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1) Divergent
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Nothing to See Here comes an exuberant, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives forever. Sixteen-year-old Frankie Budge--aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner--is determined to make it through yet another sad summer in Coalfield, Tennessee, when she meets Zeke, a talented artist who has just moved...
Author
Series
Princess diaries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.
5) Fairest
Author
Series
Ella enchanted volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a land where beauty and singing are valued above all else, Aza eventually comes to reconcile her unconventional appearance and her magical voice, and learns to accept herself for who she truly is.
Author
Series
Princess diaries volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In a series of humorous diary entries, a New York City ninth grader agonizes over her love life, final exams, and future role as the princess of Genovia.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakota people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn't return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato - where the reserved, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of four pre-Divergent stories plus three additional scenes from Divergent, all told from Tobias's point of view, that follow Tobias's transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, his Dauntless initiation, the first clues that a foul plan is brewing in the leadership of two factions, and the weeks after he meets Tris Prior.
9) Dreamland
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
After her older sister runs away, sixteen-year-old Caitlin decides that she needs to make a major change in her own life and begins an abusive relationship with a boy who is mysterious, brilliant, and dangerous.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Seth--a small town journalist raised by foster parents--is assigned to write about a young boy found in a ditch after a car and train collision. As he works to discover the boy's identity, he also finds the story of his own history and the father who gave up everything to get him back"--
11) Criss Cross
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
12) The lost girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When they are separated for the first time since birth, Iris and Lark struggle with insecurities over their individual identities at the same time things begin to go missing around town.
13) Amazing Grace
Author
Series
Amazing Grace (Picture books) volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1991.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.
Author
Series
Princess diaries volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Having recently discovered she is the sole heir to the throne of a tiny European principality, fourteen-year-old Manhattan resident Mia writes in her journal about her attempts to cope with this news, as well as with more typical teenage concerns.
15) Mixed bags
Author
Series
Carter House girls volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
DJ's grandmother is a former fashion model who has restored an old mansion and turned it into a boarding house for rich teenaged girls who are interested in fashion, presenting DJ with a conflict between retaining her tomboy identity or changing her style, as she decides whether or not to try to fit in.
18) The island
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Wil discovers himself and the wonders of nature when he leaves home to live on an island in northern Wisconsin.
Author
Series
Janie Johnson volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She'll be working in her family's ice-cream shack with her newly ex-boyfriend-whose kisses never made her feel desire, only discomfort-and her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago without a word. But when she gets a letter from her biological father--a man she hoped would stay behind bars for the rest of his life-Lou immediately...
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