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1) The Giver
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.
2) The Giver
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.
3) Crazy house
Author
Series
Crazy House volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a future world where teenagers are taken, imprisoned, and forced to fight for their survival, well-behaved Cassie will do whatever it takes to save her rebellious twin sister from Death Row.
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Inspire teen and preteen readers to take responsibility for and make wiser decisions about their lives with the essays in this book--each written by a teenager. Within these pages, Jamel A. Salter, Fan Yi Mok, and Charlene George, and many others, describe how and why they chose to keep it real and fight back against the pressure they felt from friends to use drugs and alcohol; have sex too early; lie, cheat, and steal; and skip or act out in school"--...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what they should say, and she copies her coworkers' style of dress and speech...
Author
Publisher
Graphia
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When Britney, the most popular girl at Penford High School, invites April Bowers to her lunch table April is thrilled with her sudden change in status, but soon finds that Britney's friendship comes at a steep price.
Author
Series
Chicagoland Detective Agency volume 1
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Required to attend summer school after moving to Chicagoland, thirteen-year-old manga-lover Megan Yamamura needs help from twelve-year-old computer genius Raf to escape the maniacal principal's mind-control experiment.
8) Eventown
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The world tilted for Elodee this year, and now it's impossible for her to be the same as she was before. Not when her feelings have such a strong grip on her heart. Not when she and her twin sister, Naomi, seem to be drifting apart. So when Elodee's mom gets a new job in Eventown, moving seems like it might just fix everything. Indeed, life in Eventown is comforting and exciting all at once. Their kitchen comes with a box of recipes for Elodee to...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Having been judged Different, Norbert, Drew, and Sophie are banished from the United State of Earth to Astronuts Camp on Zorquat 3 in the Orion Nebula, interfering with Norbert's quest to find his parents.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 59
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
11) Babbitt
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Prosperous and socially prominent, George Babbitt appears to have everything a man could wish. But when a personal crisis forces the middle-aged real estate agent to reexamine his life, Babbitt mounts a rebellion that jeopardizes everything he values. Widely considered Sinclair Lewis' greatest novel, this satire of the American social landscape created a sensation upon its 1922 publication. Babbitt's name became an instant and enduring synonym for...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In the near future, Kayla finds herself running for her life when she refuses to get the mandatory bar code tattoo on her seventeenth birthday--a decision that renders her a social outcast and places her family in grave danger. The bar code tattoo. Everybody's getting it. It will make your life easier, they say. It will hook you in. It will become your identity. But what if you say no? What if you don't want to become a code? For Kayla, this one choice...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Desperate not to fall victim to the required bar coding tattoo system, Kayla becomes an exile in her own world until she gets the chance to join the resistance and fight unexpected enemies--including three clones of herself.
Author
Series
Mrs. Shepherd's class volume 1
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1949, thirteen-year-old Francine goes to Catholic school in Los Angeles where she becomes best friends with a girl who questions authority and is frequently punished by the nuns, causing Francine to question her own values.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The desire to fit in is one of the most powerful, least understood forces in a society. Todd Rose believes that as human beings we continually act against our own best interests out of our brains' misunderstanding of what we think others believe. A complicated set of illusions driven by conformity bias distorts how we see the world around us. From toilet paper shortages to kidneys that get thrown away rather than used for desperately needed organ...
19) The replacement
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Mackie Doyle knows that he replaced a human child when he was just an infant, and when a friend's sister disappears he goes against his family's and town's deliberate denial of the problem to confront the beings that dwell under the town, tampering with human lives.
20) Brave new girl
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2017].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In a world where everyone is the same, Trigger 17 convinces Dahlia 16 that she is unique but this proves that both are flawed, which could lead to dire consequences for their entire genomes.
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