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1) Scorch
Author
Series
Croak trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old grim reaper Lex Bartleby tries to redeem herself among her fellow Grims by finding renegade Zara, who is indiscriminately damning souls, and stopping her once and for all.
Author
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
A guide to surviving an attack by hordes of the predatory undead explains zombie physiology and behavior, the most effective weaponry and defense strategies, how to outfit one's home for a long siege, and how to survive in any terrain.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When the beautiful Lucy prays to fall in love, God, an irresponsible youth named Bob, chooses to answer her prayer personally, to the dismay of his assistant, Mr. B who must try to clean up the resulting catastrophes.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When one of his science experiments went wrong, Gideon Hofstadt and his older brother Ishmael blamed the resulting explosion on extraterrestrial activity. Their lie was embraced by the town. As the brothers go to increasingly greater lengths to keep up the ruse and avoid getting caught, the hoax flourishes. There are UFO sightings, close encounters-- even abductions! Soon Lansburg, Pennsylvania was invaded-- not by aliens, but by believers, Truth...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Carson Phillips is at the bottom of the food chain in a high school filled with people he hates, stuck living with his depressed single mother in a small-minded town at the corner of nothing and nowhere. He has just one goal: escape to Northwestern University and a career as a hard-hitting journalist. His guidance counselor tells him that he needs to bolster his application by creating a literary magazine. Which means he needs submissions. From other...
Author
Series
Magic in Manhattan volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rachel and her younger sister, both witches, spend the summer at Camp Wood Lake, where Rachel tries to have a normal camp experience while surreptitiously honing her newly discovered talents.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After seventeen-year-olds Chloe and Shara, Chloe's rival for valedictorian, kiss, Shara vanishes leaving Chloe and two boys, who are also enamored with Shara, to follow the trail of clues she left behind, but during the search, Chloe starts to suspect there might be more to Shara and her small Alabama town than she thought.
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
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Jack "The Jackdaw" Dawson is a young man with a serious plan. Daydreaming in class one day, he gets an idea so brilliant he knows it can't fail: an app that stops you from getting in trouble for daydreaming in class. But problems stand in his way. For one thing, his parents are determined to push him into a career of their choosing. What's more, Jack doesn't know the first thing about creating apps. Readers will root for Jack in this...
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
Arek has managed to fulfill the prophecy (though somewhat ineptly) and save the Kingdom of Ere from its evil ruler. The quest is not over until they free the princess locked in one of the towers. Only the princess proves to be very dead, and Arek is stuck as king. Then he discovers that magic requires him to find a bride before his eighteenth birthday or wither away. But none of his female companions are interested, he does not want to marry a stranger,...
11) The Haters
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A road trip adventure about a trio of jazz-camp escapees who, against every realistic expectation, become a band.
12) Rogue
Author
Series
Croak trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Uncle Mort rounds up sixteen-year-old Lex, the other Junior Grims, and Grotton, the most powerful Grim of all time, for a journey to Necropolis, where only an impossible choice can save the Afterlife from destruction.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Caitlin Singleberry is a proper Christian teenager and member of a family singing group, but today she has been given a truly impossible assignment--keep her cousin Heller Harrigan, Hollywood wild child, out of trouble for the last weekend before her first big movie debuts.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After a brush with the law, Ben, a dyed-in-the-wool worrier, must take up a new hobby and chooses knitting, an activity at which he excels but must try to keep secret from his friends, enemies, and sports-obsessed father.
Author
Series
Magic in Manhattan volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Love spells run amok in New York City when high school freshman Rachel asks her younger sister, who is a witch, for magical help in winning the affection of heartthrob Raf Kosravi.
Author
Series
Aurora Skye volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
While waiting for the right prince to kiss, sixteen-year-old Aurora dispenses dating tips and tricks for romance.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shane has been doing college all wrong. Pre-med, stellar grades, and happy parents...sounds ideal -- but Shane's made zero friends, goes home every weekend, and romance...what's that? Her life has been dorm, dining hall, class, repeat. Time's a ticking, and she needs a change -- there's nothing like moving to a new country to really mix things up. Shane signs up for a semester abroad in London. She's going to right all her college mistakes: make friends,...
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