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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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It is 1998, the year in which America is whipped into a frenzy of prurience by the impeachment of a president, and in a small New England town, an aging classics professor, Coleman Silk, is forced to retire when his colleagues decree that he is a racist. The charge is a lie, but the real truth about Silk would have astonished his most virulent accuser. Coleman Silk has a secret. But it's not the secret of his affair, at seventy-one, with Faunia Farley,...
2) Girl mans up
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"In Ontario, Pen is a sixteen-year-old girl who looks like a boy. She's fine with it, but everyone else is uncomfortable--especially her Portuguese immigrant parents and her manipulative neighbor who doesn't want her to find a group of real friends"--
Author
Series
Janie Johnson volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Switched at birth by a young slave woman attempting to protect her son from the horrors of slavery, a light-skinned infant changes places with the master's white son. This simple premise is the basis of Pudd'nhead Wilson, a compelling drama that contains all the elements of a classic 19th-century mystery: reversed identities, a ghastly crime, an eccentric detective, and a tense courtroom scene.
First published in 1894, Twain's novel bristles with...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The members of two families have their lives disrupted when a teenage girl who had been kidnapped twelve years earlier discovers that the people who raised her are not her biological parents. Sequel to "The Face on the Milk Carton."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Following her parents' bitter divorce as she and her father move from town to town, seventeen-year-old Mclean reinvents herself at each school she attends until she is no longer sure she knows who she is or where she belongs.
7) Dreamland
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.
Author
Series
Princess diaries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Having recently discovered she is the sole heir to the throne of a tiny European principality, fourteen-year-old Manhattan resident Mia writes in her journal about her attempts to cope with this news, as well as with more typical teenage concerns.
Author
Series
Princess diaries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.
10) King Dork
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
High school loser Tom Henderson discovers that "The Catcher in the Rye" may hold the clues to the many mysteries in his life.
11) Candor
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
For a fee, "model teen" Oscar Banks has been secretly--and selectively-- sabotaging the subliminal messages that program the behavior of the residents of Candor, Florida, until his attraction to a rebellious new girl threatens to expose his subterfuge.
12) Paranormalcy
Author
Series
Paranormalcy trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a dark prophecy begins to come true, sixteen-year-old Evie of the International Paranormal Containment Agency must not only try to stop it, she must also uncover its connection to herself and the alluring shapeshifter, Lend.
13) Supernaturally
Author
Series
Paranormalcy trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Evie thinks she has left the International Paranormal Containment Agency, and her own paranormal activities, behind her when she is recruited to help at the Agency, where she discovers more about the dark faerie prophecy that threatens her future.
14) Princess in love
Author
Series
Princess diaries volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a series of humorous diary entries, a New York City ninth grader agonizes over her love life, final exams, and future role as the princess of Genovia.
15) Endlessly
Author
Series
Paranormalcy trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Evie is forced to face the truth about her supernatural past when a deadly faerie battle threatens the future of the entire paranormal world"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
While spending a summer at the family lake house, eighteen-year-old Sawyer finally learns the full truth about her complicated family.
Sawyer Taft joined Southern high society for one reason only: to identify and locate her biological father. But the answers Sawyer found only left her with more questions-- and one potentially life-ruining secret. When her cousin Lily ropes her into pledging a mysterious, elite, and all-female secret society called...
Author
Series
Saints and misfits novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Janna Yusuf, a Flannery O'Connor-obsessed book nerd and the daughter of the only divorced mother at their mosque, tries to make sense of the events that follow when her best friend's cousin--a holy star in the Muslim community--attempts to assault her at the end of sophomore year.
Author
Series
Sunbearer duology volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Transgender demigod Teo is unexpectedly selected for the Sunbearer Trials, a fierce competition among demigod heroes where the winner sacrifices the loser to Sol, their blood fueling the Sun Stones that protect Reino del Sol.
20) As I wake
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ava awakens with amnesia and a feeling that something is wrong with her life, her mother, and her friends but when the mysterious Morgan appears, her flashbacks of life as a spy for a shady government agency begin to make sense.