Catalog Search Results
2) Swagger
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
High school senior point guard Jonas Dolan is on the fast track to a basketball career until an unthinkable choice puts his future on the line.
3) Period 8
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Period 8 has always been a safe haven and high school senior Paulie "The Bomb" Baum a constant attendee, but as Paulie, Hannah, their friends, and a sympathetic teacher try to unravel the mystery of a missing classmate, the ultimate bully takes aim at the school.
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.
5) Surrender
Author
Series
Steel brothers saga volume 6
Publisher
Waterhouse Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jonah Steel has fallen in love with Melanie Carmichael but still lives with the guilt that consumes him as he tries to unravel the mystery of his family's past. A new threat has surfaced, and he finds himself trapped in a web of deceit and lies.
6) 33 snowfish
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
A homeless boy, running from the police with a fifteen-year-old, drug-addicted prostitute, her boyfriend who just killed his own parents, and a baby, gets the chance to make a better life for himself.
7) Hush
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
After remembering the cause of her best friend Devory's suicide at age nine, Gittel is determined to raise awareness of sexual abuse in her Borough Park, New York, community, despite the rules of Chassidim that require her to be silent.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The accident season has been part of seventeen-year-old Cara's life for as long as she can remember. Towards the end of October, foreshadowed by the deaths of many relatives before them, Cara's family becomes inexplicably accident-prone. They banish knives to locked drawers, cover sharp table edges with padding, switch off electrical items -- but injuries follow wherever they go, and the accident season becomes an ever-growing obsession and fear....
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In Mallory, New York, as five sisters, aged eleven to seventeen, deal with assorted problems, conflicts, fears, and yearnings, a mysterious middle-aged man watches them, fascinated, deciding which one he likes the best.
10) Off the record
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A teen journalist uncovers the #metoo scandal of the decade: a bigshot Hollywood director is taking advantage of cast members"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A mixed-heritage dancer's coming of age within the African diaspora is shaped by abuse at the hands of a cousin, her mother's descent into addiction, and her father's efforts to create a Nigerian-inspired home in America.
12) Panic
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As rehearsals begin for the ballet version of Peter Pan, the teenaged members of an Ohio dance troupe lose their focus when one of their own goes missing.
13) Twisted
Author
Series
Steel brothers saga volume 8
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ryan Steel, his world recently upended by an earth-shattering secret, now faces yet another potential revelation surrounding the Steel family mystery. He no longer fully trusts his siblings or the woman he loves. He's alone---alone and terrified and immersed in a conundrum that becomes more twisted each day. Ruby Lee loves Ryan and desperately wants to help him. She'll do whatever she must to see him through this troubling time, but her own shrouded...
14) Chirp
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Moving to Vermont the summer after seventh grade, a young gymnast hides a secret as she makes new friends and investigates her grandmother's claim that someone is trying to destroy her cricket farm.
16) Grown: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"When legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots Enchanted Jones at an audition, her dreams of being a famous singer take flight. Until Enchanted wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night. Who killed Korey Fields? Before there was a dead body, Enchanted's dreams had turned into a nightmare. Because behind Korey's charm and star power was a controlling dark side. Now he's dead, the police are at the door, and all signs point...
17) Seton girls
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A group of girls at an elite private high school uncovers the awful secret behind the success of the school's beloved football team"--
Seton Academic High is a prep school obsessed with its football team and their thirteen-year conference win streak. The players always say they'd never have that streak without Seton's girls, but exactly Seton girls do to make them so valuable no one ever really says. The team's quarterback, the younger brother of...
18) Fighting words
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Della relies on her older sister, Suki, for comfort and guidance during difficult times, but after Suki attempts suicide, it becomes apparent that she is struggling more than she lets on.
19) The silver star
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
It is 1970. "Bean" Holladay is twelve and her sister Liz is fifteen when their artistic mother Charlotte, a woman "who flees every place she's ever lived at the first sign of trouble," takes off to "find herself." She leaves her girls enough money for food to last a month or two. But when Bean gets home from school one day and sees a police car outside the house, she and Liz board a bus from California to Virginia, where their widowed Uncle Tinsley...
20) Any bitter thing
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
A gripping and compassionate tale of family and faith, whispers and accusations, and the deeply hidden truths we're compelled to uncover.
After surviving a near-fatal accident, thirty-year-old Lizzy Mitchell faces a long road to recovery. She remembers little about the days she spent in and out of consciousness, save for one thing: She saw her beloved deceased uncle, Father Mike, the man who raised her in the rectory of his Maine church until...