Tantor Media
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When heartache and loss invade Karen Pierce's carefully ordered workd, she is devastated. Her plans for the future seem distant and she is bound by a promise to care for two young adults who are struggling with a loss of their own.
Author
Series
My life with the Walter boys volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
From a fresh new voice on the contemporary YA scene, My Life with the Walter Boys centers on the prim, proper, and always perfect Jackie Howard. When her world is turned upside down by tragedy, Jackie must learn to cut loose and be part of a family again. Jackie does not like surprises. Chaos is the enemy! The best way to get her successful, busy parents to notice her is to be perfect. The perfect look, the perfect grades-the perfect daughter. And...
3) Three cups of tea : one man's mission to fight terrorism and build nations-- one school at a time
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
1220L
Language
English
Description
One man's campaign to build schools in the most dangerous, remote, and anti-American reaches of Asia: in 1993 Greg Mortenson was an American mountain-climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram. After he was taken in and nursed back to health by the people of a Pakistani village, he promised to return one day and build them a school. From that rash, earnest promise grew one of the most incredible humanitarian campaigns of...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 349
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1210L
Language
English
Description
The novel's narrator, Stevens, is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious of the real life that goes on around him -- oblivious, for instance, of the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer. Still, there are even larger matters at stake in this heartbreaking,...
5) Black dawn
Author
Series
Morganville vampires volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
Struggling with the turmoil of the vampire-hunting draug's ongoing dominance in Morganville, student Claire Danvers and her friends search for a cure for town founder Amelie, who has been infected by the master draug's bite.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Sam seems to have everything until she and her best friend, Cassie, disappear one night and now Sam has returned with amnesia, striving to be a much better person and aware that her not remembering may be the only thing keeping Cassie alive.
7) Daylighters
Author
Series
Morganville vampires volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Language
English
Description
While Morganville, Texas, is often a troubled town, Claire Danvers and her friends are looking forward to coming home. But the Morganville they return to isn't the one they know; it's become a different place-a deadly one; Something drastic has happened in Morganville while Claire and her friends were away. The town looks cleaner and happier than they've ever seen it before, but when their incoming group is arrested and separated-vampires from humans-they...
Author
Series
Dark elements volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Every touch has its price Layla Shaw is trying to pick up the pieces of her shattered life'no easy task for a seventeen-year-old who's pretty sure things can't get worse. Her impossibly gorgeous best friend, Zayne, is forever off-limits thanks to the mysterious powers of her soul-stealing kiss. The Warden clan that has always protected her is suddenly keeping dangerous secrets. And she can barely think about Roth, the wickedly hot demon prince who...
10) I am still alive
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
"Stranded alone in the unforgiving Canadian wilderness, Jess is determined to survive and seek revenge on her father's murderers"--
Jess hadn't seen her survivalist, off-the-grid dad in over a decade. After a car crash kills her mother and leaves her injured, Jess was forced to move to his cabin in the remote Canadian wilderness. Then a secret from his past paid them a visit, leaving her father dead and Jess stranded, the cabin burned to the ground....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Washington Square (1881), by Henry James, tells the story of Catherine Sloper, the plain, obedient daughter of the widowed, well-to-do Dr. August Sloper of Washington Square. When a handsome, feckless man-about-town proposes to Catherine, her father forbids the marriage because he believes the man to be after Catherine's fortune and future inheritance. The conflict between father, daughter, and suitor provokes consequences in the lives of all three...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
After ten years of exile among fairies who teach her to use her magically-enhanced strength and courage, Sleeping Beauty's daughter Aurora enlists the help of Niklaas, eleventh son of King Eldorio, in the fight to reclaim her throne.
13) Fade out
Author
Series
Morganville vampires volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Without the evil vampire Bishop ruling over the town of Morganville, life has changed--dramatically. The resident vampires have made major concessions to the human population. With their newfound freedoms, Claire Danvers and her friends are almost starting to feel comfortable again--almost. Now Claire can actually concentrate on her studies, and her friend Eve joins the local theater company. Yet when one of Eve's cast mates goes missing after starting...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
"Life on the Mississippi is a powerful narrative concerning the past, present, and future of the Mississippi River, including its towns, peoples, and ways of life. Before addressing the river and his personal relationship to it, Twain provides a brief history of the Mississippi River. He comments in the first few chapters on the river's historic standing as a wonder that surpasses many rivers around the world. Twain also provides a history of explorers...
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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
Bastian, an awkward, unhappy boy whose mother has died and whose father neglects him, steals a book and is drawn into its "Neverending story" in which he embarks on many adventures in an effort to save the land of Fantasiana.
17) Lord of misrule
Author
Series
Morganville vampires volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
"In the college town of Morganville, vampires and humans have coexisted in (relatively) bloodless harmony ... until the arrival of Bishop, a master vampire who threatens to put the evil back in evil undead and smash the fragile peace. But Bishop isn't the only threat ... Violent black clouds promise a storm of devastating proportions. As student Claire Danvers and her friends prepare to defend Morganville against the elements--both natural and unnatural--the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Language
English
Description
Two years after she was raped, Ashley, now a high school junior and still struggling with everyday life, sees her family falling apart. Includes resources about sexualized violence and rape culture.
19) Silas Marner
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1240L
Language
English
Description
Embittered by a false accusation and disappointed in friendship and love, the weaver Silas Marner retreats into a life alone with his loom and his gold. Fate steals his gold and replaces it with a golden-haired foundling child.
20) O pioneers!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
"Alexandra, daughter of a Swedish immigrant farmer in Nebraska, inherits the family farm and finds love with an old friend." "The heroic battle for survival of simple pioneer folk in the Nebraska country of the 1880s. John Bergson, a Swedish farmer, struggles desperately with the soil but dies unsatisfied. His daughter Alexandra resolves to vindicate his faith, and her strong character carries her weak older brothers and her mother alng to a new zest...