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Author
Series
Throne of glass volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
After she has served a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, Crown Prince Dorian offers eighteen-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien her freedom on the condition that she act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.
Author
Series
Darkest minds volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
When Ruby awoke on her tenth birthday, something about her has changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Then she was sent to Thurmond, a brutal government "rehabilitation camp." Now at age sixteen, Ruby is one of the dangerous ones.
3) Crazy house
Author
Series
Crazy House volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In a future world where teenagers are taken, imprisoned, and forced to fight for their survival, well-behaved Cassie will do whatever it takes to save her rebellious twin sister from Death Row.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
While writing letters to Innocence X, a justice-seeking project, asking them to help her father, an innocent black man on death row, teenaged Tracy takes on another case when her brother is accused of killing his white girlfriend.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
During a stopover on an island in the East Indies on his voyage to London, wealthy American merchant Gavin Elliott rescues beautiful widow Alexandra Warren, kidnapped by pirates, from a slave auction.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Lord Cassia is taken prisoner, while a plague sweeps over the land. Three years later, he wants only to return to his home. Meanwhile, his home has changed, and an assassin has targeted the queen.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Targeted by gossip and bullying after her Chicago police officer father is imprisoned for criminal activities, Wendy bonds with a clique of troublemakers to establish her own tough reputation only to discover the consequences of having toxic friends.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
x, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Tasked with keeping a captured and terminally ill Rebel Queen alive long enough to survive the formidable elemental Trial by Ordeal, death prison healer Kiva Meridan receives a coded message from her family before risking her life to take the queen's place.
9) Acid
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the year 2113, seventeen-year-old Jenna Strong is helped to escape from Mileway Maximum Security Prison outside London in order to help destroy ACID, the most brutal and controlling police force in history.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From twice National Book Award-nominated Rachel Kushner, whose Flamethrowers was called "the best, most brazen, most interesting book of the year" (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine), comes a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley....
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Edition
1st Harper Trophy ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
248 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1934, thirteen-year-old Marya and her younger brother, Georgi, set out alone on a long and arduous journey into Siberia to find their mother after she and their father are exiled for opposing Stalin.
Author
Series
Iron Fey volume 2
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
359 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Summer faery princess, half human, Meghan is deserted by the Winter prince she thought loved her, becomes a prisoner of the Winter faery queen, and loses her own fey powers. As war looms between Summer and Winter, Meghan knows that the real danger comes from the Iron fey--ironbound faeries that only she and her absent prince have seen. But no one believes her--and trusting a seeming traitor could be deadly.
13) The brethren
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In a minimum security federal prison, home to drug dealers, swindlers, and tax evaders, three former judges meet each day to write briefs, handle cases for other inmates, and dispense jailhouse justice. They also spend hours hatching schemes to make money. When one of their schemes goes awry, snaring an innocent on the outside, the Brethren's days of quietly marking time are over.
14) Ash Princess
Author
Series
Ash Princess volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Held captive by the brutal Kaiser since age six when she witnessed her mother's murder, Theodosia, called Ash Princess, is now sixteen and prepared to reclaim the throne by any means necessary.
15) The Loop
Author
Series
The Loop Trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Chicken House, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Luka Kane has spent 736 days wrongfully imprisoned inside the Loop awaiting his execution. Each day is the same. Each day is torturous. But things are starting to change. Whispers of war are circulating. Strange things are happening to the prisoners. And the warden delivers a message: Luka, you have to get out ... Now Luka must decide whether breaking out of the Loop is his only way to survive, especially if there's any chance of saving the ones...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait...
17) Punching the air
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
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. 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 and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a...
18) The chosen
Author
Series
Contender volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Throughout history, people have vanished with no explanation. A group of teenagers is about to discover why.
Cade is settling into a new boarding school, contemplating his future, when he finds himself transported to another realm. He soon realizes this new world is populated with lost remnants from the past: prehistoric creatures, ancient relics, and--stranger still--people. Overwhelmed by his new surroundings, Cade has little time to adjust, for...
19) The racketeer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When a federal judge and his secretary fail to appear for a scheduled trial and panicked clerks call for an FBI investigation, a harrowing murder case ensues and culminates in the imprisonment of a lawyer who imparts the story of who killed the judge and why. Given the importance of what they do, and the controversies that often surround them, and the violent people they sometimes confront, it is remarkable that in the history of this country only...