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1) Wringer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.
2) Allegiant
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered -- fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories. But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she...
3) Payback time
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Overweight, somewhat timid Mitch reluctantly agrees to be the sports reporter for the Lincoln High newspaper because he's determined to be a writer, but he senses a real story in Angel, a talented football player who refuses to stand out on the field--or to discuss his past.
4) Poisoned
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
In this adaptation of the fairy tale Snow White, the huntsman follows the queen's order to kill Sophie, but the princess is brought back to life by the seven men of the woods, who, along with other brave friends, help Sophie overcome the story's true villain and reclaim her throne.
5) On the hook
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Hector has always minded his own business, working hard to make his way to a better life someday. He's the chess team champion, helps the family with his job at the grocery, and teaches his little sister to shoot hoops overhand. Until Joey singles him out. Joey, whose older brother, Chavo, is head of the Discípulos gang, tells Hector that he's going to kill him: maybe not today, or tomorrow, but someday. And Hector, frozen with fear, does nothing....
6) Divergent
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
In dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue -- Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice Prior, the decision is between staying with her family and being...
7) Insurgent
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Language
English
Description
One choice can transform you -- or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves -- and herself -- while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love. Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable...
8) Maggot moon
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following a stray football to the other side of a wall where there is a secret, Standish Treadwell discovers astonishing truths about a moon landing that the overseeing Motherland, a ruthless regime, is determined to hide.
9) Bravely
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Merida of DunBroch needs a change. She loves her family--jovial King Fergus, proper Queen Elinor, the mischievous triplets-- and her peaceful kingdom. But she's frustrated by its sluggishness; each day, the same. Merida longs for adventure, purpose, challenge - maybe even, someday, love. But the fiery Princess never expects her disquiet to manifest by way of Feradach, an uncanny supernatural being tasked with rooting out rot and stagnation, who appears...
10) Catching fire
Author
Series
Hunger Games trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
"Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. Nothing is...
11) Freckles
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Set in the Limberlost Swamp area of Indiana, “Freckles” is American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter's 1904 novel about the titular character, a one-handed adult orphan who takes a job guarding timber in the swamp. Freckles has lived all his life in a Chicago orphanage and has been missing his right hand as long as he can remember. Now an adult, he is hired on by the Grand Rapids lumber company to guard their valuable timber in the Limberlost...
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English
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Complete your Divergent library with the Four stories!
Fans of the Divergent series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be excited by "Four: The Traitor," the fourth of four stories, each between fifty and seventy-five pages long, set in the world of Divergent and told from Tobias's point of view. "The Traitor" takes place two years after "The Son" and runs parallel with the early events in Divergent. In this robust story,...
13) Four: The Son
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Complete your Divergent library with the Four stories!
Fans of the Divergent series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be thrilled by "Four: The Son," the third of four stories, each between fifty and seventy-five pages long, set in the world of Divergent and told from Tobias's perspective.
In "The Son," Tobias struggles to find a place in the hierarchy of the Dauntless. He also begins to suspect that a foul plan may...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Complete your Divergent library with the Four stories!
Fans of the Divergent series by #1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be delighted by "Four: The Initiate," the second of four stories, each between fifty and seventy-five pages long, set in the world of Divergent and told from Tobias's point of view. "The Initiate" provides readers with a glimpse into Tobias's Dauntless initiation experience, including an epic game of late-night...
15) Truth or dare
Author
Series
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recent graduates of Middleton High test their bravery in the woods where legend says a girl was kidnapped by the Midnight Man, so when one of their friends does not return they become increasingly scared.
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English
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"Nicolas 'Nico' Hall is sixteen when he escapes from Dr. H's religious gay reprogramming institute in California. On his own, he assumes one identity after another to avoid recapture as he flees south to Peru and then to Mexico. Seven days older than Nico, Samuel 'Sam' Jonas Solomon is a privileged Upper West Side only child who idolizes James Bond. When his heart is broken, he vows that, like Bond, he's never going to trust in love again. Then he...
17) Mockingjay
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Katniss Everdeen has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding. Katniss Everdeen's having survived the Hunger games twice makes her a target of the Capitol and President Snow, as well as a hero to the rebels. It is by design that Katniss was rescued from the arena in the cruel and haunting Quarter Quell, and it is by design that she has long been part of the revolution without...
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...
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