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1) Uglies
Author
Series
Uglies volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that? Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there. But Tally's...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself--because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl...
Author
Series
Realm breaker volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
"A strange darkness grows in Allward. Even Corayne an-Amarat can feel it, tucked away in her small town at the edge of the sea. She soon discovers the truth. She is the last of an ancient lineage--and the last hope to save the world from destruction. But she won't be alone. Even as darkness falls, she is joined by a band of unlikely companions: a squire, forced to choose between home and honor, an immortal, avenging a broken promise, an assassin,...
4) Open court
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
©2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A thirteen-year-old tennis prodigy grapples with her seemingly incompatible desires to be an exceptional athlete and a normal teenager.
5) Cress
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they're plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and prevent her army from invading Earth. Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl trapped on a satellite since childhood who's only ever had her netscreens as company.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aly fails to foresee the dangers that await as she uses her magic to safeguard Dova and her younger siblings, despite knowing that her thirteen-year-old charge might be queen of the Copper Isles when the colonial rulers are defeated.
Author
Series
Declaration trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
In 2140 England, where drugs enable people to live forever and children are illegal, teenaged Anna, an obedient "Surplus" training to become a house servant, discovers that her birth parents are trying to find her.
8) 23 minutes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Zoe Mahar has a supernatural ability to jump back in time by twenty-three minutes, and repeat events with up to ten tries. She is on the scene when a bank robbery at Spencerport Savings and Loan goes horrifyingly wrong. As each of Zoe's playbacks creates an even more disastrous outcome, she comes to realize that there is more to who she is than she thought.
Author
Series
Once upon a con volume 2
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Return to the geek-tastic world of Starfield fandom with a tale of a superstar and a superfan who swap lives in this sweet and funny companion novel to GEEKERELLA. Movie star Jessica Stone can't go up onstage at another con and pretend to love Starfield anymore--except that she's contractually obligated. She never dreamed she'd be playing Princess Amara for life, but people love Princess Amara, and for better or worse, Princess Amara has Jessica Stone's...
10) Indie girl
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Indie Konkipuddi has always dreamed of becoming a fashion reporter. She'd do anything to land an internship with glamorous Celebrity Style magazine, even babysit publisher Aaralyn Taylor's two-year-old son. Her neurosurgeon dad can't understand why Indie would want to spend her weekends picking play-doh off of someone else's Persian carpets, but when Indie scores a jucy gossip tidbit about a movie star, she thinks she might just have...
12) Watersmeet
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
©2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Abisina escapes the escalating violence, prejudice, and religious fervor of her home town, Vranille, and sets out with a dwarf, Haret, to seek the father she has never met in a place called Watersmeet.
13) Sophie someone
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Sophie and her family came to live in Belgium when she was only four or five years old, but she's fourteen now and has never been quite sure why they left England in the first place. Then, one day, Sophie makes a startling discovery. Finally Sophie can unlock the mystery of who she really is.
Author
Series
Dairy queen trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
After spending her summer running the family farm and training the quarterback for her school's rival football team, sixteen-year-old D.J. decides to go out for the sport herself, not anticipating the reactions of those around her.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen year old Nalah leads the fiercest all-girl crew in Mega City, but when she sets her sights on giving this life up for a prestigious home in Mega Towers, she must decide if she's willing to do the unspeakable to get what she wants"--
16) Stork
Author
Series
Stork trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After her parents' divorce, Katla and her mother move from Los Angeles to Norse Falls, Minnesota, where Kat immediately alienates two boys at her high school and, improbably, discovers a kinship with a mysterious group of elderly women--the Icelandic Stork Society--who "deliver souls."
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Ever since her family moved to Texas from Pakistan when she was a baby, seventeen-year-old Zara Hossain has only ever called Corpus Christi home. Being the only Muslim girl at her conservative Catholic school, blending in isn't really an option, especially with people like Tyler Benson always tormenting her. But one day Tyler takes thing too far by defacing Zara's locker with a racist message, which gets him suspended. As an act of revenge, Tyler...
18) My life uploaded
Author
Series
My life uploaded volume 1
Publisher
Imprint, a part of Macmillan Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Millie Porter moved in with her dad, granddad, and aunty to escape her mum's neat freak boyfriend. She's finding this reality thing is hard, so she starts a blog with her BFF Lauren. Yeah, it's usually only übergeeks like Bradley Sanderson who do vlogs. But soon Millie is juggling real life, online life, and a cat intent on her destruction as it happens. This is her life, uploaded.
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Short Story Collections
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Short Story Collections
Description
A collection of six stories from the universe of the Lunar Chronicles answer such questions as: How did Cinder first arrive in New Beijing? How did the brooding soldier Wolf transform from young man to killer? When did Princess Winter and the palace guard Jacin realize their destinies?
20) The skin I'm in
Author
Series
The skin I'm in novels volume 1
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Paperbacks for Children
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like.
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