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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Joy McCullough's bold novel in verse is a portrait of an artist as a young woman, filled with the soaring highs of creative inspiration and the devastating setbacks of a system built to break her. McCullough weaves Artemisia's heartbreaking story with the stories of the ancient heroines, Susanna and Judith, who become not only the subjects of two of Artemisia's most famous paintings but sources of strength as she battles to paint a woman's timeless...
2) Speak
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"'Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say.' From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her...
3) Fractured
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A superior crime novel.”—The Washington Post
WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC
Ansley Park is one of Atlanta’s most upscale neighborhoods—but in one gleaming mansion, in a teenager’s lavish bedroom, a girl has been savagely murdered. And in the hallway, her mother stands amid shattered glass, having killed her daughter’s attacker with her bare...
WATCH WILL TRENT ON ABC
Ansley Park is one of Atlanta’s most upscale neighborhoods—but in one gleaming mansion, in a teenager’s lavish bedroom, a girl has been savagely murdered. And in the hallway, her mother stands amid shattered glass, having killed her daughter’s attacker with her bare...
4) Limitations
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Kindle County novels volume 7
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English
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Presumed Innocent comes a compelling new legal mystery featuring George Mason from Personal Injuries. Originally commissioned and published by The New York Times Magazine, this edition contains additional material.
Life would seem to have gone well for George Mason. His days as a criminal defense lawyer are long behind him. At fifty-nine, he has sat as a judge on the Court of Appeals...
Life would seem to have gone well for George Mason. His days as a criminal defense lawyer are long behind him. At fifty-nine, he has sat as a judge on the Court of Appeals...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, Scout, as her father, Atticus Finch, a crusading local lawyer, risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Graduating from their school's special education program, Quincy and Biddy are placed together in their first independent apartment and discover unexpected things they have in common in the face of past challenges and a harrowing trauma.
8) Exposed
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Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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High school senior Liz, a gifted photographer, can no longer see things clearly after her best friend accuses Liz's older brother of a terrible crime.
9) Fury
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Series
Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi thrillers volume 17
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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10) The tenth circle
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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When the daughter of a comic book artist claims she has been raped at a party and her friends turn against her, she runs away to Alaska and her father must face his own violent past as he tries to find her.
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"Jade and her friends Jenny, Mads, and Summer rule their glittering LA circle. Untouchable, they have the kind of power other girls only dream of. Every party is theirs, and the world is at their feet. Until the night of Jade's sweet sixteen, when they crash a St. Andrew's Prep party. The night the golden boys chose Jade as their next target. They picked the wrong girl. Sworn to vengeance, Jade transfers to St. Adrew's. She plots to destroy each boy,...
12) Good husbands
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Three wives, one letter, an explosive secret that will change everything. He said, she said. Whom do you believe? Jessica, Stephanie and Priyanka are complete strangers, but they have one thing in common: more than two decades ago, unbeknownst to them, their husbands committed a sexual assault. Or was it something else; a night of drunken regrets, just a horrible misunderstanding? It was a secret that remained buried for years. One unsuspecting morning,...
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Between 2005 and 2009, in a remote religious Mennonite colony, over a hundred girls and women were knocked unconscious and raped, often repeatedly, by what many thought were ghosts or demons, as a punishment for their sins. As the women tentatively began to share the details of the attacks -- waking up sore and bleeding and not understanding why -- their stories were chalked up to 'wild female imagination'. Women Talking is an imagined response to...
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Little Island Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Wake up. Friday. Clara Hart hits my car. Go to class. Anthony rates the girls. House party. Anthony goes upstairs with Clara. Drink. Clara dies. Wake up. Friday again. Clara Hart hits my car. Why can't I break this loop? A flicker in the fabric of time gives Spence a second chance. And a third. How many times will he watch the same girl die?"--Back cover.
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Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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When Tori Wyatt shaves her head, her parents are stunned. When she punches a stranger at the mall, even her friends are shocked. Nobody understands why she has become so moody and violent. It takes one small girl's bravery to show Tori the value of speaking up rather than lashing out.
16) A girl like that
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Publisher Annotation: In Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sixteen-year-old half-Hindu/half-Parsi Zarin Wadia is the class troublemaker and top subject for the school rumor blogs, regularly leaving class to smoke cigarettes in cars with boys, but she also desperately wants to grow up and move out of her aunt and uncle's house, perhaps realizing too late that Porus, another non-Muslim Indian who risks deportation but remains devoted to Zarin, could help her escape....
17) Some boys
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Shunned by her friends and even her father after she accuses the town golden boy of rape, Grace wonders if she can ever trust Ian, a classmate who is funny, kind, and has secrets of his own.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Since his father's suicide, Will, sixteen, has mainly walked, worked at Dollar Only, and tried to replicate his father's cornbread recipe, but the rape of his childhood friend shakes things up.
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Way I used to be volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"After fourteen-year-old Eden is raped by her brother's best friend, she knows she'll never be the way she used to be"--
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English
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"Beth Kramer is a "townie" who returns to her sophomore year after having endured a year of tension with her roommate, Sarah. But Sarah Brunson knows there's more to that story. Amanda Priya "Spence" Spencer is the privileged daughter of NYC elites, who is reeling from the realization that her family name shielded her from the same fate as Sarah. Ramin Golafshar arrives at Chandler as a transfer student to escape the dangers of being gay in Iran,...