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Strange the dreamer volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
The dream chooses the dreamer, not the other way around - and Lazlo Strange, war orphan and junior librarian, has always feared that his dream chose poorly. Since he was five years old he's been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder than he to cross half the world in search of it. Then a stunning opportunity presents itself, in the person of a hero called the Godslayer and a band of legendary warriors, and he...
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
BOOKPAGE MOST ANTICIPATED YA OF 2024
Shane works with her mother and their ghost dogs, tracking down missing persons even when their families can't afford to pay. Their own family was displaced from their traditional home years ago following a devastating flood – and the loss of Shane's father and her grandparents. They don't think they'll ever get their home back.
Then Shane's mother and a local boy...
Shane works with her mother and their ghost dogs, tracking down missing persons even when their families can't afford to pay. Their own family was displaced from their traditional home years ago following a devastating flood – and the loss of Shane's father and her grandparents. They don't think they'll ever get their home back.
Then Shane's mother and a local boy...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Laurie Halse Anderson is known for the unflinching way she writes about, and advocates for, survivors of sexual assault. Now, inspired by her fans and enraged by how little in our culture has changed since her groundbreaking novel Speak was first published twenty years ago, she has written a poetry memoir that is as vulnerable as it is rallying, as timely as it is timeless. In free verse, Anderson shares reflections, rants, and...
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Series
To all the boys I've loved before volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hat box her mother gave her. They aren't love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she{u2019}s written. One for every boy she{u2019}s ever loved{u2014}five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are mailed, and suddenly, Lara Jean{u2019}s...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"When a tragic accident leads Jackie to move into a house filled with eleven boys, she gets far more than she ever expected. This sweet YA romance is perfect for fans of Kasie West and Jenny Han—and is one of the most beloved Wattpad books ever! Moving in with eleven boys was not part of the plan. Jackie's goal is perfection—perfect grades, the perfect look, getting into the perfect school. If she can achieve that, then maybe her too-busy mom...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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The summer after her first year of college, Isobel "Belly" Conklin is faced with a choice between Jeremiah and Conrad Fisher, brothers she has always loved, when Jeremiah proposes marriage and Conrad confesses that he still loves her.
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Series
Selection series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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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.
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Series
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.
9) Glass Sword
Author
Series
Red queen (Victoria Aveyard) volume 2
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling series!
Perfect for fans of George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones series, Glass Sword is the high-stakes follow up to the #1 New York Times bestselling Red Queen.
Mare Barrow's blood is red—the color of common folk—but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility,
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"When the creator of a high school gossip app mysteriously dies in front of four high-profile students, all four become suspects. It's up to them to solve the case"--
Five students walk into Bayview High detection. Only four walk out.... Simon was the creator of a high school gossip app. He planned to post juicy reveals about his four high-profile classmates. When he dies before detention is over, is one of them a murderer-- or are they the perfect...
12) Reign
Author
Series
American royals volume 4
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A queen's life hangs in the balance, and her siblings’ decisions—about what to do, and most of all, who to love—could change the course of history. Romance. Duty. Power...only one can triumph in this stunning conclusion to the New York Times bestselling American Royals series.
America's royal family is in shambles. Queen Beatrice is in a coma and Princess Samantha has gone missing—from the look of things, she...
America's royal family is in shambles. Queen Beatrice is in a coma and Princess Samantha has gone missing—from the look of things, she...
Author
Series
We were liars volume Prequel
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The addictive prequel to the TikTok phenomenon We Were Liars: the story of another summer, another generation—and the secrets that will haunt them for decades to come.
"I anticipated that at some point a shocking twist would come. And, wow, does it ever." —The New York Times
"A perfect beach read." —The Boston Globe
A...
"I anticipated that at some point a shocking twist would come. And, wow, does it ever." —The New York Times
"A perfect beach read." —The Boston Globe
A...
14) City of bones
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Suddenly able to see demons and the Darkhunters who are dedicated to returning them to their own dimension, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is drawn into this bizzare world when her mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a monster.
15) Hex Hall
Author
Series
Hex Hall novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Three years ago, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. It's gotten her into a few scrapes. Her non-gifted mother has been as supportive as possible, consulting Sophie's estranged father???an elusive European warlock???only when necessary. But when Sophie attracts too much human attention for a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, it's her dad who decides her punishment: exile to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium,...
17) Brian's winter
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had hebeen forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.
18) Inheritance
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Series
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestselling series returns in this heart-stopping prequel novella. Ever wonder how our future queen fell for her bodyguard? Or how Prince Jefferson and his sister’s best friend got caught in a love triangle for the ages? Grab your royal invitation and we’ll show you the night that started it all.
Princess Beatrice realizes what’s expected of her as heir apparent—and it is not riding in cars,...
Princess Beatrice realizes what’s expected of her as heir apparent—and it is not riding in cars,...
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Series
Harry Potter (Illustrated series) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogswart School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.
20) Eragon
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
In Alagaesia, 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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