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 "Made you up"
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5 stars
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Armed with her camera and a Magic 8-Ball and her only ally (her little sister), Alex wages a war against her schizophrenia, determined to stay sane long enough to get into college.
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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Relic master volume 4.
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The fourth installment in the Relic Master quartet!
Galen and Raffi's quest has brought them to the Pits of Maar. There, below the surface of the world, in the deepest darkness, a most evil thing is waiting for them to come.
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4.4 stars
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Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
Book cover for "The memory of things"
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4 stars
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On the morning of September 11, 2001, sixteen-year-old Kyle Donohue watches the first twin tower come down, then while fleeing home to safety, he finds a girl covered in ash who has no memory.
Book cover for "Metaltown"
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5 stars
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In harsh, factory-driven Metaltown, Ty endures the hardships of working on the factory line, while Lena is being prepared to rule her family factory ruthlessly, until both young women meet a dreamer named Colin, who changes everything.
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Tara, an Indian-American junior at Brierly prep school, feels her world dramatically change when a mirror planet to Earth is discovered and she, in this new era of scientific history, reconsiders her self and possible selves.

88. Missing

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4 stars
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After a chance encounter with an injured boy, Winter Crane questions if all the teenagers who left her town did so voluntarily.

89. Need

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Need series volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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In this first book in a YA fantasy series from New York Times bestselling author Carrie Jones, Zara discovers that magic is stirring in her sleepy Maine town . . . and herself.
Zara collects phobias the way other high school girls collect lipsticks. Little wonder, since she's had a pretty rough life. Her father left when she was a baby, and her stepfather just died. Her mother's pretty much checked out—in fact, Mom's sent her...
Book cover for "Never have I ever"
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4.8 stars
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When Emma Paxton steps into the life of her long-lost twin Sutton to solve her murder, she finds new suspects at every turn, while Sutton looks on from her afterlife.
Book cover for "A new darkness"
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Series:
New Darkness volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Although his apprenticeship was not done when John Gregory died, Tom Ward spent years learning to fight boggarts, witches, demons, and more and feels prepared to be the new county Spook, but while his youth causes many people to distrust him, Jenny is determined to be his apprentice.
Book cover for "New moon"
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Twilight saga volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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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...
Book cover for "Not Exactly a Love Story"
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5 stars
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“A fifteen-year-old creates an alter ego to woo his dream girl. Compulsively readable.” —The New York Times
 
This quirky, flirty, and smart story will appeal to fans of Frank Portman’s King Dork, John Green’s An Abundance of Katherines, and Rainbow Rowell’s Eleanor and Park. It’s not exactly a love story . . . but it’s pretty close.
 
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Lada Dracul seeks her younger brother Radu's help in securing the Wallachian throne, but their father, Sultan Mehmed, has sent him to sabotage Constantinople.
Book cover for "One of us is lying"
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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 "Openly straight"
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Series:
Openly straight volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Tired of being known as "the gay kid", Rafe Goldberg decides to assume a new persona when he comes east and enters an elite Massachusetts prep school--but trying to deny his identity has both complications and unexpected consequences.
Book cover for "Optimists die first"
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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.
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Series:
Gone novels volume 4.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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A deadly, flu-like epidemic and a plague of flesh-eating creatures threaten the lives of the children at Perdido Beach while Sam, Astrid, Caine, and Diana each struggle with doubts and uncertainties.
Book cover for "The porcupine of truth"
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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.
Book cover for "P.S. I like you"
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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.