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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
After he eats the sin of a royal, Taj, a talented aki, or sin-eater who consumes the guilt of others whose transgressions are exorcised from them by powerful but corrupt Mages, is drawn into a plot to destroy the city, and he must fight to save the princess he loves and his own life.
Taj is a talented aki, or sin-eater, who consumes the guilt of others: the transgressions are exorcised by powerful but corrupt Mages as "sin-beasts." After Taj eats...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Surrounded by strangers all competing for one of the six slots to travel to Jupiter's moon, Europa, Naomi, an Iranian-American science genius, finds a friend in Leo, an Italian championship swimmer, as the training tests their limits.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six years ago Maddie lived in Washington D.C. with her father, a Secret Service agent assigned to the President's family, and her best friend was Logan, the President's son; but after her father was wounded in an attempted kidnapping the two of them moved to a remote cabin in Alaska and Logan never replied to her letters-- but now he has suddenly turned up on her doorstep, and, while she has no intention of forgiving him for his silence, she soon...
Author
Series
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Aileana Kameron, debutante and faery huntress, has been resurrected by ancient magic and given the dark powers of the Cailleach in an attempt to break the curse that pits the two factions of the Fae against each other in a war that could destroy both the Fae and the human world--but as she gathers her allies for the final battle, her new powers are slowly destroying her.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The enemy is Other. The enemy is us. They're down here, they're up there, they're nowhere. They want the Earth, they want us to have it. They came to wipe us out, they came to save us. But beneath these riddles lies one truth: Cassie has been betrayed. So has Ringer. Zombie. Nugget. And all 7.5 billion people who used to live on our planet. Betrayed first by the Others, and now by ourselves. In these last days, Earth's remaining survivors will need...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"As World War II draws to a close, refugees try to escape the war's final dangers, only to find themselves aboard a ship with a target on its hull"--
World War II is drawing to a close in East Prussia, and thousands of refugees are on a desperate trek toward freedom. When their paths converge in route to the ship that promises salvation, Joana, Emilia, and Florian find their strength, courage, and trust in one another tested with each step closer...
7) The calling
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twelve teens who have prepared their entire lives for an ancient life-or-death game must finally come to terms with its arrival, forming tenuous alliances and kiling each other for the chance to be the last one standing and the winner of the ultimate prize: the ability to save a select group of people from the end of the world"--
8) Two degrees
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When three children endure separate climate change disasters--a wildfire in the California woods, a close encounter with a hungry polar bear in Canada, and a massive hurricane in Florida--they emerge from their experiences committed to changing the world.
California: Akira Kristiansen is driving through the mountains with her mom when a wildfire sparks-- and in just moments, Akira and her family have to evacuate. But which way is safe with fire all...
9) Storm
Author
Series
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Having escaped from Pemberwick Island, Kent, Tori, Olivia, and Tucker continue to try to get word out about SYLO, the organization that had quarantined them, while trying to avoid being caught in the middle of an inexplicable new civil war.
10) Black ice
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Britt goes hiking in the Grand Tetons of Wyoming with her ex-boyfriend Calvin, but trouble arises when she is caught in a blizzard, taken hostage by fugitives, finds evidence of murders, and learns whom to trust and whom to love.
11) Horizon
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Aero Horizon 16 crashes in the Arctic, eight children emerge from the wreckage to find themselves alone and surrounded, not by ice, but by a mysterious and deadly jungle full of carnivorous plants and predatory birds--the other five hundred people from the plane are gone, not necessarily dead, but taken by something that lives in the jungle. Horizon is the debut middle grade novel for Scott Westerfeld.
12) Swarm
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
As they celebrate the opening of their underground nightclub, the Zeroes, six teenagers with unique abilities, learn about the sinister power of Swarm, who uses a crowd's rage to kill--and who loves killing Zeroes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
An official tie-in to the globally popular video game traces the story of a new hero stranded in the world of Minecraft who must survive a harsh environment while unraveling the secrets of a mysterious island.
14) Strike
Author
Series
Publisher
Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Once again, Tucker Pierce and friends must fight for their lives against the better-equipped SYLO, and they will risk nearly everything to keep each other safe the battle's climax nears.
15) Devils unto dust
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
To protect her family, a young woman must brave the desert and a terrifying infected population in this gripping adventure that blends 'True Grit' with '28 Days Later.'
"Keep together. Keep your eyes open. Keep your wits about you. The desert is unkind in the best of times. And the decade since the Civil War has been anything but the best of times for Daisy Wilcox-- call her Willie-- and her family. This tense, heart-pounding alternate history...
16) Flesh & bone
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Benny, Nix, Lou, and Lilah journey through a fierce wilderness that was once America searching for the jet they saw months ago, while evading fierce animals and a new kind of zombie.
17) Scar Island
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jonathan Grisby has been sent to the Slabhenge Reformatory School for Troubled Boys, a former lunatic asylum which is currently run by a sadist who enjoys punishing the boys and setting them against each other; but when a lightning strike kills all the adults the boys find themselves suddenly free--and trapped on Scar Island which seems to be sinking into the ocean.
18) Game of flames
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Dash, Carly, Gabriel, and Piper visit a planet made up of molten lava and run entirely by robots where they must find the second element of the Source that will save the Earth.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 2034, a comet is due to hit the Earth within the hour. Denise, who's sixteen years old and autistic, must try to find her missing sister and also help her neglectful, undependable mother safely aboard a spaceship"--
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Veronika. Caroline. Isobel. Eleanor. One blond, one brunette, one redhead, one with hair black as tar. Four otherwise identical girls who spend their days in sync, tasked to learn. But when May, a very different kind of girl--the lone survivor of a recent shipwreck--suddenly and mysteriously arrives on the island, an unsettling mirror is about to be held up to the life the girls have never before questioned"--
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