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This Teen guide collects various types of information of benefit and interest to students at a high school age.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Billy Marvin's first love was a computer. Then he met Mary Zelinsky. Do you remember your first love? The Impossible Fortress begins with a magazine...The year is 1987 and Playboy has just published scandalous photographs of Vanna White, from the popular TV game show Wheel of Fortune . For three teenage boys--Billy, Alf, and Clark--who are desperately uneducated in the ways of women, the magazine is somewhat of a Holy Grail: priceless beyond measure...
62) Deenie
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A thirteen-year-old girl seemingly destined for a modeling career finds she has a deformation of the spine called scoliosis.
63) The goddess test
Author
Series
Goddess test novels volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eden, Michigan, high school student Kate Winters strikes a bargain with Henry, Greek god of the underworld, if he'll cure her dying mother of cancer. The bargain she strikes with him is a grim one, but the full enormity of what she has undertaken--"live forever or die trying"--Is not revealed until it's too late to recant.
64) Girlhood
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
Fed up with her abusive family situation, lack of school prospects and the "boys' law" in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her style, drops out of school and starts stealing to be accepted into the gang. When her home situation becomes unbearable, Marieme seeks solace in an older man who promises her money and protection. Realizing this sort of lifestyle will never...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Grace, Meg and Daphne, all in their seventies, are minding their own business while enjoying a cup of tea in a café, when seventeen-year-old Nina stumbles in. She's clearly distraught and running from someone, so the three women think nothing of hiding her when a suspicious-looking man starts asking if they've seen her. Once alone, Nina tells the women a little of what she's running from. The need to protect her is immediate, and Grace, Meg and...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Liz Lighty has always done her best to avoid the spotlight in her small, wealthy, and prom-obsessed midwestern high school. Her family is black and rather poor, especially since her mother died. Liz has concentrated on her grades and her musical ability in the hopes that it will win her a scholarship to elite Pennington College and their famous orchestra where she plans to study medicine. When that scholarship falls through she is forced to turn to...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Maddy is sixteen. She has loyal friends, a mother with whom she's unusually close, a father she's never met, devoted grandparents, and a crush on a boy named Jack. Maddy also has cancer. Deeply curious, wry, and vivacious, she's poised at the outset of adulthood, ready to untangle all the mysteries that living holds--if she survives her teens"--
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set in a future world of environmental collapse and mass poverty, where a mysterious boy named Rose discovers he possesses inhuman powers that can irrevocably change the lives of everyone on the planet"--
Author
Series
Ruby Redfort volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ruby, a genius code-cracker and daring detective, gets an anonymous call setting a challenge that leads her to the headquarters of Spectrum, a highly secret anti-crime agency that needs her help to crack a code, but soon Ruby uncovers dastardly plans of the Fool's Gold Gang.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 34
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
1975
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Nancy visits her cousin in Virginia hoping to locate a missing stained-glass window.
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
History is filled with stories of women accused of witchcraft, of fearsome girls with arcane knowledge. Toil & Trouble features fifteen stories of girls embracing their power, reclaiming their destinies and using their magic to create, to curse, to cure - and to kill. ... This collection reveals a universal truth: there's nothing more powerful than a teenage girl who believes in herself.
73) The healer
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Marlena Oliveira has been given an extraordinary gift. She has been given the power to heal. She can cure paralysis, mental illness, even a broken heart. People with all kinds of ailments come from around the world seeking audiences with her, believing her to be a saint. But her power comes at a price. Marlena can't have friends or go to school. She can't date. She can't even touch anyone. The older she gets, the more trapped she feels." -- From...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In girls' own voices, What a girl wants presents a glimpse into the powerful - and often destructive - influence commercial culture has on the formation of young girls' identities. A diverse group of eleven girls speaks honestly and openly about the sexual and body-image pressures they encounter as they come of age in a culture that idolized Britney Spears, Jessica Simpson, and other pop stars.
Author
Series
Devil's West volume 1
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Inadvertently trained by the Devil to see the clues in and manipulations of human desire, sixteen-year-old Izzy is raised to be his left hand and travel circuit through his territory west of the Mississippi.
76) The cold eye
Author
Series
Devil's West volume 2
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In the anticipated sequel to Silver on the Road, Isobel is riding circuit through the Territory as the Devil's Left Hand. But when she responds to a natural disaster, she learns the limits of her power and the growing danger of something mysterious that is threatening not just her life, but the whole Territory. Isobel is the left hand of the old man of the Territory, the Boss--better known as the Devil. Along with her mentor, Gabriel, she is traveling...
77) The Declaration
Author
Series
Declaration trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
In 2140 England, where drugs enable people to live forever and children are illegal, teenaged Anna, an obedient "Surplus" training to become a house servant, discovers that her birth parents are trying to find her.
78) Enclave
Author
Series
Razorland volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In a post-apocalyptic future, fifteen-year-old Deuce, a loyal Huntress, brings back meat while avoiding the Freaks outside her enclave, but when she is partnered with the mysterious outsider, Fade, she begins to see that the strict ways of the elders may be wrong--and dangerous.
79) To best the boys
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In a new fantasy novel from Mary Weber, bestselling author of the Storm Siren series and the Sofi Snow books, one girl makes a stand against society and enters a world made exclusively for boys. Every year for the past fifty-four years, the residents of Pinsbury Port receive a mysterious letter inviting all eligible-aged boys to compete for an esteemed scholarship to the all-male Stemwick University. Every year, the poorer residents look to see that...
80) Sold
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi, though poor, enjoys her life until the Himalayan monsoons wash away her family's crops and she is sold to a brothel in India by her stepfather. She remembers her mother's wisdom, "Simply to endure is to triumph," until the day comes that she can reclaim her life.
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