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1) Wringer
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.
3) 23 minutes
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Witnessing a bank robbery gone awry, misfit 15-year-old Zoe, a girl with supernatural ability to jump back in time and repeat events with up to 10 tries, attempts to stop the crime, but only makes things worse with each successive effort.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A talented 16-year-old artist slowly discovers the history of domestic violence behind why her brother left the family years earlier and why she suddenly cannot make art"--
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"'Personally I don't mind them coming here but they might bother some of my customers.' Thirteen-year old Billie Sims has heard things like this all her life, from the grocer down the road, from her neighbors at church, from her parents. But Billie never understood what all the fuss was about. Why do blacks and whites have separate entrances to the bus station in her town of Anniston, Alabama? Why can't her friend Jarmaine, have a milk shake with...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster/BFYR
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Knowing that the friendships she depends on will change when her parents split up, Beth witnesses a private act of violence in her crush's home before forging a pact with her friends to offer support in the face of a life-altering decision.
With her family splintered and her future a question mark, Beth's friends-- Grace Nakamura, Brandon Lin, Sunny Chen, and Jason Tsou-- are all she has. She's certain she'll never be able to tell Jason how she really...
8) Pritty
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Jay is a soft soul in a world of concrete. While his older brother is everything people expect a man to be...Jay simply blends into the background to everyone, except when it comes to Leroy. Unsure of what he could have possibly done to catch the eye of the boy who could easily have anyone he wants, Jay isn't about to ignore the surprising but welcome attention. But as everything in his world begins to heat up, especially with Leroy, whispered rumors...
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The young girl tells us that her mom's new friend is just like the big bad wolf. At first the wolf is sweet and kind to her mom, though the girl notices the wolf's cold eyes from the very beginning. When her mom arrives home late one day, the wolf suddenly hurls angry words and terrible names at her. From that day on her mother doesn't smile anymore. The girl is careful to clean her room and brush her teeth and do everything to keep the peace, but...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Follows six teenagers as they are brought into close contact over the course of one tense week, in a town with political and personal tensions that build until one fires a fatal gunshot.
A gun is sold in the classifieds after killing a spouse. It is bought by a teenager for needed protection. Several people have the incentive to pick up a gun, to fire it. Was it Rand or Cami, married teenagers with a young son? Was it Silas or Ashlyn, members of...
11) The fort
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Five middle schoolers find a fully stocked bomb shelter constructed decades ago in the local woods by an eccentric tycoon and lost until a hurricane exposes the entrance. So, how to keep the hideout secret from interfering grown-ups--and, more particularly, from scary teen psychopath, Jaeger Devlin.
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Told from two viewpoints, sixth-graders Karina and Chris use social media to stand up to racism in Houston, Texas, after an attack puts Karina's Indian American grandfather in the hospital.
13) Coyote queen
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Fud feels trapped. She lives a precarious life in a cramped trailer with her mom and her mom's alcoholic ex-boxer boyfriend, Larry. Fud can see it's only a matter of time until Larry explodes again, even if her mom keeps on making excuses for his behavior. If only Fud could find a way to be as free as the coyotes roaming the Wyoming countryside: strong, smart, independent, and always willing to protect their own. When Larry comes...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Ever since her father died in a terrible accident, Maddy Gaines has worried a lot. She calls the police so often that she's on a first-name basis with the Sheriff. When a new boy moves to town, Maddy is convinced that he's not who he says he is--he's a boy who went missing six months ago. Maddy, her dog, her best friend, and her stepdad team up to see what he's hiding"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.
16) Fourmile
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"A mysterious stranger arrives at a boy's rundown Alabama farm home, just as a dangerous situation is unfolding for the twelve-year-old and his widowed mother"--
17) The outsiders
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parents' death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society
50 years of an iconic classic! The international bestseller and inspiration for a beloved movie--now with bonus content
18) Borderless
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Caught in the cross hairs of gang violence, seventeen-year-old fashion designer, Maya, and her mother set off on a perilous journey from Guatemala City to the US-Mexico border.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When brothers Max and Jay help a classmate in trouble, they struggle with the consequences of their violent actions and worry they may be more like their abusive father than they thought, so the brothers turn to their Bribri roots to find their way forward.
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