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1) Bruiser
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Bront b͡efriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody.
2) UnDivided
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three teens band together in order to sway the government to repeal all rulings in support of a procedure in which unwanted teenagers are captured and are unwound into parts that can be reused for transplantation.
Author
Series
Antsy Bonano volume 3
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Brooklyn-native Antsy Bonano embarks on the largest cruise ship in the world, where mischief, adventure, and deportation await.
Author
Series
Antsy Bonano volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Middle School)
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2021
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2021
Formats
Description
A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone.
5) Dread locks
Author
Series
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
©2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Accustomed to a carefree existence, fifteen-year-old Parker Baer meets the girl next door and finds his life taking a menacing turn as he begins to absorb some of her terrible powers.
6) Everlost
Author
Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash, they end up in Everlost, or limbo for lost souls, where although Nick is satisfied, Allie will stop at nothing--even skinjacking--to break free.
Author
Series
Accelerati trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After their home burns down, Nick, his younger brother, and their father move into a ramshackle Victorian house they've inherited. In the attic room, he finds a collection of old junk. After getting rid of them in a garage sale, Nick and his friends discover that all of the objects have extraordinary properties. What's more, Nick figures out that the attic is a strange magnetic vortex, which attracts all sorts of trouble.
8) Game changer
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After an especially rough tackle on the football field, Ash thinks he might be suffering some permanent damage, because suddenly stop signs are blue and always have been. After the second universe-altering hit, he drives a Beemer instead of a Dodge, and a pair of interdimensional twins promises him answers. The more universes he visits, the more Ash has to face perspectives he never thought to consider before, and the closer the universe gets to complete...
Author
Series
Antsy Bonano volume 2
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2009, ©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Anthony "Antsy" Bonano learns about life, death, and a lot more when he tries to help a friend with a terminal illness feel hopeful about the future.
Author
Series
Accelerati trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"It is up to Nick Slate to find the last of Nikola Tesla's powerful inventions--or face devastating consequences"--
11) Challenger deep
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
National Book Award * Golden Kite Award Winner * Six Starred Reviews
A captivating novel about mental illness that lingers long beyond the last page, Challenger Deep is a heartfelt tour de force by New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman.
Caden Bosch is on a ship that's headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the Marianas Trench.
Caden Bosch is a brilliant high school
12) Everwild
Author
Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
©2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Nick, known as the dreaded "chocolate ogre," is trying to find all the children in Everlost and release them from the limbo they are in, while Mikey and Allie have joined a band of skinjackers and are putting themselves in danger by visiting the world of the living.
14) Downsiders
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2009, ©1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When 14-year-old Lindsay meets Talon and discovers the Downsiders world which had evolved from the subway built in New York in 1867 by Alfred Ely Beach, she and her new friend experience the clash of their cultures.
15) Duckling ugly
Author
Series
Dark fusion volume 3
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2007, ©2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Cara, a girl ugly enough to break mirrors, is drawn to a place where everyone can be beautiful, her deepest desire is to return home to say goodbye--and get revenge.
16) Roxy
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Isaac and Ivy Ramsey are the victims of the bet between two manufactured gods: the seductive and lethal Roxy (Oxycontin), and the smart, high-achieving Addison (Adderall). The wager: a contest to see who can bring their mark to a rave that has raged since the beginning of time. Drawn by what the drugs offer, tempted to take that step past helpful to harmful are Isaac, a soccer player thrown into Roxy's orbit by a bad fall; Ivy, his sister, whose increasing...
17) Everfound
Author
Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
In the limbo that's Everlost, Mary, Nick, Allie, and others face the decisions that will determine whether that place and the Earth itself will continue to exist, as well as where their own futures lie.
18) I am the walrus
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Noah Prime discovers he can exhibit the traits and access the abilities of animals and must use them to fight back against those who are hunting him"--
19) Scythe
Author
Series
Arc of a scythe volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021)
Two teens must learn the "art of killing" in this Printz Honor–winning book, the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology.
A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life—and...
Two teens must learn the "art of killing" in this Printz Honor–winning book, the first in a chilling new series from Neal Shusterman, author of the New York Times bestselling Unwind dystology.
A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life—and...
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