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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In the wake of being sexually assaulted by her pastor, sixteen-year-old Amina struggles to regain her footing until she finds the strength within herself to confront her abuser in court.
Sixteen-year-old Amina Conteh has always believed in using her tongue as her weapon--even when it gets her into trouble. After cursing at a classmate, her father forces her to volunteer at their church with Pastor Johnson. But Pastor Johnson isn't the holy man everyone...
2) Infinity
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The mind-blowing conclusion to the chilling NUMBERS trilogy: Because everyone wants to live forever.
No matter what it takes, Sarah's desperate to escape from the numbers.
Always numbers. Sarah loves Adam, but can't bear the thought that every time he looks in her eyes, he can see her dying; can see her last day.
It's 2029. Two years since the Chaos. Sarah and Adam are struggling to survive. She knows he always envisioned them together "'til death...
3) Spellwright
Author
Series
Spellwright trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
The fresh, original first novel of a magical fantasy trilogy, about a dyslexic wizard who cannot spell his spells, yet is destined to contend with an ancient evil that threatens to destroy not only all the magic in the world, but all the people as well.
Nicodemus is a young, gifted wizard with a problem. Magic in his world requires the caster to create spells by writing out the text... but he has always been dyslexic, and thus has trouble casting...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Stark McClellan (nicknamed Stick because he's tall and thin) is bullied for being "deformed", he was born with only one ear. His older brother Bosten is always there to defend Stick. But, the boys can't defend one another from their abusive parents.
When Stick realizes Bosten is gay, he knows that to survive his father's anger, Bosten must leave home. Stick has to find his brother, or he will never feel whole again. In his search,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
One day, fifteen-year-old Emily Dickinson meets a mysterious, handsome young man. Surprisingly, he doesn't seem to know who she or her family is. And even more surprisingly, he playfully refuses to divulge his name. Emily enjoys her secret flirtation with Mr. "Nobody" until he turns up dead in her family's pond. She's stricken with guilt. Only Emily can discover who this enigmatic stranger was before he's condemned to be buried in an anonymous grave....
6) Asunder
Author
Series
Newsoul trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling coauthor of My Plain Jane comes the thrilling and romantic second novel in the Incarnate trilogy, a fantasy series about a girl who is the first new soul born into a society where everyone else has been reborn hundreds of times.
As a Newsoul, Ana has always felt alone. Some residents of Heart are afraid of Ana's presence, a constant reminder of unstoppable change and the unknown. When the people turn violent,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A timely, nonstop action-adventure about the War on Terror - and a family torn apart.
Kamran Smith has it all. He's the star of the football team, dates the most popular girl in school, and can't wait to join the Army like his big brother, Darius. Although Kamran's family hails from Iran, Kamran has always felt 100% American. Accepted. And then everything implodes.
Darius is accused of being a terrorist. Kamran refuses to believe it, but the evidence...
8) Artifice
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Isa de Smit grew up in her parents' art gallery in Amsterdam, but in the middle of the war she survives by selling fake paintings to the Nazis while trying to help her friend, Truus, smuggle Jewish babies to safety--but in 1943 it is hard to know who to trust"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The thrilling, magical conclusion of the Libyrinth trilogy
The world of the Libyrinth has experienced a series of wrenching changes. After the Libyrarians and their longtime foes the Singers discovered their common heritage, a young healer named Po found the Lion's Bloom, an ancient and enormously powerful artifact capable of rewriting reality.
Behind the mysteries of their shrouded past has always been the legendary Book of the Night. Sought for...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Mara James has always been a perfectionist with a plan. But despite years of overachieving at her elite school, Mara didn't plan on having a total meltdown during her calculus exam. Like a rip-up-the-test-and-get-escorted-out kind of meltdown. And she definitely didn't plan on never wanting to show her face again.
Mara knows she should go back,only she can't bring herself to do it. Because suddenly she doesn't know why she's been overachieving all...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Billy Kinsey, heir to a lottery fortune, part genius, part philosopher and social critic, full time insomniac and closeted rock drummer. Billy has decided that the best way to deal with an absurd world is to stay away from it. Do not volunteer. Do not join in. Billy will be the first to tell you it doesn't always work-not when your twin sister, Dorie, has died, not when your unhappy parents are at war with one another, not when...
Author
Series
Embassy Row novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Digging up lost secrets is always dangerous.
For the past three years, Grace Blakely has been desperate to find out the truth about her mother's murder. She thought it would bring her peace. She thought it would lead her to answers. She thought she could put the past to rest. But the truth has only made her a target. And the past? The only way to put the past to rest is for Grace to kill it once and for all. ...
13) Sanctuary
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A haunting and luminous Gothic YA novel about reckoning with the ghosts of one's dark past.
After the untimely death of her aunt Laura, Cecilia Cross is forced to return to Sanctuary, a rambling, old French-Gothic mansion that crowns a remote island off the coast of Maine. Cecilia is both drawn to and repulsed by Sanctuary. The scent of the ocean intoxicates her, but she's also haunted by the ghosts of her past -- of her father who died at Sanctuary...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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In a twenty-four-hour span, Rafael Alvarez led North Amistad High School's Mariachi Alma de la Frontera to their eleventh consecutive first-place win in the Mariachi Extravaganza de Nacional; and met, made out with, and almost hooked up with one of the cutest guys he's ever met. Now eight months later, Rafie's ready for one final win. What he didn't plan for is his family moving to San Antonio before his senior year, forcing him to leave behind his...
15) Grace and Fury
Author
Series
Grace and fury volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bold, brutal, and beautiful--a must-read fantasy full of fierce sisterhood, action, and political intrigue for fans of The Selection series, Caraval, and The Handmaid's Tale.
Serina Tessaro has been groomed her whole life to become a Grace--someone to stand by the heir to the throne as a shining, subjugated example of the perfect woman. It's her chance to secure a better life for her family, and to keep her headstrong and rebellious younger sister,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When freshman Declan Taylor hurts his pitching arm, he becomes mad at the world, soon getting caught up with a group of white supremacists and turning against his Jewish friend, Jake. But when things turn violent, Declan must figure out what he actually stands for.
After winning state as a freshman starting pitcher, Declan Taylor accidentally messes up his throwing arm. Despite painful surgery and brutal physical therapy, he might never pitch again....