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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
On the hottest day in 1935, and on the brink of a world war, three children lose their innocence as the sweltering summer heat bears down and their lives are changed forever. Cecilia Tallis is of England's privileged class; Robbie Turner is the housekeeper's son. In their moment of intimate surrender, they are interrupted by Cecilia's hyper-imaginative and scheming 13-year-old sister, Briony. As chaos consumes the family, Briony commits a crime, the...
Author
Series
Father Dowling mysteries volume 27
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When her father dies while whitewater rafting, sixteen-year-old Alex feels responsible, but when tragedy strikes again she must face her deepest fears in order to reclaim her love of the Colorado river where she grew up--and of the boy she grew up wi
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Feeling guilty after accidentally breaking his friend's leg, Rocky Fletcher takes on extra duties at school, from selling chocolate bars and managing his injured friend's student council campaign to playing both offense and defense on the football team.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Two-hundred-sixty years after a terrible accident destroyed their bodies, sixteen-year-old Locke and seventeen-year-old Kara have been brought back to life in newly bioengineered bodies, with many questions about the world they find themselves in and more than two centuries of horrible memories of being trapped in a digital netherworld wondering what would become of them.
10) Into the Sublime
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Four girls from a defunct thrill-seeking group descend into a dangerous underground cave system in search of a subterranean lake that local legends claim has the power to change things for those who can confront their deepest fears.
11) Tamar
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
In England in 1995, fifteen-year-old Tamar, grief-stricken by the puzzling death of her beloved grandfather, slowly begins to uncover the secrets of his life in the Dutch resistance during the last year of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, and
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Bus Mercer, shortstop for the Peach Steet Mudders, wants desperately to be picked for the county all-star team, but he breaks his parents' rules for riding his new bike, and feelings of guilt affect his game.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Keith Weston nearly lost his life in an act of arson. He survived--but with devastating physical and emotional scars. Without his mother, he has no one to help him heal, no money, nothing to live for but the medications that numb his pain. Isolated and angry, his hatred has one tight focus: his half-sister, Maggie Lockwood. Nineteen-year-old Maggie spent a year in prison for the acts that led up to the fire. Now she's back home. But her release cannot...
Author
Series
Secrets volume 2
Publisher
NavPress/Th1nk
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Cleo, feeling guilty that her choices played a role in her mother's murder, seeks refuge in prescription medication until her Aunt Kellie helps her to tell the truth and find some perspective.
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Margaret Murphy is a weaver of fantastic tales, growing up in a world where the truth is too much for one little girl to endure. Her first memory is of the day her friend Agnes died. No one blames Margaret. Not in so many words. Her mother insists to everyone who will listen that her daughter never even left the house that day...Margaret wills herself to forget these unbearable memories, replacing them with imagined stories full of faith and magic--that...
16) Bound by guilt
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Roxi Gold is a throwaway, shuttled from one foster home to another for most of her life. She longs for a family and will do anything to fit in--even if it's against the law. Soon she's traveling the country stealing rare books from unsuspecting bookstores until a first edition of The Great Gatsby catches up with her. One fateful night a man's innocent blood changes both Roxi's and police officer Abby Dawson's lives forever. One searches for justice,...
17) The crossroads
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Zack Jennings moves to Connecticut with his father and new stepmother, they must deal with the ghosts left behind by a terrible accident, as well as another kind of ghost from Zack's past.
18) Wintergirls
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Lia comes to terms with her best friend's death from anorexia as she struggles with the same disorder.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Every day of her life Julia Rich lives with the memory of a horrible accident she caused long ago. In the years since, she has tried to hide her guilt in the quiet routine of teaching at a small South Carolina college, avoiding close relationships with family and would-be friends. But one day a phone call from Carmen, a niece she has never met, disrupts her carefully controlled world. Carmen is a study in contrasts--comical yet wise, sunny yet contemplative,...
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After the death of her father, Amy, a high school student, and Roger, a college freshman, set out on a carefully planned road trip from California to Connecticut, but wind up taking many detours, forcing Amy to face her worst fears and come to terms with her grief and guilt.
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