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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Book cover for "Another day"
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Every day volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"Rhiannon is disappointed that her neglectful boyfriend Justin doesn't remember the one perfect day they shared, until a stranger tells her that the Justin she spent that day with, the one who made her feel like a real person... wasn't Justin at all"--
Book cover for "Beautiful creatures"
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4 stars
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In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.
Book cover for "Eleanor & Park"
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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"Set over the course of one school year in 1986, this is the story of two star-crossed misfits--smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try"--
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3.4 stars
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Katherine and Michael, along with various friends and acquaintances in suburban New Jersey, discover the possibilities and limitations of love and personal commitment. Two high school seniors believe their love to be so strong that it will last forever.
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5 stars
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With both good speed and good hands, wide receiver Brock Ripley should be a natural for the varsity team, but he shies from physical contact. When his issues get him cut from varsity, he also loses his friendship with star quarterback Hunter Gates. Now atarget for bullying, Brock struggles to overcome his fears and discover that, in his own way, he is brave enough.
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Jericho trilogy volume 3.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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As Kofi, Arielle, Dana, November, and Jericho face personal challenges during their last year of high school, a misunderstood student brings a gun to class and demands to be taken seriously.
Book cover for "Last sacrifice"
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Vampire Academy volume 6.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Framed for the murder of Queen Tatiana, bodyguard Rose faces the trial of her life as best friend Lissa, a vampire princess, becomes first in line for the royal throne.
Book cover for "New moon"
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Series:
Twilight saga volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
When her beloved Edward and his family leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob, until he starts changing in terrible ways. When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is...
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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When the creator of a high school gossip app mysteriously dies in front of four high-profile students all four become suspects. It's up to them to solve the case.
Book cover for "P.S. I like you"
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Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Every day in chemistry class, high school student and aspiring songwriter Lily Abbott is finding notes left to her by a mystery boy, love letters really, and she hopes they are from Lucas, a boy she is attracted to--so when she finds out they are really from, she is shocked and unsure about how to respond.
Book cover for "Shadow kiss"
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Series:
Vampire Academy volume 3.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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While Rose is coping with the darker effects of being shadow-kissed, her relationship with Dimitri is finally taking off, and when he disappears during a Strigoi attack on St. Vladimir's Academy, she must make a terrible choice.
Book cover for "Spirit bound"
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Series:
Vampire Academy volume 5.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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When she returns to St. Vladimir's after a heartbreaking journey to Dimitri's birthplace, Rose eagerly anticipates graduation despite her fears that Dimitri will not be able to resist his vampire drive to stalk and transform her. Rose Hathaway has finally returned to St. Vladimir's and to her best friend, Lissa. But Rose's heart still aches for Dimitri, and she knows he's out there, somewhere. He has tasted her blood, and now he is hunting her. Only...
Book cover for "Thirteen reasons why"
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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When Clay Jenkins receives a box containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends the night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
Book cover for "This adventure ends"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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Sloane isn't expecting to fall in with a group of friends when she moves from New York to Florida--especially not a group of friends so intense, so in love, so all-consuming.

15. Wake

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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.
Book cover for "Wired man and other freaks of nature"
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Ben has to wear hearing aids, but being inseparable from the super-popular Tyler allows him to think of himself as normal. But Tyler blows him off senior year and Ben needs to rethink who he is--and who Tyler is.