Ellen Hopkins
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
490L
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, sixth-grade cousins Hannah and Cal learn a lot about family when circumstances throw them together under one roof and Hannah's love of order clashes with Cal's chaotic behavior.--
For the most part, Hannah's life is just how she wants it. She has two supportive parents, she's popular at school, and she's been killing it at gymnastics. But when her cousin Cal moves in with her family, everything changes. Cal tells half-truths and...
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
HL 500L
Physical Desc
361, 13 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Trace Reynolds has always looked up to his brother, mostly because Will, who is five years older, has never looked down on him. When Will was knocked out cold during a football game, resulting in a brain injury, everything changed. Sixteen months later their family is still living under the weight of the incident that left Will with a facial tic, depression, and an anger he cannot always control, culminating in their parents' divorce. And Will is...
3) Crank
Author
Language
English
Description
Kristina Georgia Snow is the perfect daughter, gifted high school junior, quiet, never any trouble. But on a trip to visit her absentee father, Kristina disappears and Bree takes her place. Bree is the exact opposite of Kristina. Through a boy, Bree meets the monster: crank. And what begins as a wild ecstatic ride turns into a struggle through hell for her mind, her soul - her life. Novel written in verse.
5) Perfect
Author
Lexile measure
HL 570L
Language
English
Description
Northern Nevada teenagers Cara, Kendra, Sean, and Andre, tell in their own voices of their very different paths toward perfection and how their goals change when tragedy strikes.
6) Burned
Author
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Description
I do know things really began to spin out of control after my first sex dream. It all started with a dream. Nothing exceptional, just a typical fantasy about a boy, the kind of dream that most teen girls experience. But Pattyn Von Stratten is not like most teen girls. Raised in a religious -- yet abusive -- family, a simple dream may not be exactly a sin, but it could be the first step toward hell and eternal damnation. This dream is a first step...
7) Tilt
Author
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Language
English
Description
Three teens, connected by their parents' bad choices, tell in their own voices of their lives and loves as Shane finds his first boyfriend, Mikayla discovers that love can be pushed too far, and Harley loses herself in her quest for new experiences.
8) Tricks
Author
Series
Tricks volume 1
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Language
English
Description
Five teenagers from different parts of the country. Three girls. Two guys. Four straight. One gay. Some rich. Some poor. Some from great families. Some with no one at all. All living their lives as best they can, but all searching& for freedom, safety, community, family, love. What they don't expect, though, is all that can happen when those powerful little words "I love you" are said for all the wrong reasons. Five moving stories remain separate...
10) Glass
Author
Series
Crank volume 2
Lexile measure
HL 600L
Language
English
Description
In a powerful sequel to Crank, Kristina is determined to manage her addiction to crack in order to keep her newborn child, but when she is unable to manage her use of the drug and the pull becomes too strong, her greatest fears are quickly realized.
11) Smoke
Author
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Description
After the death of her abusive father and loss of her beloved Ethan and their unborn child, Pattyn runs away, desperately seeking peace, as her younger sister, a sophomore in high school, also tries to put the pieces of her life back together.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In this gripping follow-up to Love Lies Beneath, beautiful, wealthy Tara Lattimore's story continues when her sinful past threatens to derail her current marriage--and her sanity. Tara thought she was finally settling down when she married the handsome Dr. Cavin Lattimore. Just as she was willing to overlook his gambling habits, she discovers his secret meetings with Sophia, his gorgeous ex-girlfriend and his son Eli's occasional girlfriend. Life...
13) Rumble
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Physical Desc
546 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Matt's atheism is tested when, after a horrific accident of his own making that plunges him into a dark, quiet place, he hears a voice that calls everything he has ever disbelieved into question.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Physical Desc
590 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
With both joy and fear, seventeen-year-old Ariel begins to explore her sexuality, while living with her controlling, abusive father who has told Ariel that her mother deserted her years ago.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
529 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From the author of the sizzling romantic suspense Love Lies Beneath
Three female friends face midlife crises in a no-holds-barred exploration of sex, marriage, and the fragility of life.
Holly: Filled with regret for being a stay-at-home mom, she sheds sixty pounds and loses herself in the world of extramarital sex. Will it bring the fulfillment she is searching for?
Andrea: A single mom and avowed celibate, she watches her friend Holly's meltdown...
16) Fly fishing
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Physical Desc
428 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Follows six teenagers as they are brought into close contact over the course of one tense week, in a town with political and personal tensions that build until one fires a fatal gunshot.
A gun is sold in the classifieds after killing a spouse. It is bought by a teenager for needed protection. Several people have the incentive to pick up a gun, to fire it. Was it Rand or Cami, married teenagers with a young son? Was it Silas or Ashlyn, members of...
18) Identical
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Physical Desc
565 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old identical twin daughters of a district court judge and a candidate for the United States House of Representatives, Kaeleigh and Raeanne Gardella desperately struggle with secrets that have already torn them and their family apart.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Tara is gorgeous, affluent, and forty. She lives in an impeccably restored Russian Hill mansion in San Francisco. Once a widow, twice divorced, she's a woman with a past she prefers keeping to herself. Enter Cavin Lattimore. He's handsome, kind, charming, and the surgeon assigned to Tara following a ski accident in Lake Tahoe. In the weeks it takes her to recover, Cavin sweeps her off her feet and their relationship blossoms into something Tara had...
20) Traffick
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Physical Desc
505 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Five teenagers struggle to find their way out of prostitution.