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1) The giver
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Lowry's unforgettable tale introduces 12-year-old Jonas, who is singled out by the Community to be trained by The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of true pain and pleasure. Now it's time for Jonas to receive the truth.
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
Author
Series
Shadow children volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of The Girl on the Train, The Silent Wife, and Gone Girl comes an enthralling psychological thriller that spins one woman's seemingly good fortune, and another woman's mysterious fate, through a kaleidoscope of duplicity, death, and deception. Please make a list of every possession you consider essential to your life. The request seems odd, even intrusive--and for the two women who answer, the consequences are devastating. EMMA Reeling...
Author
Series
Shadow children book volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
In a society that allows families to have only two children, a group of third-borns tries to save themselves and others like them.
5) The cobra
Author
Language
English
Description
What if you had carte blanche to fight evil? Nothing held back, nothing off the table. What would you do? For decades, the world has been fighting the drug cartels, and losing, their billions of dollars making them the most powerful and destructive organizations on earth. Until one man is asked to take charge. Paul Devereaux used to run Special Operations for the CIA before they retired him for being too ruthless. Now he can have anything he requires,...
6) The Giver
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
GN 500L
Language
English
Description
Jonas' life assignment is as the Receiver of Memory, where he will apprentice the Giver and become a storehouse of all the things humanity left behind when it entered utopia: color, emotion, and even more complicated secrets.
7) Catundra
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 1060L
Language
English
Description
A fat cat loses weight with the help of a friendly mole.
8) Rash
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
In a future society that has decided it would "rather be safe than free, " sixteen-year-old Bo's anger control problems land him in a tundra jail where he survives with the help of his running skills and an artificial intelligence program named Bork.
11) Click
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A workaholic architect finds a universal remote that allows him to fast-forward and rewind to different parts of his life. Complications arise when the remote starts to make its own choices.
12) Takedown
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Description
"Jeff wants to be a good wrestler, but will his bad temper get in the way?"--Unedited summary from book.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Simon cannot help being big and noisy, until he goes to Africa with his parents and watches a herd of elephants being big and noisy sometimes and silent when they need to be quiet.
Author
Publisher
Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"For fans of J. G. Ballard and early Ian McEwan, a tense psychological thriller and Kafkaesque parable by the author of The Hole--called 'an airtight masterpiece' by the Korean Economic Daily. Distinguished for his talents as a rat killer, the nameless protagonist of Hye-young Pyun's City of Ash and Red is sent by the extermination company he works for on an extended assignment in C, a country descending into chaos and paranoia, swept by a contagious...
Author
Series
Dexter's laboratory volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After Dexter's laboratory is invaded by Ro-Dent, a robotic rodent, Dexter battles to catch the mouse and destroy it, but Dee Dee's decision to make Ro-Dent her pet may thwart Dexter's plan.