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2) Standoff
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Formats
Description
Television reporter Tiel McCoy, headed out Interstate 20 on vacation, changes her plans when she hears that the teenage daughter of a Fort Worth multimillionaire has been kidnapped, deciding instead to cover the story that brings her face-to-face with a pair of desperate young lovers.
3) The innocent
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
America's best hitman was hired to kill--but when a D.C. government operation goes horribly wrong, he must rescue a teenage runaway and investigate her parents' murders in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller.
It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. He refuses to pull the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two men---Seth Walker, a teenager trying to understand the genetic nature of his mother's early onset Alzheimer's, and Abel Haggard, an elderly hunchback who spends his days alone on the family farm thinking about the past--are linked by their mothers' stories of a fantasy world in which the lack of memory is a blessing.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Story of Elizabeth Taube, a teenager who feels lonely and unloved by her parents and looks unsuccessfully for love in a variety of places until she finds someone who truly appreciates her and together they explore unknown places within their hearts and souls.
8) Nightshade
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Matthew Moore's happy life and bright future are forever changed when his ailing grandmother, left homeless after a sudden fire, moves in with Matt's family, bringing with her the specter of his dead aunt.
9) Mad River
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Virgil Flowers joins the growing army of cops trying to run down three teenagers with dead-end lives who are on a crime spree in Minnesota and who think they are just like Bonnie and Clyde, and their sidekick.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
The memorable story begun in When the Wind Blows continues in this thrilling novel, and it's one that really soars! Frannie O'Neil, a Colorado veterinarian, knows a terrible secret that will change the history of the world. Kit Harrison, an FBI agent under suspension, has seen things that no one in his right mind would believe. A twelve-year-old girl named Max and five other incredible children have powers we can only dream of. These children can...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From a contributing editor for Vogue, a pitch-perfect, funny, and poignant novel about the joy and heartache of how deeply one person's life can affect so many others.With wit and warmth, And Sometimes Why captures the fragile rhythm and unpredictable drama of family life. When Sophia and Darius say good-bye to their teenage daughters one unremarkable morning. they have no idea how permanently their family will be affected by a decision made around...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Seven years after witnessing the murders of three children in a cave in Greenwich, England, twenty-year-old Anita Naidu relates the events of the tragedy to a psychologist and reflects on her friendship with an angry, verbally abusive boy named Kyle and an obese outsider named Denis.
15) High on a hill
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anabel Lee and her father have made a middle-of-the-night move from their former home to a remote hilltop house. When a young boy calls to the house, he brings trouble for Anabel and her father.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Ah-Kim Chang and her mother immigrate to Brooklyn, where they work for Kim's Aunt Paula in a Chinatown clothing factory earning barely enough to keep them alive; however, Kim's perseverance and hard work earns her a place at an elite private school where she is befriended by Annette, who helps her adjust to American culture.
18) Silver bells
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
20) Ordinary people
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
1982
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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