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42) Harbor me
Author
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
"When six students are chosen to participate in a weekly talk with no adults allowed, they discover that when they're together, it's safe to share the hopes and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world"--
Six kids discover the power of sharing their secrets and their stories ... It all starts when six kids are sent to a room for a weekly chat - by themselves, with no adults to listen in. At first they fear this new unfamiliar and wonder...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sydney's charismatic older brother, Peyton, has always been the center of attention in the family but when he is sent to jail, Sydney struggles to find her place at home and the world until she meets the Chathams, including gentle, protective Mac, who makes her feel seen for the first time." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Stuntboy volume 1
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Portico Reeves' secret identity as Stuntboy allows him to use his superpower keep everybody safe, but when his superhero parents start fighting a lot he feels the responsibility to save them.
Portico Reevess superpower is making sure all the other superheroeslike his parents and two best friendsstay super. And safe. Super safe. And he does this all in secret. No one in his civilian life knows hes actually&Stuntboy! But his regular Portico identity...
45) Game changer
Author
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
While thirteen-year-old Teddy fights for his life after a football injury at training camp, his friends and family gather to support him and discuss events leading to his coma. Told through dialogue, text messages, newspaper articles, transcripts, an online forum, and Teddy's inner thoughts. --
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Theo has been worried about his good friend Woody Lambert. Woody is struggling at school and making bad choices. But when Woody is arrested--an unwitting accomplice to armed robbery--Theo knows he is innocent. Racing the clock while Woody sits in jail, Theo will do everything in his power to help his friend and save Woody from an unforgiving system where justice is not equal for all.
47) Swing it, Sunny!
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
GN 480L
Physical Desc
217 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1970s Sunny Lewin is back, star of her personal show, facing the prospect of Middle School, and dealing with the problems of her somewhat dysfunctional family--in particular her older brother, Dale, who has been sent off to a military academy because of his delinquent behavior.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
292 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told from separate viewpoints, best friends Willa and Flor are tempted by love that would violate the Girl Code when Willa's long-term crush, Zach, breaks up with Flor, who is fighting her own crush on her math tutor.
Girl Code: Never date a friends ex. Willa Evans has no intention of breaking the code. So what if shes always secretly loved her next-door neighbor Zach? As her best friends boyfriend, he was always off-limits and it needs to stay that...
50) After Eli
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the death of his older brother, Daniel Anderson became engrossed in recording details about dead people, how they died, and whether their deaths mattered but he is eventually drawn back into interaction with the living.
51) Tilt
Author
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Language
English
Description
Three teens, connected by their parents' bad choices, tell in their own voices of their lives and loves as Shane finds his first boyfriend, Mikayla discovers that love can be pushed too far, and Harley loses herself in her quest for new experiences.
52) Hate list
Author
Series
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.
53) Between
Author
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
By weaving through her memories and watching the family and friends she left behind, eighteen-year-old Liz Valchar solves the mystery of how her life ended in the Long Island Sound.
55) Ghost
Author
Series
Track volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First Edition.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Ghost. Lu. Patina. Sunny. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team -- a team that could qualify them for the Junior Olympics if they can get their acts together. They all have a lot to lose, but they also have a lot to prove, not only to each other, but to themselves. Ghost has a crazy natural talent, but no formal training....
56) Bruiser
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Brontë befriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
It's been two years since the night that changed Ashley's life. Two years since she was raped by her brother's teammate. And a year since she sat in a court and watched as he was given a slap on the wrist sentence. But the years have done nothing to stop the pain. It's been two years of hell for Derek. His family is totally messed up and he and his sister are barely speaking. He knows he handled it all wrong. Now at college, he has to come to terms...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
670L
Physical Desc
234 pages : illustrations, ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Wheaton, Kansas seventh-grader Tucker MacBean loves comic books, so when his favorite comic has a contest to create a sidekick, he is hopeful that he can win, thereby fixing his struggling family.
59) Patina
Author
Series
Track volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
"Patina, "Patty" Jones is the fastest girl on the Defenders track team. A newbie to the track team, Patty must learn to rely on her family and teammates as she tries to outrun her problems. She runs to show the kids that taunt her at her fancy new school that she's going to be someone some day. She runs for her fellow newbie teammates to make them proud. She runs to show her little sister Maddy how to be strong and brave. And she runs for her mother,...
60) Dead to you
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Having been abducted at age seven, abandoned, a foster child, and homeless, Ethan, now sixteen, is happy to be home until his brother's suspicion and his own inability to remember something unspeakable from his early childhood begin to tear the family apart.