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421) Ground Zero
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brandon is visiting his dad on the 107th floor of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 when the attack comes; Reshmina is a girl in Afghanistan who has grown up in the aftermath of that attack but dreams of peace, becoming a teacher and escaping her village and the narrow role that the Taliban believes is appropriate for women--both are struggling to survive, both changed forever by the events of 9/11.
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 9
Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Nikki's diary is up to the month of April, and springtime is sure to bring more wacky adventures with Nikki and her friends Chloe, Zoey, and Brandon!
423) Alice Bliss
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books/Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Alice Bliss, whose father has been deployed to Iraq, struggles to cope with his absence while falling in love with the boy next door and navigating her complicated relationship with her mother.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Jerome Everard expected to inherit his wayward uncle's estate. Instead, all has gone to a secret daughter. Only by disproving his young cousin's claim can Jerome regain his rightful property. But instead, he finds himself drawn to her lovely governess, Adele Walcott -- a woman who holds the key to all of his uncle's secrets. Adele's fortune is gone, along with her marriage prospects. Now she is devoted to securing her charge's happiness. When she...
425) Jennifer's body
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A newly possessed cheerleader turns into a killer who specializes in offing her male classmates. Can her best friend put an end to the horror?
426) Hungry ghost
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
After the sudden death of her father, sixteen-year-old Valerie Chu, who is hiding an eating disorder from her friends and family, reevaluates her life, her choices and her own body as she tries to find the strength to seek help.
Valerie Chu is quiet, studious, and above all, thin. No one, not even her best friend, Jordan, knows that she has been bingeing and purging for years. But when tragedy strikes, Val finds herself reassessing her priorities,...
427) Breathless
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
From Jennifer Niven, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Bright Places, comes an unforgettable new novel about a sensitive girl ready to live her bravest life--sex, heartbreak, family dramas, and all. Before: With graduation on the horizon, budding writer Claudine Henry is focused on three things: college in the fall, become a famous author, and the ever-elusive possibility of sex. She doesn't even need to be in love--sex is all she's...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"My name is Caitlin Feral, and I'm about to face my final Testing Day. My younger brother and mom hope I return: that I survive the tests (which is not a given) and that I am still a dreg. They want me to stay here with them to keep what's left of our family together. They want me to stay here, in the shadow of the Genetic Wars, with mutant animal attacks, protectors in faceless helms eager to catch us in the slightest infractions, and a menial work...
429) The okay witch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Moth Hush loves all things witchy. But she's about to discover that witches aren't just the stuff of movies, books, and spooky stories. When some eighth-grade bullies try to ruin her Halloween, something really strange happens. It turns out that Founder's Bluff, Massachusetts, has a centuries-old history of witch drama. And, surprise: Moth's family is at the center of it all! When Moth's new powers show up, things get totally out-of-control....
430) Haunted
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Anne Michaelson is trying to forget everything that happened last year. But it's hard to do when her heart aches for Ethan and there's a wild-haired woman stalking her... Ethan Kosinsky is embracing his newfound mortality. But something is drawing him back to the girl he left behind-back to Anne and back to the magic... A mysterious stranger is hunting Anne wherever she goes. No one sees her but Anne. When she searches for the woman's identity, Anne...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"'Hysterically droll, touching, elegant, and wise--a coming-of-age story from someone who possibly came of age before her parents' (Patricia Marx, New Yorker writer and bestselling author), Trying to Float is a seventeen-year-old's darkly funny, big-hearted memoir about growing up in New York City's legendary Chelsea Hotel. New York's Chelsea Hotel may no longer be home to its most famous denizens--Andy Warhol, Leonard Cohen, Patti Smith, to name...
Author
Publisher
Large Print Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
For years twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille, a woman trapped in her long-ago moment of glory as the 1951 Vidalia Onion Queen. When Camille is killed by a truck, CeeCee's previously unknown great-aunt, Tootie Caldwell, whisks CeeCee away to Savannah, a world seemingly run entirely by women. These exotic women keep CeeCee enthralled for an entire summer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The true story behind the iconic fictional detective is "a fascinating chapter in the history of publishing" ( The Seattle Times ). An Edgar Award Winner for Best Biography and a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year The plucky "titian-haired" sleuth solved her first mystery in 1930 -- and eighty million books later, Nancy Drew has survived the Depression, World War II, and the sixties (when she was taken up with a vengeance by women's libbers) to...
435) The book of goose
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agn̈s, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised--the place that Fabienne helped Agn̈s escape ten years ago. Now, Agn̈s is free to tell her story. As children in a war-ravaged, backwater town, they'd built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves--until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agn̈s on an epic...
436) Hopeless: a novel
Author
Series
Hopeless volume 1
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Sky, a senior in high school, meets Dean Holder, a guy with a promiscuous reputation that rivals her own. From their very first encounter, he terrifies and captivates her. Something about him sparks memories of her deeply troubled past, a time she's tried so hard to bury. Though Sky is determined to stay far away from him, his unwavering pursuit and enigmatic smile break down her defenses and the intensity of the bond between them grows. But the mysterious...
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