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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Simone, seventeen, HIV-positive and in love for the first time, decides that facing potential bullies head-on may be better than protecting her secret.
Simone Garcia-Hampton is starting over at a new school, making real friends, making a name for herself as student director of Rent, and making a play for Miles. The last thing she wants is for word to get out that she's HIV-positive, because last time things got ugly. As Simone and Miles start going...
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English
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It's the 5th of November and a firework in the wrong hands spells trouble for Carla and changes her life for ever. Read this inspirational story of one girl's fight to overcome the stigma of disfiguration and how a few kind words from an unexpected source, turned thoughts of revenge into a passion to help others, who's lives have also been rudely and dramatically changed. Revised with new content.
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Español
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Siempre quiso ser profesionista, pero todo le salió mal. Rodeado de ratas, a punto de morir, supo que debía tomar una decisión urgente.
Decisión crucial es novela hipnótica en la que el protagonista describe cómo su crisis vocacional lo llevó a situaciones extremas: perdió a su hermana, participó en sobornos y terminó en una terrible cárcel donde aprendió a valorar los principios perdidos.
Contiene también un análisis de profesiones...
4) Paper Girl
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English
Description
I haven't left my house in over a year. My doctor says it's social anxiety, but I know the only things that are safe are made of paper. My room is on paper. My world is paper. Everything outside is fire. All it would take is one spark for me to burst into flames. So I stay inside. Where nothing can touch me.
Then my mom hires a tutor. Jackson. This boy I had a crush on before the world became too terrifying to live in. Jackson's life is the complete...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
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English
Formats
Description
John Green's The Fault in Our Stars meets Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park in this beautifully written, incredibly honest, and emotionally poignant novel. Cammie McGovern's insightful young adult debut is a heartfelt and heartbreaking story about how we can all feel lost until we find someone who loves us because of our faults, not in spite of them.Born with cerebral palsy, Amy can't walk without a walker, talk without a voice box, or even fully control...
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English
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When Owen first feels the tickle in his throat, he doesn't think it's a big deal. Everybody gets sick sometimes, right? The problem is, he never seems to get back to normal. With the threat of summer school hanging over his head and a new art project on his mind, he doesn't want to think about what his symptoms might mean. Avoiding the sneaking suspicion that something is wrong brings him to the bank of a mysterious river. There Lethe, the goddess...
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English
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Eighty-eight-year old Elva and Courtney, an attractive sixteen-year-old with a severed spinal cord, lie in adjacent beds in a grim Bismarck, North Dakota convalescent home. Ignored by the world, the only resource they have left is their imagination.
As Elva and Courtney go on a fantasy trip to Italy (accompanied by Elva's long dead husband and guided by a 1910 travel book), Elva shows Courtney a new way to envision love. But to accept it, and the...
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English
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Michael is 6 years of age when his grandad is first diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease.
Follow their journey through the sad and sometimes hilarious moments, as they cope with the changes this brings to both their lives.
Meet Michael's best friends Rose and Jack, who are with him as he helps care for his Grandad, plays Gaelic football, and gets into lots of trouble at school.
This story brings hope and acceptance into the lives of...
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English
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On the prairies of Canada during World War II, a girl and her two young siblings begin a war of their own. Stricken with tuberculosis, they are admitted to a nearby sanatorium. Teenager Marie Claire is headstrong, angry, and full of stubborn pride. In a new strange land of TB exiles she must "chase the cure," seek privacy where there is none, and witness the slow wasting decline of others. But in this moving novel about fighting a way back to normal...
10) Second Chances
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Dale Melnyk finds himself stuck in an iron lung, desperately fighting for breath - and wishing he could die. It is the worst outbreak of polio in the history of Winnipeg, and Dale is one of the many young victims being treated in the early 1950s.
Second Chances follows Dale's slow and often agonizing struggle to regain his life, first of all to breathe on his own and then to regain the use of his limbs. Will he ever be able to play...
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English
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I must admit that when I first started losing weight I was pleased. I dropped from a pudgy hundred and twenty-five down to one-eighteen in a month, and kept on going. One hundred and five, and my breasts disappeared. By the time, they hauled me off to the Sanatorium, a feverish, weepy, ninety-pound weakling, I was, out of love with elegant bones and scared that I was, coming out through my skin.
A teenager in the 1970s, Gwen is stuck in a tuberculosis...
12) Side Effects
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English
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Serious, funny, compelling -- and unique: a novel about a teenager with cancer and doesn't die, from Amy Goldman Koss, acclaimed author of THE GIRLS.
As if it isn't bad enough to have cancer, practically every time we pick up a book or hear about a character in a movie who gets sick, we know they'll be dead by the last scene. In reality, kids get all kinds of cancers, go through unspeakable torture and painful treatments, but walk away, fine in the...
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Français
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La magie de l'amour plane dans l'air.
Mallie, une étudiante est en chemin pour rentrer chez elle quand elle est heurtée par une voiture. Elle tombe dans un profond coma. Daniel est un avocat dont les plans vont drastiquement changer lorsqu'il est frappé par un AVC.
De deux mondes bien différentes, ils se retrouvent tombés dans l'inconscience, luttant pour leurs vies, à deux portes l'un de l'autre dans le même hpital. Ce à quoi ils ne s'attendent...
14) Feed
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
Description
For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon - a chance to party during spring break and play around with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, sending them to the hospital to lie around with nothing inside their heads for days. And it was before Titus met Violet, a beautiful, brainy teenage girl who knows something about what it's like...
15) The Undoing
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English
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Just before Rebecca's brother died, he made her promise one thing: Discover the truth behind the ruthless killer claiming countless lives, leaving everyone else to wonder if they are next. This is a killer that has no cure and leaves no survivors.But if her brother's suspicions were right, the biggest threat isn't a virus. It is something far more dangerous. The only clue Rebecca has to go on is a mysterious light glowing behind a mountain during...
16) Grind
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English
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Philip lives for skateboarding. School is merely the break between trying to land a difficult jump and outrunning the security guards. When he and his best friend Wally meet a professional skateboarder who videotapes himself for his website, Philip thinks they can do it too-and make money at the same time. When they start getting hits on their website-and making money-they start to feel the pressure to do more and more dangerous stunts.
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"Satisfying fare for fans of romantic and family dramas." - Kirkus Reviews Sixteen-year-old Paige Williams can't stop self-sabotaging. Not when her dad gets sick, not when her relationship implodes, not even when her parents send her to another-freaking-state for the summer to live with her sister. Paige just wants to have fun, spray paint a few walls, and block out everything stressful, including her growing concern that she might be sick as well....
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Español
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Del autor de Escucharás mi corazón.
Una historia de amor puede continuar de muchas maneras. Ylenia recibió un corazón de un donante. No de cualquier donante: del amor de su vida.
Una tristeza infinita se apodera de ella y prolonga su convalecencia hasta que el encuentro con Giorgia, una joven muy especial, que ha recibido un trasplante de córnea, cambiará su vida para siempre. Una gran aventura surge entre ellas y los antiguos amigos, y...
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In this novel told in verse, 14-year-old Claire Fairchild struggles to reconcile her own musical success with the Batten disease that will claim the lives of her two younger brothers. When Claire meets a centenarian with only one regret, she knows she'll have to change, but she'll need her friends to help her find her courage.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
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Friday Night Lights meets Concussion in this powerful and important novel by Geoff Herbach, author of the Stupid Fast series, exploring the dangerous concussion crisis in football through the eyes of a high school team captain.
Isaiah loves football. In fact, football saved Isaiah's life, giving him structure and discipline after his sister's death tore his family apart. But when Isaiah gets knocked out cold on the field, he learns there's a lot...
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