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1) Wild beauty
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
For nearly a century the Nomeolvides women have tended the grounds and lush estate gardens of La Pradera. They have a tragic legacy: if they fall in love too deeply, their lovers vanish. When a strange boy appears in the gardens, he is a mystery to Estrella and to her family, but he's even more a mystery to himself. He knows nothing more about who he is or where he came from than his first name. As Estrella tries to help Fel piece together his unknown...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Ernie, an overweight high school student and long-time target of bullies, relies on his best friend Will to watch his back until Will, overwhelmed by problems at home and guilt over his brother's death, seeks a final solution.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Creative, intelligent, nine-year-old Mina keeps a journal in her own disorderly way that reveals how her mind is growing into something extraordinary, especially after she begins homeschooling under the direction of her widowed mother.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When Rev Fletcher and Emma Blue meet, they both long to share secrets, his of being abused by his birth father, hers of her parents' failing marriage and an online troll who truly frightens her.
With loving adoptive parents, Rev Fletcher has managed to keep the demons of his past at bay... until he gets a letter from his abusive father. Emma Blue spends her time perfecting the computer game she built from scratch, rather than facing her parents'...
8) Pet
Author
Publisher
Make Me a World
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In a near-future society that claims to have gotten rid of all monstrous people, a creature emerges from a painting seventeen-year-old Jam's mother created, a hunter from another world seeking a real-life monster.
10) A new Fear
Author
Series
Fear Street sagas volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Nora Goode and Daniel Fear hoped to end the curse of the Fear family. But on their wedding day, a horrible fire swept through the Fear mansion, taking the life of every member of the doomed family-- except one, the child of Nora and Daniel. Will he be able to live his life untouched by the evil of his family?
11) A monster calls
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
12) So done
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When best friends Metai and Jamila are reunited after a summer apart, their friendship threatens to combust from the pressure of secrets, middle school, and looming auditions for a potentially life-changing new talented-and-gifted program"--
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
As an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband, and a father, Harry Potter struggles with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs while his youngest son Albus finds the weight of the family legacy difficult to bear. As past and present ominously fuse, both father and son learn a uncomfortable truth: sometimes darkness comes from unexpected places.
14) No fixed address
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Felix's appearance on a television game show reveals that he and his mother have been homeless for a while, but also restores some of his faith in other people.
15) The shadow hero
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this origin story for the classic comic book hero the Green Turtle, Hank, the nineteen-year-old son of Chinese immigrants, resists his mother's attempts to make him a superhero at first, but when tragedy strikes he assumes the role of a caped crusader. Aided by one of the four spirits of Chinese mythology, Hank becomes the Green Turtle and sets out to rid Chinatown of the gangsters who have intimidated everyone for years and murdered his father....
16) Faceless
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Maisie is a normal sixteen-year-old, until an electrical fire caused by a lightning strike leaves her with severe burns, her face partially destroyed--she is lucky enough to get a full face transplant but she soon discovers how much her looks shaped her own identity and her relationship with those around her, including her boyfriend." --
18) Forget me
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In a town suffering after the major employer closed under a cloud of scandal, Morgan and her friends uncover a mystery as they try to learn if her supposedly dead boyfriend is living nearby under a different name.
19) The go-between
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Both of sixteen-year-old Cammi's parents are stars in Mexico, but everything changes when her mother accepts a role in an American sitcom.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Following a difficult freshman year, Scott Hudson is hoping that sophomore year will be easier, but after a disaster of a first week he finds himself faced with new challenges--including a particularly demanding English teacher, a school board member whose budget cutting is covering up a crime, and the discovery that his friendship with Lee, the Goth girl he met last year, is turning into something else entirely.
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