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1) The Savages
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A girl shocks her parents by bringing home her vegetarian boyfriend while a private detective digs for truths about this seemingly normal family hiding secrets of their cannibalism.
Author
Series
Raven cycle volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs. The trick with found things though, is how easily they can be lost.
3) Heap house
Author
Series
Iremonger volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young Clod is an Iremonger. He lives at Heap House, his family's mansion at the center of the Heaps, a vast sea of lost and discarded items whose ever-shifting masses have been known to swallow people alive. The Iremongers are an odd old family, each the owner of a Birth Object they must keep with them at all times. Clod is perhaps the oddest of all--his gift and his curse is that he can hear all of the objects of Heap House whispering. Yes, a storm...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rejecting the idea that she is destined to become a poet, 11-year-old Emily Elizabeth Davis loses an important family secret hidden in a volume of Emily Dickinson's poems and forges unexpected connections while searching through used-book stores all across town. By the award-winning author of The Year the Swallows Came Early.
5) Missing
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thea and her dad are always on the move, from one small Cariboo town to another, trying to leave the past behind. They never stay long enough in one place for Thea to make friends, but when her dad gets work renovating a guest ranch on Gumboot Lake, she dares to hope that their wandering days are over. At the ranch she makes friends with Van, a local boy, and works hard to build the trust of an abused horse. When Thea unearths a decades-old mystery,...
Author
Series
Raven cycle volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
The quest for the Welsh king Glendower is completed, but kings aren't always what they're cracked up to be. Gansey and his friends are now desperate to change what they have come to believe is his fate-to die before the end of the year. They also have to cope with the villainous forces of greed and corruption who descend on their town, RoboBees, and a power-hungry demon. And there's that nagging curse that Blue will kiss her true love and he will...
Author
Series
Poison apple books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twelve-year-old Emma-Rose Paley has always felt very different from her bubbly, outgoing parents. Unlike them, Emma-Rose has pale skin and jet-black hair, she prefers gray weather to sunshine, and she hates the taste of garlic. When Emma-Rose's great-aunt Margo comes to visit from Romania, Emma-rose uncovers a dark family secret and has a sudden revelation. Could Emma-Rose be a real, live vampire?" (publisher).
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Skipping a day at her elite New York City prep school when things get a bit too intense, Callie befriends a boy who is doing research throughout the city's museums while they try to reveal why her grandmother wants to travel back to 1986.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mani Semilla is determined not to go to Guatemala until she finds letters written between her mother and her journalist aunt who has disappeared, revealing both the beauty of the country and its history of violence against women, which slowly transforms her into a budding activist.
Author
Series
Dissenters volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cara's mother is missing and the rest of her family is ignoring the problem or is busy with other things. But when a watery specter begins to haunt the family's Cape Cod home, Cara and her brothers realize their scientist mother may not have been who they thought she was. With the help of Cara's best friend Hayley, the brothers and sisters embark on a quest that will lead them from the Cape's hidden, ancient places to a shipwreck at the bottom of...
Author
Series
Problim children volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Seven siblings are forced by the destruction of their swamp home to move into their grandpa's mansion, but greedy neighbors plot to steal their secrets and place them in homes far away from each other.
13) August Isle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
For years, Miranda has stared at postcards of August Isle, Florida. The town where her mother spent her summers as a girl. The town that Miranda has always ached to visit. She just never wanted it to happen this way. When she arrives on the Isle, alone and uncertain, to stay the summer with an old friend of her mother's, Miranda discovers a place even more perfect than she imagined. And she finds a new friend in Sammy, "Aunt" Clare's daughter. But...
Author
Series
Archibald Finch volume 1
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
"History, magic, and adventure collide in this riveting middle-grade fantasy novel about an unusual boy who unlocks an ancient relic--and with it, a forgotten world. Befriended by a band of young witches, Archibald Finch must quickly adapt to survive in Lemurea, where a battle born in the Middle Ages is still unfolding . . . Archibald is a risk-averse boy with quirks that earn him plenty of eye-rolls, especially from his older sister, Hailee. Things...
Author
Series
House on Hoarder Hill volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Hedy and Spencer start receiving messages on dusty picture frames, a visit to their grandmother's eerie old house turns into something much more sinister. Hidden in the labyrinth of their grandfather's belongings are the clues to solving their family's biggest mystery: the disappearance of their Grandma Rose. But what is their grandfather not telling them? As their curiosity leads them into the forbidden rooms of the house, Hedy and Spencer...
16) The red pyramid
Author
Series
Kane chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
"Since their mother's death, Carter and Sadie have become near strangers. While Sadie has lived with her grandparents in London, her brother has traveled the world with their father, the brilliant Egyptologist, Dr. Julius Kane. One night, Dr. Kane brings the siblings together for a "research experiment" at the British Museum, where he hopes to set things right for his family. Instead, he unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes him to oblivion...
17) A box of bones
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
After receiving a wooden puzzle box at a town festival, twelve-year-old Kallie figures out how to open the box and finds that her fate seems to be connected to a young bone carver from another time.
Author
Series
Love sugar magic volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: The second book in the acclaimed, delightful, lighthearted, fun, and character-driven young middle grade series about a family of Mexican American bakers who also happen to be brujas - witches!
19) Breda's island
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In the vein of When You Trap a Tiger and Shouting at the Rain, this is the story of the journey one girl undertakes to find herself. After Breda Moriarity gets caught stealing one too many times, Breda's mom sends her to Ireland, a place she has never been, to live with the grandfather she has never met. While Breda doesn't want to be in this strange land, she finally gets to meet Granda, her mom's father. He's a grumpy farmer who is also a seanchai,...
Author
Series
Raven cycle volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater are awake, magic is swirling around Blue and The Raven boys and Ronan Lynch's ability to pull objects from his dreams is almost out of control but worst of all, the mysterious Gray Man is stalking the Lynch family, looking for something called the Greywaren.
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