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21) Wither
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Description
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.
22) Orphan train
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by luck and chance. This is the story of one such child. As a young Irish immigrant, Vivian Daly was sent by rail from New York City to an uncertain future a world away. Returning east later in life, Vivian leads a quiet, peaceful existence on the coast...
24) Delirium
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Formats
Description
Lena looks forward to receiving the government-mandated cure that prevents the delirium of love and leads to a safe, predictable, and happy life, until ninety-five days before her eighteenth birthday and her treatment, when she falls in love.
25) Strange angels
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.
26) We are okay
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
"After picking up and leaving everything behind in California, eighteen-year-old Marin, with the help of her former friend, must confront her grief and the truths that caused her to flee her home"--
27) Snowfall
Author
Publisher
Graphia
Pub. Date
[2006], c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Desperate to see the world beyond her grandfather's vicarage, sixteen-year-old Charlotte convinces her older brother to take her along on a mountain-climbing trip to Switzerland, where her life becomes intertwined with an assortment of people in Victorian society.
28) Les misérables
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.8 - AR Pts: 105
Description
Sensational, dramatic, packed with rich excitement and filled with the sweep and violence of human passions, LES MISERABLES is not only superb adventure but a powerful social document. The story of how the convict Jean-Valjean struggled to escape his past and reaffirm his humanity, in a world brutalized by poverty and ignorance, became the gospel of the poor and the oppressed.
29) Heart of iron
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Ana is a scoundrel by nurture and an outlaw by nature. Found as a child drifting through space with a sentient android called D09, Ana was saved by a fearsome space captain and the grizzled crew she now calls family. But D09 -- one of the last remaining illegal Metals -- has been glitching, and Ana will stop at nothing to find a way to fix him. Ana's desperate effort to save D09 leads her on a quest to steal the coordinates to...
30) Clockwork prince
Author
Series
Infernal devices volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Description
As the Council attempts to strip Charlotte of her power, sixteen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray works with the London Shadowhunters to find the Magister and destroy his clockwork army, learning the secret of her own identity while investigating his past.
31) Defy the worlds
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
"Sophisticated robot Abel must save teenaged soldier Noemi from capture on a hidden planet, while outwitting armies of deranged service robots and securing medical aid for a plague on Noemi's home world"--
Shunned after a trip through the galaxy with Abel, the most advanced cybernetic man ever created, Noemi Vidal dreams of traveling through the stars one more time. When a deadly plague arrives on Genesis, Noemi is the only soldier to have ever left...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
When Frankie's mother died and her father left her and her siblings at an orphanage in Chicago, it was supposed to be only temporary - just long enough for him to get back on his feet and be able to provide for them once again. That's why she is not prepared for the day that he arrives for his weekend visit with a new woman on his arm and out-of-state train tickets in his pocket. Now Frankie and her sister, Toni, are abandoned alongside so many other...
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Told in two voices, Luli and Yun, raised in an orphanage to age sixteen, work together in a factory until Yun, pregnant, disappears and Luli must confront the dangers of the outside world to find her. Includes facts about China's One-Child Policy and its effects.
Gujiao, China, 2009. Luli has aged out of the orphanage, and her friend Yun helps her get work at a factory. Yun has new clothes, a cell phone, and a boyfriend. But word is Yung is a bride...
Author
Series
Journals of Corrie Belle Hollister volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
The five Hollister children must find their way to California when their mother dies on the wagon train. (Series: Journals Of Corrie Belle Hollister, 1).
35) The Enigma game
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Told in multiple voices, fifteen-year-old Jamaican Louisa Adair uncovers an Enigma machine in the small Scottish village where she cares for an elderly German woman, and helps solve a puzzle that could turn the tide of World War II.
A German soldier risks his life to drop off the sought-after Enigma Machine to British Intelligence, hiding it in a pub in a small town in northeast Scotland. Louisa Adair, a teen girl hired to look after the pub owner's...
36) My plain Jane
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Description
You may think you know the story. Penniless orphan Jane Eyre begins a new life as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets one dark, brooding Mr. Rochester--and, Reader, she marries him. Or does she? Prepare for an adventure of Gothic proportions, in which all is not as it seems, a certain gentleman is hiding more than skeletons in his closets, and orphan Jane Eyre, aspiring author Charlotte Bronte, and supernatural investigator Alexander Blackwood...
37) Jason's gold
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When news of the discovery of gold in Canada's Yukon Territory in 1897 reaches fifteen-year-old Jason, he embarks on a 10,000-mile journey to strike it rich.
38) Spill zone
Author
Series
Spill zone volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. Uncanny manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone. The Spill claimed Addison's parents and scarred her little sister, Lexa, who hasn't spoken since. Addison provides for her sister by photographing the Zone's twisted attractions on illicit midnight rides. Art collectors pay top dollar for these bizarre...
39) Complicit
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Jamie's mother was murdered when he was six, about seven years later his sister Cate was incarcerated for burning down a neighbor's barn, and now Jamie, fifteen, learns that Cate has been released and is coming back for him, blaming him for all the bad things that led to her arrest.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"In nineteenth-century Copenhagen, an orphaned seamstress goes to work for a retired ballerina and uses her magic to investigate her father's mysterious death while working for the same family years ago"--
For Marit Olsen, magic is all about strategy. It flows freely through her blood, but every use leaves behind a deadly, ice-like build-up within her veins called the Firn; a Firn build-up killed her sister. Eve, a fellow orphan whom Marit views...
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