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1) Little Bee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
A haunting novel about the tenuous friendship that blooms between two disparate strangers--one an illegal Nigerian refugee, the other a recent widow from suburban London.
2) Divergent
Author
Series
Divergent volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
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 anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
3) Insurgent
Author
Series
Divergent volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Description
"As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love"--
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Description
When Henry Day is seven years old, he is kidnapped by ageless beings called changelings, who leave another child in Henry's place, a boy who will be his duplicate. Haunted by memories, both boys are driven to search for the keys to whom they once were before they switched places.
6) Loveless
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Georgia has parents who are still in love, two sets of grandparents that are still together, and a brother who married his girlfriend, but at eighteen she has never even kissed someone (not even her lesbian best friend, Felipa) or particularly even wanted to; at the prom afterparty she is surrounded by couples making out, and she really does not know what is wrong--but in college she comes to understand herself as asexual/aromantic, and to capture...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Dru's psychic abilities helped her father battle zombies and other creatures of the "Real World, " but now she must rely on herself, a "werwulf"-bitten friend, and a half-human vampire hunter to learn who murdered her parents, and why.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"Replica is a "flip book" that contains two narratives in one, and it is the first in a duology. Turn the book one way and read Lyra's story; turn the book over and upside down and read Gemma's story ... Lyra's story begins in the Haven Institute, a building tucked away on a private island off the coast of Florida that from a distance looks serene and even beautiful. But up close the locked doors, military guards, and biohazard suits tell a different...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Sixteen-year-old Abby Lipman is on track to win the state swim championships and qualify for the Olympic trials when a fainting incident at a swim meet leads to the diagnosis of a deadly heart condition and forces her to discover who she is without the one thing that has defined her entire life.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
The Ark, a boy band, is the center of life for super-fan Fereshteh (A.K.A Angel) Rahimi, transgender front man Jimmy Kaga-Ricci, and friend and bandmate Rowan, but their relationships become complicated when Jimmy and Angel are unexpectedly thrust together.
11) Youngbloods
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"Frey has spent her life in a family of deceivers, a stand-in for her sister, manipulated at her father's command. Free from them at last, she is finding her own voice -- and using it to question everything her family stood for. Tally was once the most famous rebel in the world. But for over a decade, she's kept to the shadows, allowing her myth to grow even as she receded. Now she sees that the revolution she led has not created a stable world. Freedom,...
12) Fresh ink
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"An anthology featuring award-winning diverse authors about diverse characters. Short stories, a graphic novel, and a one-act play explore such topics as gentrification, acceptance, untimely death, coming out, and poverty, and range in genre from contemporary realistic fiction to adventure and romance"--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
Born with bird wings, Ava Lavender is well aware that love has long made fools of her family. When pious Nathaniel Sorrows mistakes her bird wings for angel wings, 16-year-old Ava faces the man's growing obsession, which comes to a head with the rain and feathers that fly through the air during a nighttime summer solstice celebration.
14) Slated
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In a future England, sixteen-year-old Kyla is one of the "slated, " those whose memories have been erased usually because they have committed serious crimes, but as she observes more and more strange events, she also gains more memories which put her and her boyfriend, Ben in danger.
15) UnWholly
Author
Series
Unwind trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Description
After Connor, Lev, and Risa's high-profile revolt against unwinding, using teens to provide tissues for transplant, a sadistic bounty hunter who takes "trophies" from the unwinds he captures starts to pursue them.
16) UnSouled
Author
Series
Unwind trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Description
After the destruction of the Graveyard, Connor and Lev are on the run, seeking a woman who may be the key to bringing down unwinding forever while Cam, the rewound boy, tries to prove his love for Risa by bringing Proactive Citizenry to its knees.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
The man at Charles Blakey's door has a proposition almost too strange for words. He wants to spend the summer in Charles' basement, and Charles cannot even begin to guess why. The beautiful house has been in the Blakey family for generations, but Charles has just lost his job and is behind on his mortgage payments. The money would be welcome. But Charles Blakey is black, and Anniston Bennet is white, and it is clear that the stranger wants more than...
Author
Series
Strange Angels volume 3
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c 2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Dru's best friend, Graves, and her strange and handsome savior, Christophe, are ready to help her take on the ultimate evil. But will their battle for Dru's heart get in the way of her survival?
19) M is for monster
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts Surely
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A scientist attempts to bring her younger sister back to life with unexpected results in this Frankenstein-inspired graphic novel about ghosts, identity, and family When Doctor Frances Ai's younger sister Maura died in a tragic accident six months ago, Frances swore she would bring her back to life. However, the creature that rises from the slab is clearly not Maura. This girl, who chooses the name M, doesn't remember anything about Maura's life and...
20) A beautiful dark
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
When Skye, who lives with her aunt in Boulder, Colorado, turns seventeen and is suddenly pursued by two boys who are polar opposites, secrets of her true identity--and destiny--begin to emerge.
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