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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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When Travis returns home from Afghanistan, his parents are splitting up, his brother has stolen his girlfriend and car, and he has nightmares of his best friend getting killed but when he runs into Harper, a girl who has despised him since middle school, life actually starts looking up.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever.
4) Misfit
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Seattle sixteen-year-old Jael must negotiate normal life in Catholic school while learning to control the abilities she inherited from her mother, a demon, and protect those she loves from Belial, the Duke of Hell.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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The Voss family live in a repurposed church; the once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother's former nurse, the little half-brother isn't allowed to do or eat anything fun, and the eldest siblings are irritatingly perfect. Merit Voss collects trophies she hasn't earned and secrets her family forces her to keep. She meets Sagan, wit and unapologetic-- and completely unavailable. Merit decides to shatter their...
6) Texas gothic
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Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Amy Goodnight has long been the one who makes her family of witches seem somewhat normal to others, but while spending a summer with her sister caring for their aunt's farm, Amy becomes the center of weirdness when she becomes tied to a powerful ghost.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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First published in 1899, this beautiful, brief novel so disturbed critics & the public that it was banished for decades afterward. Now widely read & admired, The Awakening has been hailed as an early vision of woman's emancipation. This sensuous book tells of a woman's abandonment of her family, her seduction, & her awakening to desires & passions that threatened to consumer her. Originally entitled "A Solitary Soul," this portrait of twenty-eight-year-old...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"Los Angeles, 1992. It's the end of senior year and Ashley Bennett and her friends are spending more time at the beach than in the classroom. When four LAPD officers are acquitted after beating a black man named Rodney King half to death, violent protests engulf LA and the city burns. Ashley tries to continue on as if life were normal; her self-destructive sister gets dangerously involved in the riots. The model black family façade her wealthy and...
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Dark elements volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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One kiss could be the last. Seventeen year old Layla just wants to be normal. But with a kiss that kills anything with a soul, she's anything but normal. Half demon, half gargoyle, Layla has abilities no one else possesses. Raised among the Wardens, a race of gargoyles tasked with hunting demons and keeping humanity safe, Layla tries to fit in, but that means hiding her own dark side from those she loves the most. Especially Zayne, the swoon worthy,...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Freddy's deaf stepbrother Roland is a major geek, and her genius little sister Mel is training to be the next Sherlock Holmes. All Freddy wants is to survive high school. When Cuerva Lachance and Josiah move in next door, they definitely aren't normal. Neither is their house, which defies the laws of physics. Neither is Freddy's situation, when she suddenly finds herself stuck thousands of years in the past with her very, very weird neighbors. And...
11) Star daughter
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Shveta Thakrar's prose is as beautiful as starlight. -New York Times bestselling author Holly Black This gorgeously imagined YA debut blends shades of Neil Gaiman's Stardust and a breathtaking landscape of Hindu mythology into a radiant contemporary fantasy. The daughter of a star and a mortal, Sheetal is used to keeping secrets. Pretending to be normal. But when an accidental flare of her starfire puts her human father in the hospital, Sheetal needs...
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Simon Snow volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Simon, Baz, Penelope, and Agatha return to England, back to the Watford School of Magicks, and back to their families for a final adventure.
Simon must decide whether he still wants to be part of the World of Mages-- and if he doesn't, what does that mean for his relationship with Baz? Meanwhile Baz is bouncing between two family crises and not finding any time to talk to anyone about his newfound vampire knowledge. Penelope would love to help, but...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Aster, caught between a self-absorbed older sister and a mentally-disabled younger one, yearns for a normal life and, with her first boyfriend's encouragement and trust in God, she begins to make things better.
14) Eleven on top
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Hoping to discontinue her career as a bounty hunter for something safer, Stephanie Plum is inadvertently drawn into a case that is complicated by her tangled love life, her chaotic family, and her penchant for wrecking cars.
15) Skylark
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Angie lives in an old car with her brother and mother. Homeless after their father left to find work, the family struggles to stay together and live as normally as possible. It is difficult though. Between avoiding the police and finding new places to park each night, it is a constant struggle. When Angie discovers slam poetry, she finds a new way to express herself and find meaning and comfort in a confusing world.
16) The lake house
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
Out in the world for the first time since escaping horrifying goverment 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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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"In this sequel to the New York Times bestseller 99 Days, perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Morgan Matson, Molly Barlow finds herself in Europe on her summer vacation, desperately trying to forget everything that happened a year ago. But over the course of nine days and nine nights, her whole life will be turned upside down once more . . . Molly Barlow isn't that girl anymore. A business major at her college in Boston, she's reinvented herself after...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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"This stunning new novel is Jodi Picoult at her finest--complete with unflinching insights, richly layered characters, and a page-turning plot with a gripping moral dilemma at its heart. Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she's been reassigned to another patient. The parents...
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