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Author
Series
Flower power books volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Four friends--each named after a flower--navigate the ups and downs of fifth grade, in a story told through text messages, blog posts, screenplay, and straight narrative.
3) Freeze frame
Author
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books/HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Kyle believes he does not deserve to live after accidentally shooting and killing his best friend.
4) Hothouse
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Teens D.J. and Russell, life-long friends and neighbors, had drifted apart but when their firefighter fathers are both killed, they try to help one another come to terms with the tragedy and its aftermath.
7) Dear Justyce
Author
Series
Dear Martin volume 2
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Incarcerated teen Quan Banks writes letters to Justyce McCallister, with whom he bonded years before over family issues, about his experiences in the American juvenile justice system.
Author
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Najwa Bakri is forced to investigate the mysterious death of her best friend and Scrabble Queen, Trina, a year after the fact when her Instagram comes back to life with cryptic posts and messages.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Indian-American teenager Samantha Mishra, her best friend Mel Sharpe, and the other members of the Drake Rosemont Academy fencing team are on their way to Tokyo when their plane crashes on a jungle-choked island, so while they hope for rescue, the teens will need to use all their ingenuity to survive the jungle, the old man who's stalking them--and each other.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In love with the girl he sneezed on the first day of school and best pals with Marshall, the "One Eyed Jack" of friends, seventh-grader Milo Cruikshank misses his mother whose death has changed everything at home.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"For Lily, its the worst first day of school ever. Who would want to be friends with the new girl, whose debut act is to throw up on the playground (on somebodys shoes!)? Fortunately, quirky Darby comes to the rescue. Darby likes frogs and candy and oddball stuff, and soon she and Lily have formed their own club--the Rizzlerunk Club. But before you can say BFF, Darby's former best friend, mean-spirited Jill, who had moved to London, returns unexpectedly....
12) Vicious
Author
Series
Pretty little liars volume 16
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
On trial for murdering an actually still-alive Alison DiLaurentis, only Aria, Emily, Spencer, and Hanna know they have been framed and resolve to beat Ali at her own game.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Ama, Jo, and Polly, three close friends from Bethesda, Maryland, spend the summer before ninth grade learning about themselves, their families, and the changing nature of their friendship.
14) Here so far away
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Feisty and fearless George Warren (given name: Frances, but no one calls her that) has never let life get too serious. Now that she's about to be a senior, her plans include partying with her tight-knit group of friends and then getting the heck out of town after graduation. But instead of owning her last year of high school, a fight with her best friend puts her on the outs of their social circle.
15) Afterparty
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Tired of always being the good girl, Emma forms a friendship with fun and alluring Siobhan, but Siobhan's dangerous lifestyle becomes more than Emma can handle"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Sara and Nadine have been like two halves of the same person, but when Nadine skips a grade and begins high school first, Sara must discover who she is without Nadine.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After her mother's death, thirteen-year-old Opal moves to her uncle's farm where she befriends a group of orphaned, music-loving bats, and summons the courage to protect them from a mining company as she attempts to find them a new home.
Author
Publisher
Wattpad Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"It's the summer of 1955. For Ethan Harper, a biracial kid raised mostly by his white father, race has always been a distant conversation. When he's sent to spend the summer with his aunt and uncle in small-town Alabama, his blackness is suddenly front and center, and no one is shy about making it known he's not welcome there. Enter Juniper Jones. The town's resident free spirit, she's everything the townspeople aren't--open, kind, and accepting"--Back...