K. L Going
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Troy, depressed, suicidal, and weighing nearly 300 pounds, gets a new perspective on life when a homeless teenager who is a genius on guitar wants Troy to be the drummer in his rock band.
3) Saint Iggy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Iggy Corso, who lives in city public housing, is caught physically and spiritually between good and bad when he is kicked out of high school, goes searching for his missing mother, and causes his friend to get involved with the same dangerous drug dealer who deals to his parents.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eve gave up her belief in stories and magic after her mother's death, but a mysterious seed given her as an eleventh-birthday gift by someone she has never met takes her and a boy who claims to be a ghost on a strange journey, to where their supposedly cursed town of Beaumont, New York, flourishes.