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2) Red glass
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Sophie has been frail and delicate since her premature birth, but discovers her true strength during a journey through Mexico, where the six-year-old orphan her family hopes to adopt was born, and to Guatemala, where her would-be boyfriend hopes to find his mother and plans to remain.
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Overweight, self-assured, high school senior Jamie Carcaterra writes in the school newspaper about her own attitude to being fat, her boyfriend's bariatric surgery, and her struggles to be taken seriously in a very thin world.
Author
Publisher
PUSH
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Feeling left out since her long-time best friend started a serious relationship, sixteen-year-old Emily looks forward to a summer program at the Philadelphia College of Art but is not sure she is up to the challenges to be faced there, including finding herself and learning to balance life and art.
5) Battle dress
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2010, c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
As a newly arrived freshman at West Point, seventeen-year-old Andi finds herself gaining both confidence and self esteem as she struggles to get through the grueling six weeks of new cadet training known as the Beast.
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
An anthology of historical short stories features a diverse array of girls standing up for themselves and their beliefs, forging their own paths while resisting society's expectations.
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