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This Teen guide collects various types of information of benefit and interest to students at a high school age.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Children's Classics: Chapter Books
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Description
Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit, becomes a thief for a band of dwarves and soon finds himself in the midst of a war with the evil goblins and wargs, and forced to make a decision between the call of duty and the pull of the simple life.
2) Eragon
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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Description
In Alagaësia, a fifteen-year-old boy of unknown lineage called Eragon finds a mysterious stone that weaves his life into an intricate tapestry of destiny, magic, and power, peopled with dragons, elves, and monsters.
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Series
Maze runner trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
After surviving horrific conditions in the Maze, Thomas is entrapped, along with nineteen other boys, in a scientific experiment designed to observe their responses and gather data believed to be essential for the survival of the human race. The group has two weeks to cross through the Scorch -- the most burned-out section of the world. And the observers will continuously adjust the variables and stack the odds against them.
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Giver quartet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
5) Eldest
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
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After successfully evading an Urgals ambush, Eragon is adopted into the Ingeitum clan and sent to finish his training so he can further help the Varden in their struggle against the Empire.
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Series
Maze runner trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
As the third Trial draws to a close, Thomas and some of his cohorts manage to escape from WICKED, their memories having been restored, only to face new dangers as WICKED claims to be trying to protect the human race from the deadly FLARE virus.
7) Messenger
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Series
Giver quartet volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Children's Classics: Abridged
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Description
The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Children's Read Alikes: Series of Unfortunate Events
Children's Special Topics: Spooky Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Spooky Books for Middle Schoolers
Description
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's...
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Deptford mice trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
When Audrey, a spirited town mouse, reluctantly keeps a promise to accompany a black rat to the country, she witnesses the return of a supernatural evil she thought had been destroyed.
11) Abhorsen
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Series
Old Kingdom volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Abhorsen-In-Waiting Lirael and Prince Sameth, a Wallmaker, must confront and bind the evil spirit Oranis before it can destroy all life.
12) Sabriel
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Series
Old Kingdom volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Sabriel, daughter of the necromancer Abhorsen, must journey into the mysterious and magical Old Kingdom to rescue her father from the Land of the Dead.
13) The River
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
The government sends Brian back to the Canadian wilderness in this beloved follow-up to the award-winning classic Hatchet from three-time Newbery Honor-winning author Gary Paulsen!
Two years after Brian Robeson survived fifty-four days alone in the Canadian wilderness, the government wants him to head back so they can learn what he did to stay alive. This time Derek Holtzer, a government psychologist, will accompany him....
Two years after Brian Robeson survived fifty-four days alone in the Canadian wilderness, the government wants him to head back so they can learn what he did to stay alive. This time Derek Holtzer, a government psychologist, will accompany him....
14) The fever code
Author
Series
Maze runner trilogy volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Before the trials, WICKED found Thomas, the perfect boy, to help them build the Maze and find the cure for the Flare, a disease that plagues the world. But the truth of what is really going on is a secret and Thomas must uncover it before time runs out"--
15) Now you see it
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
With Wendy's new glasses, she begins to see cheerful corpses, old crones disguised as teeny-boppers, and portals to another world--a place where everyone knows of the glasses' powers and will do anything they can to get them.
16) Enchanted
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Series
Woodcutter sisters volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
It isn't easy being Sunday's child, not when you're the rather overlooked and unhappy youngest sibling to sisters named for the other six days of the week. Sunday's only comfort is writing stories, although what she writes has a terrible tendency to come true. When Sunday meets an enchanted frog who asks about her stories, the two become friends. Soon that friendship deepens into something magical. One night, Sunday kisses her frog goodbye and leaves,...
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Series
Lumatere chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now on the cusp of manhood, Finnikin, who was a child when the royal family of Lumatere was brutally murdered and replaced by an imposter, reluctantly joins forces with an enigmatic young novice and fellow-exile, who claims that her dark dreams will lead them to a surviving royal child and a way to regain the throne of Lumatere.
18) The outsiders
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
50 years of an iconic classic! The international bestseller and inspiration for a beloved movie-now with bonus content. This special edition of the groundbreaking novel contains: Never before seen photos and letters from the publisher's archives Original review clippings and media coverage Photos from the author's personal collection A gallery of covers around the world New material from the stars and director of the iconic film-including Francis...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
After leaving the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston, under dire circumstances, of course, she boards a whaling ship bound for London, where she hopes to find her beloved Jaimy. But things don't go as planned, and soon Jacky is off on a wild misadventure at sea. She thwarts the lecherous advances of a crazy captain, rallies the sailors to her side, and ultimately gains command of a ship in His Majesty's Royal Navy. But Jacky's adventures...
20) Homecoming
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Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
Abandoned by their mother, four children begin a search for a home and an identity.
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