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1) Rez Ball
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
"These days, Tre Brun is happiest when he is playing basketball on the Red Lake Reservation high school team--even though he can't help but be constantly gut-punched with memories of his big brother, Jaxon, who died in an accident. When Jaxon's former teammates on the varsity team offer to take Tre under their wing, he sees this as his shot to represent his Ojibwe rez all the way to their first state championship. This is the first step toward his...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Description
The #1 New York Times bestseller from Stephen King—a novel about the fascination deadly things have for us and about our insistence on answers when there are none…
Since 1979, the state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in the shed out behind the barracks. Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox had answered a strange call just down the road and came back with an abandoned 1953 Buick Roadmaster. Curt Wilcox...
Since 1979, the state police of Troop D in rural Pennsylvania have kept a secret in the shed out behind the barracks. Ennis Rafferty and Curtis Wilcox had answered a strange call just down the road and came back with an abandoned 1953 Buick Roadmaster. Curt Wilcox...
3) The tutor
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Julian Sawyer, hired by the Gardners to tutor their troubled teenage son, Brandon, quickly becomes a favorite with the family, providing business advice to mom and stock tips to dad, all the while setting them up for his own purposes, but in his plans, Julian makes the mistake of overlooking eleven-year-old Ruby, the only member of the family to realize Julian is not what he seems.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
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Description
The fate of Bartholomew Lampion, a gifted California child who loses his eyes to cancer at age three and miraculously regains his sight at thirteen, is entwined with the lives of a San Francisco girl born of rape and a man a thousand miles away who learns he has a mortal enemy named Bartholomew.
Author
Publisher
Balzer & Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. The story that I thought was my life didn't start on the day I was born. Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
College Sunrise is a vaguely disreputable finishing school in Switzerland. Rowland Mahler and his wife, Nina, run the school as a way to support themselves while he writes, somewhat falteringly, a novel. Enter seventeen-year-old Chris Wiley, a literary prodigy whose novel-in-progress already has publishers interested. The result is a mix of keen envy and a game of cat and mouse not free of sexual jealousy and attraction. Here Muriel Spark displays...
12) Devils within
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
Nate was eight the first time he stabbed someone; he was eleven when he earned his red laces-a prize for spilling blood for "the cause." And he was fourteen when he murdered his father (and the leader of The Fort, a notorious white supremacist compound) in self-defense, landing in a treatment center while the state searched for his next of kin. Now, in the custody of an uncle he never knew existed, who wants nothing to do with him, Nate just wants...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
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"Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, but he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was seven, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it. Charlie starts doing...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder... right? Everyone knows that Nick and Charlie love their nearly inseparable life together. But soon Nick will be leaving for university, and Charlie, a year younger, will be left behind. Everyone's asking if they're staying together, which is a stupid question... or at least that's what Nick and Charlie assume at first. As the time to say goodbye gets inevitably closer, both Nick and Charlie start to question...
15) Game changer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
After an especially rough tackle on the football field, Ash thinks he might be suffering some permanent damage, because suddenly stop signs are blue and always have been. After the second universe-altering hit, he drives a Beemer instead of a Dodge, and a pair of interdimensional twins promises him answers. The more universes he visits, the more Ash has to face perspectives he never thought to consider before, and the closer the universe gets to complete...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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In Seattle in 1937 two seventeen-year-olds, Henry, who is white, and Flora, who is African-American, become the unwitting pawns in a game played by two immortal figures, Love and Death, where they must choose each other at the end, or one of them will die.
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Charlie didn't think Nick could ever like him back, but now they're officially boyfriends. Nick has even found the courage to come out to his mom. But coming out isn't something that happens just once, and Nick and Charlie try to figure out when to tell their friends that they're dating. Not being out to their classmates gets even harder during a school trip to Paris. As Nick and Charlie's feelings get more serious, they'll need each other more than...
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