Emily Bauer
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the moon's gravitational pull increases, causing massive natural disasters on earth, Miranda and her family struggle to survive in a world without cities or sunlight, and wonder if anyone else in still alive.
3) The borrower
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten- year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly antigay classes with celebrity Pastor Bob. Lucy stumbles into a moral dilemma when she finds Ian camped out in the library after...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a family tragedy orphans her, Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., moves into her grandmother's mostly black community in the 1980s, where she must swallow her grief and confront her identity as a biracial woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white.
Author
Publisher
Findaway Wordl
Pub. Date
c2006, c2008
Language
English
Description
Antonia Lucia Labella has two secrets: at fifteen, she's still waiting for her first kiss, and she wants to be a saint. An official one. Seem strange? Well, to Antonia, saints are royalty, and she wants her chance at being a princess. All her life she's kept company with these kings and queens of small favors, knowing exactly whom to pray to on every occasion. Unfortunately, the two events Antonia's prayed for seem equally unlikely to happen. It's...
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
A young athlete whose running days might be behind her, a compulsive liar, a shy researcher, a bitter old woman, and a little girl with a big secret; the only thing they have in common is the annual Wind Festival in Fula City. The festival celebrates the Legendary Pokemon Lugia, who brings the wind that powers this seaside city. When a series of threats endanger not just the festival, but all the people and Pokemon of Fula City, it'll take more than...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lizzie Hood and her neighbor Evie Verver are best friends. Lizzie believes her neighbor's family is idyllic and loves spending time over there. But when Evie disappears, Lizzie is beset with questions about her friends whereabouts. As she begins her own quest for the truth, Lizzie uncovers a series of secrets that makes her question everything she knew about Evie.
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A young athlete whose running days might be behind her, a compulsive liar, a shy researcher, a bitter old woman, and a little girl with a big secret; the only thing they have in common is the annual Wind Festival in Fula City. The festival celebrates the Legendary Pokemon Lugia, who brings the wind that powers this seaside city. When a series of threats endanger not just the festival, but all the people and Pokemon of Fula City, it2ll take more than...
10) Enclave
Author
Series
Razorland volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In a post-apocalyptic future, fifteen-year-old Deuce, a loyal Huntress, brings back meat while avoiding the Freaks outside her enclave, but when she is partnered with the mysterious outsider, Fade, she begins to see that the strict ways of the elders may be wrong-- and dangerous.
Author
Series
Bright young things novels volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1929, eighteen-year-old Cordelia Grey and her stage-struck friend Letty Larkspur run away from their small Ohio town to seek their fortunes in New York City and soon find themselves drawn into situations and relationships, particularly with the dazzling Astrid Donal, that change their lives forever.
12) Outpost
Author
Series
Razorland volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Deuce struggles for respect in a new topside town where she is treated like a child and avoided by Fade, a situation that compels her to volunteer for patrol duty and protect topside citizens from an unexpected upsurge in Freak activity.
13) Hurt go happy
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Thirteen-year-old Joey Willis has been deaf since age six, but her mother has refused to let her learn sign language, leaving Joey struggling to connect with those around her until she meets Dr. Charles Mansell and his baby chimpanzee, who secretly teach Joey how to sign.
14) Vanguard
Author
Series
Razorland volume Related work
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Tegan signs on as a ship's doctor, hoping for an epic adventure, but soon finds romance with Szarok, the Uroch vanguard, in a relationship that is both alien and forbidden.
15) Mind games
Author
Series
Mind games volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
©2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Fia and her sister, Annie, are trapped in a school that uses young female psychics and mind readers as tools for corporate espionage--and if Fia doesn't play by the rules of their deadly game, Annie will be killed"--Provided by publisher.
16) Overbite
Author
Series
Insatiable volume 1
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Now working for the Palatine Guard--a secret demon-hunting unit of the Vatican--Meena Harper tries to win over her co-workers as well as her new partner Alaric Wolf while investigating a young priest recently assigned to the case.
17) Fangtastic!
Author
Series
My sister the vampire volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eighth-grade twins Olivia and Ivy and their friends try to prevent a nosy television reporter, Serena Star, from uncovering the secret community of vampires in Franklin Grove.
Author
Publisher
HarperBusiness, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"POWER MOVES, a career guide for women stuck in unfulfilling jobs developed from the lessons on the Career Contessa website, featuring inspirational stories from impressive women in a variety of fields, exercises in how to make big life changes, and a discussion of how to find a meaningful career, from Career Contessa founder Lauren McGoodwin"--
19) Insatiable
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Soap opera writer Meena Harper has the ability to foresee how people are going to die, but this precognition only works on other people, not Meena herself, leaving her vulnerable once she begins to fall in love with a vampire.
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
When her sister Patty died, Jenna blamed herself. When Jenna died, she blamed herself for that, too. Unfortunately Jenna died too soon. Living or dead, every soul is promised a certain amount of time, and when Jenna passed she found a heavy debt of time in her record. Unwilling to simply steal that time from the living, Jenna earns every day she leeches with volunteer work at a suicide prevention hotline. But something has come for the ghosts of New...