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1) Wingman
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The other night, Trace Brewster, Max's best friend and star hockey player for the Hawks, scored on his own net and put the team's chances of qualifying for an upcoming tournament in jeopardy. Since then Trace has gone silent and is shutting everyone out. But Max thinks there's more going on with his friend than what happened on the ice. For one thing, there are bruises on Trace's face that he refuses to explain. Can Max find a way to get Trace to...
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Though Savannah Rose is a gifted ballerina, her real talent is keeping secrets. Schooled in silence by her long-dead mother, Savannah has always believed that her lifelong creed, 'I'm not the kind of girl who tells' will make her just like everyone else, normal, happy, safe. But in the aftermath of a brutal assault by her seemingly perfect boyfriend Tristan, Savannah must finally find the courage to confront the ghosts of her past, or lose herself...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sent to reform school after stabbing his abusive father, thirteen-year-old William befriends three boys with whom he works to tame horses before triggering a series of tragic events that brings them into a greater awareness of the world's cruelty and social norms.
4) Junk boy
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Bobby, who is bullied by the kids at school for living in a home with a front yard that is filled with garbage, meets a young artist who teaches him to see himself as more than "Junk Boy.""--
7) Redeeming 6
Author
Series
Boys of Tommen volume 4
Publisher
[Publisher unknown]
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Aoife is absolutely unwilling to give up the boy she loves, so she is determined to save him from self-destruction. She becomes trapped in a world she doesn't understand, but her heart is stronger than what's trying to drag her down. Aoife will never give up on Joey, no matter how much is stacked against them.
9) First time
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Haley must deal with unwanted advances from her mother's new boyfriend.
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publishing Co
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
"In the beginning, Owen's story was blank . . . then he was befriended by Lily, the aspiring author who helped him find his voice. Together, the two have spent years navigating first love and amassing an inseparable friend group. But all of it is upended one day when his school's administration learns Owen's secret: that he was sexually assaulted by a classmate."
Author
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Maddie and Grace meet in an adolescent psychiatric unit after each has committed desperate self-injurious acts in response to years of abuse, neglect, and chaos. Together they navigate the surreal world of their fellow patients while staff provide nurturance and guidance to support their healing journeys. With the help of veteran psychiatrist Mary Swenson, Maddie and Grace come to terms with their pasts and discover the inner fortitude they need to...
12) Hello girls
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Best friends are forged by fire. For Winona Olsen and Lucille Pryce, that fire happens the night they meet outside the police station, both deciding whether to turn their families in. Shy, restrained Winona has been starving for life in the seemingly perfect home she shares with her seemingly perfect father, celebrity weatherman Stormy Olsen. No one knows he locks the pantry door to control her eating and leaves bruises where no one can see them....
14) Cross my heart
Author
Series
Ty and Hunter romances volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Lacey Kincaid, a.k.a. heiress Lillian Dumont, decides to come out of hiding and claim her rightful inheritance at the urging of her childhood sweetheart Ty, her uncle will stop at nothing, not even murder, to keep her from getting what is hers.
Author
Publisher
West 44 Books, an imprint of Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Clare and Zari are best friends. They write music together, go everywhere together, and they know everything about the other. At least they did before Zari started dating Dion. The more Zari falls for Dion, the less she has time for anything else. At first, Clare chalks it up to a new and exciting relationship, and she tries to be happy for her friend despite her loneliness. When Zari starts to show up to school with half-hidden bruises, Clare knows...
16) The red canoe
Author
Series
Buck Fineday volume 1
Publisher
Agora Books, an imprint of Polis Books, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Buck, government name Michael Fineday, Ojibwe name Miskwa' doden (Red Deer) is on the brink of suicide. He has just been served divorce papers by his wife Naomi, who is fed up with his savior complex and the danger it often attracts to their door. Living on the border of Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community reservation, Buck makes a living as a boatbuilder and carpenter. He spends his days alone, trying to win the trust of a feral cat ... until a...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Luke has been away for two endless years, but he's finally returning today. Lily was only twelve when he left. But now, at fourteen, she feels transformed. She can't wait to see how Luke will react when he sees the new her. And when her mother tells her that Luke will be staying with them for a while, in the bedroom right next to hers, her heart nearly stops. Having Luke back is better than Lily could have ever dreamed. His lingering looks set Lily...
Author
Language
English
Description
The year is 1982; the setting, an Edenic hamlet some ninety miles north of New York City. There, among the craggy rock cliffs and glacial ponds of timeworn mountains, three friends--Patrick, Matthew, and Hannah--are bound together by a terrible and seemingly senseless crime. Twenty-six years later, in New York City, living lives their younger selves never could have predicted, the three meet again--with even more devastating results--from Amazon.com....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In one of the year's most anticipated thrillers #1 New York Times bestseller Sarah Pekkanen calls "Alex Finlay's best yet," What Have We Done is a tale about the lives we leave behind and the secrets we carry with us forever. A stay-at-home mom with a past. A has-been rock star with a habit. A reality TV producer with a debt. Three disparate lives. One deadly secret. Twenty five years ago, Jenna, Donnie, and Nico were the best of friends, a bond...
Author
Publisher
Faith Words
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jenny Blake has a theory about life : big decisions often don't amount to much, but little decisions sometimes transform everything. Her theory proves true the summer she's 14, when she makes the decision to pick up a penny embedded in asphalt and consequently ends up stopping a robbery, getting a job, and meeting someone who changes her life forever, Miss Shaw. Together they form a friendship that dares both of them to confront secrets in their...