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High School

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Appleberg, Tom               Fuzzy                                                                                          APP YA

 

When Max (Maxine Zealster) befriends her new robot classmate Fuzzy, she helps him navigate Vanguard Middle School and together they reveal the truth behind the Robot Integration Program."From the minds of Tom Angleberger, the New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular Origami Yoda series, and Paul Dellinger, an adult science-fiction writer, comes a funny middle school story with a memorable robot title character. Reluctant readers and robot lovers in elementary and middle school will enjoy this fast-paced read that shows just how strange a place middle school can be, particularly when the new student is a state-of-the-art robot. When MaxMaxine Zelasterbefriends her new robot classmate Fuzzy, part of Vanguard One Middle Schools new Robot Integration Program, she helps him learn everything he needs to know about surviving middle schoolthe good, the bad, and the really, really, ugly. Little do they know that surviving seventh grade is going to become a true matter of life and death, because Vanguard has an evil presence at its heart: a digital student evaluation system named BARBARA that might be taking its mission to shape the perfect student to extremes!"- Amazon.com.

 

Avevedo, Elizabeth                                   With fire on High                                   AVE YA

Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live – a long life; longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the Promised Land. So I'm happy, tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord

Brian, Kate                                                 Confessions: A Private Novel                    BRI  YA

Reed's new boyfriend was arrested for the murder of her former flame Thomas Pearson, but she is convinced of his innocence and that the killer is still lurking.

 

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Brian, Kate                                                                 Sweet 16                                             BRI YA 

On the night of her sweet sixteen birthday party, self-centered snob Teagan Phillips receives a visit from a special person who tries to convince the teenager to change the way she lives her life.

 

Castellucci, Cecil                         The Queen of Cool                              CAS YA


Bored with her life, popular high school junior Libby signs up for an internship at the zoo and discovers that the "science nerds" she meets there may have a few things to teach her about friendship and life

 

Connis, Dave                         Suggested Reading                                   CON

 

"After her principal bans a number of books from the school library, bibliophile student Clara joins forces with her friends to start an underground library." -

 

 

Cozzo, Karole                         How to say I love you out loud                    COZ YZ 

                                

 Doxey,Heidi Jo The Jane journals of Pemberley Prep : Liam Darcy, I loathe you             DOX YA

Based on Jane Austen's favorite stories (Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Persuasion, Emma, Northanger Abbey), several high school girls have been given an English assignment to keep journal entries about their lives throughout a school year that promises comedy, drama, and cute boys.

 

Frank, Steve B.               Armstrong and Charlie          FRA YA     

"During the pilot year of a Los Angeles school system integration program, two sixth grade boys, one black, one white, become best friends as they learn to cope with everything from first crushes and playground politics to the loss of loved ones and racial prejudice in the 1970s"-- Provided by publisher

   

 

Gonzalez, Julie                      Imaginery Enemy                                                 GON  YA

Although her impetuous behavior, smart-mouthed comments, and slacker ways have landed her in trouble over the years, sixteen-year-old Jane has always put the blame on her "imaginary enemy," until a new development forces her to decide whether or not to assume responsibility for her actions

 

Harrison, Lisa                     Bratfest at Tiffany’s                               HAR YA

When male students from Briarwood join the all-girl Octavian Country Day at the beginning of eighth grade, Massie makes a rule that none of the girls on the Pretty Committee can have anything to do with them, trying to protect the girls' social status.

 

 

Hubbard, Jenny                         And We Stay                                                       HUB YA

Sent to an Amherst, Massachusetts, boarding school after her ex-boyfriend shoots himself, seventeen-year-old Emily expresses herself through poetry as she relives their relationship, copes with her guilt, and d begins to heal.                                            

Minter, J.                                         Inside Girl                                                       MIN YA

Flan Flood, younger sister of the handsome and popular Patch, just wants to fit in when she starts high school in New York City, but her crazy friends Liesel, Sara Beth, and Philippa make it anything but easy for her.

 

Jack, Gordon                         Your own worst enemy          JAC YA

Follows three candidates running for Lincoln High's student body president with three different platforms and who will stop at nothing to be elected." --

 

Lubar, David                         Character Driven                                   LUB YA

 

"In his last year of high school, seventeen-year-old virgin Cliff Sparks has to figure out what to do with his life, including how to meet new girl Jillian and how to deal with old issues with his unemployed father.

 

 

Mackler, Carolyn                              Infinite in between                                        MAC YA

  "Five students who meet in freshman orientation agree to write notes to their future selves and promise to reunite in exactly four years when they are ready to graduate from high school."

 

Mathieu, Jennifer                    Moxie                              MAT

In a small Texas town where high school football reigns supreme, Viv, sixteen, starts a feminist revolution using anonymously-written zines.

 

Myracle, Lauren                              BLISS                                                            MYR YA

Having grown up in a California commune, Bliss sees her aloof grandmother's Atlanta world as a foreign country, but she is determined to be nice as a freshman at an elite high school, which makes her the perfect target for Sandy, a girl obsessed with the occult. 

 

Priemaza, Anna                                   Kat and Meg Conquer     PRI YA

Kat's anxiety makes it hard for her to talk to new people; she only feels safe in front of her computer, playing her favorite video game. Meg hates being alone, but her ADHD keeps pushing people away. When the two girls are thrown together for a year-long science project, they discover they do have one thing in common: their obsession with the online gaming star LumberLegs and his hilarious videos. If they can stick together and stay out of their heads, they might figure out how to help each other-- and build the kind of friendship Kat never knew she wanted and Megnever believed she'd find.+

 

 

 

St. Claire                                        Don't You Wish                                                  STC YA

Plain, unpopular Annie Nutter gets zapped by one of her father's inventions, landing in a parallel universe where her life becomes picture-perfect, but when she is offered the chance to leave the dream life and head home to Pittsburgh, will she take it?

 

Trigiani, Adriana                                        Viola in Reel Life                                        TRI  YA

 

When fourteen-year-old Viola is sent from her beloved Brooklyn to boarding school in Indiana for ninth grade, she overcomes her initial reservations as she makes friends with her roommates, goes on a real date, and uses the unsettling ghost she keeps seeing as the subject of a short film--her first.

 

Wilson, Martin                         What they always tell us                              WIL YA

Sixteen-year-old Alex feels so disconnected from his friends that he starts his junior year at a Tuscaloosa, Alabama, high school by attempting suicide, but soon, a friend of his older brother draws him into cross-country running and a new understanding of himself.

 

Zoldias, Don                        The seven torments of Amy & Craig            ZOL YA

 

"A coming-of-age story set in 1994 Wisconsin, chronicling the on-again-off-again relationship of Amy and Craig, who come to understand each other better through multiple disastrous breakups"-- Provided by publisher.

Janesville, Wisconsin, 1994. Amy is both the worst and the best thing that's ever happened to Craig. He is an awkward, Dungeons & Dragons-playing geek; she is the beautiful, fiercely intelligent student-body president of their high school. They got together. Until Amy dumped him. Then got back together with him. Then dumped him again. Then got back together with him again. Over and over and over. Over their senior year, as Craig fights for his dream of escaping Janesville and finding his place at college, Amy's quest is to uncover her true self-- and sometimes it doesn't involve being Craig's girlfriend. 

 

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