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1) Promchanted
Author
Language
English
Description
Stella is obsessed with logistics and problem solving, and does not have time for fairy tales, but on a pre-prom visit to Disneyland she and Reece (a boy she accidentally got fired) get swept up in the world of Sleeping Beauty, and the girl who believes in logic, not fantasy, finds herself in a very illogical situation.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
For fans of Studio Ghibli, artist Seiji Yoshida's fantastical art book is a perfect gift that transports readers to imaginary houses, each with their own story to tell.
A dreamer's tree house.
A mechanic's cottage.
A submerged city.
In Houses with a Story, more than 30 imaginative houses and the people who make them home offer unexpected worlds to wander through and explore. Who...
A dreamer's tree house.
A mechanic's cottage.
A submerged city.
In Houses with a Story, more than 30 imaginative houses and the people who make them home offer unexpected worlds to wander through and explore. Who...
4) Go ask Alice
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
A fifteen-year-old drug user chronicles her daily struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.
5) The 57 bus
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"One teenager in a skirt. One teenager with a lighter. One moment that changes both of their lives forever. If it weren't for the 57 bus, Sasha and Richard never would have met. Both were high school students from Oakland, California, one of the most diverse cities in the country, but they inhabited different worlds. Sasha, a white teen, lived in the middle-class foothills and attended a small private school. Richard, a black teen, lived in the crime-plagued...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine shares the secrets of her writing success, including how to get ideas, creating beginnings and endings, writing great dialogue, developing memorable characters, and more.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Lexile measure
1130L
Language
English
Description
Purports to be a book, written in 1900, that sheds light on what happened to three historic vampire bloodlines, and that includes booklets, flaps, and letters between the young researcher who discovered it in the 1920s and an alluring woman who seeks his help.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Ivy Winslow has the house to herself for a week and her only plans are to binge-watch her favorite fantasy TV show, H-MAD, hang out with her best friend, Henry, and avoid her former best friend-turned enemy (and neighbor), Mack. But things go awry when Ivy wakes up one morning to find Weston, the gorgeous and very fictional main character of H-MAD, in her bedroom, claiming to be her soul mate. Ivy's fanfic writing has somehow brought Weston as she's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Language
English
Description
The author details his immersion in a world of hardcore drugs, revealing the mental and physical depths of addiction, and the violent relapse one summer in California that forever changed his life, leading him down the road to recovery.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"In the blue-collar Ohio city of Portsmouth, a swimming pool the size of a football field was built in 1929. Named Dreamland, it became the community's vital center. But that pool closed decades ago, and now addiction has devastated Portsmouth, the same way it has hundreds of small rural towns and suburbs across America. This Ohio community's unraveling is the story Dreamland tells. Sam Quinones explains how the rise of the prescription drug OxyContin,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At thirteen, bright-eyed, straight-A student Sara Saedi uncovered a terrible family secret: she was breaking the law simply by living in the United States. Only two years old when her parents fled Iran, she didn't learn of her undocumented status until her older sister wanted to apply for an after-school job, but couldn't because she didn't have a Social Security number. Fear of deportation kept Sara up at night, but it didn't keep her from being...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Long-recognized master of Norse mythology Kevin Crossley-Holland pairs with award-winning artist Jeffrey Alan Love for a collection with tales of Norse mythology featuring the powerful Odin, Thor and his hammer, Mjolnir, Loki, the final battle of Ragnarok, and power stuggles among the figures.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless. In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and...
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