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2) Scowler
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
In the midst of a 1981 meteor shower in Iowa, a homicidal maniac escapes from prison and returns to the farm where his nineteen-year-old son, Ry, must summon three childhood toys--Mr. Furrington, Jesus Christ, and Scowler--to protect himself, his eleven-year-old sister, Sarah, and their mother.
4) The fallout
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
A sequel to The Compound finds Eli and his family struggling to acclimate to the outside world after escaping the compound where his father imprisoned them for six years, an effort that is complicated by an intrusive media and disturbing revelations about his father's company.
5) Stick
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Thirteen-year-old Stark "Stick" McClellan's brother has always defended him against those who tease him for his thinness and facial deformity, so when Bosten, having admitted he is gay, must leave home and their abusive parents, Stick sets out to find him.
6) Still waters
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"High-schooler Jason, who lives with a drunk, abusive father at home, hopes to earn enough money to escape with his younger sister, Janie, by being tough at school, but the stakes grow ever more dangerous and soon even his fists and ability to think on his feet are not enough to keep his head above water."--
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Haunted by memories of the fire that killed her boyfriend, seventeen-year-old Alice Monroe is in a mental ward when, with support from fellow patient Chase, she begins to confront hidden truths in a journal, including that the only person she trusts may be telling her only half of the story.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Tells, in their separate voices and at a space of fourteen years, of Emmy, whose baby has been stolen, and Sophie, a teenager who defies her nomadic, controlling mother by making friends with a neighbor boy and his elderly aunts.
9) Avalanche
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"After an avalanche hits, a group of skiers in the Rocky Mountains must survive Mother Nature and a life-threatening injury to one of their members in order to make it out of the mountains and find help"--
10) Complicit
Author
Pub. Date
℗♭2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Jamie's mother was murdered when he was six, about seven years later his sister Cate was incarcerated for burning down a neighbor's barn, and now Jamie, fifteen, learns that Cate has been released and is coming back for him, blaming him for all the bad things that led to her arrest.
11) Stranded
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"A year after the death of her sister, Emma ventures with a hiking group into the dangerous woods of the Boundary Waters. But after a freak windstorm kills their guide, the group must endure the wrath of Mother Nature--and each other--if they hope to make it out of the woods alive"--
12) Fix me
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Struggling with painful memories of her parents' fatal car accident and abuse at the hands of her violent twin brother, orphan Leia hides in the elephant habitat at the zoo.
13) My Quiet Ship
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
When his parents yell, Quinn escapes in his Quiet Ship but one day, the ship is broken and he must find a way to stop the fighting.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Devastated by her parents' decision to split up, pressured by her boyfriend to have sex, and saddled with a case of chicken pox, fifteen-year-old Keek finds consolation in her beloved, well-worn copy of Sylvia Plath's "The Bell Jar."
15) Never enough
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Sixteen-year-old Loann admires and envies her older sister Claire's strength, popularity, and beauty, but as Loann begins to open up to new possibilities in herself, she discovers that Claire's all-consuming quest for perfection comes at a dangerous price.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Abducted at age five, Callie, now seventeen, has spent her life on the run but when her mother is finally arrested and she is returned to her father in small-town Florida, Callie must find a way to leave her past behind, become part of a family again, and learn that love is more than just a possibility.