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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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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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
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.
4) Dumplin'
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean Dickson (dubbed "Dumplin'" by her former beauty queen mom) has always been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having the ultimate bikini body? Put a bikini on your body. With her all-American beauty best friend, Ellen, by her side, things have always worked... until Will takes a job at Harpy's, the local fast-food joint. There she meets Private School Bo, a hot former jock. Will isn't surprised to find herself...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Overweight sixteen-year-old Charlie yearned for her first kiss while her perfect best friend, Amelia, fell in love, so when she finally starts dating and learns the boy asked Amelia out first, she is devastated.
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....
7) Puddin'
Author
Series
Dumplin' volume 2
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
When circumstances put Millie Michalchuk and Callie Reyes together over the course of a semester, the girls realize they have more in common than they ever imagined.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Novel-in-verse by an award-winning slam poet Elizabeth Acevedo, about Afro-Latina Xiomara Batista who turns to journalling poetry.
Xiomara Batista feels unheard and unable to hide in her Harlem neighborhood. Ever since her body grew into curves, she has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But Xiomara has plenty she wants to say, and she pours her frustration onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself...
10) Story of a girl
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
I was thirteen when my dad caught me with Tommy Webber in the back of Tommy’s Buick, parked next to the old Chart House down in Montara at eleven o’clock on a Tuesday night. Tommy was seventeen and the supposed friend of my brother, Darren.
I didn’t love him.
I’m not sure I even liked him.
In a moment, Deanna Lambert’s teenage life is changed forever. Struggling to overcome the lasting repercussions and the stifling...
I didn’t love him.
I’m not sure I even liked him.
In a moment, Deanna Lambert’s teenage life is changed forever. Struggling to overcome the lasting repercussions and the stifling...
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...
12) XL
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Will has always been troubled by his short stature, but on his 16th birthday, he starts to grow--and grow, and grow"--
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"You never know where we'll end up. There's so much possibility in life, you know?" Hallie said. Sean Norwhalt can read between the lines. He knows Hallie's just dumped him. He was a perfectly good summer boyfriend, but now she's off to college, and he's still got another year to go. Her pep talk about futures and "possibilities" isn't exactly comforting. Sean's pretty sure he's seen his future and its "possibilities," and they all look DISPOSABLE....
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One of the Good Ones is magic." —Damon Young, author of What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker
A shockingly powerful exploration of the lasting impact of prejudice and the indomitable spirit of sisterhood that will have readers questioning what it truly means to be an ally, from sister-writer duo Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite, authors of Dear Haiti, Love Alaine.
ISN'T BEING HUMAN ENOUGH?
When...
A shockingly powerful exploration of the lasting impact of prejudice and the indomitable spirit of sisterhood that will have readers questioning what it truly means to be an ally, from sister-writer duo Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite, authors of Dear Haiti, Love Alaine.
ISN'T BEING HUMAN ENOUGH?
When...
15) I'll be the one
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Skye Shin has heard it all. Fat girls shouldn't dance. Wear bright colors. Shouldn't call attention to themselves. But Skye dreams of joining the glittering world of K-Pop, and to do that, she's about to break all the rules that society, the media, and even her own mother, have set for girls like her. She'll challenge thousands of other performers in an internationally televised competition looking for the next K-pop star, and she'll do it better...
16) Junk Boy
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bestselling author Tony Abbott's YA novel-in-verse is an unflinching and heartbreaking look at a boy's junk-filled life, and the ways he finds redemption and hope, perfect for fans of The Crossover and Long Way Down.
Junk. That's what the kids at school call Bobby Lang, mostly because his rundown house looks like a junkyard, but also because they want to put him down. Trying desperately to live under the radar at school—and
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Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Olivia plans to spend her summer in the Catskills, binge-watching horror movies and chatting with her online friend Elm, but things get complicated when she sends Elm her best friend's picture and she runs into the last person she thought she would ever see in real life.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Elisa, a fugitive in her own kingdom, faces great challenges to rescue the man she loves from her enemies, prevent a civil war, and take back her throne but as her magic grows, Elisa discovers the shocking truth about her enemy's ultimate goal.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hero. Foreigner. Queen. Elisa, at the age of seventeen, is all three. And all three draw enemies. Faced with assassins, court politics, and the threat of civil war, Elisa despairs of being the ruler her people need. Her only hope is the Godstone. She must master its power once and for all. She finds clues hidden in a long forgotten--and forbidden--scripture. Accompanied by a one-eyed warrior, an enemy defector, and the man she is falling in love...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the author of When Elephants Fly comes an exceptional new novel about falling down, risking everything and embracing what makes us unique. Don't miss this compulsively readable novel about the most unlikely of heroes.
Danger "Danny" Danielle Warren is no stranger to falling. After losing an eye in a childhood accident, she had to relearn her perception of movement and space. Now Danny keeps her head down, studies hard, and works...
Danger "Danny" Danielle Warren is no stranger to falling. After losing an eye in a childhood accident, she had to relearn her perception of movement and space. Now Danny keeps her head down, studies hard, and works...
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