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Hi-Lo Reads for Teens Reading is for everyone! These books have high interest stuff with lower level reading for teens.
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Skinny Books (less than 200 pages)
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The alabaster ring
by Scott R Welvaert
Following a trail of clues about where his long-absent father may be, Ethan crosses paths with a killer who has ties with an international crime organization.
Lexile Measure HL 480 L
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Amulet : The Stonekeeper
by Kazu Kibuishi
After moving into an old ancestral home, Emily and Navin's mother is kidnapped and dragged down the basement stairs by a mysterious creature, and after giving chase, the kids find themselves in a magical but dangerous world of man-eating demons, a mechanical rabbit, and shadowy enemies.
Lexile Measure GN 310 L
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Bone : Out from Boneville
by Jeff Smith
The adventure starts when cousins Fone Bone, Phoney Bone, and Smiley Bone are run out of Boneville and later get separated and lost in the wilderness, meeting monsters and making friends as they attempt to return home.
Lexile Measure GN 360 L
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The friend
by P. W Hueller
Kat and Allie have been friends forever. But when Allie returns from a summer away, everything changes. Allie's different. Too different. She's suddenly afraid of insects. She's friends with popular Veronica Cordey. Worst of all, she doesn't seem to want anything to do with Kat. And Kat begins to wonder: who is this girl and what has she done with her best friend?
Lexile Measure 550 L
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The goats
by Brock Cole
Howie and Laura, two misfits among a camping group, are left on an island overnight as a practical joke but the pair escape during the night and are forced to lie, steal, and dodge the police as they search for safety.
Lexile Measure 550 L
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Goosebumps: The scream of the haunted mask
by R. L. Stine
Carly Beth tries to resist calls from an evil mask she defeated a year ago during Halloween while working at an after-school program at the Tumbledown Farms, where a stable of horses and a farm hand died tragically a century ago
Lexile Measure 400 L
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Grotesque
by Scott R Welvaert
A gargoyle that comes to life at night, Raine falls in love with a new girl in the neighborhood and tries to find a way to save the church on which he lives.
Lexile Measure 550 L
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The lightning thief : the graphic novel
by Robert Venditti
A graphic adaptation of the first entry in the best-selling series finds 12-year-old Percy Jackson angering the mythological beings who spring from his textbooks and struggling to recover Zeus' stolen master lightning bolt before war breaks out on Mount Olympus.
Lexile Measure GN 470 L
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Maximum Ride : The Manga
by NaRae Lee
Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride knows what it's like to soar above the world. She and all the members of her 'flock'-- Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel-- are just like ordinary kids, except they have wings and can fly! It may seem like a dream come true to some, but for the flock it's more like a living nightmare when the mysterious lab known as the 'School' turns up and kidnaps their youngest member. Now it's up to Max to organize a rescue, but will help come in time?
Lexile Measure GN 380 L
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Ms. Marvel : No Normal
by G. Willow Wilson
Kamala Khan, a Pakistani American girl from Jersey City who lives a conservative Muslim lifestyle with her family, suddenly acquires superhuman powers and, despite the pressures of school and home, tries to use her abilities to help her community
Lexile Measure GN 420 L
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Not hungry
by Kate Karyus Quinn
When Toby, the boy next door, uncovers her secret, June panics until she learns he is also hiding something.
Lexile Measure 430 L
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Rodeo princess
by M. G Higgins
Jade's life is complicated when her horse is injured just before the rodeo and her former best-friend, Amy offers to let her use one of her horses.
Lexile Measure HL 200 L
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The 13th floor
by Scott R Welvaert
Sam's video game skills make him a popular kid at his new school, but after finding a pirated copy of a video game, banned because of its violent content, neither Sam or his friends can break the game's hypnotic state even as bad things start happening.
Lexile Measure HL 470 L
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A trick of the light
by Lois Metzger
Fearing that he is losing control of his life in the face of an increasingly difficult home environment and perplexing challenges at school, Mike, a former straight-A student and promising baseball outfielder, hears a voice in his head that urges him to overcome his obstacles through sinister means.
Lexlie Measure HL 550 L
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Watches and Warnings
by Ryan Wolf
Sixteen-year-old Philip is the son of two Evangelical youth pastors. He also secretly helps his older brother pay for his heroin addiction. When a massive tornado touches down in their small town, Philip's family becomes heavily involved in the post-disaster cleanup as Philip struggles with the return of his detoxing brother. With his life swept into sudden chaos, Philip grapples with questions that cut him to the core.
Lexlie Measure 5000 L
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Zebrafish
by Sharon Emerson
Forming a rock bank with a group of musically untalented peers, purple-haired tween Vita begins to appreciate her new friends' non-musical strengths, which help them support a bandmate who has been diagnosed with cancer.
Lexile Measure GN 470 L
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Medium Books (less than 300 pages)
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The boxer and the spy
by Robert B. Parker
After uncovering some dangerous facts about the dead high school student that washed up on the shore, fifteen-year-old Terry is certain that he didn't die of a suicide and now finds himself in the dangerous sights of those who didn't want the truth to be known.
Lexile Measure 500 L
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Close to famous
by Joan Bauer
Twelve-year-old Foster McFee and her mother escape from her mother's abusive boyfriend and end up in the small town of Culpepper, West Virginia, where they use their strengths and challenge themselves to build a new life, with the help of the friends they make there.
Lexile Measure 540 L
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Don't stay up late : a Fear Street novel
by R. L. Stine
Plagued by nightmares and hallucinations after a car accident kills her father, Lisa takes a seemingly straightforward babysitting job to distract herself only to discover horrifying truths about her young charge. By the best-selling author of the Goosebumps series.
Lexile Measure 460 L
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I heart you, you haunt me
by Lisa Schroeder
When her recently deceased boyfriend, Jackson, reappears in the form of a ghost, brokenhearted Ava is thrilled to have him in her life in anyway she can, but when Ava finally accepts the loss and begins to move on with the living, Jackson is left to deal with the hard fact that he must find a way to let her go.
Lexile Measure HL 510 L
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I woke up dead at the mall
by Judy Sheehan
Waking up as a ghost at the Mall of America to discover that she has been murdered and her killer is still on the loose, Sarah receives guidance from her death coach so that she can try to resolve unfinished business or risk a permanent existence trapped in the mall.
Lexile Measure HL 490 L
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In real life
by Cory Doctorow
Immersing herself in an online role-playing game where she enjoys fantasy heroics, Anda confronts a difficult choice when she befriends a disadvantaged Chinese kid who works illegally to collect valuable objects and sell them to other players for real money.
Lexile Measure GN 390 L
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In trouble
by Ellen Levine
In 1950s New York, set against the backdrop of McCarthyism and the dawning sexual revolution, 16-year-old Jamie's life is unsettled since her father returned from serving time in prison for refusing to disclose the names of certain people as Communists, and her best friend turns to Jamie for help with an unplanned pregnancy.
Lexlie Measure HL 510 L
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Keeping you a secret : a novel
by Julie Anne Peters
A modern coming-of-age novel follows the powerful love story between two girls who are afraid to share their special relationship with those around them.
Lexlie Measure 460 L
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Nimona
by Noelle Stevenson
Lord Blackheart, a villain with a vendetta, and his sidekick, Nimona, an impulsive young shapeshifter, must prove to the kingdom that Sir Goldenloin and the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics aren't the heroes everyone thinks they are.
Lexile Measure GN 350 L
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The prince of Venice Beach
by Blake Nelson
Living in a treehouse and on the streets of Venice Beach, California, teen runaway Cali Callahan spends his days surfing with friends, playing basketball and pursuing a crush before a private investigator hires him to find a missing girl. By the author of Recovery Road.
Lexile Measure HL 530 L
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Shark Girl
by Kelly L. Bingham
After losing her arm in a shark attack, fifteen-year-old Jane, an aspiring artist, struggles to come to terms with her loss and the changes it imposes on her day-to-day life and her plans for the future.
Lexile Measure HL 550 L
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Shattered warrior
by Sharon Shinn
Colleen's planet has been conquered by the Derichets and she has an opportunity to join a band of rebels called the Chromatti, but she must decide if joining the revolution is worth giving up her quiet rural home
Lexile Measure GN 330 L
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Spill zone
by Scott Westerfeld
When a disaster destroys her city, ends her parents' lives and leaves her sister badly scarred, Addison earns money by taking photographs of the devastation for high-paying art collectors, including an eccentric patron who offers a million dollars for a life-risking image.
Lexile Measure GN 340 L
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That selfie girl
by Linda Oatman High
Losing her life after taking a selfie while driving, Macy tends to unfinished business in the afterlife and unexpectedly finds love.
Lexlie Measure HL 440 L
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Th1rteen r3asons why
by Jay Asher
When Clay Jensen receives a box containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends the night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
Lexlie Measure HL 550 L
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Three quarters dead
by Richard Peck
Sophomore loner Kerry is overjoyed when three popular senior girls pick her to be in their clique, until a shocking accident sets off a string of supernatural occurrences that become more and more threatening.
Lexlie Measure HL 550 L
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Where you'll find me
by Natasha Friend
Struggling to cope with her former best friend's abandonment and her mother's suicide attempt, an eighth-grade girl works to reconnect with her estranged father and a new stepsibling while finding friends in unexpected places.
Lexlie Measure HL 520 L
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More Pages, More Cool Stuff!
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Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Fifteen-year-old Ari Mendoza is an angry loner with a brother in prison, but when he meets Dante and they become friends, Ari starts to ask questions about himself, his parents, and his family that he has never asked before.
Lexile Measure HL 380 L
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Between shades of gray
by Ruta Sepetys
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
Lexile Measure HL 490 L
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Don't even think about it
by Sarah Mlynowski
"What happens when a group of Tribeca high school kids go in for flu shots . . . and end up being able to read each others' minds"
Lexile Measure HL 410 L
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Hunt for the bamboo rat
by Graham Salisbury
A story based on true events finds 17-year-old Zenji being sent from Hawaii to the Philippines to spy on the Japanese during World War II, a life-threatening effort that requires him to fight for survival in the jungle and behind enemy lines. By the award-winning author of Under the Blood-Red Sun.
Lexile Measure HL 510 L
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I see London, I see France
by Sarah Mlynowski
Planning what she dreams will be the perfect European tour with her best friend, 19-year-old Sydney finds her vacation challenged by a cheating boyfriend, an unexpected crush and her mother's deteriorating mental health.
Lexile Measure HL 420 L
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The inexplicable logic of my life
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Having believed he was happy with his place in the loving Mexican-American family he shares with his adoptive gay father, Sal turns angry and uncertain when his senior year arrives and he realizes that he wants to know more about his biological origins.
Lexile Measure HL 450 L
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Light it up
by Kekla Magoon
A follow-up to the award-winning How It Went Down finds the community of Underhill thrown into upheaval by the police shooting of an unarmed 13-year-old girl, a mistake that triggers clashes between justice-seeking protestors and white-supremacist demonstrators.
Lexile Measure HL 480 L
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Losing the field
by Abbi Glines
Told in separate voices, seventeen-year-old Tallulah Leddel, overweight, insecure, and angry at being ridiculed by football star Nash, and Nash, lost and bitter after an accident, unexpectedly find themselves falling in love.
Lexile Measure HL 480 L
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Lovely, dark and deep
by Amy McNamara
In the aftermath of a car accident that kills her boyfriend and throws her carefully planned future into complete upheaval, high school senior Wren retreats to the deep woods of Maine to live with the artist father she barely knows and meets a boy who threatens to pull her from her safe, hard-won exile.
Lexlie Measure HL 520 L
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Michael Vey : the prisoner of cell 25
by Richard Paul Evans
Michael Vey, a fourteen-year old who has Tourette's syndrome and special electric powers, finds there are others like him, and must rely on his powers to save himself and the others from a diabolical group seeking to control them.
Lexile Measure HL 500 L
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My sister Rosa
by Justine Larbalestier
Recognizing that his beloved 10-year-old sister is a troubled child who is becoming increasingly more violent, 17-year-old Che becomes alarmed when his dismissive parents move the family to New York City, where his sister spirals out of control. By the award-winning author of Razorhurst.
Lexile Measure HL 490 L
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The upside of unrequited
by Becky Albertalli
Avoiding relationships to protect her sensitive heart, plus-sized Molly supports her once-cynical twin, Cassie, when the latter has her own bout of lovesickness, a situation that is complicated by sibling dynamics and an unexpected romantic triangle.
Lexile Measure HL 490 L
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When it happens
by Susane Colasanti
High school seniors Sara and Tobey attempt to figure out what is important in life as they try to balance their preparations for their futures with their enjoyment of the present.
Lexile Measure HL 490 L
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