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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
After his daughter Vera suffers a psychotic break at a high school party and is diagnosed with bipolar, Lucas decides to take her on a trip to Vilnius hoping the change of scenery will help rouse her from the fog of her medication and bring them closer together. Lucas and his high school sweetheart Katya had Vera when they were only 18 and Lucas was not part of Vera's life for most of her childhood. Thorpe skillfully weaves family mythology and Lithuanian...
6) Splintering
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Relates, in a series of poems from different perspectives, the events and aftereffects of an intruder's violent attack on a family.
7) Belzhar
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jam Gallahue, fifteen, unable to cope with the loss of her boyfriend Reeve, is sent to a therapeutic boarding school in Vermont, where a journal-writing assignment for an exclusive, mysterious English class transports her to the magical realm of Belzhar, where she and Reeve can be together.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Rosaline knows that she and Rob are destined to be together. Rose has been waiting for years for Rob to kiss her—and when he finally does, it’s perfect. But then Juliet moves back to town. Juliet, who used to be Rose’s best friend. Juliet, who now inexplicably hates her. Juliet, who is gorgeous, vindictive, and a little bit wild...and who has set her sights on Rob. He doesn’t even stand a chance. Rose is devastated over losing Rob to Juliet....
11) Bait
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Diego keeps getting into trouble because of his explosive temper until he finally finds a probation officer who helps him get to the root of his anger so that he can stop running from his past.
12) Claim to fame
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Lindsay, a former child star whose career ended when she developed the ability to hear what anyone, anywhere says about her and apparently suffered a nervous breakdown, comes to see this as an asset when, after her father's death, she learns that she is not alone.
13) Boy21
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences.
14) Edges
Author
Publisher
Random House/Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
New Yorkers Luke, sixteen, and Ava, nineteen, both wind up in Moab, Utah, trying to put their lives back together after suffering from the death of loved ones, alcoholism, and other traumas.
15) Cut me free
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"A seventeen year old barely escapes her abusive parents and creates a new identity that is quickly compromised when her attempt to save a young girl attracts a deadly stalker"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Told in alternating voices, when Theodore Finch and Violet Markey meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school--both teetering on the edge--it's the beginning of an unlikely relationship, a journey to discover the "natural wonders" of the state of Indiana, and two teens' desperate desire to heal and save one another" --Provided by publisher.
17) Where she went
Author
Series
If I stay volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Adam, now a rising rock star, and Mia, a successful cellist, reunite in New York and reconnect after the horrific events that tore them apart when Mia almost died in a car accident three years earlier.
18) Tricks
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Five troubled teenagers fall into prostitution as they search for freedom, safety, community, family, and love.
19) Crash into me
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Four suicidal teenagers go on a "celebrity suicide road trip," visiting the graves of famous people who have killed themselves, with the intention of ending their lives in Death Valley, California.
20) Smoke
Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After the death of her abusive father and loss of her beloved Ethan and their unborn child, Pattyn runs away, desperately seeking peace, as her younger sister, a sophomore in high school, also tries to put the pieces of her life back together.