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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob on a journey to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow--impossible though it...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 42
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"A swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honor, and derring-do, it is set in France during the 1620s and richly populated with romantic heroes, unattainable heroines, kings, queens, cavaliers, and criminals in a whirl of adventure, espionage, conspiracy, murder, vengeance, love, scandal, and suspense. Dumas transforms major and minor historical figures into larger-than-life characters: the brave d'Artagnan, an impetuous young man in pursuit of glory; the...
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His Dark Materials volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
1991, c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In Providence, R.I., in 1848, Edgar Allan Poe reluctantly investigates the problems of eleven-year-old Edmund, whose family has mysteriously disappeared and whose story suggests a new Poe tale with a ghastly final twist.
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Series
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Description
While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.
7) Tex
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
The love between two teenage brothers helps to alleviate the harshness of their usually parentless life as they struggle to grow up.
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Series
His Dark Materials volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Description
As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife.
10) Camino Island
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious...
11) Robinson Crusoe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 27
Description
During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600's an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island.
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
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Description
As a page in his uncle's castle in thirteenth-century England, eleven-year-old Tobias records in his journal his experiences learning how to hunt, play games of skill, and behave in noble society. Includes notes on noblemen, castles, and feudalism.
14) Sinner
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Cole St. Clair has come to California for one reason: to get back Isabel Culpeper.
Isabel fled from Cole's damaged, drained life... and damaged and drained it even more. He doesn't just want her, he needs her. Isabel is trying to build herself a life in Los Angeles. She can play the game as well as all the other fakes, but what's the point? Cole and Isabel have the power to love each other and the power to tear each other apart. The only thing for...
15) The pros of cons
Author
Publisher
Point, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Phoebe Byrd, Vanessa Montoya-O'Callaghan, and Callie Buchannan are three teenagers with very different interests and somewhat different problems, but today they are all in Orlando to attend different conventions/competitions--and when a crazy mix-up in the hotel lobby brings the three girls together, they form an unlikely friendship against the chaotic background of the Orlando convention scene.
16) Love, Stargirl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.
17) Breaking dawn
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 28
Description
Although eighteen-year-old Bella joins the dark but seductive world of the immortals by marrying Edward the vampire, her connection to the powerful werewolf Jacob remains unsevered.
18) The death cure
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
As the third Trial draws to a close, Thomas and some of his cohorts manage to escape from WICKED, their memories having been restored, only to face new dangers as WICKED claims to be trying to protect the human race from the deadly FLARE virus.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
High school junior Camelia's psychometric powers of touch seem to be changing when she starts to hear voices saying malicious things to her, and even focusing on her beloved pottery does not help, especially after her psychic, suicidal aunt comes to stay after being released from the hospital.
20) Eona
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 25
Description
Facing the ultimate battle for control of the land she calls home, Eona finds herself waging an internal battle every bit as devastating as the war threatening to break out across the kingdom.
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