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Author
Series
Harry Potter volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
Harry Potter begins his sixth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in an atmosphere of uncertainty, as the magical world begins to face the fact that the evil wizard Voldemort is alive and active once again.
Author
Series
Embassy Row volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
After six years of no word from her best friend, Logan, he shows up on the doorstep of the remote Alaskan cabin Maddie and her father live in with an assailant in pursuit.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
Burdened with the dark, dangerous, and seemingly impossible task of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes, Harry, feeling alone and uncertain about his future, struggles to find the inner strength he needs to follow the path set out before him.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Unabridged.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (12 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
In this poignant, perceptive, witty novel, Gary D. Schmidt brings authenticity and emotion to multiple plot strands, weaving in themes of grief, loss, redemption, achievement, and love. Following the death of her closest friend in summer 1968, Meryl Lee Kowalski goes off to St. Elene's Preparatory Academy for Girls, where she struggles to navigate the venerable boarding school's traditions and a social structure heavily weighted toward students from...
Author
Publisher
Point
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Kate Bailey lets her best friend, Alana, talk her into joining their high school's podcast she did not expect to find herself as the host, or to enjoy answering calls and giving advice on the air, but she is actually pretty good at it--but when she gets an anonymous call from a boy (possibly Diego Martinez) about his secret feelings for a girl (probably Alana) she is faced with a problem, because she is developing feelings for Diego herself.
7) Fairest
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In a land where beauty and singing are valued above all else, Aza eventually comes to reconcile her unconventional appearance and her magical voice, and learns to accept herself for who she truly is.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
275 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two aristocratic sisters in ancient Japan disguise themselves as samurai warriors to take revenge on the uncle who betrayed their family.
9) So B. It
Author
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
You couldn't really tell about Mama's brain just from looking at her, but it was obvious as soon as she spoke. She had a high voice, like a little girl's, and she only knew twenty-three words. I know this for a fact, because we kept a list of the things Mama said tacked to the inside of the kitchen cabinet. Most of the words were common ones, like good and more and hot, but there was one word only my mother said, soof. Although she lives an unconventional...
10) Where She Fell
Author
Publisher
Point, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Teenager Eliza and her friends are going to explore a cave near their upstate New York home, but first her friends insist on dragging her to Drowner's Swamp, a bog legendary for its dangerous sinkholes, and a place which her mother has frequently warned her about; Eliza does not want to go, and when the earth opens up and swallows her she finds herself in a system of caves--and what she finds living there is strange and dangerous beyond anything the...
11) The keeper
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Vega Jane and her friend Delph have taken the map that Quentin Harris left them and set out from the town of Wormwood, determined to brave the Quag and find freedom on the other side--but the Quag was designed to keep the town people in, and it is filled with bloodthirsty creatures and sinister magic, and it is not going to let them escape unscathed.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother.
13) Prisoner B-3087
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
202 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth HĂĽbener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.
15) P.S. I like you
Author
Series
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Every day in chemistry class, high school student and aspiring songwriter Lily Abbott is finding notes left to her by a mystery boy, love letters really, and she hopes they are from Lucas, a boy she is attracted to--so when she finds out they are really from, she is shocked and unsure about how to respond.
16) Oblivion
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Description
Having escaped from Hong Kong, fifteen-year-old Matt and four other Gatekeepers take an ultimate stand against a destructive evil force that has unleashed a decimating storm as part of a plot to end the world.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange faces the impossible when the mighty Shandar emerges from his preserved state and presents her with a task that sends her and her companions on a journey from which they may never return.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"A girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person...
19) The hunger games
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.
20) Catching fire
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.