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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.
Ponyboy can count on his brothers, and on his friends, but not on much else besides trouble with the Socs, a vicious gang of rich kids whose idea of a good time is beating up "greasers". Then one night, someone takes things too far.
Author
Series
Forest of Good and Evil volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
Discovering an ability to commune with mirrors, Everly Morrow, who was born in a magical realm where fairy tales are prophecies of the future, learns that she is destined to become Snow White's greatest enemy, the Evil Queen.
Author
Publisher
Iron Circus Comics
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The autobiography of a South Korean woman's student days under an authoritarian regime, and how she defied state censorship. When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her exams and sort-of convincing her traditional mother that it was a good idea for a woman to go to college, she looked forward to soaking up the ideas of Western Literature far from the drudgery she was promised at her family's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Ishmael sets sail on the whale-ship Pequod one cold Christmas Day, he has no idea of the horrors awaiting him out on the vast and merciless ocean. The ship's strange captain, Ahab, is obsessed with hunting down the famous whit whale, Moby Dick, and will stop at nothing on hes quest to annihilate his nemesis."--Cover.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"In 1994, Reviving Ophelia was published, and it shone a much-needed spotlight on the problems faced by adolescent girls. The book became iconic and helped to reframe the national conversation about what author Mary Pipher called "a girl-poisoning culture" surrounding adolescents. Fast forward to today, and adolescent girls and the parents, teachers, and counselors who care about them find themselves confronting many of the same challenges Pipher...
6) A good idea
Author
Publisher
Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"A girl returns to her small hometown in Maine seeking revenge for the death of her childhood best friend"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
This work depicts the heroic young men of Alpha Company as they carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam in a patchwork account of a modern journey into the heart of darkness. They battle the enemy (or maybe more the idea of the enemy), and occasionally each other. In their relationships we see their isolation and loneliness, their rage and fear. They miss their families, their girlfriends and buddies; they miss the lives they left...
8) Bad romance
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"When Grace and Gavin fall in love, Grace is sure it's too good to be true. She has no idea their relationship will become a prison she's unable to escape"--
Author
Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Keeping your money safe is always a good idea. So is making it grow over time. Saving and Investing discusses reasons to save and invest, examines how people can save their money wisely, and looks at ways to invest"--
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"One week. That's all Jessie said. A one-week break to get some perspective before graduation, before she and her boyfriend, Chris, would have to make all the big, scary decisions about their future--decisions they had been fighting about for weeks. Then, Chris vanishes. The police think he's run away, but Jessie doesn't believe it. Chris is popular and good-looking, about to head off to college on a full-ride baseball scholarship. And he disappeared...