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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Paul, a sophomore at a high school like no other: The cheerleaders ride Harleys, the homecoming queen used to be a guy named Daryl (she now prefers Infinite Darlene and is also the star quarterback), and the gay-straight alliance was formed to help the straight kids learn how to dance. When Paul meets Noah, he thinks he’s found the one his heart is made for. This is a happy-meaningful romantic comedy about finding love, losing...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
The 50th Anniversary Edition of the Lord of the Flies is the volume that every fan of this classic book will have to own! Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
Harvey Cheyne is the over-indulged son of a millionaire. When he falls overboard from an ocean liner he is rescued by a Portuguese fisherman and, initially against his will, joins the crew of the We're Here for a summer. Through the medium of an exciting adventure story, Captains Courageous (1897) deals with a boy who, like Mowgli in The Jungle Book , is thrown into an entirely alien environment. The supersitious, magical world of the sea and the...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. Happy. Fast. Filthy son of Abraham -- He's a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He's a boy who steals food for himself and the other orphans. He's a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels He's a boy who wants to be a Nazi some day, with tall shiny jackboots and a gleaming Eagle hat of his own. Until the day that suddenly makes him change his mind. When the trains come to empty the Jews...
5) Wereling
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Is he a boy--or is he a beast? Demons are closing in on every side, and the most psychopathic bloodsucker to rock the Netherworld wants to destroy him. And Trey is falling for a girl who is half vampire, half human, and insanely pretty.
6) Infinity
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Series
Chronicles of Nick volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
At fourteen, Nick Gautier thinks he knows everything about the world around him. Streetwise, tough and savvy, his quick sarcasm is the stuff of legends...until the night when his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior who has more fighting skills than Chuck Norris, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity.
7) This boy
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Language
English
Description
"Paul Walden is not an alpha lobster, the hypermasculine crustacean king who intimidates the other male lobsters, beds all the lady lobsters, and 'wins' at life. At least not according to the ego-bursting feedback he's given in his freshman seminar. But Paul finds a funny, faithful friend in Roby Smalls, and maybe--oh god, please--he's beginning to catch the interest of smart, beautiful Natalia Gutierrez. Cruising through high school as a sauced-out,...
8) Trollhunters
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Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Everything changes for San Bernardino teenage suburbanite Jim Sturges when a 45-year old mystery resurfaces, threatening the lives of everyone in his seemingly sleepy town. Soon Jim has to team up with a band of unlikely (and some un-human) heroes to battle the monsters he never knew existed.
9) Game changer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After an especially rough tackle on the football field, Ash thinks he might be suffering some permanent damage, because suddenly stop signs are blue and always have been. After the second universe-altering hit, he drives a Beemer instead of a Dodge, and a pair of interdimensional twins promises him answers. The more universes he visits, the more Ash has to face perspectives he never thought to consider before, and the closer the universe gets to complete...
10) I Am the Cheese
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
A young boy desperately tries to unlock his past yet knows he must hide those memories if he is to remain alive.
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Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When your best friend is just a tiny bit psychotic, you should never actually believe him when he says, "Trust me. This is gonna be awesome." Of course, you probably wouldn't believe a voodoo doll could work either. Or that it could cause someone's leg to blow clean off with one quick prick. But I've seen it. It can happen. And when there's suddenly a doll of YOU floating around out there--a doll that could be snatched by a Rottweiler and torn to...
12) Never say die
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Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Alex relocates to San Francisco as he slowly recovers from the tragic death of his best friend and caregiver, Jack Starbright, at the hands of terrorists working for Scorpia. Out of the blue he receives a cryptic email-- just three words long, but enough to make Alex believe that Jack may be alive. He boards a flight bound for Egypt and embarks on a dubious quest to track Jack down. But Scorpia is working on a new terrorist plot-- and Alex must traverse...
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Series
Bluford series volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the story of Ben McKee, a new sophomore at Bluford High School. At home, Ben is living a nightmare. His mother has married Larry, an abusive man who wants nothing to do with his stepson. And when Larry loses his job and starts drinking, Ben finds himself -- and his mother -- in grave danger.
15) Nick of time
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Nick McIver tries to help his father and sister send vital information to England about imminent Nazi invasion, until he finds himself transported through time to help his ancestor stop a mutinous captain who is aiding the French fleet and endangering British sailors.
16) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Lexile measure
320L
Language
English
Description
"First published in 1838, ‘Oliver Twist' is one of the most admired novels by Charles Dickens, an English writer, and social critic. It is the story of a young orphan who dares to say, ""Please, sir, I want some more."" After escaping from the dark and dismal workhouse where he was born, Oliver finds himself on the mean streets of Victorian-era London and is unwittingly recruited into a scabrous gang of scheming urchins. In this band of petty thieves,...
17) Smooth
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Language
English
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Description
Fifteen-year-old Kevin has acne, and not just any acne. Stinging red welts, painful pustules, and massive whiteheads are ruining his life. In an act of desperation, he asks his dermatologist to prescribe him a drug with a dizzying list of possible side effects -- including depression -- and an obligatory monthly blood test. But when he meets Alex, a girl in the lab waiting room, blood test day quickly becomes his safe haven -- something he sorely...
18) Swim the fly
Author
Series
Swim the fly series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Matt Gratton and his two best friends, Sean and Coop, always set themselves a summertime goal. This year's? To see a real-live naked girl for the first time. As far as Matt is concerned, they'd have better luck finding the lost city of Atlantis. But seeing a girl in the buff starts to seem like child's play compared to the other summertime goal Matt sets for himself: to swim the 100-yard butterfly (the hardest stroke known to God or man) in order...
Author
Series
Stony Bay volume novel
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
"For Tim, it wouldn't be smart to fall for Alice. For Alice, nothing could be scarier than falling for Tim. But Tim has never been known for making the smart choice, and Alice is starting to wonder if 'smart' is always right. ... Told in Tim's and Alice's ... voices, this return to the setting of My life next door is a love story about failing first, trying again, and having to decide whether to risk it all once more." -- From dust jacket.
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