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1) Mockingjay
Author
Series
Hunger Games trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Having survived the Hunger Games twice before, Katniss Everdeen is lucky to be alive. However, she is far from safe. With the Capitol and President Snow blaming her for the strife plaguing District 12, Katniss must sacrifice herself to protect her loved ones.
Author
Series
Hunger Games trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
Author
Series
Dandelion dynasty volume 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Wily, charming Kuni Garu--a bandit--and stern, fearless Mata Zyndu--the son of a deposed duke--seem like polar opposites. Yet, in the uprising against the emperor, the two quickly become the best of friends after a series of adventures fighting against vast conscripted armies, silk-draped airships, soaring battle kites, underwater boats, magical books, shapeshifting gods, and scaled whales who seem to prophesy the future. Once the emperor has been...
Author
Series
Bone season volume 3
Language
English
Description
Rising to the position of Underqueen, clairvoyant Paige Mahoney faces the daunting task of stabilizing the underworld and forges a tentative alliance with the Ranthem only to have her rule threatened by catastrophically powerful technology.
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"A young elemental mage named Iaolanthe Seabourne discovers her shocking power and destiny when she is thrown together with a deposed prince to lead a rebellion against a tyrant" --
Author
Series
Children of Eden volume 3
Publisher
Keywords Press, Atria
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Although she has finally made it to Harmonia, Rowan cannot forget those she left behind in Eden and with the help of some new friends, infiltrates Eden and joins the rebel forces in a civil war.
Author
Series
Chilling effect volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Captain Eva Innocente and the crew of La Sirena Negra find themselves once again on the fringe of populated space--and at the center of a raging covert war. When Eva's sister asks for help locating a missing scientist, promises of a big paycheck and a noble cause convince Eva to take the job despite lingering trust issues. With reluctant assistance from her estranged mother, Eva and her crew follow the missing scientist's trail across the universe,...
Author
Series
Record keeper volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"After World War III, Earth is in ruins, and the final armies have come to a reluctant truce. Everyone must obey the law--in every way--or risk shattering the fragile peace and endangering the entire human race. Arika Cobane is on the threshold of taking her place of privilege as a member of the Kongo elite after ten grueling years of training. But everything changes when a new student arrives speaking dangerous words of treason: What does peace matter...
Author
Series
Ember in the ashes volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Beyond the Empire and within it, the threat of war looms ever larger as the Blood Shrike, Helene Aquilla, Laia of Serra, and Elias Veturius all face increasing dangers.
The Blood Shrike, Helene Aquilla, is assailed on all sides. Emperor Marcus, haunted by his past, grows increasingly unstable, while the Commandant capitalizes on his madness to bolster her own power... the lives of all those in the Empire hang in the balance. Far to the east, Laia...
Author
Series
Mark of the thief trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When Nic, a slave in the mines outside of Rome, is forced to enter a sealed cavern containing lost treasures of Julius Caesar, he finds himself in possession of an ancient amulet filled with magic once reserved for the Gods, and becomes the center of a conspiracy to overthrow the emperor and destroy Rome.
14) Reached
Author
Series
Matched trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"In search of a better life, Cassia joins a widespread rebellion against Society, where she is tasked with finding a cure to the threat of survival and must choose between Xander and Ky"--
Author
Series
Dragonwatch volume 2
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Seth and Kendra, newly appointed caretakers of Wyrmroost, soon find themselves in a fight for their lives when the dragons, led by Celebrant, rebel.
16) Hellhole
Author
Series
Hellhole trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
On a colonized planet called Hellhole, defeated and exiled rebel General Tiber Adolphus continues his honorable opposition to the political scheming and selfish machinations of the Crown Jewel worlds and grandmotherly Diadem Michella Duchenet. Adolphus and his companions work in secret to undermine the royal space travel monopoly and form a coalition of Deep Zone planets.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Wind: To match one's body with one's heart. Sand: To take the bearer where they wish. Song: In praise of the goddess Bird. Bone: To move unheard in the night. The Surun' do not speak of the master weaver, Benesret, who creates the cloth of bone for assassins in the Great Burri Desert. But Uiziya now seeks her aunt Benesret in order to learn the final weave, although the price for knowledge may be far too dear to pay. Among the Khana, women travel...
Author
Series
Traitor's game volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Now firmly on the side of the Coracks, Kestra Dallisor plans to use the magic Olden Blade to kill the evil Lord Endrick. When she fails, Endrick turns her into one of his Ironheart soldiers: without any memory of her rebellion, and bound to obey him, his spy within the Coracks. The rebel Simon is desperate to return her to the Kestra he loves, but he is reluctant to use the magic that would either heal or destroy her. Neither Simon or Kestra is sure...
20) Shadowfell
Author
Series
Shadowfell novel volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Neryn is alone in the land of Alban, where the oppressive king has ordered anyone with magical strengths captured, but when she sets out for Shadowfell, a training ground for a rebel group, she meets a mysterious soldier and the Good Folk, who tell her that she, alone, can save Alban.
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