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1) The Giver
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Jonas' life assignment is the Receiver of Memory, where he will apprentice the Giver and become a storehouse of all the things humanity left behind when it entered utopia: color, emotion, and even more complicated secrets.
Author
Series
Under their skin volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn investigate why their mother and new stepfather are keeping secrets, why they are forbidden to meet their stepsiblings, and, most important, why their lives are in danger.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
'Seven years ago, the Ballastian sisters' parents left them in the magical Straygarden Place, a house surrounded by tall silver grass and floating trees. They left behind a warning saying never to leave the house or go into the grass. "Wait for us," the note read. "Sleep darkly." Ever since then, the house itself has taken care of Winnow, Mayhap, and Pavonine--feeding them, clothing them, even keeping them company--while the girls have waited and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a spirited boy growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century, as he tries a new method for curing warts, witnesses a murder, runs away to an island and pretends to be a pirate, watches his own funeral, and falls for the new girl in the neighborhood.
5) The crown
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
35 suitors entered the Selection. Only 1 will win her heart. The fifth and final captivating novel in Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series! In The Heir, a new era dawned in the world of The Selection. Twenty years have passed since America Singer and Prince Maxon fell in love, and their daughter is the first princess to hold a Selection of her own. Eadlyn didn't think she would find a real partner among the Selection's thirty-five...
Author
Series
Cupcake diaries volume 3
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Emma is excited when she is asked to be a junior bridesmaid, but worries that she will not be able to work enough jobs to earn the money for the dress.
Author
Series
The ascendance trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In the country of Carthya, a devious nobleman engages four orphans in a brutal competition to be selected to impersonate the king's long-missing son in an effort to avoid a civil war.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first book in Anna Staniszewski's award-winning YA best selling book series: The Dirt Diaries!
A hilarious tale about the weight of responsibility that comes from a secret-filled diary...
Rachel can't believe she has to give up her Saturdays to scrubbing other people's toilets. So. Gross. But she kinda, sorta stole $287.22 from her college fund that she's got to pay back ASAP or her mom will ground her for life.
...Author
Series
Magisterium volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
232 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A generation ago, Constantine Madden came close to achieving what no magician had ever achieved: the ability to bring back the dead. He didn't succeed... but he did find a way to keep himself alive, inside a young child named Callum Hunt. Now Call is one of the most feared and reviled students in the history of the Magisterium, thought to be responsible for a devastating death and an ever-present threat of war. As a result, Call has been imprisoned...
10) Taran Wanderer
Author
Series
Publisher
Square Fish/H. Holt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Taran is an Assistant Pig-Keeper no longer -- he has become a hero. Now he dreams of winning the hand of Princess Eilonwy, but how can someone who has spent his whole life caring for a pig hope to marry royalty? Taran must find out who he really is." --Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.
12) Artemis Fowl
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"In 2001, Eoin Colfer published Artemis Fowl, a hilarious and rip-roaring science-fiction/fantasy adventure about a twelve-year-old criminal mastermind who kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. But these aren't the fairies of bedtime stories; these fairies are armed and dangerous. Artemis thinks he has them right where he wants them ... until they stop playing by the rules. The novel was an instant sensation and became the start...
Author
Series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Percy Jackson has recently discovered that he is the son of Poseidon, making him half human and half god, and along with a demigod and a satyr friend, must save his beloved Camp Half-Blood from evil forces determined to destroy it.
16) West of the Moon
Author
Publisher
ABRAMS, Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In West of the Moon, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Margi Preus expertly weaves original fiction with myth and folktale to tell the story of Astri, a young Norwegian girl desperate to join her father in America.
After being separated from her sister and sold to a cruel goat farmer, Astri makes a daring escape. She quickly retrieves her little sister, and, armed with a troll treasure, a book of spells and curses, and a possibly...
17) The crossroads
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
327 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Jaime, twelve, and Angela, fifteen, discover what it means to be living as undocumented immigrants in the United States, while news from home gets increasingly worse.
Author
Series
Harry Potter volume Bk.1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.