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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 40
Language
English
Description
Drawing upon experiences from his own prison days, the author recounts in feverish tones the story of Raskolnikov, an impoverished student tormented by his own nihilism, and the struggle between good and evil. Believing that he is above the law, and convinced that humanitarian ends justify vile means, he brutally murders an old woman -- a pawnbroker whom he regards as "stupid, ailing, greedy... good for nothing." Overwhelmed afterwards by feelings...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dual perspectives reveal the aftermath of seventeen-year-old Michael MacKenzie's birthday celebration during which he discharges an antique Winchester rifle and unknowingly kills the father of high school classmate Jenna Ward.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the summer of 1935 Briony Tallis misinterprets a moment's flirtation between her sister and the son of a servant. A crime occurs soon after, the repercussions of which are followed through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the 20th century.
Author
Series
Hundred Oaks volume 5
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
To honor her dead boyfriend and cope with her grief and guilt, college student Annie trains for a marathon with athletic Jeremiah, who flirts with Annie on the trails and makes her feel alive and happy and guilty all at the same time.
6) Goodbye days
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Looks at a teen's life after the death of his best friend and how he navigates through the guilt and pain by celebrating their lives--and ultimately learning to forgive himself"--
7) Willow
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Willow, who was driving the car that killed both of her parents, copes with the pain and guilt by cutting herself, until she meets a smart and sensitive boy who is determined to help her stop.
Author
Series
Secrets (Melody Carlson) volume 2
Publisher
NavPress/Th1nk
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Cleo, feeling guilty that her choices played a role in her mother's murder, seeks refuge in prescription medication until her Aunt Kellie helps her to tell the truth and find some perspective.
9) Chime
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, seventeen-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about.
10) Cracked up to be
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
High school senior Parker Fadley has quit the cheerleading squad, broken up with her popular boyfriend, and is in danger of not graduating with her class, but she refuses to tell anyone what has precipitated this sudden change in her attitude and behavior, insisting that she only wants to be left alone.
11) The reader
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
At the age of fifteen, Michael Berg falls in love with a woman named Hanna who disappears, and while observing a trial as a law student years later, he is shocked to discover the same woman as the defendant in a horrible crime.
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