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Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When his sister goes missing under mysterious circumstances, seventeen-year-old Kurt spends a night at the local police station overhearing statements from a variety of witnesses that reveal the deep prejudices and shocking secrets of his small beach community.
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Series
Dollanganger family series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Young Bart, son of Chris and Cathy who spent their adolescence locked in an attic, trembles on the edge of madness.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A courageous and determined young teacher opens up a new world of hope and redemption for sixteen-year-old Precious Jones, an abused young African American girl living in Harlem who was raped and left pregnant for the second time by her father.
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"Fern and her mother have lived as servants in Wyndemere House, the old gothic mansion of the Davenport family, for as long as she can remember, and her friendship with Dr. Davenport's son Ryder was never a problem . . . until they came of age. An intimate encounter following a high school prom brings the pair near-tragic consequences, and the forces of fate, arrogance, and class prejudice gather to crush their warm relationship. Still, the real threat...
Author
Series
Cutler family series volume 4
Pub. Date
[1992]
Description
After Christie Longchamp's parents die in a fire, she and her brother go to live with her uncle where more trouble begins.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Appears on list
Description
It is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove -- a black girl in an America whose love for its blond, blue-eyed children can devastate all others -- who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 25
Description
Forbidden love comes into full bloom. For three years they were kept hidden in the eaves of Foxworth Hall, their existence all but denied by a mother who schemed to inherit a fortune. For three years their fate was in the hands of their righteous, merciless grandmother. They had to stay strong; but in their hopeless world, Cathy and her brother Christopher discovered blossoming desires that tumbled into a powerful obsession. Now, with their frail...
10) Forbidden
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Sixteen-year-old Maya and seventeen-year-old Lochan tell, in their separate voices, of their confusion and longing as they fall in love with one another after years of functioning as parents to three younger siblings due to their alcoholic mother's neglect.
11) Cat: Wildflowers
Author
Series
Wildflowers volume 4
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Now that Cat must tell the details of her problems to the other girls in her counseling group, she is too ashamed to reveal the truth and considers lying to the other girls.
12) White horses
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Description
The acclaimed author of such New York Times bestsellers as Here on Earth and Turtle Moon presents a " sexually charged..almost hynotic" novel (Publishers Weekly) about men, women, romance, and real life. When Teresa was a little girl, she went to sleep with dreams in her head--dreams of dark-eyed, fearless heroes on white horses who would sweep her away. The men her mother told her about were a special breed, and someday, Teresa vowed, she would find...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 22
Description
"At the top of the stairs there are four secrets hidden. Blond, beautiful, innocent, and struggling to stay alive... They were a perfect family, golden and carefree - until a heartbreaking tragedy shattered their happiness. Now, for the sake of an inheritance that will ensure their future, the children must be hidden away out of sight, as if they never existed. Kept on the top floor of their grandmother's vast mansion, their loving mother assures...
16) Outer dark
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Description
This stark novel is set in an unspecified place in Appalachia, sometime around the turn of the century. A woman bears her brother's child, a boy; he leaves the baby in the woods and tells her he died of natural causes. Discovering her brother's lie, she sets forth alone to find her son. Both brother and sister wander separately through a countryside being scourged by three terrifying and elusive strangers, headlong toward an eerie, apocalyptic resolution....
18) My loose thread
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Pub. Date
©2002, ©2001.
Description
"At the heart of Dennis Cooper's novel lies Larry, a teenager wrestling not only with his sexuality and the implications of a physical relationship with his younger brother, but with the very point of his existence. He is numb to most of what surrounds him." "As the book opens, Larry has been paid $500 by an older student to kill a fellow pupil and retrieve the boy's notebook. It seems simple enough. However, once Larry ventures into the notebook,...