Neal Shusterman
1) Scythe
Author
Series
Arc of a scythe volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
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Description
""In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't"--
2) Game changer
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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Formats
Description
After an especially rough tackle on the football field, Ash thinks he might be suffering some permanent damage, because suddenly stop signs are blue and always have been. After the second universe-altering hit, he drives a Beemer instead of a Dodge, and a pair of interdimensional twins promises him answers. The more universes he visits, the more Ash has to face perspectives he never thought to consider before, and the closer the universe gets to complete...
3) Thunderhead
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
870L
Description
Rowan and Citra take opposite stances on the morality of the Scythedom, putting them at odds, and the Thunderhead is not pleased.
4) The toll
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
Description
"Citra and Rowan have disappeared. Endura is gone. It seems like nothing stands between Scythe Goddard and absolute dominion over the world scythedom. With the silence of the Thunderhead and the reverberations of the Great Resonance still shaking the earth to its core, the question remains: Is there anyone left who can stop him? The answer lies in the Tone, the Toll, and the Thunder"--
5) Dry
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
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Description
A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.
Author
Series
Accelerati trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
"Nick and his friends race against their foes to retrieve more pieces of Tesla's free energy transmitter, only to see them fall into the hands of the Accelerati's shadowy leader"--
Author
Series
Antsy Bonano volume 2
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Fourteen-year-old Anthony "Antsy" Bonano learns about life, death, and a lot more when he tries to help a friend with a terminal illness feel hopeful about the future.
9) Gleanings
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Description
A collection of stories that span the time when humans live in a world without hunger, disease, or death and Scythes act as the living instruments of population control.
10) Everlost
Author
Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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Description
When Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash, they end up in Everlost, or limbo for lost souls, where although Nick is satisfied, Allie will stop at nothing--even skinjacking--to break free.
11) Bruiser
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Brontèe befriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody.
12) Everwild
Author
Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Nick, known as the dreaded "chocolate ogre," is trying to find all the children in Everlost and release them from the limbo they are in, while Mikey and Allie have joined a band of skinjackers and are putting themselves in danger by visiting the world of the living.
Author
Series
Antsy Bonano volume 1
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone. Anthony, also known as "Antsy," is fascinated by "The Schwa Effect"--the fact that no one ever sees Calvin Schwa. Even when acting weird and dressed like a total freak, The Schwa is only barely noticed. The two boys form a partnership and get away with all kinds of mischief, from...
14) Unsouled
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Description
After the destruction of the Graveyard, Connor and Lev are on the run, seeking a woman who may be the key to bringing down unwinding forever, while Cam, the rewound boy, tries to prove his love for Risa by bringing Proactive Citizenry to its knees.
15) The Shadow Club
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
A high school boy and his friends decide to form a club of "second bests" and play anonymous tricks on each other's arch rivals. When the harmless pranks become life-threatening, however, no one in the club will admit responsibility.
Author
Series
Accelerati trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Formats
Description
"It is up to Nick Slate to find the last of Nikola Tesla's powerful inventions--or face devastating consequences"--
17) UnWholly
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Description
"Thanks to Connor, Lev, and Risa, and their high-profile revolt at Happy Jack Harvest Camp, people can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding. Ridding society of troublesome teens and, in the same stroke, providing much-needed tissues for transplant might be convenient, but its morality has finally been brought into question. However, unwinding has become big business, and there are powerful political and corporate interests that want to see it not...
18) Everfound
Author
Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 20
Description
In the limbo that is Everlost, Mary, Nick, Allie, and others face the decisions that will determine whether that place and the Earth itself will continue to exist, as well as where their own futures lie.
19) UnDivided
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Three teens band together in order to sway the government to repeal all rulings in support of a procedure in which unwanted teenagers are captured and are unwound into parts that can be reused for transplantation.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When sixteen-year-old Blake goes to a mysterious, by-invitation-only carnival he somehow knows that it could save his comatose brother, but soon learns that much more is at stake if he fails to meet the challenge presented there by the beautiful Cassandra.