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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Hazel, a stage IV thyroid cancer patient, has accepted her terminal diagnosis until a chance meeting with a boy at cancer support group forces her to reexamine her perspective on love, loss, and life. Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears...
Author
Series
Broken earth volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS ... FOR THE LAST TIME. The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the destruction of humankind or something worse will depend on two women. Essun has inherited the power of Alabaster Tenring. With it, she hopes to find her daughter Nassun and forge a world in which every orogene child can grow up safe. For Nassun, her mother's mastery of the Obelisk Gate comes too late. She has seen the evil of the world, and accepted...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
A lawyer in Victorian London tries to understand the nature of the strange relationship between his physician friend and the cruel and violent man he seems to protect. Illustrated sidebar notes provide historical background to the text.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Here and then: Rue Claridge's cousin Elisabeth had disappeared, and Rue was determined to find her. But she never dreamed that when she followed Elisabeth's footsteps, she would find herself more than one hundred years in the past ... and in jail, courtesy of Marshal Farley Haynes. She knew Farley was baffled but intrigued by her modern ways-and Rue was just as fascinated by the rugged marshal. Enough to dream that maybe he could live in her modern...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
When Samantha, the seventeen-year-old daugher of a wealthy, perfectionistic, Republican state senator, falls in love with the boy next door, whose family is large, boisterous, and just making ends meet, she discovers a different way to live.
11) Flipped
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.
12) A man called Ove
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him 'the bitter neighbour from hell'. But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
While visiting the small town of Yonwood, North Carolina, eleven-year-old Nickie makes some decisions about how to identify both good and evil when she witnesses the townspeople's reactions to the apocalyptic visions of one of their neighbors.
15) Among the free
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Luke Garner unwittingly sets off a rebellion which sweeps the country and ousts the Population Police from power, he quickly realizes that the new regime is corrupt and he may hold the only key to true freedom.
16) You
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Kyle discovers the shattering ramifications of the decisions he makes, and does not make, about school, the girl he likes, and his future.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
Spellbound before his own portrait, Dorian Gray utters a fateful wish. In exchange for eternal youth he gives his soul, to be corrupted by the malign influence of his mentor, the aesthete and hedonist Lord Henry Wotton. The novel was met with moral outrage by contemporary critics who, dazzled perhaps by Wilde's brilliant style, may have confused the author with his creation, Lord Henry, to whom even Dorian protests, 'You cut life to pieces with your...
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