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81) America: a novel
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Teenage America, a part-black, part-white, part-anything boy who has spent many years in institutions for disturbed, antisocial behavior, tries to piece his life together.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
There is a lot going on in his life that thirteen-year-old Tony Miglione does not really understand--like why his parents suddenly have money enough to buy a house on Long Island, why his mother has changed, why his rich friend Joel shoplifts, why he is obsessed with Joel's sixteen-year-old sister, and why he is having terrible stomach pains.
84) Going under
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Alternating passages that draw on the myths of Persephone and Narcissus juxtapose the differing viewpoints of a teenaged girl and her older brother as she tries to prevent a manipulative psychotherapist from using her journal as material in a book.
85) Badd
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A teenaged girl's beloved brother returns home from the Iraq War completely unlike the person she remembers.
86) Stargone John
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
1992, ©1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Six-year-old John, emotionally withdrawn and resistant to traditional teaching methods, experiences ridicule and punishment at his one-room schoolhouse, until an old retired teacher reaches out from her blindness to share with him the world of reading and writing.
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Having experienced compulsive behavior all her life, Lo's symptoms are getting her into trouble when she witnesses a murder while wandering dangerous quarters of Cleveland, Ohio, collecting things that do not belong to her, obsessing about her brother's death.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Tells, from four points of view, the ramifications of a pregnancy resulting from a "one-time thing" between Ellie, who feels loved when boys touch her, and Josh, an eager virgin with a troubled home life.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Several high school students relate their feelings about school, themselves, and events as they unfold on the fateful one-year anniversary of the killing of a fellow student.
90) Burn: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Bullied constantly during his freshman year in high school, Cameron's anger and isolation grows, leading to deadly consequences.
91) Vanishing
Author
Publisher
Laura Geringer Book
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Alice is unwilling to return to live with her alcoholic mother and her stern stepfather, so she refuses to eat to the point of slowly starving herself, in order to remain in the hospital.
93) Scarred
Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Fifteeen year old Becky Sanger, battles through the emotional ups and downs of why she cuts and burns herself, while coaching young ice skaters to have the confidence and self-assurance she is missing and frighted to find.
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old TJ tries to cope with the emotional upheaval in her life when the father who kidnapped her ten years earlier and raised her under a different identity is injured, and she goes to visit her recently-discovered twin sister, mother, and future stepfather.
95) Where we belong
Author
Publisher
CreateSpace
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Angie and her mom are poised at the edge of homelessness... again. The problem is her little sister, Sophie. Sophie has an autism-like disorder, and a tendency to shriek. No matter where they live, home never seems to last long. Until they move in with Aunt Vi, across the fence from a huge black Great Dane who changes everything. Sophie falls in love immediately, and begins to imitate the "inside of the dog, " which, fortunately,...
96) Aimee: a novel
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After she is accused of playing a role in her best friend's death, a young woman battles depression, anger, guilt, loneliness, and the problems of her own family as well as those of the families of her old friends.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c1982
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Conrad, who lives with his aunt and uncle in St. Louis, decides to pay a surprise visit to his divorced parents in New York and comes face to face with bitter reality. Only the friendship of an emotionally troubled girl helps to sustain him through this crisis.
98) Nobel genes
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A boy whose manic-depressive mother has always told him that his father won a Nobel Prize, spends his time taking care of her and searching for clues to the identity of the Nobel Prize-winning sperm donor, eventually finding a truth he must learn to accept.
Author
Series
WatchingAlice volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
High school senior Tom Sinclair's journal chronicles events leading up to the disappearance of Alice, the only person he has confided in after moving from Vermont to Manhattan in an attempt to run away from his past.
100) Rits
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When his father runs off with his girlfriend and his distraught mother is admitted to an institution, thirteen-year-old Rits goes to live with his uncle and tries to make the best of his unusual circumstances.
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