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1) Butterfly
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1980s Australia, nearly fourteen-year-old Ariella "Plum" Coyle fears the disapproval of her friends, feels inferior to her older brothers, and hates her awkward, adolescent body but when her glamorous neighbor befriends her, Plum starts to become what she wants to be--until she discovers her neighbor's ulterior motive.
Author
Series
Ashbury/Brookfield books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
Description
An epistolary novel uses letters written between teenage friends, refrigerator notes from a crazy mother, and epistles that express the narrator's own internal feelings of self-doubt to weave this bittersweet coming of age story.
3) Breathe
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although Undine is excited about leaving Tasmania for a trip to see her father in Greece, she is also conflicted about using the magic that wells up inside her and confused about her personal relationships, including the one with her best friend Trout.
Author
Series
Ashbury/Brookfield books volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Class brain Bindy Mackenzie has alienated her entire high school but when she realizes someone is trying to kill her, she has to make friends in order to get help.
Author
Series
Ashbury/Brookfield books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Three female students from Ashbury High write to three male students from rival Brookfield High as part of a pen pal program, leading to romance, humiliation, revenge plots, and war between the schools.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lebanese-Australian Jamilah, known in school as Jamie, hides her heritage from her classmates and tries to pass by dyeing her hair blonde and wearing blue-tinted contact lenses, until her conflicted feelings become too much for her to bear.
7) The assault
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Description
In the year 2030, six teens who have been modified to look like the aliens who are battling for control of Earth go behind enemy lines and discover a shocking, secret alien project.
8) Undine
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
2007-2200.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
HL 590L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The ghost of a girl who recently died in an accident makes contact with her grieving father to help solve a mystery in a remote Australian town, where a girl who speaks entirely in riddles is the only witness to a fatal fire.
10) Velocity
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cassica and Shiara have grown up in Coppermouth, a dust choked town in the Outback, but now they hope to use their skills as race driver and mechanic to take on the Widowmaker, an off-road rally through some of the most dangerous places on Earth, to win fame and fortune--provided they survive the race.
11) Now
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While her physician-parents are working in Africa, eleven-year-old Zelda is living with her grandfather, eighty-year-old Holocaust-survivor Felix Salinger, in Australia, when a disaster leads them both to deal with unresolved feelings about the first Zelda, Felix's childhood friend.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Gemma Stone struggles to understand her shifting emotions as her older sister plans her wedding, she overcomes her nerves and tries out for the school play, and she gets to know one of the most notorious boys in her class.
14) Magic or madness
Author
Series
Magic or madness trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
From the Sydney, Australia home of a grandmother she believes is a witch, fifteen-year-old Reason Cansino is magically transported to New York City, where she discovers that friends and foes can be hard to distinguish.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
As his odd parents fight the regional environmental health officer about their dung-covered house and his melodramatic younger brother demands attention, fourteen-year-old Australian Seth Parrot simply seeks the muscular woman of his dreams.
16) Magic lessons
Author
Series
Magic or madness trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Reason is pulled through the magical door connecting New York City with the Sydney, Australia, home of her grandmother, she encounters an impossibly ancient man who seems to have some purpose in mind for her.
17) Task force
Author
Series
Recon team angel volume 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
The six teens of Recon Team Angel, genetically modified and having spent years mastering alien culture so that they can talk, act, and think like their enemies, now have their target in sight but time is running out to save humanity and themselves.
19) Vulture's wake
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In a future Australia, Callum and Bo, perhaps the only female survivor of a bird virus, travel through a lawless, battle-ridden landscape as Callum seeks his fathers and Bo tries to find a place to belong.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
In Farrago Bay, Australia, thirteen-year-old Sheldon is recruited by a new student, Theo Brain, to help investigate a murder, which is tied not only to bizarre animal behavior but also to a diabolical plot to alter human intelligence.
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