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21) Padawan
Author
Publisher
Lucasfilm Press, an imprint of Buena Vista Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First Edition ;
Physical Desc
410 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
No one said being a Padawan would be easy. But should it be this hard?
Jedi Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi is newly apprenticed to his master, Qui-Gon Jinn, and can't help wondering if their pairing was a mistake. Obi-Wan excels at lightsaber duels, but Qui-Gon wants to focus on meditation. While other Padawans join their masters on exciting off-plant missions, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan stay put on Coruscant. Then Obi-Want discovers clues pointing to unfinished...
22) Unwind
Author
Series
Unwind trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Connor, Risa, and Lev are running for their lives.
The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child "unwound," whereby all of the child's organs are transplanted into different donors, so life doesn't technically end. Connor is too difficult for his parents to control....
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He's been given...
24) Hunting by stars
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
French has been captured by the Recruiters, confined to one of the infamous residential schools, where the government extracts the marrow of Indigenous people in order to steal the ability to dream, and where the captured are programmed to betray others of their kind, something which he discovers has been done to his brother; meanwhile the other survivors, his found family, are hunting for him, determined to rescue him--and French has to decide just...
25) Once
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
�2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the second book of this dystopian adventure, Eve will come face to face with the king who has been ruthlessly hunting her--and learn shocking truth about who she really is"--
26) The 5th Wave
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"Cassie Sullivan, the survivor of an alien invasion, must rescue her young brother from the enemy with help from a boy who may be one of them"--Provided by publisher of original edition.
27) Scarlet
Author
Series
The lunar chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Scarlet Benoit and Wolf, a street fighter who may have information about her missing grandmother, join forces with Cinder as they try to stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana in this story inspired by Little Red Riding Hood.
Author
Series
Colorless volume 3
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First printing ;
Physical Desc
184 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
A massive solar flare erased nearly all color from the surface of the Earth, and the mutated descendants of the human race exist in a state of slow decline. What little color remains now holds a strange and seductive power. Some people, like the lone-wolf professor Avidia, try and understand it. Others, including the cult-like Iodopsy Order, use it for power and control. When an Order assassin draws innocent bystanders into their rivalry, it'll take...
Author
Series
Colorless volume 2
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First printing ;
Physical Desc
174 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
A cosmic disaster stripped color from the Earth, leaving behind a mutated humanity that lives in a world of moody black and grey. Most of the technology and history of the old world is forgotten, but there is tantalizing promise in the dangerous new field of chromadynamics. A rogue scientist named Avidia is on the hunt for the world's last remaining scraps of color, but he's not the only one. A mysterious cult has found a way to turn pigment into...
30) Mockingjay
Author
Series
Hunger Games volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Katniss Everdeen, having survived the Hunger Games twice, learns she and her family and friends are in danger because the Capitol holds her responsible for the unrest and races against time to protect those she cares about and the people of District 12.
31) Divergent
Author
Series
Divergent volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.