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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
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"Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy ... Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal's bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn't commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words,...
2) Inferno
Author
Series
Chronicles of Nick volume 4
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Nick finds himself unable to trust anyone but the being he has been warned will ultimately kill him, a situation that is complicated by his efforts to control his abilities and a sacrifice that he must make to defeat an ancient force.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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"Michael is a mixed-race gay teen growing up in London. All his life, he's navigated what it means to be Greek-Cypriot and Jamaican--but never quite feeling Greek or Black enough. As he gets older, Michael's coming out is only the start of learning who he is and where he fits in. When he discovers the Drag Society, he finally finds where he belongs--and the Black Flamingo is born. Told with raw honesty, insight, and lyricism, this debut explores...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
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Sixteen-year-old Alex Rufus's curse of seeing the future distracts him from being and doing his best, but when he sees his little brother Isaiah's imminent death, he races against time, death, and circumstances to save him.
5) Infamous
Author
Series
Chronicles of Nick volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"The world has fallen in love with Nick Gautier and the Dark-Hunters. Now Nick's saga continues in the next eagerly anticipated volume... Go to school. Get good grades. Stay out of trouble. That's the mandate for most kids. But Nick Gautier isn't the average teenager. He's a boy with a destiny not even he fully understands. And his first mandate is to stay alive while everyone, even his own father, tries to kill him. He's learned to annihilate zombies...
6) Rez ball
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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"These days, Tre Brun is happiest when he is playing basketball on the Red Lake Reservation high school team--even though he can't help but be constantly gut-punched with memories of his big brother, Jaxon, who died in an accident. When Jaxon's former teammates on the varsity team offer to take Tre under their wing, he sees this as his shot to represent his Ojibwe rez all the way to their first state championship. This is the first step toward his...
7) Game changer
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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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...
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Series
Montague siblings volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
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Henry "Monty" Montague was bred to be a gentleman. His passions for gambling halls, late nights spent with a bottle of spirits, or waking up in the arms of women or men, have earned the disapproval of his father. His quest for pleasures and vices have led to one last hedonistic hurrah as Monty, his best friend and crush Percy, and Monty's sister Felicity begin a Grand Tour of Europe. When a reckless decision turns their trip abroad into a harrowing...
9) Deeplight
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
Description
"The gods are dead. Decades ago, they turned on one another and tore each other apart. Nobody knows why. But are they really gone forever? When 15-year-old Hark finds the still-beating heart of a terrifying deity, he risks everything to keep it out of the hands of smugglers, military scientists, and a secret fanatical cult so that he can use it to save the life of his best friend, Jelt. But with the heart, Jelt gradually and eerily transforms. How...
Author
Series
Barely missing everything volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
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"Three Mexican-Americans--Juan, JD, and Fabi--each try to overcome their individual struggles as they all grapple with how to make a better life for themselves when it seems like brown lives don't matter"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A short novella based on the beloved characters from Alice Oseman's acclaimed debut novel Solitaire and graphic novel series Heartstopper. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, right? CHARLIE: "I have been going out with Nick Nelson for two years. He likes rugby, Formula 1, dogs, the Marvel universe, the sound felt-tips make on paper, rain and drawing on shoes. He also likes me." NICK: "Things me and Charlie Spring do together include: Watch films....
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
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...
14) Brisingr
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 45
Description
The further adventures of Eragon and his dragon Saphira as they continue to aid the Varden in the struggle against the evil king, Galbatorix.
15) Infinity
Author
Series
Chronicles of Nick volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
The first Dark-Hunter teen novel. When 14-year-old Nick Gautier is almost killed by his best friends, he's saved by a mysterious warrior and is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters, immortal vampire slayers.
Streetwise, tough, and savvy, Nick and his quick sarcasm are the stuff of legend... until the night when his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire...
16) Invincible
Author
Series
Chronicles of Nick volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Teenager Nick Gautier, having survived a zombie attack, deals with a principal who does not like him, a coach who is trying to recruit him, and a girl with secrets, while struggling to raise the dead before his soul is claimed by demons and shape-shifters.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
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Evan Panos's strict immigrant Greek mother sees him as a disappointment. His workaholic father is a staunch believer in avoiding any kind of conflict. And his best friend, Henry, has somehow become distractingly attractive over the summer. His only escape is drawing, in an abandoned monastery that feels as lonely as he is. And Henry makes Evan believe that he deserves more than his mother's harsh words and terrifying abuse. As things escalate, Evan...
18) Paper towns
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
850L
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One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
A horrific family tragedy sends sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of an old orphanage that was home to children who were more than just peculiar, but possibly dangerous--and who may still be alive. Illustrated with vintage found photographs.
20) The yearling
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Pub. Date
[c1947]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Description
"The Pulitzer prize novel on which M-G-M based its motion picture"A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.