Brilliance Audio (Firm)
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Ruby breaks out of a government-run 'rehabilitation camp' for teens who acquired dangerous powers after surviving a virus that wiped out most American children"-- Provided by publisher.
2) MindWar
Author
Series
MindWar trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
"Rick's high school football team couldn't be stopped when he was leading them as their quarterback. He was going to Syracuse on a scholarship. But then his dad abandoned them and a terrible accident left him crippled. Certain his old life is completely lost, Rick spends months hiding away in his room playing video games. He achieves the highest scores on so many games that he's approached by a government agency who claims to be trying to thwart a...
3) Pop
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.
4) Cloaked
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 540L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Johnny is approached at his family's struggling shoe repair shop in a Miami, Florida, hotel by Alorian Princess Victoriana, who asks him to find her brother who was turned into a frog.
5) Beastly
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
Presents a modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.
6) Sarah Bishop
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Left alone after the deaths of her father and brother who take opposite sides in the War for Independence, and fleeing from the British who seek to arrest her, Sarah Bishop struggles to shape a new life for herself in the wilderness.
Author
Series
Lumatere chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Now on the cusp of manhood, Finnikin, who was a child when the royal family of Lumatere was brutally murdered and replaced by an imposter, reluctantly joins forces with an enigmatic young novice and fellow-exile, who claims that her dark dreams will lead them to a surviving royal child and a way to regain the throne of Lumatere.
8) The extra
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Instead of being sent to a concentration camp with most of the Nazis' Gypsy prisoners, fifteen-year-old Lilo is picked out of a lineup by Hitler's favorite filmmaker, Leni Riefenstahl, to work as an extra in her new movie. Lilo, her mother, and her new friend Django soon find themselves in the alternate reality of a film set. Amid glamorous surroundings, the Gypsy extras are barely fed and kept locked in a barn when they're not working. At the center...
9) Bruiser
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Brontë befriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody.
10) Girls like us
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Graduating from their school's special education program, Quincy and Biddy are placed together in their first independent apartment and discover unexpected things they have in common in the face of past challenges and a harrowing trauma.
11) The everafter
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After her death, seventeen-year-old Maddy finds a way to revisit moments in her life by using objects that she lost while she was alive, and by so doing she tries to figure out the complicated emotions, events, and meaning of her existence.
12) Fat Angie
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Fat Angie's sister was captured in Iraq, she's the resident laughing stock at school, and her therapist tells her to count instead of eat. Can a daring new girl in her life really change anything?
13) Subway love
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Struggling with her parent's divorce, Laura is unable to forget a boy she sees on a subway platform across from her, a photographer who is also wondering if he will ever see her again.
What if destiny leads you to your soul mate, but the laws of time conspire to keep you apart? If her parents had never divorced, Laura wouldn't have to live in the shadow of Bruce, her mom's boyfriend; she wouldn't panic every weekend on the way to Dad's Manhattan...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
"When an eccentric professor acquires an ancient book, a riddle on a spare piece of parchment tucked neatly within its pages leads him and his nephew on an unparalleled adventure. The unlocked riddle brings them to a remote mountain on Iceland, where they enter an extinct volcano on a daring quest to reach the center of the earth. They soon find themselves at a giant underground ocean where the laws of science are constantly redefined and prehistoric...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 500L
Language
English
Description
"In this enduring and internationally popular novel, Mark Twain combines social satire and dime-novel sensation with a rhapsody on boyhood and on America's pre-industrial past. Tom Sawyer is resilient, enterprising, and vainglorious. In a series of adventures along the banks of the Mississippi, he usually manages to come out on top. From petty triumphs over his friends and over his long-suffering Aunt Polly, to his intervention in a murder trial,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 980L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A beautiful hardcover repackaging of this timeless classic from the publishers of the Autobiography of Mark Twain and in partnership with the Mark Twain Project. This definitive edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was the only version of Mark Twain's masterpiece based on his complete manuscript, including the 663 pages found in a Los Angeles attic in 1990. Prepared by the Mark Twain Papers, the official archive of Sam Clemens's papers at the...