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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Azaleah's big sister, Nia, has been cast as Willa Wonka in the school musical, and the entire Lane family is looking forward to the show. Azaleah has even helped plan a surprise dinner party for Nia at Avec Amour, Mama's restaurant. But then the real drama starts. At the first rehearsal, all sorts of things go wrong: missing batteries, sets falling over, props misplaced ... It's so many things, in fact, that Azaleah suspects "foul play." And when...
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Greg Heffley tells about his summer vacation and his attempts to steer clear of trouble when he returns to middle school and tries to keep his older brother Rodrick from telling everyone about Greg's most humiliating experience of the summer.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Follows the efforts of Hailey to bolster her visibility and defeat bullies at a new high school in Hollywood by following the strategies to gain popularity outlined in her older sister's journal.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Margaret "Cuckoo" Clark keeps a journal detailing the trials and tribulations of high school life as she and her close-knit group of outcast friends try to break down the barriers between their school's "warring nations."
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Told through journal entries, a psychotherapist's notes, court records, and more, relates the tale of Carly, a teen who was institutionalized after her parents' death but released to Elmbrige High School, where she is believed to have a second personality or soul named Kaitlyn, and/or be possessed by a demon.
Author
Series
Pretenders volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"The second-quarter journal entries of five freshmen at ultra-competitive Noble High detail the students' ongoing quest to become the Phoenix Five - the most outstanding first-year students in the school"--
Author
Series
Autumn Falls volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Following her adored father's death, a teenager named Autumn Falls is forced to relocate to a new school in Florida for sophomore year. And when Autumn receives an enchanted gift: a journal that literally brings Autumn's writing to life--anything could happen. Could the journal be imbued with her dad's spirit?"--
Author
Series
Adam Canfield volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick
Pub. Date
2009, c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A much-welcomed snow day turns into an embarrassing nightmare for middle-grader Adam Canfield when, after being mugged by high school bullies for his snow-shoveling money, he becomes the focus of major media attention just as his co-editors at The Slash are launching a contest to out bullies at their school.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
"Quinn keeps lists of everything--from the days she's ugly cried, to "Things That I Would Never Admit Out Loud" and all the boys she'd like to kiss. Her lists keep her sane. By writing her fears on paper, she never has to face them in real life. That is, until her journal goes missing... Then an anonymous account posts one of her lists on Instagram for the whole school to see and blackmails her into facing seven of her greatest fears, or else her...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Having lived in twelve places in eight years, fourteen-year-old Calle Smith knows better than to put down roots, storing memories in a song journal while she keeps the world at a distance, but friends--even a boyfriend--are there to help when she learns why her mother has always been on the run.
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
High school senior Ella Cleary, whose synesthesia causes her to see colors with each interaction, must question everything she knows about her life when journalism student Alec investigates her parents' death.
14) Paper daughter
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When her father, a respected journalist in Seattle, is killed in a hit-and-run accident, Maggie Chen, a high school intern at her father's newspaper, searches for clues to the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death, an investigation that forces her to confront her ethnicity and a family she never knew. Includes historical notes on Chinese immigration to the United States, "paper sons," and the Exclusion Era laws.
15) True legend
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Drew "True" Robinson loves being the best point-guard prospect in high school basketball, but learns the consequences of fame through a former player, as well as through the man who expects to be his manager when True reaches the NBA.
16) Freedom Writers
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Language
English
Description
A true story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed, a voice. Erin Gruwell comes to a southern California high school bubbling over with naive optimism. She quickly discovers that her unruly classroom is not easily won over by her good intentions. After a few floundering attempts to connect with her students, Gruwell gives them the assignment of keeping journals about their own lives, This assignment...
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Terry Griffith enrolls in a new high school as "Just one of the guys" after her journalism teacher refuses to enter her article in a competition to win a summer internship on the local newspaper because of her sex.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Teenager Viola Li and her sister Roz are selling bean buns at a science fiction gathering in Seattle when she suddenly collapses--she wakes up in the hospital to find that somehow she has developed an extreme case of photosensitivity (so bad that even ordinary lights can cause blisters), and somehow, in her senior year of high school, she has to craft a new life that will still include journalism school, activism, and the new guy who caught her as...
19) Hollow fires
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After discovering the body of fourteen-year-old Jawad Ali in Jackson Park, seventeen-year-old journalism student Safiya Mirza begins investigating his murder and ends up confronting white supremacy in her own high school.
20) We Could Be King
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
True story of two rival high school football teams forced to merge into one and their struggle to become champions against all odds. An unflinching snapshot of the power of sports to bring young people, neighborhoods, and a city together. Winner of Outstanding Sports Documentary at the **Sports Emmy Awards**. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. *"This documentary is a real eye-opener, one that any fan of football, high school athletics...
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