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1) The brethren
Author
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Author
Series
Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
Pub. Date
1992.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cormac McCarthy is a quiet, unassuming presence in American fiction today, but like the slow, measured voices of many of his characters, he speaks with an authority and conviction that demands an audience. All the Pretty Horses, McCarthy's sixth novel, is a cowboy odyssey for modern times. Set in the late 1940s, it features the travels and toils of a 16-year-old East Texan named John Grady Cole, caught in the agonizing purgatory between adolescence...
Author
Series
Iron fey. Original series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Summer faery princess, half human, Meghan is deserted by the Winter prince she thought loved her, becomes a prisoner of the Winter faery queen, and loses her own fey powers. As war looms between Summer and Winter, Meghan knows that the real danger comes from the Iron fey--ironbound faeries that only she and her absent prince have seen. But no one believes her--and trusting a seeming traitor could be deadly.
4) Immunity
Author
Series
Contagion duology volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teens Thea, Coen, and Nova are rescued from a deadly planet, only to be taken prisoner on board a government ship and used as weapons in a sinister political plot.
Thea, Coen, and Nova have been rescued-- but it's only the beginning of their nightmare. After being imprisoned on a ship they thought was their ticket to safety, they discover the entire galaxy is at risk. To prevent an interstellar catastrophe, the survivors must harness the evil of...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"From twice National Book Award-nominated Rachel Kushner, whose Flamethrowers was called "the best, most brazen, most interesting book of the year" (Kathryn Schulz, New York magazine), comes a spectacularly compelling, heart-stopping novel about a life gone off the rails in contemporary America. It's 2003 and Romy Hall is at the start of two consecutive life sentences at Stanville Women's Correctional Facility, deep in California's Central Valley....
6) Ash princess
Author
Series
Ash princess novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Held captive by the brutal Kaiser since age six when she witnessed her mother's murder, Theodosia, called Ash Princess, is now sixteen and prepared to reclaim the throne by any means necessary.
7) Bullet point
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The only thing seventeen-year-old Wyatt knew about his biological father was that he was serving a life sentence, but circumstances and a new girlfriend bring them together and soon Wyatt is working to prove his father's innocence.
8) Riven
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brady Wayne Darby and Thomas Carey could hardly have been more disparate individuals. Yet when Darby, a no-account loser raised in a dingy suburban trailer park, encounters Carey, a weary man of God, an entire state--indeed, a nation--is affected.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward's first novel since her National Book Award-winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old Testament, Ward gives us an epochal story, a journey through Mississippi's past and present that is both an intimate portrait...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1934, thirteen-year-old Marya and her younger brother, Georgi, set out alone on a long and arduous journey into Siberia to find their mother after she and their father are exiled for opposing Stalin.
Author
Series
House of Winslow volume 34
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When Phil and Cara Winslow learn that the daughter they thought had died in infancy is still alive, their life of status and ease is turned upside down. With the help of a private detective, they find the girl, now twenty years old, who turns out to be rough and vulgar. When they try to bring Grace into their family, their grown children are horrified, and only Kevin, a terribly scarred recluse, reaches out to her. When Grace bolts, Kevin leaves his...
13) Raging sea
Author
Series
Undertow trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Lyric Walker was there when the Alpha arrived. Like many, she wondered if they were invaders, never suspecting that they were on the run from a greater terror. When the real threat arrived, it came with a tidal wave that destroyed Coney Island. Everything and everyone Lyric ever cared for, including the Alpha prince Fathom, was either killed or lost forever. It changed the world. Now the military fights a war it cannot win against an enemy that will...
Author
Series
Bride trilogy (Mary Jo Putney) volume 3
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Alexandra Warren ventured to Australia as a young bride eager for adventure. A dozen years later she is returning home as a widow and mother when a pirate attack separate her from her beloved daughter and condemned Alex to a life of servitude."--Jacket.
17) Maximum security
Author
Series
CHERUB novels volume 3
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In order to contact his parent, an illegal weapons dealer, CHERUB comes up with a plan to break the son out of his maximum security prison, but the plan is complicated and will require all their collective skills.
18) Bog child
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles," eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.
Author
Series
Land of the far horizon volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
20) Rikers High
Author
Publisher
Viking Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Arrested on a minor offense, a New York City teenager attends high school in the jail facility on Rikers Island, as he waits for his case to go to court.
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