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1) The Giver
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what they should say, and she copies her coworkers' style of dress and speech...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
NORBERT RIDDLE lives in the United States of Earth, where normal means following the rules, never standing out, and being exactly the same as everyone else. He's been normal his whole life-until a moment of temporary hilarity when he does a funny impression of the country's dictator...and gets caught! Now Norbert's been banished to the Astro-Nuts Camp on planet Zorquat 3, where kids who defy the rules are exiles forever. He's been taught his whole...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The rising star and face of the new field "science of the individual" draws from the latest psychological and sociological research to show that success is found in individual strengths and weaknesses that don't fit along any average curve--a powerful manifesto for change in the ranks of Emotional Intelligence and The Power of Habit. Modern science has proven that people behave and learn in distinctive ways. And yet these individual patterns get...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
The Bluest Eye is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, a black girl in an America whose love for its blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment.
6) Extras
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
After rebel Tally Youngblood brings down the uglies/pretties/specials regime, fame, instead of beauty, becomes the new world order, and fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse embarks on a dangerous plan to boost her popularity ranking.
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Language
English
Formats
Description
Funny, clever, surreal, and thought-provoking, this Kafkaesque masterpiece introduces the unforgettable Bjorn, an exceptionally meticulous office worker striving to live life on his own terms. Bjorn is a compulsive, meticulous bureaucrat who discovers a secret room at the government office where he works--a secret room that no one else in his office will acknowledge. When Bjorn is in his room, what his co-workers see is him standing by the wall and...
Author
Series
Crazy House volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
aEighteen-year-old twins Becca and Cassie, now trained, fearless fighters, hold the key to defeating the despotic United regime and freeing the people of the former United States, but at what cost?
Language
English
Formats
Description
Once upon a time in a castle high on a hill lived an inventor whose greatest creation was named Edward. Although Edward had an irresistible charm, he wasn't quite perfect. The inventor's sudden death left him unfinished, with sharp shears of metal for hands. Edward lived alone in the darkness until one day a kind Avon lady took him home to live with her family. So began Edward's fantastical adventures in a pastel paradise known as Suburbia--Container....
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifty years after Hannah Arendt examined the dynamics of conformity in her seminal account of the Eichmann trial, "Beautiful Souls" explores the flipside of the banality of evil, mapping out what impels ordinary people to defy the sway of authority and convention.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 84
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
School Spirit Month was supposed to bring Stoneybrook Middle School together, but now a huge war is about to break out, and Dawn is right in the middle of it.
12) Crazy house
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
In a future world where teenagers are taken, imprisoned, and forced to fight for their survival, well-behaved Cassie will do whatever it takes to save her rebellious twin sister Becca from Death Row.
Author
Language
English
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Description
In her book, Alexandra Robbins explores the ways group identity theories play out among cliques - and the students they exclude. She reveals the new labels students stick onto each other today, the long-term effects of this marginalization, and the reasons students falling under these categories are often shunned.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the near future, Kayla finds herself running for her life when she refuses to get the mandatory bar code tattoo on her seventeenth birthday--a decision that renders her a social outcast and places her family in grave danger. The bar code tattoo. Everybody's getting it. It will make your life easier, they say. It will hook you in. It will become your identity. But what if you say no? What if you don't want to become a code? For Kayla, this one choice...
15) Eventown
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
To Elodee, eleven, things seem a little too perfect in Eventown when she moves there with her parents and identical twin, Naomi, especially since forgetting the past is so highly valued.
17) Babbitt
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
1110L
Language
English
Description
George E. Babbitt, a conniving, prosperous real estate man from Zenith, Ohio, revels in his popularity, his success, and, especially, in the material rewards they bring. He bullies his wife, flirts with other women, and patronizes the less successful. But when his best friend is sent to prison for killing his wife, Babbitt's middle-class complacency is shattered, and he rebels, seeking a more "meaningful" life. His small revolt is quickly defeated,...
18) Brave new girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a world where everyone is the same, Trigger 17 convinces Dahlia 16 that she is unique but this proves that both are flawed, which could lead to dire consequences for their entire genomes.
19) The giver
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The desire to fit in is one of the most powerful, least understood forces in a society. Todd Rose believes that as human beings we continually act against our own best interests out of our brains' misunderstanding of what we think others believe. A complicated set of illusions driven by conformity bias distorts how we see the world around us. From toilet paper shortages to kidneys that get thrown away rather than used for desperately needed organ...
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