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 "Every day"
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Every day volume 0001
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Every morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.
Book cover for "It's not summer without you"
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4.5 stars
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Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever.
Book cover for "Marcelo in the real world"
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Marcelo Sandoval, a seventeen-year-old boy on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum, faces new challenges, including romance and injustice, when he goes to work for his father in the mailroom of a corporate law firm.
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Rainbow trilogy volume 3.
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While driving across the United States during the summer after high school graduation, three young gay men encounter various bisexual and homosexual people and make some decisions about their own relationships and lives.
Book cover for "The shade of the moon"
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4.5 stars
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"Jon Evans is one of the lucky ones--until he realizes that escaping his safe haven may be the only way to truly survive"--
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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 "The summer I turned pretty"
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4.2 stars
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Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.
Book cover for "Teach me to forget"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
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After a failed suicide attempt, Ellery tries to return the gun she bought to the store and runs into Colter Sawyer, a boy from her school, who does everything he can to prevent her from trying to take her life again.
Book cover for "Thirteen reasons why"
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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.

10. 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 "We'll always have summer"
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4.5 stars
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The summer after her first year of college, Isobel "Belly" Conklin is faced with a choice between Jeremiah and Conrad Fisher, brothers she has always loved, when Jeremiah proposes marriage and Conrad confesses that he still loves her.
Book cover for "The whole thing together"
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3 stars
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On alternating weeks, Sasha and Ray vacation in the beach house their parents refused to give up after their divorce, but they never meet until one summer when their lives and those of their siblings intersect in ways none of them could have imagined.
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.