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1) The Haters
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
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A road trip adventure about a trio of jazz-camp escapees who, against every realistic expectation, become a band.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
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Sixteen-year-old Simon Spier quietly enjoys flirtatious emails between himself and a guy calling himself "Blue," hoping it will lead to a relationship. However, the emails fall into the wrong hands and Simon is blackmailed. Now Simon must explore his feelings and decide if being outed to the rest of the high school is such a bad thing.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 10
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Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world. A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
It's 1996, and less than half of all American high school students have ever used the Internet. Emma just got her first computer and Josh is her best friend. They power up and log on--and discover themselves on Facebook, fifteen years in the future. Everybody wonders what their Destiny will be. Josh and Emma are about to find out.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Eighth-grade star quarterback Nate Brodie's family is feeling the stress of the troubled economy, and Nate is frantic because his best friend Abby is going blind, so when he gets a chance to win a million dollars if he can complete a pass during the halftime of a New England Patriot's game, he is nearly overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed.
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Pub. Date
p2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In a small East Texas town largely ruled by prejudices and bullies, fourteen-year-old Austin sets out to win a ride in the next parade and, in the process, grows in her understanding of friendship and helps her widowed mother through her mourning.