Kids Book Index
Liz Kessler
Seventeen-year-old Ashleigh Walker has a difficult year at school while her parents’ marriage approaches divorce. She has friends, a boyfriend of sorts, and no clear plans for the future. Ashleigh becomes increasingly attracted to Miss Murray, her new young English teacher. As those feelings grow, she questions whether she is ready to tell others that she is gay.
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Girl in PiecesKathleen GlasgowSeventeen-year-old Charlotte Davis is in rehabilitation for self-harm after being found outside a hospital, bleeding and wrapped in a sheet. She carries grief over her father, her mother’s inability to give more, and the loss of her best friend. Charlotte has used broken glass and new scars to numb sorrow, but the pain remains. Her struggle is about surviving trauma and trying to return from a dangerous edge.Fourteen and OlderLexile Text Measure HL740LATOS Book Level 5On the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Scythe (Arc of a Scythe series)Neal ShustermanIn a future where disease has disappeared and people do not otherwise die, professional Scythes carry out sanctioned killings known as gleaning. Teenagers Citra and Rowan are selected as apprentices even though neither wants the role. As they learn why the vocation exists, they are placed in competition with one another. Only one can become a Scythe’s apprentice, and the winner’s first assignment is to glean the other, turning their training into a struggle for survival.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details
Rebel, Bully, Geek, PariahErin Jade LangeAfter police raid a party, four teenagers who barely know one another wind up in a car carrying stolen drugs. Andi, once popular, is now a tattooed, dreadlocked rebel. York bullies others, especially his brother Boston, who is intent on getting into an Ivy League school. Sam is living with the changes that followed her mother’s sobriety. During the next few hours, the four must make choices with lasting consequences.Fourteen and OlderOn the same reading list for the same age or grade groupView book details