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1) Scar Island
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jonathan Grisby has been sent to the Slabhenge Reformatory School for Troubled Boys, a former lunatic asylum which is currently run by a sadist who enjoys punishing the boys and setting them against each other; but when a lightning strike kills all the adults the boys find themselves suddenly free--and trapped on Scar Island which seems to be sinking into the ocean.
3) Inside out
Author
Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A sixteen-year-old with schizophrenia is caught up in the events surrounding an attempted robbery by two other teens who eventually hold him hostage.
4) House arrest
Author
Series
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While under house arrest for one year for stealing a wallet, young Timothy keeps free-verse notes on his life in a court-ordered journal as he deals with having a sick brother and tries to stay out of trouble.
5) Bad
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In an attempt to please her friends, sixteen-year-old Dallas goes along with their plan to rob a convenience store and when her father refuses to allow her to come home, she is sentenced to six months in the Girls' Rehabilitation Center.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A group of teens at the Hope Juvenile Treatment Center are shocked to discover their guards have abandoned them, but their joy turns to fear when they learn a catastrophic pandemic has occurred outside their walls, turning their new-found freedom into a fight for survival.
7) Hoyos
Author
Publisher
Ediciones SM
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
Español
Description
Young Stanley Yelnats begins a journey of self-discovery when he is sent to a juvenile detention center in Texas, where the boys are forced to dig five-foot-deep holes as punishment--a process for which Stanley suspects the warden has ulterior motives.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After a brawl with a rival gang, sixteen-year-old Azael, a member of Houston's MS-13 gang and the son of illegal Salvadoran immigrants, wakes up in an unusual juvenile detention center where he is forced to observe another inmate through a one-way mirror.
10) Holes
Author
Publisher
Laurel-Leaf
Pub. Date
2001, ©1998.
Language
English
Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
11) Boot camp
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After ignoring several warnings to stop dating his teacher, Garrett is sent to Lake Harmony, a boot camp that uses unorthodox and brutal methods to train students to obey their parents.
12) Holes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnate is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
13) Viva Chicano
Author
Publisher
E. P. Dutton
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
Description
Keeny, a Mexican-American on parole, feels he must not return to the atmosphere of his home and neighborhood and devises a solution to the problem.
14) Perfect liars
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
c2016
Language
English
Description
"Andrea Faraday, a society girl with a sketchy past, leads a crew of juvie kids in using their criminal skills for good"--
15) Long way down
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
There are three rules in the neighborhood: Don't cry ; Don't snitch ; Get revenge. Will takes his dead brother Shawn's gun, and gets in the elevator on the 7th floor. As the elevator stops on each floor, someone connected to Shawn gets on. Someone already dead. Dead by teenage gun violence. And each has something to share with Will.
16) Durango Street
Author
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
1999,c1965
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Now that he's served his time and is out of work camp Rufus Henry doesn't want to join one of the gangs which control Durango Street, but that's where he lives and it's the only way to be safe from the Gassers.
17) The alternative
Author
Series
(Shannon Ford).Summit Middle School volume 3
Publisher
Saddleback Educational Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Brent Bonham is sent to an alternative campus after committing a crime, where he meets bully Jessa McCain.
18) Last chance
Author
Series
Robyn Hunter mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Darby Creek
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Robyn's scared of dogs -- like, really scared. But she agrees to spend her summer working at an animal shelter anyway. (It's a long story.) Robyn soon discovers that many juvenile offenders also volunteer at the shelter -- including Nick Di'Angelo, a boy from Robyn's past. A boy she hoped never to see again. Nick has a talent for getting into trouble, but after his latest arrest, Robyn suspects that he just might be innocent. And she sets out to...
19) Tagged
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Liam, a fourteen-year-old graffiti artist, can't keep his grades up and is threatened by a local gang in the projects of Minneapolis, his mother sends him to Lake Michigan for the summer.
20) Midnight flight
Author
Series
Broken wings series (V. C. Andrews) volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Phoebe, Teal, and Robin find themselves trapped at Dr. Foreman's School for Girls where the guards are ruthless and Dr. Foreman delights in horrific punishments, causing the girls to join forces and fight back in order to survive.
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