Carrie Arcos
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, Nadja grows up in war-torn Bosnia in the 1990s and, in the present, refuses to discuss her youth with her daughter, Zara, until both are traumatized by a terrorist attack in Rhode Island.
2) Out of reach
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Accompanied by her brother's friend, Tyler, sixteen-year-old Rachel ventures through San Diego and nearby areas seeking her brother, eighteen-year-old Micah, a methamphetamine addict who ran away from home.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Neruda Diaz, influenced by his namesake, Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, yearns to fall in love but has yet to find the right girl.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Overwhelmed by grief and guilt after his twin sister Grace's accidental death, seventeen-year-old Mark Santos is persuaded by his best friend to complete the "bucket list" from Grace's journal.