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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Jamie Goldberg is cool with volunteering for his local state senate candidate-as long as he's behind the scenes. When it comes to speaking to strangers (or, let's face it, speaking at all to almost anyone). Jamie's a choke artist. There's no way he'd ever knock on doors to ask people for their votes...until he meets Maya. Maya Rehman's having the worst Ramadan ever. Her best friend is too busy to hang out, her summer trip is canceled, and now her...
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[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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After picking up a book from the library, Yvette--who has given up on love--gains the ability to see how other people's romantic relationships will end--
Evie Thomas doesn't believe in love anymore. Especially after the strangest thing occurs one otherwise ordinary afternoon: She witnesses a couple kiss and is overcome with a vision of how their romance began . . . and how it will end. After all, even the greatest love stories end with a broken heart,...
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First published in 1926, "The Blue Castle" is one of the few stories for adults by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, famed for her "Anne of Green Gables" novels. It is the story of Valancy Stirling, a lonely and deeply unhappy "old maid", who has grown increasingly despondent living with her critical and controlling mother and extended family. Her only escapes are the novels of her favorite author and her fantasies of an imagined fairy-tale place...
4) Caller 107
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English
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Natalie Rausch said she'd die for a chance to meet DJ Crazy Todd, but she didn't mean to be literal.
A bitter divorce shattered her family and turned her into a thirteen-year-old weapon in the hands of two people who want nothing more than to destroy each other. Once an accelerated student looking at early college, Natalie let anger at her parents lead her down a desperate path of self-destruction. No amount of rebellion gets her mom or dad's attention-or...
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It is no secret that Anna's parents are going through a rough patch. When that rough patch turns positively volatile, Anna starts to wonder why her parents are staying together at all. Will their anger destroy everything Anna has ever known? Can Anna allow herself to fall in love when she sees how it can turn so easily to hate?
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The house at Number 8 Sunflower Street tells the stories of three teenagers who have lived within its walls in the 21st century--Ana, a lesbian forced to leave her home, Greg sent to live with his aunt when his parents divorce, and Beto, a would-be photographer living during the COVID pandemic.
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When sixteen-year-old Tessa's small mountain community is ravaged by a forest fire, people come together to heal. Except Tessa. Because she set the blaze.
This debut novel by Naomi Ulsted follows Tessa as she tries to pull a new life from the ashes of a big mistake. When the judge hands out a sentence of massive fines, community service and 227 apology letters - one for every person whose life she's ruined - Tessa wishes she'd been sent to prison,...
9) Me, Penelope
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English
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The road to independence has never been easy.
What Penelope Yeager wants:
1. Get out of high school.
2. Have sex.
3. Fall in love.
4. Get her driver's license.
5. Forget what happened ten years ago.
6. See her mother happy.
She's figured out how to get out of school a year early. If she can figure out the rest, maybe she'll actually be happy. Unfortunately, the rest isn't nearly as easy.
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Español
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Lauren, de diecisiete años, es una poetisa de armario que intenta mantener unida a su desordenada familia. Tiene que lidiar con las responsabilidades de sus dos hermanas menores y de su madre bipolar. Cuando su padre, supuestamente ya sobrio, quiere volver a entrar en sus vidas para reconectarse, todo se descontrola y la escritura de Lauren es su única vía de escape.
Sólo una Chica en el Torbellino trata de la familia, del perdón y de ser...
11) Crash
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Just when sixteen-year-old Cameron thinks he's going to straighten out his troubled life, his parents break up and he ends up living on the street with his dog, Ozzie. He meets a girl named Mackenzie, who has been sleeping in a pup tent in the park. With her help, he tries to survive on the street and continue with school, despite the new challenges in his life.
Finding a safe place for them to crash at night is difficult, and panhandling for money...
13) Let Me Save You
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English
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"We live in such a messed-up world where going to school and getting a job is mandatory, but living is not."
Seventeen-year-old Nila Izawa's life in small-town Japan is orderly, simple, expected. On the walk home from school before winter break, Nila finally sees that she is crumbling under her mother's strict expectations, both of them fueled by resentment towards Nila's absentee father. Nila reaches for the courage to break free, but her fear of...
14) Honeymoon Summer
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English
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In this tender and wholesome glimpse into their young marriage, we see Hetty's kindly husband Morgan loves her for her goodness and purity. He has forfeited a vast inheritance to marry her.
Hetty longs to work by his side as an attorney, and yet he pictures her as a stay-at-home mom. She must never have children, because of a congenital heart condition.
Hetty is thrilled to be leaving behind Morgan's former fiancée. For years, gossip...
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Français
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Lorsque ses parents divorcent et se remarient, Iola ne sait plus trop o est sa place...
« Iola a sept ans, elle aime dessiner avec papa sur la grande table du salon, aller au zoo de Vincennes avec sa maman... » Mais, la vie, c'est plus compliqué. Aussi lorsque ses parents divorcent, puis se remarient, Iola ne sait plus trop o est sa place. Ce récit pose avec simplicité et poésie les questions d'enfants dont les parents se séparent.
Découvrez...
16) Hetty or Not
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English
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A young woman poised to marry her beloved must face the machinations of his former fiancée in the third installment of West's (Hetty Makes it Happen, 2014, etc.) series.
In 1960, the shy, sweet 20-year-old Hetty Lawrence has graduated early from college and is thrilled to be back in her forest home. She visits "Hannah," the mighty tree that was once her dreamy childhood refuge and the place where she later confessed her love to Morgan Morganthal....
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Français
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Les parets de Julie se séparent...
"Il y a des papillons dans mon cœur" chante Julie.
Et pourtant, à neuf ans, elle vit une tempête familiale. Aux cris ont succédé les silences: ses parents sont sur le point de se séparer. La vie amoureuse de sa mère vole en éclats, la sienne s'ébauche, doucement: aujourd'hui, Marius lui a touché la main, longtemps.
Découvrez l'histoire de Julie, qui vit les prémisses de sa vie amoureuses, tandis que...
18) What hearts
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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After his mother divorces his father and remarries, Asa's sharp intellect and capacity for forgiveness help him deal with the instabilities of his new world.
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English
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Jen Malone, author of teen novels Wanderlost and Map to the Stars, will take readers to the high seas-literally-in this contemporary YA novel about a girl facing the dissolution of her parents' marriage, a new romance, and self-discovery while sailing down the Pacific coast. After concluding that she is to blame for her parents' recent divorce, Cassandra McClure is hoping to stay as far away from her as possible. With a summer of freedom right around...
20) Hancock Park
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English
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Becky Miller lives in the best neighborhood, goes to school with the children of movie stars, and has her psychiatrist on speed dial. She may live in the City of Angels, but this sixteen-year-old's life is far from perfect. By day, Becky navigates the halls of one of L. A. 's most elite schools, where the mean girls are a special breed of mean, and at night, she deals with sparring parents, a grandmother who is man-crazy, and a younger brother, Jack,...
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