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1) Fallout
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Hailed as a hero, twenty-year-old Jake returns to his pro-military hometown and family injured physically and emotionally, unsure if he can return to active duty but uncomfortable with the alternative.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ally is focused on college scholarship applications, spending time with her widowed father, friends, and possible boyfriend, when she learns that everything she knows about herself is a lie.
4) Ramona Blue
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Struggling with family problems and still living in a FEMA trailer years after Hurricane Katrina, lesbian teenager Ramona welcomes the return of her childhood friend Freddie but her shifting feelings for him cause her to question her sexual identity.
5) And she was
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Dara finds her birth certificate, she is puzzled to find two strange names on it, but when her mother, Mellie, reveals that she is transgender and transitioned when Dara's biological mother died soon after Dara's birth, Dara is stunned and angry--and she sets off with her friend Sam, in search of the grandparents she never knew existed (and who may be able to fund her tennis career), and the family secrets she can only guess at.
6) Backlash
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Christian, a boy she knows only through Facebook, posts a lot of nasty comments on her page, fifteen-year-old Lara tries to kill herself--but that is only the beginning of the backlash for her sister, Sydney; her former friend Bree; and her classmates.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Dimple Shah and Rishi Patel meet at a Stanford University summer program, Dimple is avoiding her parents' obsession with "marriage prospects" but Rishi hopes to woo her into accepting arranged marriage with him.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Emily has six siblings, but she was also close to her best friend, Lizzie Porter, who died nearly a year ago, and she is still grieving; but Lizzie's family are also grieving, so much so, that they use Lizzie's younger sister, Chloe, as a lure and kidnap Emily, forcing her to dress, talk, and act like Lizzie, and threatening to go after Emily's family if she does not become the replacement for the daughter they lost--and Emily is...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she is abandoned by her alcoholic mother, high school senior Ruby winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, and learns about Cora's new life, what makes a family, how to allow people to help her when she needs it, and that she too has something to offer others.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
A mixed-heritage dancer's coming of age within the African diaspora is shaped by abuse at the hands of a cousin, her mother's descent into addiction, and her father's efforts to create a Nigerian-inspired home in America.
"Ada" means first daughter, means oldest girl, means most pressure. When Ada leaves home for her freshman year at a historical Black college, it's the first time that she's been able to make her own choices. As she stumbles deeper...
12) The line tender
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Following a tragedy that further alters the course of her life, twelve-year-old Lucy Everhart decides to continue the shark research her marine biologist mother left unfinished when she died years earlier.
13) American panda
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A freshman at MIT, seventeen-year-old Mei Lu tries to live up to her Taiwanese parents' expectations, but no amount of tradition, obligation, or guilt prevent her from hiding several truths--that she is a germaphobe who cannot become a doctor, she prefers dancing to biology, she decides to reconnect with her estranged older brother, and she is dating a Japanese boy. Can she find a way to be herself, before her web of lies unravels?
14) Starfish
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Kiko Himura yearns to escape the toxic relationship with her mother by getting into her dream art school, but when things do not work out as she hoped Kiko jumps at the opportunity to tour art schools with her childhood friend, learning life-changing truths about herself and her past along the way.
15) Bridge of Clay
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
The breathtaking story of five brothers who bring each other up in a world run by their own rules. As the Dunbar boys love and fight and learn to reckon with the adult world, they discover the moving secret behind their father's disappearance. At the center of the Dunbar family is Clay, a boy who will build a bridge--for his family, for his past, for greatness, for his sins, for a miracle. The question is, how far is Clay willing to go? And how much...
16) Rumble
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Matthew Turner knows it doesn't get better. His younger brother Luke was bullied mercilessly after one of Matt's friends outed Luke to the whole school, and when Luke called Matt -- on the brink of suicide -- Matt was too wrapped up in his new girlfriend to answer the phone. Now Luke is gone, and Matt's family is falling apart. No matter what his girlfriend Hayden says about forgiveness, there's no way Matt's letting those he blames off the hook --...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Ezra Ahern wakes up one day to find his older sister, Bea, gone. No note, no sign, nothing but an email address hidden somewhere only he would find it. Ezra never expected to be left behind with their abusive stepfather and their neglectful mother. How is he supposed to navigate life without Bea? Bea Ahern already knew she needed to get as far away from home as possible. But a message in her inbox changes everything, and she finds herself alone in...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Overburdened by his parents' bickering and a bully's attacks, fifteen-year-old Lucky Linderman begins dreaming of being with his grandfather, who went missing during the Vietnam War, but during a visit to Arizona, his aunt and uncle and their beautiful neighbor, Ginny, help him find a new perspective.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Summer for Sasha and Ray means the sprawling old house on Long Island. Since they were children, they've shared almost everything--reading the same books, running down the same sandy footpaths to the beach, eating peaches from the same market, laughing around the same sun-soaked dining table. Even sleeping in the same bed, on the very same worn cotton sheets. But they've never met. Sasha's dad was once married to Ray's mom, and together they had three...
20) Tokyo ever after
Author
Series
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After learning that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan, Izumi travels to Tokyo, where she discovers that Japanese imperial life--complete with designer clothes, court intrigue, paparazzi scandals, and a forbidden romance with her handsome but stoic bodyguard--is a tough fit for the outspoken and irreverent eighteen-year-old from northern California.
It isn't easy being Japanese American in a small, mostly white, northern California town, being...
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