Jennifer Ikeda
Author
Series
Darkness rising volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Maya suspects there may be a relationship between her paw-print birthmark, her connection with wild animals, and strange events occurring in her tiny Vancouver Island community, where a medical research facility harbors big secrets.
Author
Series
All souls trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
After traveling through time in Shadow of Night, the second book in Deborah Harkness's enchanting series, historian and witch Diana Bishop and vampire scientist Matthew Clairmont return to the present to face new crises and old enemies. At Matthew's ancestral home at Sept-Tours, they reunite with the cast of characters from A Discovery of Witches--with one significant exception. But the real threat to their future has yet to be revealed, and when...
3) The calling
Author
Series
Darkness rising volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
Maya and her friends--all of whom have supernatural powers--have been kidnapped after fleeing from a forest fire they suspect was deliberately set, and after a terrifying helicopter crash they find themselves pursued by evil-doers in the Vancouver Island wilderness.
4) Just listen
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Isolated from friends who believe the worst because she has not been truthful with them, sixteen-year-old Annabel finds an ally in classmate Owen, whose honesty and passion for music help her to face and share what really happened at the end-of-the-year party that changed her life.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Oxford scholar and reluctant witch Diana Bishop, and vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont, embark on a timewalking journey that takes them to Elizabethan London, where Dina seeks a magical tutor and Matthew confronts elements from his past. Meanwhile, the mystery of the enchanted manuscript Ashmole 782 deepens.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
Description
Witch and Oxford historian Diana Bishop discovers an enchanted manuscript, attracting the attention of 1,500-year-old vampire Matthew Clairmont. The orphaned daughter of two powerful witches, Bishop prefers intellect, but relies on magic when her discovery of a palimpsest--the mysterious Ashmole 782--documenting the origin of supernatural species releases an assortment of undead who threaten, stalk, and harass her.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 30
Lexile measure
HL 820L
Language
English
Description
Though Feyre now has the powers of the High Fae, her heart remains human, but as she navigates the feared Night Court's dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms--and she might be key to stopping it.
"Feyre survived Amarantha's clutches to return to the Spring Court--but at a steep cost. Though she now has the powers of the High Fae, her heart remains human, and it can't forget the terrible deeds she performed to save...
Author
Series
A court of thorns and roses volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
"Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from stories, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin, a High Lord of the faeries. As her feelings toward him transform from hostility to a firey passion, the threats against the faerie lands grow. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose Tamlin forever"-- Provided by publisher.
9) The rising
Author
Series
Darkness rising volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 580L
Language
English
Description
Hunted by the St. Clouds and a rival Cabal, the race for survival comes to a thrilling conclusion as Maya and her friends search for information about their powers, but Maya is unprepared for the answers that await her.
10) Empire of night
Author
Series
Age of legends volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
When their journey to rescue the captured children of Edgewood proves perilous, twin sisters Ashyn and Moria will need every bit of influence and power they possess to unite their people and avert war.
11) The time between
Author
Language
English
Description
Seeking atonement over her guilt that she caused her sister's paralyzation, Eleanor takes a job caring for an elderly woman and becomes caught up in the woman's life of passion, danger, heartache and deception in Hungary during World War II.
12) A long time gone
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Vivien Walker left her home in the Mississippi Delta, she swore never to go back, as generations of the women in her family had. But in the spring, nine years to the day since she'd left, that's exactly what happens--Vivien returns, fleeing from a broken marriage and her lost dreams for children. What she hopes to find is solace with "Bootsie," her dear grandmother who raised her, a Walker woman with a knack for making everything all right....
13) Sea of shadows
Author
Series
Age of legends volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Trained in the rites of the spirits to become the Keeper and Seeker of Edgewood, twins Moria and Ashyn are separated during a visit to the Forest of the Dead, where they learn that shadow stalkers have been killing all visitors.
14) A proper pursuit
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
During the summer of 1893 Violet Hayes sets out to find the answers to seven questions she has about her life, including why her mother abandoned her and moved to Chicago, why her father gave up on religion, and if her soon-to-be stepmother killed her first husband.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
Named after a character in a Shakespeare play, misfit sixth-grader Hero becomes interested in exploring this unusual connection because of a valuable diamond supposedly hidden in her new house, an intriguing neighbor, and the unexpected attention of the most popular boy in school.
18) The poison tree
Author
Language
English
Description
Picking up Rex after a ten-year prison sentence for murder, Karen remembers the bohemian summer in 1990s London when their carefree romance and excesses became subject to a complicated family history and ended in violence.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
Thirty-one-year-old Cornelia Brown adores classic romantic films. Anything starring Jimmy Stewart or Cary Grant will do nicely, especially The Philadelphia story. Unapologetically idealistic about love, Cornelia appears to catch the break of a lifetime when the dashing Martin Grace, her own personal Cary Grant, comes strolling into her life. But Cornelia's life truly changes one snowy day when she looks up to find troubled 11-year-old Clare Hobbes...
20) Tenderness
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
A psychological thriller told from the points of view of a teenage serial killer and the runaway girl who falls in love with him.