Kirby Heyborne
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Description
The work that signaled Fitzgerald's maturity as a storyteller and novelist, The Beautiful and Damned is a devastating portrait of the excesses of the Jazz Age. Anthony Comstock Patch is a Harvard-educated gallant who leisurely aspires to author a book as he awaits an enormous inheritance upon his grandfather's death. Gloria is a sparkling young socialite and a rare beauty. Patch's impassioned marriage to Gloria is fueled by alcohol and consumed by...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
When an unlikely friendship is sparked between relatively popular Kit Lowell and socially isolated David Drucker, Kit asks David for his help figuring out the how and why of her father's tragic car accident.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
For five days teenager Hannah Ashton has been living a nightmare because Greater Houston is devoid of people and totally silent, but then she finds Leo Sterling, a boy from her school whom Hannah considers to be both hot and trouble; together they set out to explore their city, and their own emotions--but above all they need to find out what has happened to their world, or risk being separated forever.
4) Fallout
Author
Series
Crank trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Finn Easton, sixteen and epileptic, struggles to feel like more than just a character in his father's cult-classic novels with the help of his best friend, Cade Hernandez, and first love, Julia--until Julia moves away.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lord of the Flies meets War of the Worlds in J. Barton Mitchell's alien-invaded post-apocalyptic world where two teens and a young girl with amazing powers must stop the aliens' mysterious plan
Earth has been conquered by an alien race known as the Assembly. The human adult population is gone, having succumbed to the Tone, a powerful, telepathic super-signal broadcast across the planet that reduces them to a state of complete subservience. But, the...
7) Stand off
Author
Series
(Andrew Anselmo),Winger volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now a senior at Pine Mountain Academy, fifteen-year-old Ryan Dean West becomes captain of the rugby team, shares his dormitory room with a twelve-year-old prodigy, Sam Abernathy, and through the course of the year learns to appreciate things he has tried to resist, including change.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a tough sixteen-year-old boxing champ sentenced to an isolated boot camp discovers it is actually a mercenary training facility turning "throwaway children" into scientifically enhanced killers, he risks everything to save his friends and stop a madman bent on global destruction.
Author
Series
Vincent boys volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tired of trying to live up to the expectations of her popular boyfriend, Sawyer, Ashton finds herself attracted to Sawyer's cousin, Beau, who, despite not wanting to hurt his cousin, finds Ashton irresistable.