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61) Upstate
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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The story of a young couple in love and their struggle to maintain a relationship while the young man is incarcerated for a horrendous crime. In their letters beginning in 1990, Natasha and Antonio look back at their courtship against the landscape of their beloved Harlem.
62) Seize the day
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
A portrait of one day in the life of Tommy Wilhelm, a man on the brink of despair.
A novel about one day in the life of a middle-aged New Yorker struggling to make sense of his failures, atone for his sins, and understand how to truly "live in the moment."
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Series
Magic in Manhattan volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
High school sophomore Rachel and her younger sister Miri, both witches, are introduced to a wider community of witches while grappling with the problem of whether or not to reveal their powers to their school friends, father, and step-mother.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When a snowstorm keeps thirteen-year-old best friends Olivia, Kate, and Georgia inside their Brooklyn, New York, apartment building on Valentine's Day, they connect with their neighbors by distributing homemade fortune cookies and uncover one another's secrets along the way.
67) Watch us rise
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
"Jasmine and Chelsea are best friends. This year at their NYC high school, they plan to rock the theater and poetry clubs ... until Chelsea realizes the poetry club is more interested in the "classics" than poems that matter, and Jasmine has an experience that is more drama than theater. Sick over the way even their progressive school fails to listen to their voices, they start a new club, one dedicated to writing and creating work that supports women's...
Author
Series
York (Laura Ruby) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Description
In an alternate history of New York, three kids try to solve a modern-world puzzle and complete a treasure hunt laid into the streets and buildings of the city.
Author
Series
Anna K volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Told from multiple viewpoints, while seventeen-year-old Anna K seems above the typical problems of her Manhattan friends and siblings, finding love with a notorious playboy changes everything.
70) Forever princess
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Series
Princess diaries volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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Description
Although she has recently completed a 400-page romance novel, Princess Mia, in her last month of high school, has yet to pick a college, find a prom dress, or decide if her boyfriend J. P. is really The One.
Author
Series
Thousandth floor volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Manhattan is home to a thousand-story supertower, a beacon of futuristic glamour and high-tech luxury... and to millions of people living scandalous, secretive lives. Leda is haunted by nightmares of what happened on the worst night of her life. Shes afraid the truth will get out - which is why she hires Watt, her very own hacker, to keep an eye on all of the witnesses for her. But what happens when their business relationship turns personal? When...
73) The towering sky
Author
Series
Thousandth floor volume 3
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
Description
Leda, Watt, Rylin, Avery, and Calliope struggle with their relationships, expectations, and the secrets they are all hiding.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
Four fan-girls of The Ruperts, sneak away to a hotel in Manhattan to see their favorite boy band, but when one of them literally drags Rupert Pierpont to their room and they tie him up, things get complicated--and when Rupert is killed things go from bad to worse.
Author
Series
Bendy and the ink machine volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Buddy has spent most of his life trying to escape the Lower East Side slums of New York City. Working as a delivery boy to support his family, Buddy wants to become an artist, a dream he's sure will never be realized. But that all changes when a delivery job puts him face-to-face with Mister Joey Drew, the eccentric owner of an animation studio. Mister Drew takes Buddy under his wing as an apprentice, thrusting him into a world...
Author
Series
Molly Moon volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Unlucky and unloved, Molly Moon, living in a dreary orphanage in a small English town, discovers a hidden talent for hypnotism and hypnotizes her way to stardom in New York City.
77) A northern light
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
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Description
In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.
78) Okay for now
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
As a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends, an abusive father, and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him until he finds an ally in Lil Spicer--a fiery young lady. Together, they find a safe haven in the local library, inspiration in learning about the plates of John James Audubon's birds, and a hilarious adventure on a Broadway stage.