Kim Mai Guest
1) Incarceron
Author
Series
Incarceron volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 600L
Language
English
Description
In Incarceron, a vast intelligent city-prison sealed off from the outside world and hidden from everybody except the Warden, two young people, Cynthia, the Warden's daughter who is trying to escape an arranged marriage, and Finn, a young prisoner who cannot remember his childhood, join forces to attempt to escape.
Author
Series
Girl from everywhere volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
As the daughter of a time traveler, Nix has spent sixteen years sweeping across the globe and through the centuries aboard her father's ship. Modern-day New York City, nineteenth-century Hawaii, other lands seen only in myth and legend-Nix has been to them all. But when her father gambles with her very existence, it all may be about to end. Rae Carson meets Outlander in this epic debut fantasy. If there is a map, Nix's father can sail his ship, The...
3) Flamecaster
Author
Series
Shattered realms volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Description
Thrown together by chance and united by their hatred of the king, Ash, a gifted healer, and Jenna, a girl abandoned at birth, find themselves on the run from the King's Guard.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
After rescuing a girl who was trapped in cryo-sleep for two centuries from interdimensional space, eighteen-year-old Aurora Academy graduate Tyler Jones is swept up in an interstellar war millions of years in the making.
5) Shadowcaster
Author
Series
Shattered realms volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Cinda Williams Chima, this is a thrilling story of the unfathomable costs of war, the allure of dark magic, and two principled and conflicted characters drawn together despite everything they stand to lose. Alyssa ana'Raisa, the reluctant princess heir to the Gray Wolf throne of the Fells, feels more comfortable striking with a sword than maneuvering at court. After a brush with death, Lyss goes on the offensive,...
6) Deathcaster
Author
Series
Shattered realms volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
"In this indispensable conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Shattered Realms series, master storyteller Cinda Williams Chima delivers spellbinding action, bittersweet reunions, and dazzling revelations. Warrior Alyssa ana'Raisa would do anything to protect her home, the Fells, and her legacy, the Gray Wolf line. But as a prisoner of Empress Celestine, Lyss is forced to turn her fearsome talents as an army commander against her beloved homeland....
7) Odd one out
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
High school juniors and best friends Courtney and Jupe, and new sophomore Rae, explore their sexuality and their budding attractions for one another.
Author
Series
Anna and the french kiss volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 580L
Language
English
Description
When Anna's romance-novelist father sends her to an elite American boarding school in Paris for her senior year of high school, she reluctantly goes, and meets an amazing boy who becomes her best friend, in spite of the fact that they both want something more.
Author
Series
Blood of stars volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
Disguising herself as a boy to compete for the position of imperial tailor, Maia must somehow complete the impossible task of sewing three magic gowns for the emperor's bride-to-be from the sun's laughter, the moon's tears, and the blood of stars.
10) Stormcaster
Author
Series
Shattered realms volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author Cinda Williams Chima comes the third gripping adventure in the Shattered Realms series, where intricately interwoven storylines converge as the warring Seven Realms struggle to unite against a horrific tyrant. Vagabond seafarer Evan Strangward can move wind, waves, and weather, but his magical abilities can't protect him forever from the brutal Empress Celestine. As Celestine's relentless bloodsworn armies grow,...
11) How I live now
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1620L
Language
English
Description
To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land. "Every war has turning points and every person too." Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she's never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her...
12) Crier's war
Author
Series
Crier's war volume 1
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a war where Automae took over the kingdom of Rabu and bent humanity to their will, Ayla takes a job as a servant in the house of the sovereign for one purpose: to get revenge for her family's death by killing his daughter. Lady Crier, the heiress, was Made to be a perfect ruler of the kingdom, but she no longer knows if that is what she wants once she discovers some of her father's cruel secrets. Between this betrayal, and a betrothed...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Description
Yale hopeful Bronwyn has never publicly broken a rule. Sports star Cooper only knows what he's doing in the baseball diamond. Bad body Nate is one misstep away from a life of crime. Prom queen Addy is holding together the cracks in her perfect life. And outsider Simon, creator of the notorious gossip app at Bayview High, won't ever talk about any of them again. He dies 24 hours before he could post their deepest secrets online. Investigators conclude...
14) Unravel the dusk
Author
Series
Blood of stars volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Description
"Maia Tamarin proved her skill as a tailor when she wove the dresses of the sun, the moon, and the stars, but it will take more than a beautiful gown to hide the darkness rising up within her in the sequel to Spin the Dawn"--
15) The alcazar
Author
Series
Cerulean duology volume 2
Language
English
Description
Sera has finally recognized the true power of her Cerulean blood. But in order to return home, she'll need help from Agnes, Leo, and their grandmother, the only person with knowledge about the mysterious island of Braxos, where the Cerulean tether is anchored. Though the journey will be treacherous, Sera will risk anything to see her City again. Meanwhile, the High Priestess's power has reached new heights in the City Above the Sky. And when Leela...
16) The speaker
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Description
Having barely escaped the clutches of the Guard, Sefia and Archer are back on the run, slipping into the safety of the forest to tend to their wounds and plan their next move. Haunted by painful memories, Archer struggles to overcome the trauma of his past with the impressors, whose cruelty plagues him whenever he closes his eyes. But when Sefia and Archer happen upon a crew of impressors in the wilderness, Archer finally finds a way to combat his...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Li is the only human left after aliens take over the planet, but she learns to stay alive, with the help of her human-sympathizing father, by assimilating to Abdolorean society, which she must keep a secret at all costs or risk the terrifying consequences of exposure.
Author
Series
Remnant chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
"On the morning of her wedding, Princess Lia flees to a distant village. She settles into a new life, intrigued when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive--and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deception abounds, and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking perilous secrets--even as she finds herself falling in love"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Girl from everywhere volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Nix has spent her whole life journeying to places both real and imagined aboard her time-traveling father's ship. And now it's finally time for her to take the helm. Her future lies bright before her-until she learns that she is destined to lose the one she loves. Desperate to change her fate, Nix sails her crew to a mythical utopia to meet another Navigator who promises to teach her how to manipulate time. But everything in this utopia is constantly...
Author
Series
Hybrid chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eva and Addie started out the same way as everyone else-- two souls woven together in one body, taking turns controlling their movements as they learned how to walk, how to sing, how to dance. But as they grew, so did the worried whispers. Why aren't they settling? Why isn't one of them fading? The doctors ran tests, the neighbors shied away, and their parents begged for more time. Finally Addie was pronounced healthy and Eva was declared gone. Except,...