Scott Westerfeld
21) Youngbloods
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"Frey has spent her life in a family of deceivers, a stand-in for her sister, manipulated at her father's command. Free from them at last, she is finding her own voice -- and using it to question everything her family stood for. Tally was once the most famous rebel in the world. But for over a decade, she's kept to the shadows, allowing her myth to grow even as she receded. Now she sees that the revolution she led has not created a stable world. Freedom,...
22) Mirror's edge
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
Raised to be her twin sister Rafia's body double and bodyguard, but now with new face and body Frey and her lover Col are determined to return to Shreve to rescue Boss X, a friend and ally in the rebellion of the free cities against people like Frey's father, ruthless ruler of Shreve; but Frey is troubled by things even beyond the dangers of her mission--confusion over her own identity, guilt over having killed her brother (even if he was trying to...
Author
Series
Succession volume 2
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 17
Description
"Captain Laurent Zai of the Imperial Frigate faces a suicied mission: stopping the next thrust of the Rix invasion with just his own ship. While ship-to-ship combat rages among the stars, Zai's lover, Senaotr Nara Oxham, is caught in a deadly political fencing match with the Emperor himself. The Emperor has a terrible secret, a secret Nara is in danger of finding out, a secret for which he would countenance the killing of worlds"--Back cover.
Author
Series
Midnighters volume 2
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
As they continue to battle evil creatures living in an hour hidden at midnight, Jessica and her new friends learn about Bixby, Oklahoma's shadowy past and uncover a deadly conspiracy that reaches beyond the secret hour.
26) Spill zone: 1
Author
Series
Spill zone volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. Uncanny manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone. The Spill claimed Addison's parents and scarred her little sister, Lexa, who hasn't spoken since. Addison provides for her sister by photographing the Zone's twisted attractions on illicit midnight rides. Art collectors pay top dollar for these bizarre...
27) The Risen Empire
Author
Series
Succession volume 1
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 17
Description
When the empire is challenged by a band of machine-augmented humans who seek to put their own gods in control by kidnapping the Immortal Child Empress, captain Laurent Zal of the Imperial Frigate Lynx is charged with her rescue.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Hunter Braque, a New York City teenager who is paid by corporations to spot what is "cool," combines his analytical skills with girlfriend Jen's creative talents to find a missing person and thwart a conspiracy directed at the heart of consumer culture.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006, c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
As they continue to battle evil creatures living in an hour hidden at midnight, Jessica and her new friends learn about Bixby, Oklahoma's shadowy past and uncover a deadly conspiracy that reaches beyond the secret hour.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
The world of uglies, set in our not - so - distant future, is a complex place filled with bubbly technology and lingo, yet bogus rules about status and appearance. Westerfield's bestselling series has a huge fan base, many of whom write him asking questions about the world of Uglies. This guide to the series peels back the layers of the world, history, people, and places.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Description
The words have sent chills down Tally's spine since her days as a repellent, rebellious Ugly. Back then Specials were a sinister rumor, frighteningly beautiful, dangerously strong, breathtakingly fast. Ordinary Pretties might live their whole lives without meeting a Special. But Tally's never been ordinary and now she's been turned into one of them. A superamped fighting machine, engineered to keep the Uglies down and the Pretties stupid. The...
34) Shay's story
Author
Series
Uglies volume 1
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all.
Author
Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a whole new kind of genetically engineered warships.
Author
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Finally surgically transformed into a "pretty," sixteen-year-old Tally, now gorgeous and programmed to think only happy thoughts, is plagued by tangled memories of living in the Smoke, a rebel colony of "ugly" runaways hiding from the Special Circumstances authorities.
37) Watergate
Author
Pub. Date
1991
Description
Analyzes events in the scandal known as Watergate, which paralyzed American politics and led to the downfall of President Richard Nixon.
38) EXTRAS: --ACQ
Author
Pub. Date
2011, c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse, an Extra, just wants to lay low, so when she discovers the secret lives of the Sly Girls, she wants to report their story, but she knows that would propel her into a celebrity status she's not prepared for.
Author
Series
Spill zone volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. Strange manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone. Addison got close enough to the Spill Zone to touch it, literally. She survived the encounter, but came back changed. It turns out she's not alone. North Korea has its own Spill Zone, and a young man named Don Jae is the only one who made it out alive....
40) Cutters
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Shay thinks there's more to the New Pretty Town than meets the eye, life as a Pretty should be perfect, yet she doesn't feel right.