Listening Library.
1) Speak
Author
Series
The Penderwicks volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
690L
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"'Speak up for yourself--we want to know what you have to say.' From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, she becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her...
Author
Series
Fudge books volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
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Brother Peter and Fudge must spend the summer with the dreaded Sheila the Great. Peter Hatcher describes his family's Maine vacation highlighted by the antics of his younger brother Fudge and the presence of his sworn enemy Sheila Tubman and her family.
3) Eldest
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 36
Lexile measure
970L
Description
After successfully evading an Urgals ambush, Eragon is adopted into the Ingeitum clan and sent to finish his training so he can further help the Varden in their struggle against the Empire.
5) Scat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Nick and Marta are both suspicious when their biology teacher, the feared Mrs. Bunny Starch, disappears, and try to uncover the truth despite the police and headmaster's insistence that nothing is wrong.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Description
While armies of the Shadowrealms gather and Machiavelli goes to Alcatraz to kill Perenelle Flamel, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman accompany the Alchemist to England to find someone who can teach them Water Magic.
Author
Series
Underland chronicles volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
When twelve-year-old Gregor finally learns the ancient prophecy, which foretells his death, he must gather his courage to defend Regalia from the army of rats, take his mother and sister home safely, and fight his own dark side.
9) Sir Thursday
Author
Series
Keys to the kingdom volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
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Description
On the fourth day there was war. Following their adventures in the Border Sea, Arthur and Leaf head for home. But only Leaf gets through the Front Door. Arthur is blocked because someone or something has assumed his identity and is taking over his life. Before Arthur can take action, he is drafted by Sir Thursday and forced to join the Glorious Army of the Architect. While Leaf tries to banish Arthur's doppelganger on earth, Arthur must survive his...
10) Ella enchanted
Author
Series
Ella enchanted volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Artemis's mother has contracted a deadly disease -- and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years ago. Now he must enlist the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save them. Not only that, but he must face his deadliest foe yet... his younger self.
Author
Series
Underland chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
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In his second adventure, eleven-year-old Gregor returns to the world beneath New York City to rescue his kidnapped sister, Boots, and fulfill a prophecy that will restore peace to the people, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders who populate the underworld. Gregor is summoned back to the Underland by the terms of a second prophecy. Spies have reported the sighting of a Rat King, a character who has been legendary since the Middle Ages. Recognizable...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 12
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Ed Kennedy is a nineteen-year-old cab driver who doesn't think much of his life. He inadvertently helps stop a bank robbery, and that is when his life starts to change. He begins to receive mysterious messages that instruct him to go to addresses where people need help. Ed becomes the messenger, but who is behind the messages? Meet Ed Kennedy - underage cabdriver, pathetic cardplayer, and useless at romance. He lives in a shack with his coffee-addicted...
15) Witness
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
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Description
A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
A fifteen-year-old "geek" who keeps a list of the high school jocks and others who torment him, and pours his energy into creating a great graphic novel, encounters Kyra, Goth Girl, who helps change his outlook on almost everything, including himself.
Author
Series
Willa of the Wood volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Description
In the late 1800s, a twelve-year-old nightspirit living in the Great Smoky Mountains despairs as homesteaders destroy her forest habitat, until a chance encounter with a "day-folk" man changes everything she thought she knew about her people--and their greatest enemy.
Author
Series
Maze runner trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
720L
Description
After surviving horrific conditions in the Maze, Thomas is entrapped, along with nineteen other boys, in phase two of WICKED's experiment designed to observe their responses and gather data believed to be essential for the survival of the human race.
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there.
20) Love, Stargirl
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.