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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Founder of the lifestyle website TheChicSite.com and CEO of her own media company, Rachel Hollis has created an online fan base by sharing tips for living a better life while fearlessly revealing the messiness of her own. Each chapter begins with a specific lie Hollis once believed that left her feeling overwhelmed, unworthy, or ready to give up. As a working mother, a former foster parent, and a woman who has dealt with insecurities about her body...
2) Leave me
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"International bestselling author Gayle Forman's trademark humor and insight abound in this masterful adult debut, showing us that sometimes you have to leave home in order to find it again. For every woman who has ever fantasized about driving past her exit on the highway instead of going home to make dinner, for every woman who has ever dreamed of boarding a train to a place where no one needs constant attention--meet Maribeth Klein, a harried working...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Delilah always keeps her messy, gooey insides hidden behind a wall of shrugs and yeah, whatevers. She goes with the flow--which is how she ends up singing in her friends' punk band as a favor, even though she'd prefer to hide at the merch table. Reggie is a D&D Dungeon Master and self-declared Blerd. He spends his free time leading quests and writing essays critiquing the game under a pseudonym, keeping it all under wraps from his disapproving family....
4) Tex
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
The love between two teenage brothers helps to alleviate the harshness of their usually parentless life as they struggle to grow up.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
After capturing a bank robber, nineteen-year-old cab driver Ed Kennedy begins receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses where people need help, and he begins getting over his lifelong feeling of worthlessness.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Awkward freshman Will Carter endures many painful moments during his first year of high school before realizing that nothing good comes easily, focus is everything, and the payoff is usually incredible.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Colie, a former fat girl, spends the summer working as a waitress in a beachside restaurant, staying with her overweight and eccentric Aunt Mira, and trying to explore her sense of self.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Two motherless sisters--Bean and Liz--are shuttled to Virginia, where their Uncle Tinsley lives in the decaying mansion that's been in their family for generations. When school starts in the fall, Bean easily adjusts and makes friends, and Liz becomes increasingly withdrawn. Then something happens to Liz and Bean is left to challenge the injustice of the adult world.
11) The goldfinch
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
Description
"The author of the classic bestsellers The Secret History and The Little Friend returns with a brilliant, highly anticipated new novel. A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an accident that takes the life of his mother. Alone and abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in by a friend's family and struggles to make sense of his new life. In the years that follow, he becomes entranced by one of the few things that reminds...
12) The serpent king
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
The son of a Pentecostal preacher faces his personal demons as he and his two outcast friends try to make it through their senior year of high school in rural Forrestville, Tennessee without letting the small-town culture destroy their creative spirits and sense of self.
13) Monster
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sandra Uwiringiyimana was just ten years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head. The rebels had come at night -- wielding weapons, torches, machetes. She watched as her mother and six-year-old sister were gunned down in a refugee camp, far from their home in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The rebels were killing people who weren't from the same community, the same tribe. In other words, they were killing people simply for...
15) Release
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adam Thorn doesn't know it yet, but today will change his life. Between his religious family, a deeply unpleasant ultimatum from his boss, and his own unrequited love for his sort-of ex, Enzo, it seems as though Adam's life is falling apart. At least he has two people to keep him sane: his new boyfriend (he does love Linus, doesn't he?) and his best friend, Angela. But all day long, old memories and new heartaches come crashing together, throwing...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nanette O'Hare, a star student and athlete, is given a mysterious out-of-print cult classic novel by her beloved teacher that sparks the rebel within her, but as she befriends the reclusive author and attempts to insert her true self into the world with wild abandon, Nanette learns the hard way that sometimes rebellion comes at a high price.
17) Ghost boy
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unhappy in a home seemingly devoid of love, a fourteen-year-old albino boy who thinks of himself as Harold the Ghost runs away to join the circus, where he works with the elephants and searches for a sense of who he is.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Will Carter's summer gets off to a bad start when his girlfriend leaves him, but then he is cast opposite a major star, Hilary Idaho, in a small movie being filmed in his town and things start looking up.
19) What can't wait
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marooned in a broken-down Houston neighborhood--and in a Mexican immigrant family where making ends meet matters much more than making it to college--smart, talented Marissa seeks comfort elsewhere when her home life becomes unbearable.
20) Stepsister
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Isabelle is one of Cinderella's ugly stepsisters, who cut off their toes in an attempt to fit into the glass slipper; but there is more to her story than a maimed foot, for the Marquis de la Chance is about to offer her a choice and the opportunity to change her fate--there will be blood and danger, but also the possibility of redemption and triumph, and most of all the chance to find her true self.
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