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1) Legendborn
Author
Series
Legendborn volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After her mother dies in an accident, Bree Matthews wants nothing to do with her family memories or childhood home. A residential program for bright high schoolers at UNC-Chapel Hill seems like the perfect escape-- until Bree witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus. A young mage who calls himself a 'Merlin' attempts-- and fails-- to wipe Bree's memory of everything she saw. His failure unlocks Bree's own unique magic and a buried...
2) Bloodmarked
Author
Series
Legendborn volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
"When the leaders of the Order reveal that they will do everything in their power to keep the approaching demon war a secret, Bree and her friends go on the run so she can learn how to control her devastating new powers"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Monday Charles is missing, and Claudia seems to be the one person who notices. They've always been inseparable, and when Monday doesn't show up for school fro two weeks, Claudia knows that something is wrong. Monday's mother refuses to give Claudia a straight answer, and her sister April is even less help. How can a teenage girl just vanish without anyone noticing that she's gone?
Author
Series
This poison heart volume 2
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Briseis races to save her family even as she discovers more about their ties to ancient goddesses and deadly curses"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"Bradley Graeme is pretty much perfect: he's a star football player, manages his OCD well (enough), and comes out on top in all his classes...except the ones he shares with Celine Bangura. They used to be best friends, until Brad decided he was too cool for conspiracy-theory-obsessed Celine and literally abandoned her for the popular kids' table. (At least, that's how Celine sees it.) These days, there's nothing between them but insults and academic...
Author
Series
This poison heart volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Briseis's aunt dies and wills her a dilapidated estate in rural New York, Bri and her parents leave Brooklyn behind for the summer. Hopefully there, surrounded by plants and flowers, Bri will finally learn to control her gift: the ability to grow plants from tiny seeds to rich blooms with a single touch. Their new home comes with a specific set of instructions, an old-school apothecary, and a walled garden filled with the deadliest botanicals...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When Mary, a teenager living in a group home, becomes pregnant, authorities take another look at the crime for which Mary was convicted when she was nine years old.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man.
9) For all time
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Tamar is a musician, a warrior, a survivor. Fayard is a pioneer, a hustler, a hopeless romantic. Together they have lived a thousand lives, seen the world build itself up from nothing only to tear itself down again in civil war. They have even watched humanity take to the stars. But in each life one thing remains the same: their love, their fight to be together... and they never get to see how their story ends. Tamar and Fayard discover what it will...
Author
Publisher
RP Teens
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Shy sixteen-year-old Ramona uses cosplay as a way to escape her shyness and feel seen, but when she emails her crush using her online persona, Rel, and he starts to fall for her, Ramona must decide whether to hide behind her character forever or take a chance and let her crush see the real her.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Morgan can't count the number of times she's been the only non-white person at the sleepover, been teased for her "weird" outfits, and been told she's not "really" black. She's spent most of her summer crying in bed; it feels like the whole world is listening to the same terrible track on repeat, and Morgan sees life as a never-ending hamster wheel of agony. She knows why she's in therapy. When Morgan makes friends with fellow outcasts, blasts music...
12) Ashes of gold
Author
Series
Wings of ebony volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
After the murder of her mother, Rue was taken from her home in Houston and forced to assimilate into her father's home: Ghizon, a country of magic-users who are as powerful as gods. In the aftermath of a battle against the Chancellor, ruler of Ghizon, Rue is locked away, her powers sealed, her memory erased. Despite a betrayal, after her escape from the prison, Rue must decide once and for all if she can trust her friends-- and herself-- to restore...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"When Chloe Pierce's mom forbids her to apply for a spot at the dance conservatory of her dreams, she devises a secret plan to drive two hundred miles to the nearest audition. But Chloe hits her first speed bump when her annoying neighbor Eli insists upon hitching a ride, threatening to tell Chloe's mom if she leaves him and his smelly dog, Geezer, behind. So now Chloe's chasing her ballet dreams down the east coast--two unwanted (but kinda cute)...
14) One true loves
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A star artist and style icon at her high school, Lenore Bennett is a master in the subtle art of not giving a... well, you know what. But now that graduation is here, she's a little less sure. Heading to NYU in the fall with a scarlet U (for "undeclared") written across her chest, she is always reminded that Black kids don't have the luxury of figuring it out as they go. But Lenore is not even sure what her dreams are yet. When her family embarks...
15) Turning
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Before the "accident" Genie was an aspiring ballerina, a star pupil at her exclusive New York dance school, now she is a bitter teenager, permanently confined to a wheelchair, shutting herself off from her friends, her beloved teacher, and even her mother; but at physical therapy she meets Kyle, a gymnast whose traumatic brain injury has landed him in therapy--and through their growing friendship Genie realizes that she has to confront the things...
16) Spin
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When DJ ParSec (Paris Secord), rising star of the local music scene, is found dead over her turntables, the two girls who found her, Kya (her pre-fame best friend) and Fuse (her current chief groupie) are torn between grief for Paris and hatred for each other--but when the lack of obvious suspects stalls the investigation, and the police seem to lose interest, despite pressure from social media and ParSec's loyal fans, the two girls unite, determined...
17) A chorus rises
Author
Series
Song below water volume 2
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Teen influencer Naema Bradshaw was famous, privileged-- and she an Eloko, a person who is gifted with a song that woos anyone who hears it. Everyone loved her-- until she was cast as the awful person who exposed Tavia's secret siren powers. Now she's being dragged by the media. No one understands her side: not her boyfriend, not her friends, nor her Eloko community. She head to the Southwest, determined to make a comeback. When a new, flourishing...
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"When Winnie is crowned Summer Queen in the small town of Misty Haven, she has to balance her new responsibilities with her friendships, a new romance, and her job at her granny's diner..." --
Winnie is all set to attend college in the fall, but first she's spending her summer days working at her granny's diner and spending her midnights with Dallas, the boy she loves to hate and hates that she likes. In a small town like Misty Haven, secrets are...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When the murder of his classmate at an elite boarding school seems to be forgotten overnight, seventeen-year-old Douglas must confront centuries of secrets in the school's past and a vengeful creature in the forest surrounding the campus.
Regent Academy has a long and storied history in Winslow, Vermont, as does the forest that surrounds it. The school is known for molding teens into leaders, but its history is far more nefarious. Then a student...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When you look like us--brown skin, brown eyes, black braids or fades--everyone else thinks you're trouble. No one even blinks twice over a missing black girl from public housing because she must've brought whatever happened to her upon herself. I, Jay Murphy, can admit that, for a minute, I thought my sister Nicole just got caught up with her boyfriend--a drug dealer--and his friends. But she's been gone too long. Nic, where are you? If I hadn't hung...
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