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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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"Leonora, known to some as Lee and others as Nora, is a reclusive crime writer, unwilling to leave her "nest" of an apartment unless it is absolutely necessary. When a friend she hasn't seen or spoken to in years unexpectedly invites Nora (Lee?) to a weekend away in an eerie glass house deep in the English countryside, she reluctantly agrees to make the trip. Forty-eight hours later, she wakes up in a hospital bed injured but alive, with the knowledge...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until they fall down dead. As rumors of witchcraft spread, suspicion turns toward Lavinia and her family, and Lavinia may have to do the unimaginable to save herself and everyone she loves. Five centuries later, a pair of red shoes seal to Rosella Oliva’s feet, making her dance uncontrollably. They draw her toward a boy who knows the dancing fever’s history...
3) Chosen ones
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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"Fifteen years ago, five ordinary teenagers were singled out by a prophecy to take down an impossibly powerful entity wreaking havoc across North America. He was known as the Dark One, and his weapon of choice-catastrophic events known as Drains-leveled cities and claimed thousands of lives. Chosen Ones, as the teens were known, gave everything they had to defeat him. After the Dark One fell, the world went back to normal . . . for everyone but them....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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"Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. The sky is clear, the waters calm, and the veneered, select guests jovial as the exclusive cruise ship, the Aurora, begins her voyage in the picturesque North Sea. At first, Lo's stay is nothing but pleasant: the cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are...
6) The frenzy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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When she was thirteen, something terrifying and mysterious happened to Liv that she still does not understand, and now, four years later, her dark secret threatens to tear her apart from her family and her true love.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Corey moves away from Lost Creek, Alaska, she makes her friend Kyra promise to stay strong during the long, dark winter, and wait for her return. Just days before Corey is to return home to visit, Kyra dies. The entire Lost community speaks in hushed tones, saying her death was meant to be. And they push Corey away like she's a stranger. With every hour, Corey's suspicion grows. Lost is keeping secrets-- but piecing together the truth about what...
8) The reader
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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"Set in a world where reading is unheard-of, Sefia makes use of a mysterious object to track down who kidnapped her aunt Nin and what really happened the night her father was murdered"--
After her father is brutally murdered, Sefia flees into the wilderness with her aunt Nin, who teaches her to hunt, track, and steal. But when Nin is kidnapped none of her survival skills can help her discover where Nin's been taken, or if she's even alive. The only...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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"When Nico Morris's older sister mysteriously disappears, her parents, family, and friends are devastated. But Nico can never admit what she herself feels: relief at finally being free of Sarah's daily cruelties. Then the best and worst thing happens: four years later, after dozens of false leads, Sarah is found. But this girl is much changed from the one Nico knew. She's thin and drawn, when Sarah had been golden and athletic; timid and unsure, instead...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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"There's no such thing as a secret. SOMETHING happened to Ava. The curving scar on her face is proof. But Ava would rather keep that something hidden--buried deep in her heart and her soul. She has her best friend Syd, and she has her tattoos--a colorful quilt, like a security blanket, over her whole body--and now, suddenly, she has Hailey. Beautiful, sweet Hailey, who seems to like Ava as much as she likes her. And Ava isn't letting anything get...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women, on a farm at the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Tamar is admitted to Lime Grove, a psychiatric hospital for teenagers. Lime Grove is home to a number of teenagers with a variety of problems: anorexia, bipolar disorder, behavior issues. Tamar will come to know them all very well. But there's one question she can't... won't answer: What happened to her friend Iris? As Tamar's emotional angst becomes more and more clear to her, she'll have to figure out a path to forgiveness. A shocking, moving,...
13) Restore me
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Series
Shatter me (Mafi) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"It's been sixteen days since Juliette Ferrars killed the supreme commander of North America and took over as ruler of the Reestablishment on the continent ... Juliette thought she'd won. She took over sector 45 and now has Warner by her side. But she's still the girl with the ability to kill with a single touch--and with so much power in her young hands, the world is watching her every move, waiting to see what happens next."--Dust jacket.
14) A separate peace
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Gene and Phineas, roommates at an exclusive New England prep school, form a complex bond of friendship that leads to envy, violence, and betrayal.
Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Nominated as one of Americas best-loved novels by PBSs The Great American Read Marriage can be a real killer. One of the most critically acclaimed suspense writers of our time, New York Times bestseller Gillian Flynn takes that statement to its darkest place in this unputdownable masterpiece about a marriage gone terribly, terribly wrong. The Chicago Tribune proclaimed thather work "draws you in and keeps you reading with the force of a pure but nasty...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Rosemary Bray describes growing up poor in Chicago in the 1960s and becoming one of the first black women at Yale; she shows why changes in the welfare system make it virtually impossible for her inspiring story to happen today.
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Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
As the Baxters make plans to come together for a summer lakeside reunion, the unthinkable happens, the family rallies together, and memories come to light that bring healing and hope during a time when darkness might have the final word.
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Walter Wilcox's first love, Naomi, happens to be African American, so when Walter's policeman father is caught in a racial profiling scandal, the teens' bond and mutual love of the Foo Fighters may not be enough to keep them together through the pressures they face at school, at home, and online.
20) If you find me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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"There are some things you can't leave behind... A broken-down camper hidden deep in a national forest is the only home fifteen year-old Carey can remember. The trees keep guard over her threadbare existence, with the one bright spot being Carey's younger sister, Jenessa, who depends on Carey for her very survival. All they have is each other, as their mentally ill mother comes and goes with greater frequency. Until that one fateful day their mother...