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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
4) Hex Hall
Author
Series
Hex Hall volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Hyperion pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
323 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a prom-night spell goes badly wrong, witch Sophie Mercer is exiled to an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, supernaturally gifted teenagers, where she learns that an unknown predator has been attacking students.
Author
Series
O'Keefe Family volume 3
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1984
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
307 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While working at a conference in Cyprus, sixteen-year-old Polly tries to come to terms with the emotionally tumultuous events preceding her arrival on the island and her relationships with old and new friends.
6) Wings
Author
Series
Wings volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When a plant blooms out of fifteen-year-old Laurel's back, it leads her to discover the fact that she is a faerie and that she has a crucial role to play in keeping the world safe from the encroaching enemy trolls.
8) Twelve
Author
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
202, 12 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Winnie relates the events of her twelth year and the many changes in her relationships and in her attitude toward growing up.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
318 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ama, Jo, and Polly, three close friends from Bethesda, Maryland, spend the summer before ninth grade learning about themselves, their families, and the changing nature of their friendship.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
On alternating weeks, Sasha and Ray vacation in the beach house their parents refused to give up after their divorce, but they never meet until one summer when their lives and those of their siblings intersect in ways none of them could have imagined.
12) Trapped
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
232 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seven high school students are stranded at their New England high school during a week-long blizzard that shuts down the power and heat, freezes the pipes, and leaves them wondering if they will survive.
Author
Series
The summer I turned pretty volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When each summer begins, Belly leaves her school life behind and escape to Cousins Beach, the place she has spent every summer of her life. Not only does the beach house mean home away from home, but her favorite people are there: Susannah, her mother's best friend, and her sons, Conrad and Jeremiah. Belly has been chasing Conrad for as long as she can remember, and more than anything, she hopes this summer will be different. Despite distractions...
15) Starclimber
Author
Series
Matt Cruse volume 3
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
390 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
As members of the first crew of astralnauts, Matt Cruse and Kate De Vries journey into outer space on the Starclimber and face a series of catastrophes that threaten the survival of all on board.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When high school student Clay Jenkins receives a box in the mail containing thirteen cassette tapes recorded by his classmate Hannah, who committed suicide, he spends a bewildering and heartbreaking night crisscrossing their town, listening to Hannah's voice recounting the events leading up to her death.
Author
Series
Hex Hall volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Hyperion paperback ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
359 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sophie Mercer discovers she's a demon and her crush, Archer Cross is an agent for The Eye, a group bent on wiping her kind off the face of the earth. Sophie has powers that threaten the lives of everyone she loves, so she decides to go to London for the Removal, a dangerous procedure that will either destroy her powers for good - or kill her.
18) Illusions
Author
Series
Wings volume 3
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
375 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As her senior year of high school starts, Laurel is just beginning to adjust to Tamani's absence when he suddenly reappears, telling her he must guard her against the returning threat of the trolls that pose a danger both to her and to Avalon.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
170 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Stuck babysitting during the summer while her friends take glamorous vacations, fourteen-year-old Irene learns some lessons about life after meeting a beautiful, yet troubled, girl.
Author
Series
Hunger Games volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
391 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol wants revenge ... and President Snow has made it clear that no one else is safe!