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1) Rash
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a future society that has decided it would "rather be safe than free," sixteen-year-old Bo's anger control problems land him in a tundra jail where he survives with the help of his running skills and an artificial intelligence program named Bork.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Gabby Herrera is not like her perfect sister Celia: straight-A student, obedient, responsible. Her parents don't get it. They don't get her C-average report card. Her love for basketball ... She can't be who she is unless she's just like them. And if she's not like them, she's not a real person. She's a broken person. A broken Herrera. And that is unacceptable"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Reno, Nevada, seventeen-year-old Jory Michaels is self-conscious because she does not fit in with her "beautiful" family, so while her two best friends plan on a summer spent discovering their passions before their senior year of high school, she gets a job and saves money for plastic surgery.
4) El dador
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
Español
Formats
Description
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonás becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Diciembre es el mes en el que se celebra la Ceremonia anual, en la que los Doce reciben sus asignaciones vitalicias determinadas por el Comité de Ancianos. Pero Jonás, un niño que cumple doce años, ha sido elegido para algo muy especial....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.
"No one ever said life was easy. But Ponyboy is pretty sure that he's got things figured out. He knows that he can count on his brothers, Darry and Sodapop. And he knows that he can count on his friends—true friends who would do anything for him, like Johnny and Two-Bit. But not on much...
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Carly's summer volunteer experience makes her feel more real than her life of privilege in Atlanta ever did, but her younger sister starts high school pretending to be what she is not, and both find their relationships suffering.
7) Stargirl
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
Español
Description
Leo se siente tan fascinado como intimidado por Stargirl, la nueva de la escuela, una chica especial e inmune a las duras cr�iticas del resto y que adem�as no hace m�as que llamar la atenci�on, algo que jam�as har�ia �el.
In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
As one of an ancient line of creatures who gain energy from human tears, seventeen-year-old Cassandra offers sympathy to anyone at her school or the hospital where she works, but she yearns to be fully human for the boy she loves, even if it means letting her family down.
9) You are here
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
�2009, 2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Emma Healy has never felt that she fit in with the rest of her family, so when she discovers that she had a twin brother who died shortly after they were born, she takes off on an impulsive road trip to try to discover who she really is.
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