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1) Scar Island
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
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Twelve-year-old Jonathan Grisby has been sent to the Slabhenge Reformatory School for Troubled Boys, a former lunatic asylum which is currently run by a sadist who enjoys punishing the boys and setting them against each other; but when a lightning strike kills all the adults the boys find themselves suddenly free--and trapped on Scar Island which seems to be sinking into the ocean.
2) The Free
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Description
Teenaged Isacc, who steals to give his younger sister the basic necessities that his alcoholic mother cannot provide, is sentenced to a juvenile detention center and during therapy sessions with fellow criminals, a repressed memory surfaces that changes everything.
4) Inside out
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
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A sixteen-year-old with schizophrenia is caught up in the events surrounding an attempted robbery by two other teens who eventually hold him hostage.
5) House arrest
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
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While under house arrest for one year for stealing a wallet, young Timothy keeps free-verse notes on his life in a court-ordered journal as he deals with having a sick brother and tries to stay out of trouble.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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A group of teens at the Hope Juvenile Treatment Center are shocked to discover their guards have abandoned them, but their joy turns to fear when they learn a catastrophic pandemic has occurred outside their walls, turning their new-found freedom into a fight for survival.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Mike Klingenberg is a troubled fourteen-year-old from a disfunctional family in Berlin who thinks of himself as boring, so when a Russian juvenile delinquent called Tschick begins to pay attention to him and include Mike in his criminal activities, he is excited -- until those activities lead to disaster on the autobahn.
8) Holes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnate is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
9) Last chance
Author
Series
Robyn Hunter mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
"Robyn's scared of dogs -- like, really scared. But she agrees to spend her summer working at an animal shelter anyway. (It's a long story.) Robyn soon discovers that many juvenile offenders also volunteer at the shelter -- including Nick Di'Angelo, a boy from Robyn's past. A boy she hoped never to see again. Nick has a talent for getting into trouble, but after his latest arrest, Robyn suspects that he just might be innocent. And she sets out to...
10) Tagged
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
When Liam, a fourteen-year-old graffiti artist, can't keep his grades up and is threatened by a local gang in the projects of Minneapolis, his mother sends him to Lake Michigan for the summer.
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In Anthony Burgess’s influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends’ intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the controversial...
12) Long way down
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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There are three rules in the neighborhood: Don't cry ; Don't snitch ; Get revenge. Will takes his dead brother Shawn's gun, and gets in the elevator on the 7th floor. As the elevator stops on each floor, someone connected to Shawn gets on. Someone already dead. Dead by teenage gun violence. And each has something to share with Will.
13) Mainely Power
Author
Series
Goff Langdon Mainely mysteries volume 1
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"Was Harold Dumphy killed to cover up something at the nuclear power plant where he was the head of security?
This is what Harold's widow asks Goff Langdon, private detective, to find out. Langdon is a laid back, slacker detective, happy with his work, friends, and way of life in the town of Brunswick, Maine. To compliment his income in small town Maine's scarce private detective market, Langdon also owns and operates a mystery bookstore named after...
14) Hoyos
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Young Stanley Yelnats begins a journey of self-discovery when he is sent to a juvenile detention center in Texas, where the boys are forced to dig five-foot-deep holes as punishment--a process for which Stanley suspects the warden has ulterior motives.
15) Durango Street
Author
Pub. Date
1999,c1965
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Now that he's served his time and is out of work camp Rufus Henry doesn't want to join one of the gangs which control Durango Street, but that's where he lives and it's the only way to be safe from the Gassers.
16) Black and white
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Two star high school basketball players, one black and one white, experience the justice system differently after committing a crime together and getting caught.
17) Boot camp
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
After ignoring several warnings to stop dating his teacher, Garrett is sent to Lake Harmony, a boot camp that uses unorthodox and brutal methods to train students to obey their parents.
18) Bad
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Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In an attempt to please her friends, sixteen-year-old Dallas goes along with their plan to rob a convenience store and when her father refuses to allow her to come home, she is sentenced to six months in the Girls' Rehabilitation Center.
19) Rikers High
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Arrested on a minor offense, a New York City teenager attends high school in the jail facility on Rikers Island, as he waits for his case to go to court.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After a brawl with a rival gang, sixteen-year-old Azael, a member of Houston's MS-13 gang and the son of illegal Salvadoran immigrants, wakes up in an unusual juvenile detention center where he is forced to observe another inmate through a one-way mirror.