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2) Unhinged
Author
Series
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Life gets complicated once again for teenaged Alyssa when her mother returns home from an asylum and the mysterious Morpheus tempts Alyssa with another dangerous quest in the dark, challenging Wonderland.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shelby Cooper, nearly eighteen, has been overprotected by her single mother all her life, but after a car accident, Shelby's mother steals her away from the hospital, revealing that Shelby's father is not dead, but rather a violent man who promised to hunt them down.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Parker Shelton pretty much has the perfect life. She's on her way to becoming valedictorian at Hundred Oaks High, she's made the all-star softball team, and she has plenty of friends. Then her mother's scandal rocks their small town and suddenly no one will talk to her. Now Parker wants a new life.
6) Mosquitoland
Author
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the sudden collapse of her family, Mim Malone is dragged from her home in northern Ohio to the "wastelands" of Mississippi, where she lives in a medicated milieu with her dad and new stepmom. Before the dust has a chance to settle, she learns her mother is sick back in Cleveland. So she ditches her new life and hops aboard a northbound Greyhound bus to her real home and her real mother, meeting a quirky cast of fellow travelers along the way....
Author
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
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Formats
Description
When the sister who delighted their parents by her faithful embrace of Mexican culture dies in a tragic accident, Julia, who longs to go to college and move into a home of her own, discovers from mutual friends that her sister may not have been as perfect as believed.
Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents' house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family....
Author
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Rukhsana Ali is looking forward to going to Caltech and getting away from her conservative Muslim parents' expectation that she will marry, especially since she is in love with her girlfriend Ariana--but when her parents catch her kissing Ariana, they whisk Rukhsana off to Bangladesh and a world of tradition and arranged marriages, and she must find the courage to fight for the right to choose her own path.
10) Ensnared
Author
Series
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Alyssa travels to Wonderland once again to free both her mother and Jeb, and to set right all that's gone wrong"--
After surviving a disastrous battle at prom, Alyssa has embraced her madness and gained perspective. She's determined to rescue her two worlds and the people and netherlings she loves-- even if it means challenging Queen Red to a final battle of wills and wiles. The only way to Wonderland, now that the rabbit hole is closed, is through...
12) King of fools
Author
Series
Shadow Game volume 2
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
599 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
With bounties on their heads, Enne continues to play the role of both a lady and a street lord, while Levi begins a relationship with the son of a member of the Mafia.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
343 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Georgia finds a secret sketch her late father--a famed artist--left behind, the discovery leads her down a path that may reshape everything holding her family and friends together. Caroline Gertler's debut is a story about friendship, family, grief, and creativity.
14) You are my only
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells, in their separate voices and at a space of fourteen years, of Emmy, whose baby has been stolen, and Sophie, a teenager who defies her nomadic, controlling mother by making friends with a neighbor boy and his elderly aunts.
15) Dragon's keep
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1145 A.D., as foretold by Merlin, fourteen-year-old Rosalind, who will be the twenty-first Pendragon Queen of Wilde Island, has much to accomplish to fulfill her destiny, while hiding from her people the dragon's claw she was born with that reflects only one of her mother's dark secrets.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marzana and her best friend, Nialla, are bored. In a city where normal rules don't apply, it seems that adventure should be everywhere, yet nothing exciting ever happens to them. Nothing, that is, until Marzana's parents are recruited to help solve a kidnapping that makes no sense. This could be the excitement Marzana and Nialla have been looking for - if they can crack the case without getting caught meddling. They gather a group of kid detectives...
17) Moxie: a novel
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a small Texas town where high school football reigns supreme, Viv, sixteen, starts a feminist revolution using anonymously-written zines.
Author
Lexile measure
HL 580L
Language
English
Description
When her mother moves the family to Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in hopes of finding inspiration for her writing career, twelve-year-old Charlotte struggles to adjust to life in the the small, boring town where pioneer author Laura Ingalls Wilder grew up.
19) Thieves' gambit
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Description
At only seventeen years old, Ross Quest is already a master thief, especially adept at escape plans. Until her plan to run away from her legendary family of thieves takes an unexpected turn, leaving her mother's life hanging in the balance. In a desperate bid, she enters the Thieves' Gambit, a series of dangerous international heists where killing the competition isn't exactly off-limits, but the grand prize is a wish for anything in the world--a...
Author
Series
Lulu Sinagtala and the Tagalog gods volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Discovering that the creatures and deities of Tagalog myth are real when her mom is kidnapped, Lulu Sinagtala is drawn into a centuries-long war that threatens to throw the whole universe into chaos while trying to save her mom with her newfound powers"--