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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Quinn's journal is where she writes down everything -- in list format -- that she doesn't want to admit out loud, or even face; once they're written, she can release them and feel a little bit more at peace. When the journal goes missing and her list of biggest fears is posted online with a challenge to face each of them or else have the entire journal go public, it's time for Quinn to move out of the realm of her mind and into real life. She's not...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
“The night they killed our neighbors, we never heard a thing.”
In a quiet suburban neighborhood, in a house only one door away, a family is brutally murdered for no apparent reason. And you think to yourself: It could have been us. And you start to wonder: What if we’re next?
Linwood Barclay, critically acclaimed author of No Time for Goodbye, brings terror closer than...
In a quiet suburban neighborhood, in a house only one door away, a family is brutally murdered for no apparent reason. And you think to yourself: It could have been us. And you start to wonder: What if we’re next?
Linwood Barclay, critically acclaimed author of No Time for Goodbye, brings terror closer than...
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Language
English
Description
"Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of '97. His mother, Jane, is a famous feminist author; his father, Jonathan, is an expert at getting "lost boys" to open up. They both work at a psychiatric clinic that has attracted staff and patients from around the world. Adam is a renowned debater, expected to win a national championship before he heads to college. He is one of the cool kids, ready to fight or, better, freestyle about fighting...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: What do the queen bee, star athlete, valedictorian, stoner, loner, and music geek all have in common? They were all invited to a scholarship dinner, only to discover it's a trap. Someone has locked them into a room with a bomb, a syringe filled with poison, and a note saying they have an hour to pick someone to kill ... or else everyone dies. Amber Prescott is determined to get her classmates and herself out of the room alive,...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: When it comes to drumming, Leah Burke is usually on beat-but real life isn't always so rhythmic. She's an anomaly in her friend group: the only child of a young, single mom, and her life is decidedly less privileged. She loves to draw but is too self-conscious to show it. And even though her mom knows she's bisexual, she hasn't mustered the courage to tell her friends-not even her openly gay BFF, Simon. So Leah really doesn't...
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Series
Lucy Stone mysteries volume 15
Language
English
Description
New York Times-Bestselling Author: A feud between two competitive moms may have turned fatal in the "engaging cozy series" set in small-town Maine (Publishers Weekly).
Two of her four kids may be out of the nest, but Lucy Stone knows only too well that mothering is a lifetime commitment. At least she gets to kick back and enjoy a fancy Mother's Day brunch with her brood—that is, before the festivities...
Two of her four kids may be out of the nest, but Lucy Stone knows only too well that mothering is a lifetime commitment. At least she gets to kick back and enjoy a fancy Mother's Day brunch with her brood—that is, before the festivities...
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Series
Good girl's guide to murder volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Pip is not a detective anymore. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her. But when someone she knows goes missing and the police won't do anything, Pip has no choice to investigate. After all, Jamie Reynolds disappeared on the very same night the town hosted a memorial for the sixth-year anniversary...
10) Bake sale murder
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Series
Language
English
Description
Suburban squabbles reveal darker secrets in this mystery from the New York Times-bestselling author who "writes with sparkle and warmth" (Chicago Sun Times).
Ever since local developer Fred Stanton and his wife, Mimi, built five modular homes next door to Lucy Stone's farmhouse, life hasn't been the same. With Mimi complaining about everything from the state of Lucy's lawn to another neighbor's lovable dog, quaint...
Ever since local developer Fred Stanton and his wife, Mimi, built five modular homes next door to Lucy Stone's farmhouse, life hasn't been the same. With Mimi complaining about everything from the state of Lucy's lawn to another neighbor's lovable dog, quaint...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Milo's high school career has gone relatively smoothly, so he figures he's overdue for an Epic Teenage Disaster. He never thought that when Marcos returns to their Florida highschool for the first time since freshman year, resolving their feelings for each other will trigger actual natural disasters which could become an extintion-level event.
12) Carrie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A sixteen-year-old misfit, denied everything by her fanatical mother and abused by her classmates, unleashes her terrifying telekinetic powers on an entire town.
Author
Series
Initial insult volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Ostracized by the elite community of Amontillado, Ohio, after the disappearance of her parents, Tress organizes a Halloween costume party at an abandoned house, where she launches a macabre plan to force a popular former friend to confess what she knows.
14) Breaking point
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Vicky Fallon can't take it. Her father lost his job, her parents are constantly fighting, and her little brother is out of control. Once an honor student, Vicky is quickly falling behind in her classes at Bluford High. Now her teachers, friends, and boyfriend, Martin Luna, want answers.
15) The obsession
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After freeing her mother from an abusive relationship, Delilah Wong refuses to play a part in Logan's delusional romance -- but how can she convince him to let her go?
16) Send
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
All Dan wants for his senior year is to be invisible. This is his last chance at a semi-normal life. Nobody here knows who he is. Or what he's done. But on his first day at school, instead of turning away like everyone else, Dan breaks up a fight. Because Dan knows what it's like to be terrorized by a bully. He used to be one.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
After learning of her family's illegal immigrant status, Jasmine realizes that college may be impossible and that deportation is a real threat, uncertainties she endures as she falls for the son of a congressman who opposes an immigration reform bill.
Jasmine de los Santos has studied hard, made her Filipino immigrant parents proud and is ready to reap the rewards in the form of a full college scholarship to the school of her dreams. Then her parents...
18) Catching Jordan
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Series
Hundred Oaks volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
What girl doesn't want to be surrounded by gorgeous jocks day in and day out? Jordan Woods isn't just surrounded by hot guys, though. She leads them as the captain and quarterback of her high school football team. They all see her as one of the guys, and that's just fine. As long as she gets her athletic scholarship to a powerhouse university. But now there's a new guy in town who threatens her starting position ...suddenly she's hoping he'll see...
19) Hearts unbroken
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Louise Wolfe's boyfriend mocks and disrespects Native people in front of her, she breaks things off and dumps him over e-mail. She'd rather spend her senior year with her family and friends and working on the school newspaper. The editors pair her up with Joey Kairouz, an ambitious new photojournalist, and in no time the paper's staff find themselves with a major story to cover: the school musical director's inclusive approach to casting The...
20) Two weeks
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"About a couple desperately waiting to bring their adopted child home and a young mother about to make the biggest decision of her life"--