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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women, on a farm at the...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
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Legends collide with reality when a boy is swept into the magical, dangerous world of a girl filled with poison.
Everyone knows the legends about the cursed girl—Isabel, the one the señoras whisper about. They say she has green skin and grass for hair, and she feeds on the poisonous plants that fill her family’s lush Caribbean island garden. Some say she can grant wishes; some say her touch can kill. Seventeen-year-old...
Everyone knows the legends about the cursed girl—Isabel, the one the señoras whisper about. They say she has green skin and grass for hair, and she feeds on the poisonous plants that fill her family’s lush Caribbean island garden. Some say she can grant wishes; some say her touch can kill. Seventeen-year-old...
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
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Longlisted for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Keep your eyes open . . . your head down . . . and your love secret.
Sarah Jac Crow and James Holt have fallen in love working in the endless fields that span a bone-dry Southwest in the near future-a land that's a little bit magical, deeply dangerous, and bursting with secrets. To protect themselves, they've learned to work hard and, above all, keep their love hidden from...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Description
A beautiful and evocative look at identity and creativity, The Gallery of Unfinished Girls is a stunning debut in magical realism. Perfect for fans of The Walls Around Us and Bone Gap. Mercedes Moreno is an artist. At least, she thinks she could be, even though she hasn't been able to paint anything worthwhile in the past year. Her lack of inspiration might be because her abuela is in a coma. Or the fact that Mercedes is in love with her best friend,...
7) Reverie
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Formats
Description
A B&N's YA Book Club Pick * Walmart Buzz Pick * Indie Next Pick * Book of the Month Club YA Box
A "joyously, riotously queer" (Kirkus) young adult fantasy from debut author Ryan La Sala, Reverie is a wildly imaginative story about dreams becoming reality, perfect for fans of Adam Silvera and Laini Taylor.
A few weeks ago, Kane Montgomery was in an accident that robbed him of his memory. The only thing
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Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Orianna and Violet are ballet dancers and best friends, but when the ballerinas who have been harassing Violet are murdered, Orianna is accused of the crime and sent to a juvenile detention center where she meets Amber and they experience supernatural events linking the girls together.
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen, a Tom Doherty and Associates Book
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Description
In the enchanted kingdom of Brooklyn, Vassa uses a magical gift from her dead mother to take on Babs Yaga, the witch who owns the local convenience store. Inspired by the Russian folktale Vassilissa the Beautiful.
10) Before I let go
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When Corey moves away from Lost Creek, Alaska, she makes her friend Kyra promise to stay strong during the long, dark winter, and wait for her return. Just days before Corey is to return home to visit, Kyra dies. The entire Lost community speaks in hushed tones, saying her death was meant to be. And they push Corey away like she's a stranger. With every hour, Corey's suspicion grows. Lost is keeping secrets--but piecing together the truth about what...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In Auburn, Pennsylvania, a farming community overrun with crows, high school senior Leighton struggles to keep herself and her sisters safe from their abusive father even as she starts a relationship.
Tens of thousands of crows invading Auburn, Pennsylvania, is a problem for everyone in town except seventeen-year-old Leighton Barnes. Residents complain about the nuisance, the strangeness of the birds. But for Leighton, it's no stranger than her house,...
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Series
Publisher
Workman Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
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A Kirkus Reviews Best Young Adult Book of 2020
A SLJ Best Book of 2020
A Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2020
A 2020 BCCB Blue Ribbon List title
"Move over, Louisa May Alcott! Samantha Mabry has written her very own magical Little Women for our times." -Julia Alvarez, author of How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
The first time Ana Torres came back as a ghost, her sisters weren't there.
A year after Ana's death, Jessica,...
13) As You Wish
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
From bestselling author Chelsea Sedoti comes a thought-provoking contemporary young adult book about a small desert town filled with Mojave magic where everyone gets to make a wish on their eighteenth birthday. If you could make one wish that was guaranteed to come true—what would you wish for?
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