Alex Flinn
1) Cloaked
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Johnny is approached at his family's struggling shoe repair shop in a Miami, Florida, hotel by Alorian Princess Victoriana, who asks him to find her brother who was turned into a frog.
2) Beastly
Author
Series
Kendra chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.
3) Mirrored
Author
Series
Kendra chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
A modern, multi-generational tale of Kendra, the witch from "Snow White," who trains Violet, an ugly, lonely, and heartbroken girl in the 1980s who transforms herself into "the fairest one of all" but still cannot win Greg's heart, and Celine, Greg's daughter with Violet's high school rival, Jennifer.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Princess Talia persuades seventeen-year-old Jack, the modern-day American who kisses her awake after a three-hundred-year sleep, to take her to his Miami home, where she hopes to win his love before the witch who cursed her can spirit her away.
5) Towering
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Rachel was taken to live in a tower by a woman she calls Mama, she was excited. She felt like a princess in a castle. But many years later, Rachel knows her palace is really a prison, and begins to plan her escape. She is encouraged by the speed with which her golden hair has been growing. It's gotten long enough to reach the ground. And she's begun dreaming of a green-eyed man. Could he be out there in the world? Is he coming to save her? Or...
Author
Publisher
HarperTempest
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A year after running away with a traveling carnival to escape his unbearable home life, sixteen-year-old Michael returns to Miami, Florida, to find that his mother is going on trial for the murder of his abusive stepfather.
7) Diva
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTEEN
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Despite her mother's objections, sixteen-year-old Caitlin determines to pursue her dream of becoming an opera singer by attending a performing arts school in Miami.
Author
Publisher
HarperTempest
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
An HIV-positive high school student hospitalized after being attacked, the bigot accused of the crime, and the only witness, a classmate with Down Syndrome, reveal how the assault has changed their lives as they tell of its aftermath.
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Told from separate perspectives, four girls, Britta, Meredith, Kate, and Spider, only two of whom had met before, spending an unforgettable July with Spider's aunt in the Adirondacks.
10) Breaking point
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Paul enters an exclusive private school and falls under the spell of a charismatic boy who may be using him.
11) Bewitching
Author
Series
Kendra chronicles volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Kendra, a witch, and the first three-hundred years of her life, including takes on a classic fairy tale, the 1666 plague in Britain, the "Titanic" disaster, and the story of a modern-day, plain stepsister.
12) Beheld
Author
Series
Kendra chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Harperteen, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Being a powerful witch, Kendra has survived it all. Since she first beheld James over three hundred years ago, Kendra has tangled with witch hunters and wolves, helped a millers daughter spin straw into gold, cowered in London as German bombs fell, and lived through who knows how many shipwrecks. But her powers have limits, and immortality can be lonely. Kendra isnt ready to stop searching for the warlock she had met centuries ago. With the help of...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Sent to counseling for hitting his girlfriend, Caitlin, and ordered to keep a journal, sixteen-year-old Nick recounts his relationship with Caitlin, examines his controlling behavior and anger, and describes living with his abusive father.
Author
Series
Kendra chronicles volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Kendra, a witch, and the first three-hundred years of her life, including takes on a classic fairy tale, the 1666 plague in Britain, the Titanic disaster, and the story of a modern-day, plain stepsister.
16) Beastly
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Kyle Kingson has it all, including a wicked cruel streak. He zeroes in on goth classmate Kendra, inviting her to the school's extravagant bash. After she accepts, he blows her off in a very cruel fashion. She retaliates by casting a spell that physically transforms him into everything he hates. Enraged by his horrible appearance he confronts Kendra and learns that the only way to break the curse is to find someone that will love him as he is, which...
17) Beastly
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Kyle Kingson has it all, including a wicked cruel streak. He zeroes in on Goth classmate Kendra inviting her to the school's extravagant bash. After she accepts, he blows her off in a very cruel fashion. She retaliates by casting a spell that physically transforms him into everything he hates. Enraged by his horrible appearance he confronts Kendra and learns that the only way to break the curse is to find someone that will love him as he is, which...
18) The rider
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
After a tragic riding accident, young cowboy Brady, once a rising star of the rodeo circuit, is warned that his competition days are over. Back home, Brady finds himself wondering what he has to live for when he can no longer do what gives him a sense of purpose: to ride and compete. In an attempt to regain control of his fate, Brady undertakes a search for a new identity and tries to redefine his idea of what it means to be a man in the heartland...