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. Into the dangerous world

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Author:
Chibbaro, Julie
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2 stars
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East Regional - Young Adult
YA CHIBBARO
Southeast Regional - Young Adult
YA CHIBBARO
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Living in an art commune that her father burns down before taking his own life, Ror moves to a homeless residence in 1984 Manhattan, where she is torn by the opinions of others about how she should define herself as an artist.

2. The porcupine of truth

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Author:
Konigsberg, Bill
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Athens Drive Community - Young Adult Fiction
YA KONIG
North Regional - Young Adult
YA KONIGSBE
Southeast Regional - Young Adult
YA KONIGSBE
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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.