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"--
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4.8 stars
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Swarms of locusts, record-breaking heat, and devastating storms ravage Gatlin as Ethan and Lena struggle to understand and control the impact of Lena's claiming, which is even causing her family members' abilities to dangerously misfire.
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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.
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4.5 stars
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In a small southern town with a secret world hidden in plain sight, sixteen-year-old Lena, who possesses supernatural powers and faces a life-altering decision, draws away from her true love, Ethan, a mortal with frightening visions.
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4.9 stars
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When Ethan wakes after the chilling events of the Eighteenth Moon, his one goal is to return to Lena and his loved ones, while back in Gatlin, Lena vows to do whatever it takes to bring Ethan home--even trusting old enemies and risking the lives of those Ethan left to protect.
Book cover for "The bitter kingdom"
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4.1 stars
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Elisa, a fugitive in her own kingdom, faces great challenges to rescue the man she loves from her enemies, prevent a civil war, and take back her throne but as her magic grows, Elisa discovers the shocking truth about her enemy's ultimate goal.
Book cover for "Definitions of indefinable things"
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Average Rating:
3 stars
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Follows three teens in a small town whose lives intersect in ways they never expected, teaching them that there are no one-size-fits-all definitions of depression, friendship, and love.
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"--
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.

10. Forever

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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.
Book cover for "Holding up the universe"
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Average Rating:
4.1 stars
Description:
"A boy with face blindness and a girl who struggles with weight fall in love."--
Book cover for "Janie face to face"
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Janie Johnson volume 5.
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At college in New York City, Janie Johnson, aka Jennie Spring, seems to have successfully left behind her past as "The face on the milk carton," but soon she, her families, and friends are pursued by a true-crime writer who wants their help in telling her kidnapper's tale.
Book cover for "Optimists die first"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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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.
Book cover for "The sun is also a star"
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4.2 stars
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Natasha, whose family is hours away from being deported, and Daniel, a first generation Korean American who strives to live up to his parents' expectations, unexpectedly fall in love and must determine which path they will choose in order to be together.
Book cover for "Under rose-tainted skies"
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Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Will teenaged Norah, who is struggling with agoraphobia and OCD, accept that she could be the right one for sweet, funny Luke?
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 "Words in deep blue"
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Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Teenagers Rachel and Henry find their way back to each other while working in an old bookstore full of secrets and crushes, love letters and memories, grief and hope.