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Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The term "Apple" is a slur in Native communities across the country. It's for someone supposedly "red on the outside, white on the inside." Eric Gansworth is telling his story in Apple (Skin to the Core). The story of his family, of Onondaga among Tuscaroras, of Native folks everywhere. From the horrible legacy of the government boarding schools, to a boy watching his siblings leave and return and leave again, to a young man fighting to be an artist...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society. When it was first published in 1967, The Outsiders defied convention with its immediate, deeply sympathetic portrayal of Ponyboy and his struggle to find a place for himself in a difficult world. Thirty years later, it speaks to teenagers as powerfully as ever.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Amy discovers that she can leap directly into books, meet their characters, and experience their worlds, but when she learns that someone is stealing from the books she visits, she teams up with fellow book jumper Will to stop the thefts.
Author
Publisher
Tu Books, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When her ailing father is conscripted to fight invaders from the north, Mulan dresses as a man to take his place in the army, but an old enemy and an attraction for her troop's commander complicate her mission.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Though she is from a family of clairvoyants, Blue Sargent's only gift seems to be that she makes other people's talents stronger, and when she meets Gansey, one of the Raven Boys from the expensive Aglionby Academy, she discovers that he has talents of his own--and that together their talents are a dangerous mix.
6) Coraline
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When children start to go missing in the local woods, eighteen-year-old Wendy Darling must face her fears and a past she cannot remember to rescue them in this novel based on Peter Pan.
Author
Series
Shadow and Bone volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, Mal, to become the protegee of the mysterious Darkling, who trains her to join the magical elite in the belief that she is the Sun Summoner, who can destroy the monsters of the Fold.
10) Sinner's Isle
Author
Publisher
Joy Revolution, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rosalinda is trapped on Sinner's Isle, an island filled with Majestics like her--beautiful witches loathed by society for their dangerous magic yet revered by powerful men who want to use them.
Now eighteen, Rosa will be the prize commodity at this year's Offering, a fiesta for the wealthy to engage in drink, damsels, and debauchery. That is why she must flee--before someone forces the vicious phantoms within her to destroy everything she touches....
11) Mirage
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"In a world dominated by the brutal Vathek empire, eighteen-year-old Amani is a dreamer. She dreams of what life was like before the occupation; she dreams of writing poetry like the old-world poems she adores; she dreams of receiving a sign from Dihya that one day, she, too, will have adventure, and travel beyond her isolated home. In a world dominated by the brutal Vathek empire, eighteen-year-old Amani is a dreamer. She dreams of what life was...
12) Literally
Author
Publisher
Harper Teen
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Annabelle's life has always been Perfect with a capital P. Then bestselling young adult author Lucy Keating announces that she's writing a new novel--and Annabelle is the heroine. It turns out that Annabelle is a character that Lucy Keating created. And Lucy has a plan for her. But, Annabelle doesn't want to live a life where everything she does is already plotted out. Will she find a way to write her own story--or will Lucy Keating have the last...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Having made a deal with a criminal to save her sister Scarlett from a disastrous arranged marriage, Tella must win Caraval and uncover Legend's identity, or risk losing everything, including her life.
14) The death cure
Author
Series
The maze runner trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
As the third Trial draws to a close, Thomas and some of his cohorts manage to escape from WICKED, their memories having been restored, only to face new dangers as WICKED claims to be trying to protect the human race from the deadly FLARE virus.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
A love worth fighting for. A dream worth dying for. An ending worth waiting for.
It’s been two months since the Fates were freed from a deck of cards, two months since Legend claimed the throne for his own, and two months since Tella discovered the boy she fell in love with doesn’t really exist.
With lives, empires, and hearts hanging in the balance, Tella must decide if she’s going to trust Legend or a former enemy. After uncovering a secret...
Author
Series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Daniel leads a rich life in the university town of Athens, Georgia. He's got a couple close friends, a steady paycheck working for a regional airline, and of course, for a few glorious days each Fall, college football tailgates. He considers himself to be a mostly lucky guy - despite the fact that he's suffered from a debilitating disease since he was a small child, one that has left him unable to speak or to move without a wheelchair. Largely confined...
18) The never war
Author
Series
Pendragon volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Bobby Pendragon's most recent traveling takes him to the familiar First Earth, where he and fellow Traveler Spader must stay on the tracks of Saint Dane and his new evil plot, while also dealing with the tumult of New York City in 1937.
19) Heartless
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Before becoming the infamous Queen of Hearts, Cath, one of the most desired girls in Wonderland, aspires to open a bakery and marry for love rather than accept the king's proposal, especially after meeting the mysterious court jester.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.