Kirby Heyborne
1) Junk boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Junk. That's what the kids at school call Bobby Lang. Trying desperately to live under the radar at school-- and at the home he shares with his angry, neglectful father-- Bobby develops a sort of proud loneliness. The only buffer between him and the uncaring world is his love of the long, wooded trail between school and home. Then he meets Rachel. She is an artist who sees him in a way no one ever has. Maybe it's because she has her own kind of junk,...
Author
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...
3) Infinity son
Author
Series
Infinity cycle volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"In a world where some people are born with powers and some people take them, brothers Emil and Brighton Rey get swept up in a supernatural turf war generations in the making"--
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.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A new novella set in the world of the New York Times bestselling Iron Fey series! This magical short story is the prelude to a new trilogy in Julie Kagawa's brilliant faery world, The Iron Fey: Evenfall.
A royal wedding, a mysterious assassin, a new threat to all of Faery...
Friends and family gather to celebrate the wedding of the Iron Queen Meghan Chase's brother...but one wedding guest...
A royal wedding, a mysterious assassin, a new threat to all of Faery...
Friends and family gather to celebrate the wedding of the Iron Queen Meghan Chase's brother...but one wedding guest...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
Author
Language
English
Description
Anyone passing through North Shore, Illinois, would think it was the most picture-perfect place ever, with all the lakefront mansions and manicured hedges and iron gates. No one talks about the fact that the brilliant, talented kids in town have a terrible history of throwing themselves in front of commuter trains.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
After being bitten by a vampire, not only is fifteen-year-old Doug doomed eternally to be fat, but now he must also save himself from the desperate host of a public-access-cable vampire-hunting television show that is on the verge of cancellation.
10) You say it first
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
One conversation can change everything. Meg has her entire life set up perfectly: she and her best friend, Emily, plan to head to Cornell together in the fall, and she volunteers at a voter registration call center in her Philadelphia suburb. But everything changes when one of those calls connects her to a stranger from small-town Ohio. Colby is stuck in a rut, reeling from a family tragedy and working a dead-end job. The last thing he has time for...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Description
"When Stephen moves to the small, midwestern town where his father grew up, he quickly falls in with punk girl Cara and her charismatic twin brother, Devon. But the town has a dark secret, and the twins are caught in the middle of it"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Adam Moynihan's life used to be awesome. Straight As, close friends and a home life so perfect that it could have been a TV show straight out of the 50s. Then, his oldest brother died. Now, his fun-loving mom cries constantly, he and his remaining brother can't talk without fighting, and the father he always admired proved himself a coward by moving out when they needed him most. Jolene Timber's life is nothing like the movies she loves -- not the...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Fritzi is a witch. The lone survivor of a brutal attack on her coven, she's determined to find her only remaining family member and bring the hexenjägers--zealot witch hunters--to justice for the lives they ended. To do this, she will need to take down their leader, the merciless and enigmatic Kommandant Dieter Kirch. Otto is a hexenjäger--but that's just his cover. Years ago, the hexenjägers burned his innocent mother alive, and he has been plotting...
14) Stand-in
Author
Series
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Description
After 17-year-old Brooks agrees to be a stand-in Homecoming date for a friend's geeky but wealthy cousin, he realizes becoming a rent-a-date for the socially awkward could help him earn college money. What's the harm?
15) Illusive
Author
Series
Illusive novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
"After a vaccine accidentally creates superpowers in a small percentage of the population, seventeen-year-old Ciere, an illusionist, teams up with a group of fellow high-class, super-powered thieves to steal the vaccine's formula while staying one step ahead of mobsters and deadly government agents"--
16) Infinity reaper
Author
Series
Infinity cycle volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
"Emil and Brighton defied the odds. They beat the Blood Casters and escaped with their lives--or so they thought. When Brighton drank the Reaper's Blood, he believed it would make him invincible, but instead the potion is killing him. In Emil's race to find an antidote that will not only save his brother but also rid him of his own unwanted phoenix powers, he will have to dig deep into the very past lives he's trying to outrun. Though he needs the...
19) Midnight city
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...
20) The turning
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A teen boy becomes the babysitter for two very peculiar children on a haunted island in this modern retelling of The Turn of the Screw"-- Provided by publisher.