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1) Dumplin'
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Willowdean wants to prove to everyone in her small Texas town that she is more than just a fat girl, so, while grappling with her feelings for a co-worker who is clearly attracted to her, Will and some other misfits prepare to compete in the beauty pageant her mother runs.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Asked to be part of the Dallas Cowboys' halftime show on Thanksgiving, Specialist Billy Lynn, one of the eight surviving men of the Bravo Squad, finds his life forever changed by this event that causes him to better understand difficult truths about himself.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Fleeing New York to find refuge as a ranger in the remote backcountry of West Texas, Anna Pigeon stumbles into a web of violence and murder when fellow park ranger Sheila Drury is mysteriously killed and another ranger vanishes.
Author
Series
Morganville vampires volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When Claire Danvers and her equally outcast best friend Eve are invited to the annual Dead Girls' Dance at a fraternity, all hell breaks loose when the living group party with the dead group in a town rampant with bloodthirsty vampires.
Author
Series
Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Cut off from the life of ranching he has come to love by his grandfather's death, John Grady Cole flees to Mexico, where he and his two companions embark on a rugged and cruelly idyllic adventure.
6) Last breath
Author
Series
Morganville vampires volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Claire Danvers learns that three of the vampires in Morganville have disappeared and discovers that the last person seen with one of them is a new resident named Magnus, she begins to suspect Magnus is not a fellow human.
7) Ghost town
Author
Series
Morganville vampires volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
While developing a new system to maintain defenses in Morganville, Texas, Claire Danvers discovers a way to amplify vampire mental powers which has a side-effect of causing residents--both human and vampire--to forget who they are.
8) Puddin'
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
When circumstances put Millie Michalchuk and Callie Reyes together over the course of a semester, the girls realize they have more in common than they ever imagined.
9) Moxie
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In a small Texas town where high school football reigns supreme, Viv, sixteen, starts a feminist revolution using anonymously-written zines.
10) Devils Unto Dust
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After her mother's death, Willie must protect her younger siblings from the flesh-eating creatures that surround her town and is forced to enter the dangerous desert to find her father when he steals from the most powerful man in town.
Author
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
With the one person who understands him fifteen hundred miles away, Jules must face his fears about coming out alone, which accidentally propels him into the life he’s always dreamed of.
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