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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
50 years of an iconic classic! The international bestseller and inspiration for a beloved movie-now with bonus content. This special edition of the groundbreaking novel contains: Never before seen photos and letters from the publisher's archives Original review clippings and media coverage Photos from the author's personal collection A gallery of covers around the world New material from the stars and director of the iconic film-including Francis...
Author
Series
These violent delights volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
In 1926 Shanghai, eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, heir of the Scarlet Gang, and her first love-turned-rival Roma Montagov, leader of the White Flowers, must work together when mysterious deaths threaten their city.--
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Series
Language
English
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When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created "perfect" life is about to unravel before her eyes. She's forced to be lab partners with Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, and he is about to threaten everything she's worked so hard for-her flawless reputation, her relationship with her boyfriend, and the secret that her home life is anything but perfect....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them all financially could leave them all bearing his responsibilities...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Children's Recommended: 7th and 8th Grade
Children's Recommended: 7th Grade 2023
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Children's Recommended: 7th Grade 2023
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Description
Unable to celebrate the holidays in the wake of his older brother's death in a gang-related shooting, Lolly Rachpaul struggles to avoid being forced into a gang himself while constructing a fantastically creative LEGO city at the Harlem community center.
6) Rumble fish
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A junior high school boy idolizes his older brother, the coolest, toughest guy in the neighborhood, and wants to be just like him.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen year old Nalah leads the fiercest all-girl crew in Mega City, but when she sets her sights on giving this life up for a prestigious home in Mega Towers, she must decide if she's willing to do the unspeakable to get what she wants"--
Author
Series
Last magician volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an alternate version of present-day Manhattan, magic is dying, and Esta, a Mageus with a talent for manipulating time, travels back to 1901 to stop the destruction of a book that can possibly restore magic, but in Old New York, Esta must navigate gangs, secret societies, and her feelings for another magician in order to save the future of magic.
11) Just like that
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Children's New Books: April 2022 Ebooks
Children's Special Topics: Grief (Older Children)
Children's: 2022 Middle School Wellness_Fiction
Children's Special Topics: Grief (Older Children)
Children's: 2022 Middle School Wellness_Fiction
Description
With insight and a light touch, best-selling, Newbery Honor-winning author Gary D. Schmidt tells two poignant, linked stories: that of a grieving girl and a boy trying to escape his violent past. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students...
12) The loners
Author
Series
Quarantine volume 1
Publisher
EgmontUSA
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When a virus deadly to adults infects their high school, brothers David and Will and the other students soon break into gangs that fight each other for survival and the hope of escaping their quarantine.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The summer before starting middle school, when eleven-year-old Goldenrod Moram sets out to make a very accurate map of the forest behind her home, she discovers a band of troublemakers, a mysterious old lady, and the ghost of her explorer idol.
14) The Saints
Author
Series
Quarantine volume 2
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The world inside an infected Colorado high school quarantined by the government takes a startling turn for the worse when a new gang enters the school and starts gaining power.
16) Our violent ends
Author
Series
These violent delights volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Though secrets and lies keep Juliette and Roma apart, a monster still prowls the city of Shanghai, and the two are going to have to put aside their differences to end this threat to once and for all"--
17) Rivals
Author
Series
Robyn Hood volume 2
Publisher
Spellbound, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a rival gang comes to town and starts stealing from innocent people, can master thief Robyn Hood find a way to give them a taste of their own medicine?
Author
Series
Last magician volume 3
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
Formats
Description
Esta uses her affinity for time to give her an edge, and she's trained her whole life for one mission: travel back to 1902 New York, steal the ancient Book of Mysteries, and use its power to destroy the Brink and free the Mageus from the Order's control. But Seshat, an angry goddess was trapped within its pages. Now that terrible power lives within Harte, and if given the chance, Seshat will use Esta to destroy the world and take her revenge. Searching...
19) The walled city
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Mei Yee has been trapped in a brothel for the past two years, dreaming of getting out while watching the girls who try fail one by one. Jin lives in the street gangs, passing as a boy to stay safe while searching for her sister. Dai traffics drugs for the most ruthless kingpin in the Walled City, but dreams of a way out. They come together in a desperate attempt to escape a lawless labyrinth... before the clock runs out....
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1994, ©1984
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When he offends the toughest gang in his San Francisco school, Danny tries to elude them by going to Alcatraz only to find himself and a Park Service employee trapped by the gang in an old prison cell block.
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