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21) Coraline
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
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Description
When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.
22) 13 hangmen
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
"Some people won't believe any of this story. You might be one of them. But every single word is true. Tony DiMarco does catch a murderer, solve a mystery, and find a treasure--all in the first few days after he moves, unexpectedly, to 13 Hangmen's Court in Boston. The fact that he also turns thirteen at the same time is not a coincidence." So begins the story of Tony and his friends--five 13-year-old boys, all of whom are living in the same house...
23) City of bones
Author
Series
Mortal instruments volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 20
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Description
Suddenly able to see demons and the Shadowhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizarre world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Formats
Description
"Snapshot" is the disturbing story of a Silicon Valley adolescent who finds himself threatened by "The Phoenician," a tattooed thug who possesses a Polaroid Instant Camera that erases memories, snap by snap.
In "Loaded," a mall security guard in a coastal Florida town courageously stops a mass shooting and becomes a hero to the modern gun rights movement. But under the glare of the spotlights, his story begins to unravel, taking his sanity with it....
25) The Honeys
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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Description
"Mars has always been the lesser twin, the shadow to his sister Caroline's radiance. But when Caroline dies under horrific circumstances, Mars is propelled to learn all he can about his once-inseparable sister who'd grown tragically distant. Mars's genderfluidity means he's often excluded from the traditions--and expectations--of his politically-connected family. This includes attendance at the prestigious Aspen Conservancy Summer Academy where his...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
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Description
"New York Times bestseller! Artemis Fowl meets Men in Black in this exhilarating debut middle grade fantasy, the first in a trilogy filled with #blackgirlmagic. Perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Percy Jackson series, and Nevermoor. Amari Peters has never stopped believing her missing brother, Quinton, is alive. Not even when the police told her otherwise, or when she got in trouble for standing up to bullies who said...
27) Suspicious minds
Author
Series
Stranger things novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"A mysterious lab. A sinister scientist. A secret history. If you think you know the truth behind Eleven's mother, prepare to have your mind turned Upside Down in this thrilling prequel to the hit show Stranger Things. It's the summer of 1969, and the shock of conflict reverberates through the youth of America, both at home and abroad. As a student at a quiet college campus in the heartland of Indiana, Terry Ives couldn't be farther from the front...
28) Imaginary girls
Author
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Two years after sixteen-year-old Chloe discovered classmate London's dead body floating in a Hudson Valley reservoir, she returns home to be with her devoted older sister Ruby, a town favorite, and finds that London is alive and well, and that Ruby may somehow have brought her back to life and persuaded everyone that nothing is amiss.
29) Breaking dawn
Author
Series
Twilight saga volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 28
Description
Although eighteen-year-old Bella joins the dark but seductive world of the immortals by marrying Edward the vampire, her connection to the powerful werewolf Jacob remains unsevered.
30) City of Glass
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 23
Formats
Description
To save her mother's life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters--never mind that entering the city without permission is against the Law, and breaking the Law could mean death. To make things worse, she learns that Jace does not want her there, and Simon has been thrown in prison by the Shadowhunters, who are deeply suspicious of a vampire who can withstand sunlight. As Clary uncovers more about her family's...
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 9
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
810L
Formats
Description
Provides insights into the life of Grimalkin, one of the deadliest witches in the country, if not the world, whose uneasy truce with the Spook's apprentice, Tom, unites them against the ultimate evil of the Fiend.
32) Crystal gardens
Author
Series
Ladies of Lantern Street volume 1
Formats
Description
Moving to a country cottage where she seeks refuge in a paranormally charged garden, Evangeline Ames is rescued from a would-be assassin by the garden's owner, Lucas Sebastian, who taps Evangeline's detective skills to solve a buried-treasure mystery and stop a common enemy.
Author
Series
Mortal instruments volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
750L
Description
Someone is murdering Shadowhunters, provoking tensions between Downworlders and Shadowhunters that could lead to a second, bloody war. Clary's best friend, Simon, can't help her -- his mother just found out that he's a vampire, and now he's homeless. When Jace begins to pull away from her without explaining why, Clary is forced to delve into the heart of a mystery whose solution reveals her worst nightmare: she herself has set in motion a terrible...
Author
Series
Wolf gift chronicles volume 1
Description
When a young reporter on assignment from the "San Francisco Observer" has been sent to write about a grand mansion that must be sold, the young man, bitten by a beast he cannot see in the rural darkness, experiences a terrifying yet seductive transformation called the wolf gift.
Author
Series
Lightbringer series (Brent Weeks) volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Gavin Guile thought he had five years left--now he has less than one. With fifty thousand refugees, a bastard son, and an ex-fiancě who may have learned his darkest secret, Gavin has problems on every side. All magic in the world is running wild and threatens to destroy the Seven Satrapies. Worst of all, the old gods are being reborn, and their army of color wights is unstoppable. The only salvation may be the brother whose freedom and life Gavin...
37) Parakeet
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
""A darkly funny and warm-hearted novel about a young woman whose dead grandmother (in the form of a parakeet) warns her not to marry and sends her out to find an estranged loved one""--
38) The fake mate
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Description
"Mackenzie Carter has had some very bad dates lately. Model train experts, mansplainers, guys weirdly obsessed with her tail-she hasn't had a successful date in months. Only a year out of residency, her grandmother's obsession with Mackenzie finding the perfect mate to settle down with threatens to drive Mackenzie barking mad. Out of options, it feels like a small thing to tell her grandmother that she's met someone. That is, until she blurts out...
39) Passion
Author
Series
Fallen novels (Lauren Kate) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Desperate to unlock the curse that condemns her love for Daniel, Luce revisits her past incarnations trying to understand her fate, but Daniel is chasing her throughout the centuries in order to keep her from rewriting their history.
40) Carrie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Presents the unnerving story of a terribly ostracized young girl with supernatural powers of telekinesis.
"Carrie White may be picked on by her classmates, but she has a gift. She can move things with her mind. Doors lock. Candles fall. This is her power and her problem. Then, an act of kindness, as spontaneous as the vicious taunts of her classmates, offers Carrie a chance to be a normal...until an unexpected cruelty turns her gift into a weapon...