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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Two years after a tragedy saddles him with viral fame, twelve-year-old Simon O'Keeffe and his family move to Grin And Bear It, Nebraska, where the internet and cell phones are banned so astrophysicists can scan the sky for signs of alien life, and where, with the help of two new friends, a puppy, and a giant radio telescope, Simon plans to restart the narrative of his life.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Cora hasn't spoken to her best friend, Quinn, in a year. Despite living next door to each other, they exist in separate worlds of grief. Cora is still grappling with the death of her beloved sister in a school shooting, and Quinn is carrying the guilt of what her brother did. On the day of Cora's twelfth birthday, Quinn leaves a hox on her doorstep with a note. She has decided that the only way to fix things is to go back in time to the moment...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Minutes after the principal of Opportunity High School in Alabama finishes her speech welcoming the student body to a new semester, they discover that the auditorium doors will not open and someone starts shooting as four teens, each with a personal reason to fear the shooter, tells the tale from separate perspectives.
5) Mockingbird
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
The narrator was with her best friend, Sarah, when the Virgil County High School Massacre happened. She and Sarah were in the bathroom, and the story is that Sarah died after confessing her faith to the gunman. Sarah's parents are about to publish a book about it, so this is the narrator's last chance to tell her version of the truth--what did and did not happen, and why Sarah really died.
7) Hate List
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Sixteen-year-old Valerie, whose boyfriend Nick committed a school shooting at the end of their junior year, struggles to cope with integrating herself back into high school life, unsure herself whether she was a hero or a villain.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Told in text messages, middle-schooler Ava is having a really bad day: her parents are getting divorced, she has had a big argument with her best friends, and the charge on her cellphone is getting low; but things are about to get a lot worse because the lockdown alarm has just gone off, and there is an intruder in the school building.
9) Bang
Author
Series
Visions (Lisa McMann) volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"A teen who used to see a vision of a crash must help her boyfriend as he is now seeing a vision of a school shooting"--
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Seven interwoven narratives spanning three tense hours on a fateful day share the perspectives of a girl with a rare memory condition, a teacher who fears a student may be planning an act of violence, and a girl about to embark on a cross-country plot.
Delaware, the morning of April 19. Senior Skip Day, and April Donovans eighteenth birthday. Four days after the Boston Marathon bombing, the country is still reeling, and Aprils rare memory condition...
11) Endgame
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Fifteen-year-old Gray Wilton, bullied at school and ridiculed by an unfeeling father for preferring drums to hunting, goes on a shooting rampage at his high school.
12) The silent
Author
Pub. Date
©2010
Description
Seventeen-year-old Nikki has her hands full with being a high school senior, choosing the right Christian college, and her parents' failing marriage, but when someone sends threatening emails to several of her teachers, a police officer asks her to watch and listen for clues to the sender's identity.
13) Silent alarm
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Alys, a Plaineville, Wisconsin, junior who dreams of studying violin at Julliard, must deal with the aftermath of a tragic high school shooting in which her older brother, Luke, was the shooter.
15) Gasp
Author
Series
Visions (Lisa McMann) volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
After narrowly surviving two harrowing tragedies, Jules now fully understands the importance of the visions that she and people around her are experiencing, and that it is on Jules and Sawyer and their friends to once again prevent disaster.
16) Anger is a gift
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
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Description
"Moss Jeffries is many things--considerate student, devoted son, loyal friend and affectionate boyfriend, enthusiastic nerd. But sometimes Moss still wishes he could be someone else--someone without panic attacks, someone whose father was still alive, someone who hadn't become a rallying point for a community because of one horrible night ... Moss can't even escape at school--he and his friends are subject to the lack of funds and crumbling infrastructure...