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. Grendel's guide to love and war

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Author:
Kaplan, A. E.
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5 stars
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Description:
When a local bully upsets the senior community by throwing wild parties, an effort that is complicated by Aarons PTSD and Toms unrequited feelings for the bullys sister, misfit Tom and his friend Ed take matters into their own hands.

2. Optimists die first

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Author:
Nielsen-Fernlund, Susin, 1964-
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4.5 stars
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East Regional - Young Adult
YA NIELSENF
Description:
When Petula de Wilde, who is anything but wild, meets Jacob in their school's dorky art therapy program, his friendship (and something more) helps her overcome intense fears since her sister died. And he has a secret of his own.

3. Revolution

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Author:
Donnelly, Jennifer
Average Rating:
2.7 stars
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Description:
When an angry, grieving musician faces expulsion from her private school, she travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution.

4. Wake

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Author:
McMann, Lisa
Series:
Wake trilogy (Lisa McMann) volume 1.
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Cary Regional - Young Adult
YA MCMANN
East Regional - Young Adult
YA MCMANN
Eva H. Perry Regional - Young Adult
YA MCMANN
Description:
Ever since she was eight years old, high school student Janie Hannagan has been uncontrollably drawn into other people's dreams, but it is not until she befriends an elderly nursing home patient and becomes involved with an enigmatic fellow-student that she discovers her true power.