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1) Truancy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the City, where an iron-fisted Mayor's goal is perfect control through education, fifteen-year-old Tack is torn between a growing sympathy for the Truancy, an underground movement determined to bring down the system at any cost, and the desire to avenge a death caused by a Truant.
Author
Language
English
Description
Girls--their vulnerability, strength, and passion to belong--are at the heart of this stunning first novel for readers of Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides and Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad. Northern California, during the violent end of the 1960s. At the start of summer, a lonely and thoughtful teenager, Evie Boyd, sees a group of girls in the park, and is immediately caught by their freedom, their careless dress, their dangerous...
4) Homeland
Author
Series
Little brother volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
When Marcus, once called M1k3y, receives a thumbdrive containing evidence of corporate and governmental treachery, his job, fame, family, and well-being, as well as his reform-minded employer's election campaign, are all endangered.
Author
Series
Belles (Dhonielle Clayton) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Camille, Edel, and Remy, aided by The Iron Ladies and backed by alternative newspaper The Spider's Web, race to outwit Sophia, find Princess Charlotte, and return her to Orlaeans.
6) Truancy City
Author
Series
Truancy trilogy volume 03
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As a new threat arises from outside the walls of the City, the warring Truants and Educators must join forces or be destroyed. The fate of the City is determined at last"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Broadcasting from a secret location with the help of a young computer prodigy, a septuagenarian radical and fugitive from the law leads an eccentric group of activists who carry out their own version of guerrilla warfare when they decide that their home state might be better off seceding from the United States.
Author
Series
Little Brother volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
After being interrogated for days by the Department of Homeland Security in the aftermath of a major terrorist attack on San Francisco, California, seventeen-year-old Marcus, released into what is now a police state, decides to use his expertise in computer hacking to set things right.
Author
Series
Truancy trilogy volume 02
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
Relates how Truancy, an underground movement determined to bring down the Mayor's goal of control through education, began with the birth of twin boys who grew up to take divergent paths after being adopted by the Mayor.
Author
Series
Carl Houseman novels volume 4
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
While investigating the apparent suicide of a colleague's niece, Iowa Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman uncovers a group that has turned the dark, violent fantasies of vampire legends into reality.
12) Sweet-blood
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
After a lifetime of being a model student, sixteen-year-old Lucy Szabo is suddenly in trouble at school, at home, with the so-called vampires she has met online and in person, and most of all with her uncontrolled diabetes.
13) Three day summer
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
During the three days of the music festival known as Woodstock, Michael Michaelson of Somerville, Massachusetts, and Cora Fletcher, a volunteer in the medical tent who lives nearby, share incredible experiences, the greatest of which is meeting each other.
14) Chimpanzee
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Unemployment has ravaged the U.S. economy. People struggle everywhere, exhausted by the collapse that destroyed their lives. Benjamin Cade is an expert in cognition, and before the flatlined economy caught up to him, he earned his living as a university instructor. Now, without income, he joins the millions defaulting on their loans – in his case, the money he borrowed to finance his degrees. But there are consequences. Using advances in cognitive...
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