guy. And there's always someone else who knows to follow the rules.
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
239 pages cm
Language
English
Description
"Canadian teenager travels to China to explore her ancestry and search for her birth mother in a dramatic and moving YA novel. Throwaway Daughter tells the dramatic and moving story of Grace Dong-mei Parker, whose biggest concern is how to distill her adoption from China into the neat blanks of her personal history assignment. Aside from the unwelcome reminders of difference, Grace loves passing for the typical Canadian teen until the day she witnesses...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Reeling from the death of her cousin, Hannah concocts a risky plan to enroll in her cousin's elite private school and find who gave her the lethal pills, but the deeper Hannah goes the more she risks losing everything.
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
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"During her freshman year at college, Anna Xu investigates the unsolved on-campus murder of her former babysitter, as she and an old rival have to team up to look into the hate crimes happening around campus"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Yasmin Trevino didn't have much of a freshman year thanks to Hurricane Humphrey, but she's ready to take sophomore year by storm. That means mastering the marching side of marching band--fast!--so she can outshine her BFF Sofia as top of the flute section, earn first chair, and impress both her future college admission boards and her comfortably unattainable drum major crush Gilberto Reyes. But Yasmin steps off on the wrong foot when she reports...
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sam is only fifteen but he and his autistic older brother, Avery, have been abandoned by every relative he's ever known. Now Sam's trying to build a new life for them. He survives by breaking into empty houses when their owners are away, until one day he's caught out when a family returns home. To his amazement this large, chaotic family takes him under their wing. Sam finds himself inextricably caught up in their life, and falling for the beautiful...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ocean Wu moves to New York City to start college, but she defers her enrollment, keeping it a secret from her immigrant mother, and instead uses the time to deal with her ambivalence about her place in the world.
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
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...
14) Cinder & glass
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.
15) Secrets so deep
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Avril Vincent returns to an exclusive theater camp to uncover the truth of what happened when her mother drowned there twelve years ago.
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
Series
One of us is lying volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's been almost two years since Simon died in detention, and the aftermath has been hard to shake. First the Bayview Four had to prove they weren't killers. Then a new generation outwitted a vengeful copycat. Now the entire Bayview Crew is back home for the summer, and everyone is trying to move on.
Only, this is Bayview, and life is never that simple.
At first the mysterious billboard seems like a bad joke: Time for a name game, Bayview. But when...
18) Chasing Lucky
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.
19) 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
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...