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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
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"When legendary R&B artist Korey Fields spots Enchanted Jones at an audition, her dreams of being a famous singer take flight. Until Enchanted wakes up with blood on her hands and zero memory of the previous night. Who killed Korey Fields? Before there was a dead body, Enchanted's dreams had turned into a nightmare. Because behind Korey's charm and star power was a controlling dark side. Now he's dead, the police are at the door, and all signs point...
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Pub. Date
2011
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The award-winning Chaos Walking trilogy—consisting of The Knife of Never Letting Go, The Ask and the Answer, and Monsters of Men—is now available in its entirety in this e-book collection! Find out why The Sunday Times called Chaos Walking "remarkable" and why Publishers Weekly described the series as "one of the most important works of young adult science fiction in recent years."
3) Alone
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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Seda, sixteen, feels her invisible childhood nemesis, Sawyer, growing stronger just as a group of stranded teens takes shelter from a blizzard in the dilapidated mansion Seda's mother inherited.
6) Lockdown
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Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Teenage Reese, serving time at a juvenile detention facility, gets a lesson in making it through hard times from an unlikely friend with a harrowing past.
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Lorien Legacies volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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In a Spanish convent, seventeen-year-old Marina longs to join forces with her fellow Loriens to prepare for battle with the Mogadorians who destroyed their home planet, while in the United States, John, Six, and Sam elude authorities who think John is a terrorist.
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Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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This New York Times MonsterAll Rise and starring Jennifer Hudson, Kelvin Harrison, Jr., Nas, and A$AP Rocky.The late Walter Dean Myers was a National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, who was known for his commitment to realistically depicting kids from his hometown of Harlem.
9) Whippoorwill
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Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
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In rural New Hampshire, sixteen-year-old Clair Taylor and her neighbor, eighteen-year-old Danny Stewart, fall into an unlikely relationship as they work together to save Wally, a loveable but mistreated dog kept chained in a junk-filled yard by Danny's cruel father.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
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Desperate to reach her grieving mother, Mira joins a group of college students driving home after their flight is stranded, but the road conditions are not the only mortal danger they face.
Stuck at the Philadelphia airport by an incoming blizzard results, Mira hitches a ride to Pittsburgh with a group of college kids who were on her initial flight. As the trip begins she discovers that her fellow travelers aren't friends like she thought. They're...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
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Minutes after the principal of Opportunity High School in Alabama finishes her speech welcoming the student body to a new semester, they discover that the auditorium doors will not open and someone starts shooting as four teens, each with a personal reason to fear the shooter, tells the tale from separate perspectives.
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L.A. Candy novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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Now a reality show celebrity, nineteen-year-old Jane Roberts learns that not all of her new friends are trustworthy.
13) Punching the Air
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Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
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From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds, Walter Dean Myers, and Elizabeth Acevedo.
The story that I thought
was my life
didn’t start on the day
I was born
Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he’s seen as disruptive...
14) Monsters of men
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
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As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions, questioning all they have ever known as they try to step back from the darkness and find the best way to achieve peace.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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When sixteen-year-old Rashad is mistakenly accused of stealing, classmate Quinn witnesses his brutal beating at the hands of a police officer who happens to be the older brother of his best friend. Told through Rashad and Quinn's alternating viewpoints.
17) Dear Martin
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Dear Martin volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
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Chaos walking volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
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Todd Hewitt is the only boy in a town of men. Ever since the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, Todd can hear everything the men think, and they can hear everything he thinks. Todd is just a month away from becoming a man, but in the midst of the cacophony, he knows that the town is hiding something from him -- something so awful that Todd is forced to flee with only his dog, whose simple, loyal voice he hears too. With hostile men from the...
19) Burn Baby Burn
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
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Nora Lopez is seventeen during the summer of 1977, when New York is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam. Meg Medina transports us to a time when tempers and temperatures ran high to share the story of a young woman who discovers that the greatest dangers are often closer than we like to admit.