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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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NYT - Children’s Paperback Books
Summer Blockbusters - Books that Became Movies
Description
In a thought-provoking coming-of-age novel, Charlie struggles to cope with complex world of high school as he deals with the confusions of sex and love, the temptations of drugs, and the pain of losing a close friend and a favorite aunt.
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Series
Miss Peregrine volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A horrific family tragedy sends sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of an old orphanage that was home to children who were more than just peculiar, but possibly dangerous--and who may still be alive. Illustrated with vintage found photographs.
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Series
Giver quartet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
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Series
Maze runner trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
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Series
Gemma Doyle trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After the suspicious death of her mother in 1895, sixteen-year-old Gemma returns to England, after many years in India, to attend a finishing school where she becomes aware of her magical powers and ability to see into the spirit world.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.
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Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old prankster Maxwell Connors tries to maintain his identity in a mid-twenty-first century world where the children of his elite corporate town of New Middletown are treated with a drug to turn them into obedient, well-mannered citizens.
11) Eragon
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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Description
In Alagaësia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves and monsters.
13) Rebel angels
Author
Series
Gemma Doyle trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Gemma and her friends from the Spence Academy return to the realms to defeat her foe, Circe, and to bind the magic that has been released.
15) Before I die
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A terminally ill teenaged girl makes and carries out a list of things to do before she dies.
16) The book thief
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Miles' first year at Culver Creek Preparatory School in Alabama includes good friends and great pranks, but is defined by the search for answers about life and death after a fatal car crash.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The best friend of a kid with superhuman qualities endeavors to have a life of his own that is both normal and extraordinary in the face of constant world-shaking challenges, threats against his school, and an elusive pretty girl.
Author
Series
If I stay volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
While in a coma following an automobile accident that killed her parents and younger brother, seventeen-year-old Mia, a gifted cellist, weighs whether to live with her grief or join her family in death.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Spending the summer before her senior year at a camp for gifted and talented students, Gloria struggles with the recent loss of her grandmother while trying to meet new friends and make the best of her new circumstances.
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