Neal Shusterman
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times bestselling Arc of the Scythe series continues with "captivating...thrilling" (School Library Journal) stories that span the timeline. Storylines continue. Origin stories are revealed. And new Scythes emerge!
There are still countless tales of the Scythedom to tell. Centuries passed between the Thunderhead cradling humanity and Scythe Goddard trying to turn it upside down. For years, humans lived in a world...
There are still countless tales of the Scythedom to tell. Centuries passed between the Thunderhead cradling humanity and Scythe Goddard trying to turn it upside down. For years, humans lived in a world...
2) Game changer
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"All it takes is one hit on the football field, and suddenly Ash's life doesn't look quite the way he remembers it. Impossible though it seems, he's been hit into another dimension--and keeps on bouncing through worlds that are almost-but-not-really his own. The changes start small, but they quickly spiral out of control as Ash slides into universes where he has everything he's ever wanted, universes where society is stuck in the past...universes...
Author
Series
Accelerati trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"It is up to Nick Slate to find the last of Nikola Tesla's powerful inventions--or face devastating consequences"--
Author
Series
Accelerati trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Nick and his friends race against their foes to retrieve more pieces of Tesla's free energy transmitter, only to see them fall into the hands of the Accelerati's shadowy leader"--
5) Scythe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
""In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't"--
6) The toll
Author
Series
Arc of a scythe volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
In the finale to the Arc of a Scythe trilogy, dictators, prophets, and tensions rise. In a world that's conquered death, will humanity finally be torn asunder by the immortal beings it created? Citra and Rowan have disappeared. Endura is gone. It seems like nothing stands between Scythe Goddard and absolute dominion over the world scythedom. With the silence of the Thunderhead and the reverberations of the Great Resonance still shaking the earth to...
7) Roxy
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two siblings get caught up in a wager between two manufactured gods, Roxicodone and Adderall, in this new thriller inspired by the opioid crisis"--
8) Dry
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Courage to Dream plunges readers into the darkest time of human history--the Holocaust. This graphic novel explores one of the greatest atrocities in modern memory, delving into the core of what it means to face the extinction of everything and everyone you hold dear. Woven from Jewish folklore and cultural history, five interlocking narratives explore one common story--the tradition of resistance and uplift.
10) Ship out of luck
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Brooklyn-native Antsy Bonano embarks on the largest cruise ship in the world, where mischief, adventure, and deportation await.
11) Challenger deep
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"A teenage boy struggles with schizophrenia"--
12) Thunderhead
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rowan and Citra take opposite stances on the morality of the Scythedom, putting them at odds, and the Thunderhead is not pleased.
13) Bruiser
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2011, 2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Brontë befriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody.
14) Full tilt
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Blake goes to a mysterious, by-invitation-only carnival he somehow knows that it could save his comatose brother, but soon learns that much more is at stake if he fails to meet the challenge presented there by the beautiful Cassandra.
15) Unwind
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives.
16) Everlost
Author
Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash, they end up in Everlost, or limbo for lost souls, where although Nick is satisfied, Allie will stop at nothing--even skinjacking--to break free.
17) UnWholly
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Thanks to Connor, Lev, and Risa, and their high-profile revolt at Happy Jack Harvest Camp, people can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding. Ridding society of troublesome teens and, in the same stroke, providing much-needed tissues for transplant might be convenient, but its morality has finally been brought into question. However, unwinding has become big business, and there are powerful political and corporate interests that want to see it not...
18) UnSouled
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
After the destruction of the Graveyard, Connor and Lev are on the run, seeking a woman who may be the key to bringing down unwinding forever while Cam, the rewound boy, tries to prove his love for Risa by bringing Proactive Citizenry to its knees.
19) UnDivided
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Three teens band together in order to sway the government to repeal all rulings in support of a procedure in which unwanted teenagers are captured and are unwound into parts that can be reused for transplantation.