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42) Elixir
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Description
Clea Raymond, a talented young photojournalist who has spent her life in the spotlight, and her best friends, Rayna and Ben, travel the globe trying to unravel a centuries-old mystery that could reveal her soulmate's identity and the secret of her father's disappearance.
A soulmate for life...or death. Seventeen-year-old Clea Raymond has felt the glare of the spotlight her entire life. The daughter of a renowned surgeon and a prominent politician,...
45) The Curvy Tree
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A friendless girl who is teased for being different runs away from her village in tears and finds herself having a conversation with a very unusual tree, who tells a story of how his differences not only saved his life, they helped him see that he is not so very different after all.
46) World War won
Author
Publisher
Landmark Editions
Pub. Date
[1987]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Two kings, a fox and a raccoon, become embroiled in a race to build the highest stockpile of weapons until a strong wind threatens to topple the piles and makes them both fearful of the consequences.
Author
Series
Land of Stories volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
After thirteen-year-old Conner returns to the Land of Stories and reunites with his twin sister, Alex, who is training to become the next Fairy Godmother, war breaks out in the fairy-tale world.
Author
Series
DIMILY volume 4
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Language
English
Description
In alternating chapters, twelve-year-old Tyler Bruce copes with his father's abuse and, five years later, fights his attraction to his new stepsister, Eden, who sees behind his bad-boy facade.
Author
Series
The Land of Stories volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
"Through the mysterious powers of a cherished book of stories, twins Alex and Conner leave their world behind and find themselves in a foreign land full of wonder and magic where they come face-to-face with the fairy tale characters they grew up reading about"--
Series
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Six teenagers tell about their experiences in immigrating to the United States for the opportunities which elude them in Mexico because of its political and economic instability.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Very strange occurrences have long surrounded fourteen-year-old Bran, who learns of his link to a curse created by his murdered mother and strives to make things right, hindered by the ban on magic in the city of Dunce and pursued by his mother's former masters.
53) Prism
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 510L
Language
English
Description
California high school students Kaida, Zeke, and Joy fall into a parallel universe in which all resembles their normal lives except that there is no medicine nor health care, which could mean big trouble for Joy, whose arm was injured in the accident that started their troubles.
55) Wither
Author
Series
Chemical Garden trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Language
English
Description
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.
56) Kick
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Told in their separate voices, thirteen-year-old soccer star Kevin and police sergeant Brown, who knew his father, try to keep Kevin out of juvenile hall after he is arrested on very serious charges.
59) Heart of gold
Author
Publisher
Taylor Pub
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
The young woman who helped the U.S. women's gymnastics team win a gold medal at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta describes her lifelong interest in the sport and the lessons it has taught her.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Description
When her father dies, Tessa is pulled back to the small Pennsylvania town where her life came apart when her father was sent to prison, her mother went to pieces, and her beloved older sister ran away, and where her testimony and that of her now-estranged friend Callie sent a serial killer to death row--a serial killer who may be getting a new trial as long buried secrets come to light.