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1) The giver
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"In this new graphic novel edition, readers experience the haunting story of twelve-year-old Jonas and his seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment, through the brilliant art of P. Craig Russell that truly brings The Giver to life. Witness Jonas's assignment as the Receiver of Memory, watch as he begins to understand the dark secrets behind his fragile community, and follow the explosion of color into his world like never...
Author
Series
Selection series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
America Singer is chosen to compete in the Selection--a contest to see which girl can win the heart of Illea's prince--but all she really wants is a chance for a future with her secret love, Aspen, who is a caste below her.
3) Matched
Author
Series
Matched trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
All her life, Cassia has never had a choice. The Society dictates everything: when and how to play, where to work, where to live, what to eat and wear, when to die, and most importantly to Cassia as she turns 17, whom to marry. When she is Matched with her best friend Xander, things couldn't be more perfect. But why did her neighbor Ky's face show up on her match disk as well?
4) The Testing
Author
Series
The Testing trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out her friends who do not pass The Testing are disappearing.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seth cannot figure out if he is dead or alive. He cannot figure out where he is, though it seems as if he is in the English town he lived in as a child before his family moved to America.
Author
Series
Rule of one volume 1
Publisher
Skyscape
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"In the near-future United States, a one-child policy is ruthlessly enforced. Everyone follows the Rule of One. But Ava Goodwin, daughter of the head of the Texas Family Planning Division, has a secret--one her mother died to keep and her father has helped to hide for her entire life. She has an identical twin sister, Mira. For eighteen years Ava and Mira have lived as one, trading places day after day, maintaining an interchangeable existence down...
8) Stranger
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Many generations ago, a mysterious cataclysm struck the world. Governments collapsed and people scattered to rebuild where they could. A mutation called the Change arose, granting some people unique powers. Though the area once known as Los Angeles retains its cultural diversity, its technological marvels have faded into legend. "Las Anclas" now resembles a Wild West frontier town--where the Sheriff possesses superhuman strength, the doctor can warp...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Ahab Goldstein is a seventh-grader living in an United States (specifically Maine) where the environment has turned toxic, and the corrupt Environmental Police Force is in control, limiting access to natural resources like gas and water, issuing fines, and transporting "fragile" species (pretty much all of them) to the Center for Species Rehabilitation in New Arcadia (a dubious refuge at best); so when Ahab and his friends find a real live bullfrog...
10) The switch
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
On the day of Henry Ludd's thirteenth birthday, the power goes out. No phones, no news, people descending in lawlessness-- and in the chaos, Henry's father has gone missing.
Publisher
Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
An anthology of nineteen tales by well-known authors of young adult and adult literature which explore the lives of teens raised after a catastrophe, either in the first few years after the change or in the distant future.
12) Ink
Author
Series
Skin trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In Saintstone everyone gets tattoos recording their deeds from birth until death, and the ink lets every other citizen know your triumphs as well as your sins; so when Leora's father dies and she sees glimpses a symbol of a horrible crime on the back of his neck she is horrified, and sure it is a mistake--and in her efforts to find out the truth she discovers the lengths that Saintstone will go to preserve its "perfect" society.
13) Only ever yours
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Where women are created for the pleasure of men, beauty is the first duty of every girl. In Louise O'Neill's world of Only Every Yours women are no longer born naturally, girls (called "eves") are raised in Schools and trained in the arts of pleasing men until they come of age. Freida and Isabel are best friends. Now, aged sixteen and in their final year, they expect to be selected as companions--wives to powerful men. All they have to do is ensure...
14) The revival
Author
Series
Young world trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Shocking events take place for Donna, Jefferson, Kath, and their tribe as they face their greatest challenge yet--how to hold the new city-state of New York against a ruthless attack from the Old World. Heart-stopping action and exciting new revelations will leave readers hungry for the final installment in the series."--Provided by publisher.
15) Flood City
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Flood City is the only habitable place left on the drowned Earth, but it is also a battleground between the Star Guard who have controlled the city for decades and the Chemical Barons in their spaceships who once ruled the planet, want it back, and are now preparing to destroy it; the future will depend on Max, his sister Yala of Flood City, and Ato, a young Chemical Baron who just wants to keep his twin brother alive and not hurt anyone--and somehow...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Doom Thorax is destined for greatness! Well, maybe&His dad is, after all, the fiercest apocalyptic warrior to ever walk what s left of the earth. Unfortunately, in a world where the remaining humans (if you can still call them that) all have extraordinary abilities, Doom is painfully ordinary. In fact, the only thing even remotely special about him is that he is the one person in their whole pack who can read. When his dad leads the adults off to...
18) Coda
Author
Publisher
RP Teens
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Possessing unique talents for composing and conducting music that his oppressive government encodes with mind-altering elements to control the world, 18-year-old Anthem performs unaltered music with an underground rock band and questions the loyalties of his girlfriend when a band member dies under suspicious circumstances.
19) Sinsajo
Author
Series
Hunger Games volume 3
Publisher
RBA Molino
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
Español
Description
Two-time Hunger Games survivor Katniss Everdeen is targeted by a vengeful Capitol that vows to make Katniss and all of District 12 pay for the current unrest.
Author
Series
Uglies volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A few months shy of her sixteenth birthday, when she will be transformed into a "pretty" whose only job is to have a great time, Shay befriends the Crims, a group of teens who refuse to take anything in society at face value.
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