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Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
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Description
This is the story of my return to high school. This is the true story of how I didn't die. High school sucks for a lot of people. High school extra sucks when you believe, deep in your soul, that every kid in the school is out to get you. I wasn't popular before I got locked up in Straight Inc., the notorious "tough love" program for troubled teens. So it's not like I was walking around thinking everyone liked me. But when you're psychologically beaten...
22) Blood donor
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jo McNair is one minute late for her curfew, her controlling father locks her out. Wandering the streets, she has no money and nowhere to sleep. She meets someone who says they're with a group working with at-risk kids, helping them get back on their feet-- and walks into a kidnapper's trap. Now Jo and several other teens are being held prisoner; their captors drug them regularly and force them to donate their blood. When one of the teens doesn't...
23) My friend Dahmer
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young Jeffrey Dahmer struggles to belong in high school.
"A warped wonder of a movie about a cannibalistic serial killer's awkward teenage years-it takes twisted to areas few have investigated."--Rolling Stone
"This film is sensitively wrought. It's credible in its evocation of mid-'70s suburbia. The acting is excellent throughout, and Ross Lynch in the role of Dahmer elicits genuine sympathy for an increasingly lost but not yet monstrous soul."--New...
24) Free Willy
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A story about the friendship that develops between a 12-year-old boy who knows what it's like to be without a family, and a whale confined in a too-small tank at an aquatic park.
25) Wild bird
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her behavior escalates out of control, fourteen-year-old Wren is taken away to a wilderness therapy camp where she is forced to develop new skills, including the courage to ask for help.
Author
Series
Hardy boys undercover brothers volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Frank and Joe try to determine the cause of recent injuries and deaths at a camp for troubled teens in the wilderness surrounding Moosehead Lake in Maine.
27) Half nelson
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A high school teacher with a drug habit finds a friendship in an unlikely source - one of his troubled students. Will their relationship help them or harm them?
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Judge Kay Woodbury opens her door to a teen named Sally that is bright beyond her years, but very troubled. Kay locates Sally's father, Jim, and hires him to be her landscaper to try to rekindle a father and daughter relationship between Sally and Jim.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When the husband of a high-society woman is killed in an accident, she realizes she has nothing left except a house in rural Georgia that is being used as a foster home. Moving in with the intentions of selling it, she finds a new meaning and purpose to her life when she ends up helping to care for the rebellious teenagers who live there that have issues of their own.
Author
Series
Coming home to Ruby Prairie volume 2
Publisher
Moody Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young woman thinks she has escaped her past only to discover that she's been hovering on its edges all along: she and her younger sister, Fawn, bide their time in a dilapidated warehouse in a desolate town north of New York City; their parents escaped there with dreams of starting an art commune. But after the girls' father vanishes all traces of stability disappear for the family, and the girls retreat into strange worlds of their own myth-making...
32) Short term 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grace is a twenty-something supervisor at a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers. Passionate and tough, Grace is a formidable caretaker, and in love with her long-term boyfriend and co-worker, Mason. But Grace's own difficult past, and the surprising future that suddenly presents itself, throws her into unforeseen confusion, made sharper with the arrival of a new intake at the facility, a gifted but troubled teenage girl with whom Grace has...
33) Off the black
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ray, an aging alcoholic, forms an unlikely friendship with a troubled teenager. As they grow more dependent on each other, Ray asks the teen to go to his 40th high school reunion and pose as his son.
Publisher
Warner Premiere
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After being hired by a novelist to protect her brother, Edgar Frog realizes that he is over his head and seeks the help of his brother Alan to fight an alpha vampire plotting against the lost youth of San Cazador.
35) Mom, dad and her
Publisher
A&E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Sydney Foster is a troubled teen from a broken home, heading for trouble. After being caught shoplifting and a bout of alcohol poisoning, her volatile behavior has finally reached a breaking point. Sydney is sent to spend the summer with her father, who hopes to reconnect with her. At first Sydney isn't happy but she slowly develops relationships with those around her, including a friend whose mom is dying of cancer and her newly...
36) Glee: encore
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 77 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Put on your dancing shoes and get ready to Gleek out! This full-length DVD features a set list of season one's musical numbers.
37) Safe Harbor
Publisher
Distributed by Questar
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the remarkable true story of couple Doug and Robbie Smith, who founded the Safe Harbor Home for Boys in Jacksonville, Fl. On the eve of their retirement cruise, self-made millionaire Doug Smith and his wife Robbie get a call from Doug's past asking him to 'pay it forward' by helping out troubled teens for a brief stay on their boat. A local judge, who took mercy on a young Doug when he was in trouble, asks the couple to help spare three teens...
39) Stomp The Yard
Language
English
Description
After the death of his younger brother D.J. a troubled 19-year-old street dancer from Los Angeles is able to bypass juvenile hall by enrolling in the historically black Truth University in Atlanta, Georgia. His efforts to get an education and woo the girl he likes are sidelined when he discovers 'stepping, ' a traditional dance performed by African-American fraternities. He soon finds himself in the middle of a fierce rivalry between the top two campus...
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