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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Perry's parents insist that he take Gobi, their quiet, Lithuanian exchange student, to senior prom but after an incident at the dance he learns that Gobi is actually a trained assassin who needs him as a henchman, behind the wheel of his father's precious Jaguar, on a mission in Manhattan.
Author
Series
Suburban strange volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Celia Balaustine discovers girls at the school are having near fatal accidents on the eve of their sixteenth birthdays, and wonders if she can find out the mystery before her own sixteenth birthday.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Description
Ally, Bree, and Jack meet at the one place the Great Eclipse can be seen in totality, each carrying the burden of different personal problems, which become dim when compared to the task they embark upon and the friendship they find.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Chafed by the "sivilized" restrictions of his foster home, and weary of his drunkard father's brutality, Huck Finn fakes his own death and sets off on a raft down the Mississippi River. He is soon joined by Jim, an escaped slave. Together, they experience a series of rollicking adventures that have amused readers, young and old, for over a century.
The fugitives become close friends as they weather storms together aboard the raft and spend idyllic
Author
Series
Vivian Apple volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Vivian Apple returns home after the alleged 'Rapture' to find her devout parents gone and two mysterious holes in the roof. Vivian never believed in the Rapture, or the uber powerful Church of America. Now that she has been left behind, Vivian's quest for the truth begins"--
Author
Series
Hallowed ones volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amish teen Katie smuggles a gravely injured young man, an outsider, into her family's barn despite the elders' ruling that no one can come in or out of the community while some mysterious and massive unrest is wreaking havoc in the "English" world.
Author
Series
Wulf's saga volume 1
Language
English
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Description
After a devastating invasion of his native land, Wulf, the sixteen-year-old third son of a duke, must rally the peaceful valley of Shenandoah and free his family and his land from intruders controlled by vampiric evil.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"For a young woman coming of age in the early 1800s, about all that's available to her is marriage. When Constance's parents arrange her a marriage with a man more than twice her age, she's powerless to resist. Four months into the marriage, she slips out of their bed in the middle of the night, and puts on his clothes. Sneaking out of the house before dawn, Stance visits the baker's scrawny son, who has just been drafted into the army, and offers...
10) The king's arrow
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In England's New Forest on the second day of August, 1100, eighteen-year-old Simon Foldre, delighted to be allowed to participate in a royal hunt as squire to the Anglo-Norman nobleman Walter Tirel, finds his future irrevocably altered when, during the hunt, he witnesses the possible murder of King William II.
11) The black pearl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
In claiming as his own the magnificent black pearl that he finds, a sixteen-year-old youth enrages the sea devil who legend says is its owner.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
As sixty-year-old John Gregory reflects on the past, he reveals how the world of ghosts, ghasts, witches, and boggarts was exposed to him and he later became the Spook, even though his first intention had been to join the priesthood.
13) The courage test
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Will has no choice. His father drags him along on a wilderness adventure in the footsteps of legendary explorers Lewis and Clark--whether he likes it or not. All the while, Will senses that something about this trip isn't quite right. Along the journey, Will meets fascinating strangers and experiences new thrills, including mountain cliffs, whitewater rapids, and a heart-hammering bear encounter. It is a journey into the soul of America's past, and...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Working as a quality control inspector at a toy factory in Rhode Island, friendless alcoholic Smithy Ide considers himself a loser until the death of his parents in a traffic accident prompts him to uncover his old Raleigh bicycle and set off on an epic cross-country journey.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 44
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
When the government of the magic world and authorities at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry refuse to believe in the growing threat of a freshly revived Lord Voldemort, fifteen-year-old Harry Potter finds support from his loyal friends in facing the evil wizard and other new terrors. There is a Door at the end of a silent corridor. And it's haunting Harry Potter's dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in...
Author
Series
Book of Lost Things volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
David doesn't know much about life beyond the walls of his room, except what he reads in his books. Mourning the death of his mother and angry at his father for moving on so quickly, David is pulled into a world next to our own and discovers all the stories he's read have come to life. However, these stories are different. Angrier. Darker. As David makes his way through the world to find the king and mysterious Book of Lost Things that will help him...
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: 6.9 - AR Pts: 34
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Burdened with the dark, dangerous, and seemingly impossible task of locating and destroying Voldermort's remaining Horcruxes, Harry, feeling alone and uncertain about his future, struggles to find the inner strength he needs to follow the path set out before him.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel: a bildungsroman that depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens's second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman...
20) Kidnapped
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 480L
Language
English
Description
In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.
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