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Two years ago, Eva Khatchadourian's son, Kevin, murdered seven of his fellow high-school students, a cafeteria worker, and a popular algebra teacher. Because he was only fifteen at the time of the killings, he received a lenient sentence and is now in a prison for young offenders in upstate New York. Telling the story of Kevin's upbringing, Eva addresses herself to her estranged husband through a series of letters. Fearing that her own shortcomings...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Evan is shy, lonely, and bullied for it. He has a chance encounter with Connor Murphy--just before Connor commits suicide. Evan's life suddenly gets turned around, and suddenly he isn't invisible anymore to the girl of his dreams--Connor's sister, Zoe, who believes Evan was Connor's only friend. As Evan goes from being a nobody to everyone's hero and a social media superstar, Evan is filled with confidence ... until things start unraveling.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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Hawthorn wasn't trying to insert herself into a missing person's investigation. Or maybe she was. But that's only because Lizzie Lovett's disappearance is the one fascinating mystery their sleepy town has ever had. Bad things don't happen to popular girls like Lizzie Lovett, and Hawthorn is convinced she'll turn up at any moment-which means the time for speculation is now. So Hawthorn comes up with her own theory for Lizzie's disappearance. A theory...
85) Deadline
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben Wolf decides to fulfill his greatest fantasies, ponders his life's purpose and legacy, and converses through dreams with a spiritual guide known as "Hey-Soos."
86) Liv, forever
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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Soon after an art scholarship gets Liv a place at prestigious Wickham Hall, she becomes the latest victim of a dark conspiracy spanning 150 years, but her ghost, aided by friend Gabe and boyfriend Malcolm, tries to put a stop to the killing.
87) You
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
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Fifteen-year-old Kyle discovers the shattering ramifications of the decisions he makes, and does not make, about school, the girl he likes, and his future.
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Series
Perfect chemistry series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
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Living on the University of Colorado-Boulder campus with his older brother Alex, a college student and ex-gang member, high school senior Carlos is not ready to give up his wild ways until he meets a shy classmate named Kiara and becomes unwillingly involved in a drug ring.
90) Smiles to go
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Will Tuppence's life has always been ruled by science and common sense but in ninth grade, shaken up by the discovery that protons decay, he begins to see the entire world differently and gains new perspective on his relationships with his little sister and two closest friends.
Newbery Medal-winning Jerry Spinelli spins another wonderfully original tale, about the ninth-grade trials of a stargazing science geek, the randomness of life, and how it's...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
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When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents' rejection, they come out only to Hannah, Thomas, and their therapist and try to keep a low profile in a new school. But Ben's attempts to survive the last half of senior year...
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Simon Serrailler crime novels volume 11
Pub. Date
2022.
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Susan Hill is back with A Change of Circumstance, the eleventh book in the acclaimed mystery series featuring the enigmatic and brooding chief police inspector Simon Serrailler. DCS Serrailler has long regarded drugs ops in Lafferton as a waste of time. The small-time dealers picked up outside the local high school can’t—or won’t—turn in any valuable names, so they're merely given a fine and the trail runs cold. But when the body of a 22-year-old...
93) Eleanor & Park
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
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"Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try"--
94) Code Orange
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
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While conducting research for a school paper on smallpox, Mitty finds an envelope containing 100-year-old smallpox scabs and fears that he has infected himself and all of New York City.
96) QB 1
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Jake Cullen, fourteen, lives in the shadows of his father and older brother until he becomes the starting quarterback for the high school football team and finally has his chance to shine.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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For Lizzie Bennett, a music scholarship student at Connecticut's exclusive, girls-only Longbourn Academy, the furor over prom is senseless, but even more puzzling is her attraction to the pompous Will Darcy, best friend of her roommate's boyfriend.
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
When six teenagers are invited to a scholarship dinner, they discover it is a trap and someone wants them to die. As they try to figure out how they are all connected and why someone wants them dead, their confusion turns to fear as the clock ticks down.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
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Chloe Green is so close to winning. After her moms moved her from SoCal to Alabama for high school, she’s spent the past four years dodging gossipy classmates and the puritanical administration of Willowgrove Christian Academy. The thing that’s kept her going: winning valedictorian. Her only rival: prom queen Shara Wheeler, the principal’s perfect progeny. But a month before graduation, Shara kisses Chloe and vanishes. On a furious hunt for...
100) Stay gold
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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Told in two voices, Pony, who is concealing his transgender identity at his new Texas high school, and Georgia, a cisgender cheerleader counting the days until she graduates, develop a complicated relationship.