School & Friends
How not to
spend your senior year by
Cameron Dokey.
Jo O'Connor,
accustomed to moving from place to place with her father, has learned not to
get too close to people, but that changes in her senior year when she makes a
best friend and falls in love--which only complicates matters when she is
forced to move again.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.7
Sloppy firsts
: a novel by Megan
McCafferty.
Sixteen-year-old
Jessica Darling is devastated when her best friend moves away and leaves
Jessica to face the trials of high school on her own.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.2
Second
helpings : a novel by
Megan McCafferty.
New Jersey
teenager Jessica Darling chronicles her senior year in high school, coping with
life without her best friend, and trying to figure out the current intentions
of Marcus, the boy who sent her hormones and her mind wild the year before, and
promptly broke her heart.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.7
Doing time :
notes from the undergrad
by Rob Thomas.
Contains ten
stories about the experiences of students at the fictional Robert E. Lee High
School as they set out to fulfill the graduation requirement to perform two
hundred hours of community service.
Accelerated
Reader--Level 4.7
Emako Blue by Brenda Woods.
Monterey,
Savannah, Jamal, and Eddie have never had much to do with each other until
Emako Blue shows up at chorus practice, but just as the lives of the five Los
Angeles high school students become intertwined, tragedy tears them apart.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.5
Be more chill by Ned Vizzini.
Badly in need of
self-confidence and a change of image, high school nerd Jeremy Heere swallows a
pill-sized super computer that is supposed to help him get whatever he wants.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.2
Tribes by Arthur Slade.
For Percy, the
loss of his father and the suicide of his best friend build to a head during
the last week before high school graduation.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.1
Playing in
traffic by Gail Giles.
Shy and
unremarkable, seventeen-year-old Matt Lathrop is surprised and flattered to
find himself singled out for the sexual attentions of the alluring Skye Colby,
until he discovers the evil purpose behind her actions.
St. Michael's
scales by Neil Connelly.
Keegan Flannery,
feeling responsible for his twin brother's death and his mother's mental
illness, believes he must atone by committing suicide before his sixteenth
birthday, but he gains new insights when he joins his school's wrestling team.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.7
Shattering
Glass by Gail Giles.
Rob, the
charismatic leader of the senior class, provokes unexpected violence when he
turns the school nerd into Prince Charming.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.2
Rats saw God by Rob Thomas.
In hopes of
graduating, Steve York agrees to complete a hundred-page writing assignment
which helps him to sort out his relationship with his famous astronaut father
and the events that changed him from a promising student into a troubled teen.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 7.4
Slumming by Kristen D. Randle.
In their senior
year of high school, three best friends, Nikki, Alicia, and Sam, attempt an
"experiment" in which they each befriend a classmate they think needs
attention and try to improve that person's life.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.7
The battle of
Jericho by Sharon M.
Draper.
A high school
junior and his cousin suffer the ramifications of joining what seems to be a
"reputable" school club.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.7
Out of order by A.M. Jenkins.
Popular sophomore
baseball star Colt Trammel faces a personal crisis when his girlfriend dumps
him, his failing grades threaten to bump him from the team, and he finds
himself drawn to a new, green-haired girl at school.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.2
Granny
Torrelli makes soup by
Sharon Creech
With the help of
her wise old grandmother, twelve-year-old Rosie manages to work out some
problems in her relationship with her best friend, Bailey, the boy next door.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.2
The blue girl by Charles de Lint.
Seventeen-year-old
Imogene decides to reinvent herself after moving to a new town with her family,
hoping to leave behind her tough, rebellious nature, befriending the high
school outcast and trying her best to avoid trouble, but when she gets on the
wrong side of a gang of malicious fairies, Imogene finds herself in more
trouble than ever before.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.8
Tell it to
Naomi by Daniel
Ehrenhaft.
In a harebrained
scheme concocted by his neurotic older sister to forge a romantic relationship
with the girl of his dreams, fifteen-year-old Dave Rosen pretends to be a
female advice columnist for his school newspaper.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.3
10 things to
do before I die : a novel by
Daniel Ehrenhaft.
Just after his
best friends make a list of things sixteen-year-old Ted should do to live it
up, he learns that he has injested poison and will be dead in twenty-four
hours--which might be enough time to do everything on the list.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.1
Head games by Mariah Fredericks.
Two teenagers
connect online in a role-playing game which leads them into their own
face-to-face, half-acknowledged courtship.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.4
The Schwa was
here by Neal Shusterman.
A Brooklyn
eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish"
boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by
nearly everyone.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.0
Bottled up by Jaye Murray.
PipÕs desparate
to escape his life - heÕs been skipping classes, dinking, getting high. Anything and everything to avoid his
smug teachers, his sweet but needy little brother, his home life. Now heÕs been busted by Principal
Giraldi, and given an ultimatum: either he shows up for all his classes and
sees a counselor after school, or heÕs expelled. PipÕs freaked out; not because he might get kicked out of
school but by the thought that Giraldi might call his father. Because Pip will do anything to avoid
his father.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.7
Names will
never hurt me by Jaime
Adoff.
Four very
different teenagers reveal their deepest feelings and fears during a day in
which the hurts and struggles of high school escalates dangerously. ThereÕs Kurt, the ÒfreakÓ, who listens
to loud music, trying to escape the kids who bully him; Tisha, the Òwhite girl
with the tan that never fadesÓ who feels Òout of placeÓ because sheÕs biracial;
Ryan, the all-American football star who rules the hallways but hides a terrible secret; and Floater,
who wields power over students by acting as the principalÕs eyes and ears. The repercussions of daily school
teasing, racism, and ostracism cause tensions to rise and emotions to reach the
breaking point. Will Kurt, Tisha,
Ryan, and Floater be able to reach out to one another in time to prevent a
tragedy?
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.7
Teen queens
and has-beens by Cathy
Hopkins.
When Lia gains
the interest of the school heartthob, she thereby alienates "teen
queen" Kaylie, who then launches a campaign of bullying against Lia.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.2
The Beckoners by Carrie Mac.
Zoe, unhappy to
be moving once again, falls in with the Beckoners, a group of bullies at her
new school, but soon finds herself trying to get free from the gang whose
actions against their favorite target, a girl they call Dog, are escalating to
violence.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.5