Scott Shina
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 30
Formats
Description
A family of six disintegrates after a daughter is raped by a high-school student. It happens to the wealthy Mulvaneys in upstate New York. The disgrace--there is some question if it was rape--sends the father to drink and financial ruin, the girl leaves home, the others follow. By the author of What I Lived For.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Formats
Description
A novel of a dysfunctional family in a Pennsylvania coal-mining town. The mother is in jail for killing the father and the four children are on their own. They are supported by the eldest, Harley Altmyer, 20, who is having an affair with the mother of a friend of his sister.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.
7) Double helix
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
Description
Reminiscent of another debut Ken Kesey's One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest this powerful first novel by short story writer Udall (Letting Loose the Hounds) is constructed around grotesque set pieces; black humor drives the plot. Set in the late '60s, Udall's story begins when seven-year-old Edgar Mint, the half-Apache, half-white narrator, is run over by the mailman's car, his head crushed. Abandoned by his grandmother and alcoholic mother after his...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When the Rapture occurred, many young people were left behind. Four of these, orphaned teenagers Judd, Vicki, Lionel, and Ryan, have turned to Christ and are learning about the coming events from their spiritual teacher, Bruce Barnes. But they have many questions and want to know what signs they should look for.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Judd, Lionel, Ryan, and Vicki, four young people left behind when their parents are taken to heaven by God in the Rapture, struggle to nurture their new faith, while also dealing with the earthly troubles of Lionel's Uncle Andre.
13) Finding Caruso
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
Buddy is seven years younger than his brother, Lee, but they have always been close. After their praents die in a car crash, the two young men sell what is left of their dusty Oklahoma farm and travel north to Snake Junction, Idaho. There, while Lee sings in a bar, 17-year-old Buddy is at loose ends -- until he meets Irene. Beautiful, mysterious, and almost twice his age, Irene leads Buddy into manhood.
14) The vanishings
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Four young friends face the Rapture and Tribulation together as they find themselves left behind and alone on earth's last days.
15) Liar
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Fourteen-year-old Alex struggles to rise above the life events which seem to conspire against him, from a mother who lies, to a probation officer who won't give him a break, to bullies at his new school.
16) Second chance
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
After thousands of people suddenly vanish one horrifying evening, four kids in the Chicago suburbs, learn they are the only ones left in their families. After one receives a message from his uncle, he rushes to search for him. The four friends band together to fight the evil forces that threaten their lives.