Emily Rankin
Author
Series
Wolf Hollow volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Growing up in the shadows cast by two world wars, Annabelle has lived a mostly quiet, steady life in her small Pennsylvania town. Until the day new student Betty Glengarry walks into her class. Betty quickly reveals herself to be cruel and manipulative, and while her bullying seems isolated at first, things quickly escalate, and reclusive World War I veteran Toby becomes a target of her attacks. While others have always seen Toby's strangeness, Annabelle...
Author
Series
Willa of the Wood volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
In the late 1800s, a twelve-year-old nightspirit living in the Great Smoky Mountains despairs as homesteaders destroy her forest habitat, until a chance encounter with a "day-folk" man changes everything she thought she knew about her people - and their greatest enemy.To Willa, a young night-spirit, humans are the murderers of trees. She's been taught to despise them and steal from them. She's her clan's best thief, creeping into the log cabins of...
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
Candy shop war volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
When fifth-graders Nate, Summer, Trevor, and Pigeon meet the owner of the new candy store in town and are given a magical candy that endows them with super powers, they find that along with its benefits there are also dangerous consequences.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Language
English
Description
"The lives of Cyra Noavek and Akos Kereseth are ruled by their fates, spoken by the oracles at their births. The fates, once determined, are inescapable. Akos is in love with Cyra, in spite of his fate: He will die in service to Cyra's family. And when Cyra's father, Lazmet Noavek - a soulless tyrant, thought to be dead - reclaims the Shotet throne, Akos believes his end is closer than ever. As Lazmet ignites a barbaric war, Cyra and Akos are desperate...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
When her veterinarian father dies, sixteen-year-old Iris Wight must move from Maine to North Carolina where her Aunt Sue spends Iris's small inheritance while abusing her physically and emotionally, but the hardest thing to take is her mistreatment of the farm animals.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
In 1966 Illinois, twelve-year-old Wilhelmina, convinced that she, her parents, and sisters are Abraham Lincoln's family reincarnated, determines to keep them from suffering the same fates, which is complicated when she and her father become involved in the civil rights movement.
8) Ruins
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Language
English
Description
Rigg, Umbo, and Param have crossed the Wall and entered a new and dangerous world. They learn that Vadesh, a human-shaped machine adept at deception, is no longer to be trusted, and that trust amongst themselves may be waning as well. If Rigg cannot make it into the past and stop the chain of events that he has seen destroying Garden in the future, then there will be no future at all.
Author
Series
Piper Reed volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
While her father, a Navy Chief, is on ship duty for six months, nine-year-old Piper stays busy with new neighbors, Christmas at a spaceship beach house, a trip to New Orleans, and especially the upcoming Gypsy Club pet show.
10) Visitors
Author
Series
Pathfinder (Orson Scott Card) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
"Rigg's journey comes to an epic and explosive conclusion as everything that has been building up finally comes to pass, and Rigg is forced to put his powers to the test in order to save his world and end the war once and for all"--
Rigg possesses a secret talent that allows him to see the paths of people's pasts. He joined forces with another teen with special talents on a quest to find Rigg's sister and discover the true depth and significance...
12) My own lightning
Author
Series
Wolf Hollow volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Description
"Several months after the tragic events set in motion by bully Betty Glengarry, Annabelle McBride is struck by lightning during a powerful summer storm, leaving her with heightened senses that give her a new understanding of animals and help her learn about compassion and forgiveness"--WorldCat.
13) Avenged
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After rescuing her sister, Olivia, from imprisonment in Lera, a rival kingdom, Em has devised a plan that will rebuild Ruina to its former glory. But just because Em and Olivia are out of Lera doesn't mean they are safe. Their actions over the past year have had consequences, and they are now targets of retaliation. Ever since Em posed as Prince Casimir's betrothed in Lera, she's started to see another side to this war. Lera may have destroyed the...
Author
Series
Willa of the Wood volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Willa and her clan are the last of the Faeran, an ancient race of forest people who have lived in the Great Smoky Mountains for as long as the trees have grown there. But as crews of newly arrived humans start cutting down great swaths of the forest she loves, Willa is helpless to stop them. How can she fight the destroyers of the trees and their powerful machines? When Willa discovers a mysterious dark hollow filled with strange and beautiful creatures,...
15) The here and now
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Prenna, an immigrant who moved to New York when she was twelve, came from another time and she and the other travelers must follow strict rules to avoid destroying the new life they have worked so hard to get, as well as the one person Prenna is desperate to protect.
18) Sword and verse
Author
Series
Sword and verse volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Raisa, a slave since being kidnapped as a child, is chosen to become a tutor and learn a secret language, she is torn between her feelings for Prince Mati and her desire to help free her people.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Held captive in the barbarian kingdom of Venda, Lia and Rafe have little chance of escape. Desperate to save her life, Lia's erstwhile assassin, Kaden, has told the Vendan Komizar that she has the gift, and the Komizar's interest in Lia is greater than anyone could have foreseen. Meanwhile, nothing is straightforward. Lia always believed the Vendans to be barbarians. Now that she lives amongst them, however, she realizes that may be far from the truth....
Author
Series
Remnant chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Held captive in the barbarian kingdom of Venda, Lia and Rafe have little chance of escape. Desperate to save her life, Lia's erstwhile assassin, Kaden, has told the Vendan Komizar that she has the gift, and the Komizar's interest in Lia is greater than anyone could have foreseen. Meanwhile, nothing is straightforward. Lia always believed the Vendans to be barbarians. Now that she lives amongst them, however, she realizes that may be far from the truth....