Chris Crutcher
2) Whale talk
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Intellectually and athletically gifted, TJ, a multiracial, adopted teenager, shuns organized sports and the gung-ho athletes at his high school until he agrees to form a swimming team and recruits some of the school's less popular students. Features a new afterword by Chris Crutcher
3) Ironman
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
While training for a triathlon, seventeen-year-old Bo attends an anger management group at school which leads him to examine his relationship with his father.
5) Deadline
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Given the medical diagnosis of one year to live, high school senior Ben Wolf decides to fulfill his greatest fantasies, ponders his life's purpose and legacy, and converses through dreams with a spiritual guide known as "Hey-Soos."
6) Stotan!
Author
Pub. Date
[1986]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
A high school coach invites members of his swimming team to a memorable week of rigorous training that tests their moral fiber as well as their physical stamina.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
The daily class discussions about the nature of man, the existence of God, abortion, organized religion, suicide and other contemporary issues serve as a backdrop for a high-school senior's attempt to answer a friend's dramatic cry for help.
10) Losers bracket
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When it comes to family, Annie is in the losers bracket. While her foster parents are great (mostly), her birth family would not have been her first pick. And no matter how many times Annie tries to write them out of her life, she always gets sucked back into their drama. Love is like that. But when a family argument breaks out at Annie's swim meet and her nephew goes missing, Annie might be the only one who can get him back. With help from her friends,...
11) Period 8
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Period 8 has always been a safe haven and high school senior Paulie "The Bomb" Baum a constant attendee, but as Paulie, Hannah, their friends, and a sympathetic teacher try to unravel the mystery of a missing classmate, the ultimate bully takes aim at the school.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Billy, recently deceased, keeps an eye on his best friend, fourteen-year-old Eddie, who has added to his home and school problems by becoming mute, and helps him stand up to a conservative minister and English teacher who is orchestrating a censorship challenge.