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81) I'll be there
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Raised by an unstable father who keeps constantly on the move, Sam Border has long been the voice of his younger brother, Riddle, but everything changes when Sam meets Emily Bell and, welcomed by her family, the brothers are faced with normalcy for the first time.
84) Gorgeous
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ninth-grader Allison has always been the least attractive among her sisters, but when she allows the devil to possess her cell phone in exchange for appearing to be gorgeous, she must confront the power and deceptiveness of appearances.
85) Fatal charm
Author
Series
Seer volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Feeling torn between two boys and growing more resentful of her father's hidden past, teenaged psychic Sabine witnesses a gruesome murder while using astral projection to spy on her secret half-sister Jade.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
910L
Physical Desc
232 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Max Mayfield doesn't fit in. She isn't soft or frilly like her mom wants her to be. She never seems to say the right thing. And she'd rather spend her days at the arcade than anywhere else. At least back in California she had friends, and her dad was only a bus ride away. But then Max's mom married Neil, and her stepbrother, Billy, entered the picture. Now Max and her new family live in Hawkins, Indiana. Her stepdad calls her Maxine, Billy is out...
88) Jump the Cracks
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (207 pages)
Language
English
Description
What would you do? As far as I'm concerned, there's no excuse not to be decent...Especially when you're responsible for a kid. It just figures that fifteen-year old Victoria's dad fails once again to be at the train station like he's promised. Fuming, Victoria watches as a teen mom stashes her bruised little boy in the train's bathroom. When the mom gets off the train alone, Victoria decides she has had it with all the poor excuses who call themselves...
89) The lonely
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (280 pages)
Language
English
Description
Mentally ill Easter Deetz is trapped beneath a boulder in the woods, where she is forced to confront her traumatic memories, resentment toward her relatives, and her inability to separate hallucinations from reality.
90) Come find me
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, sixteen-year-old Kennedy Jones and seventeen-year-old Nolan Chandler are drawn together by strange signals related to family tragedies, and find they are more connected than they could have imagined.
91) Snow Lane
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
197 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1985 Massachusetts, fifth-grader Annie wants to shape her own future but as the youngest of nine, she is held back by her hand-me-down clothing, a crippling case of dyslexia, and a dark family secret.
92) Burn
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (251 pages)
Language
English
Description
The best thing to do for someone who thinks he's lost his whole life is to make him feel like it's been given back to him. That's why I can do this. Fire can fix it." William Tucker always does the right thing. He excels at high school, works at the grocery store, passes out bulletins at his father's church, and still finds time to fight fires as the newest volunteer firefighter in Coosa Creek, Alabama. But no matter how many good deeds William does,...
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (269 pages)
Language
English
Description
It's not exactly easy living in a shrine to your dead sister. Since birth, I've known that everyone loved Shannon. She was perfect-beautiful, smart, talented. And me? Not so much. My parents always expected me to live up to her greatness. But I could never measure up to her, so why even try? This summer, I've started reading the journal Shannon kept just before she died . . . and suddenly nothing is what I thought it was. The more secrets I learn...
94) Rush
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
295, 13 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A pariah in his town and home for the results of his risk-taking behavior, eighteen-year-old Jake seeks adrenaline rushes to clear his dark thoughts, but when Salome, the girl he loves, gets caught up in taking chances, too, the consequences are devastating.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Georgia can almost feel her heart cracking a little more every day. With Daddy sinking deeper into alcoholism and Mama struggling to keep the family afloat, Georgia is sent to stay with her mysterious great aunt in her old country house. Soon, lonely Georgia meets Angela, a girl with secrets of her own, and they discover a magical lake. At first, the lake offers a thrilling escape, but as things grow worse at home, a troubled boy appears at the lake...
96) Horse camp
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
940L
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, twelve-year-old twins Percy and Penny are excited to spend a summer riding horses on their Uncle Stretch's Minnesota spread, until they discover it is a pig farm.
97) Tangled
Author
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The lives of four very different teenagers become entangled in ways that none of them could have imagined after a short stay at a Caribbean resort.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After being assigned to perform community service at a nursing home, sixteen-year-old Alex befriends a cantankerous old man who has some lessons to impart about jazz guitar playing, love, and forgiveness.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
670L
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
There are ninety-six things Genesis hates about herself. She knows the exact number because she keeps a list. Like #95: Because her skin is so dark, people call her charcoal and eggplant, even her own family. And #61: Because her family is always being put out of their house, belongings laid out on the sidewalk for the world to see. When your dad is a gambling addict and loses the rent money every month, eviction is a regular occurrence. What's not...
100) The turning pointe
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Physical Desc
425 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1980s Minnesota, when auditions for a concert with Prince are announced, 16-year-old Rosa Dominguez, the daughter of a tyrant ballet master, is desperate to escape her pointe shoes and show everyone what she can do"--
When sixteen-year-old Rosa Dominguez pirouettes, she is poetry in pointe shoes. And as the daughter of a tyrant ballet Master, Rosa seems destined to become the star principal dancer of her studio. But Rosa would do anything for...