Young Adult - High Interest Low Readability (High - Low) (copy)

These are books intended for an older, more mature, audience (young adults). They feature themes and topics that are high interest for this age group while also being low readability (lower reading levels/Lexile Levels). It sets struggling older readers up for reading success. copied from /MyAccount/MyList/52947 - List: Young Adult - High Interest Low Readability (High - Low)
 

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1. Openly straight

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Author:
Konigsberg, Bill
Series:
Openly straight volume 1.
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Cary Regional - Young Adult
YA KONIGSBE
Fuquay-Varina Community - Young Adult
YA KONIGSBE
North Regional - Young Adult has 2
YA KONIGSBE
Description:
Tired of being known as "the gay kid", Rafe Goldberg decides to assume a new persona when he comes east and enters an elite Massachusetts prep school--but trying to deny his identity has both complications and unexpected consequences.

2. The porcupine of truth

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Konigsberg, Bill
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Athens Drive Community - Young Adult Fiction
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North Regional - Young Adult
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Southeast Regional - Young Adult
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Seventeen-year-old Carson Speier is bored of Billings, Montana, and resentful that he has to help his mother take care of his father, a dying alcoholic whom he has not seen in fourteen years--but then he meets Aisha, a beautiful African American girl who has run away from her own difficult family, and together they embark on a journey of discovery that may help them both come to terms with their lives.