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Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
After witnessing a murder, high school senior Stella Gordon is sent to Nebraska for her own safety where she chafes at her protection, but when she meets Chet Falconer it becomes harder for her to keep her guard up, and soon she has to deal with the real threat to her life as her enemies are actually closer than she thinks.
Author
Series
Rules volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
High school student "Meg" has changed identities so often that she hardly knows who she is anymore, and her family is falling apart, but she knows that two of the rules of witness protection are be forgettable and do not make friends--but in her new home in Louisiana a boy named Ethan is making that difficult.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"When 13-year-old Jace Wilson witnesses a brutal murder, he's plunged into a new life, issued a false identity and hidden in a wilderness skills program for troubled teens. The plan is to get Jace off the grid while police find the two killers. The result is the start of a nightmare. The killers, known as the Blackwell Brothers, are slaughtering anyone who gets in their way in a methodical quest to reach him. Now all that remains between them and...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jenna, an ardent vegetarian and environmentalist, is thrilled to be spending the summer communing with nature in rural Canada, until she discovers that not all of the rugged residents there share her beliefs.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Sara is terrified. She's doing the one thing she cannot afford to do: fall in love with former pro-football player Adam Black, a man everyone knows. Sara's been hidden away in the witness protection program, her safety dependent on staying invisible—and loving Adam could get her killed!
Introducing the O'Malleys, an inspirational group of seven, all abandoned or orphaned as teens, who have made the choice to become a loyal and committed family....
Introducing the O'Malleys, an inspirational group of seven, all abandoned or orphaned as teens, who have made the choice to become a loyal and committed family....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
First published in 1962, Silent spring can single-handedly be credited with sounding the alarm and raising the awareness of humankind's collective impact on its own future through chemical pollution. Scientist and pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson presents a detailed account of the development of military biocides and their derivative cousins: our common pesticides and herbicides.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
This young readers' version of the recent documentary film's companion adult volume cuts the page count by about a third but preserves the original's cogent message and many of its striking visuals. After explaining that his interest in the environment predates even his mother's reading of Silent Spring aloud to him as a teenager, Gore proceeds to document steeply rising carbon dioxide levels in our atmosphere, and then to link that to accelerating...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
As Adolf Hitler attempted to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking the finest art treasures in Europe. The Fuehrer had begun cataloguing the art he would collect and the "degenerate" works he would destroy. Behind enemy lines, often unarmed, a special force of American and British museum directors, curators, and art historians raced against time to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
What happens when a young woman, having merely been in the wrong place at the wrong time, is accidentally caught up in a dangerous murder investigation? What happens when she is placed under police protection, forced to give up her identity and move to another part of the country, at least until the killer can be positively identified and apprehended? What happens when in her new life she meets the perfect man, only she can't risk falling in love...
11) Fake ID
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"An African-American teen in the Witness Protection Program moves to a new town and finds himself trying to solve a murder mystery when his first friend is found dead"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"No one wants me to tell you about the disappearance of Sloane Sullivan. Not the lawyers or the cops. Not her friends or family. Not even the boy who loved her more than anyone. And most certainly not the United States Marshals Service. You know, the people who run the witness protection program or, as it's officially called, the Witness Security Program? Yeah, the WITSEC folks definitely don't want me talking to you. But I don't care. I have to tell...
13) See Jane run
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Riley Spencer never thought twice about keeping secrets from her parents, but when she finds a birth certificate with the name Jane O'Callahan hidden in her baby book, she must consider that her parents are lying to her.
14) Shadowlands
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Rory, a girl in witness protection, thinks the serial killer she turned in has found her and is killing people around her. But as she investigates, she discovers a dark, disturbing truth about her new hometown"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
A beautiful deluxe trade paperback edition celebrating the 10th anniversary of Barbara Kingsolver's New York Times bestseller, which describes her family's adventure as they move to a farm in southern Appalachia and realign their lives with the local food chain.
Since its publication in 2007, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle has captivated readers with its blend of memoir and journalistic investigation. Newly updated with original pieces from the entire...
17) California Blue
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old John Rodgers discovers a new sub-species of butterfly which may necessitate closing the mill where his dying father works, they find themselves on opposite sides of the environmental conflict.
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Nearly thirty stories, poems, and non-fiction pieces by such notable authors as Natalie Babbitt, Marilyn Sachs, and Jane Yolen illustrated by the likes of Steven Kellogg and Susan Jeffers, demonstrate some of the environmental problems now plaguing our planet, e.g. overpopulation, tampering with nature, litter, pollution, and waste disposal.
19) Going Green
Author
Publisher
Erickson Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduces low-reading-level students to the effects of climate change and global warming, discussing ways to reduce pollution, save energy, reduce waste, and develop cleaner energy sources.
20) Green Thumb
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While spending the summer in the Amazon rain forest of Brazil doing botanical research, thirteen-year-old Grady discovers a secret language used by the trees to communicate with each other and falls afoul of the dictatorial Dr. Carter, whose motives seem questionable.
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