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Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
Twelve-year-old Jenni's much-anticipated vacation with her family and best friend Autumn goes awry when an old elevator transports her to a future in which everything has changed, and she must not only return to her time but find a way to prevent what she has seen from coming true.
2) Mimi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
Mimi is determined not to give up on anyone or anything, but since Mammy died, her father never smiles, her sister Sally is in a bad mood, brother Conor keeps to himself, and even Sparkler the dog does not want to go for walks.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Tom Cavanagh--a survivor of past trauma who suffers from anxiety--befriends Alice, a new girl at his school and the former inhabitant of his home, hoping to rescue her from the secrets she seems to be concealing.
5) Skellig
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like an angel.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
Creative, intelligent, nine-year-old Mina keeps a journal in her own disorderly way that reveals how her mind is growing into something extraordinary, especially after she begins homeschooling under the direction of her widowed mother.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 8
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To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land. "Every war has turning points and every person too." Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she's never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
A thousand years after the release of the Straker Tapes, when Peter and Alpha discover that stories of human upgrades are true, they strive to stop a group of scientists from making a decision that could destroy humanity.
9) Human.4
Author
Series
Point 4 volume 1
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Twenty-first century fourteen-year-old Kyle was hypnotized when humanity was upgraded to 1.0 and he, incompatible with the new technology, exposes its terrifying impact in a tape-recording found by the superhumans of the future.
10) Half bad
Author
Series
Half bad trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
In modern-day England, where witches live alongside humans, Nathan, son of a White witch and the most powerful Black witch, must escape captivity before his seventeenth birthday and receive the gifts that will determine his future.
11) A hundred horses
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Nell must spend spring break in the country with an aunt and cousins she has never met, but while there she meets a mysterious, wild girl with a strange connection to horses and an uncanny understanding of Nell.
12) Cuckoo song
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
Description
"When Triss wakes up after an accident, she knows that something is very wrong. She is insatiably hungry; her sister seems scared of her and her parents whisper behind closed doors. She looks through her diary to try to remember, but the pages have been ripped out. Soon Triss discovers that what happened to her is more strange and terrible than she could ever have imagined, and that she is quite literally not herself. In a quest find the truth she...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
When their father is taken away suddenly, Bobbie, Peter and Phyllis are forced to leave London for a simple life in the country. They make new friends and discover the thrill of the railway, eventually unravelling the mystery of his disappearance.
14) Saffy's angel
Author
Series
Casson family volume 1
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
After learning that she was adopted, thirteen-year-old Saffron's relationship with her eccentric, artistic family changes, until they help her go back to Italy where she was born to find a special momento of her past.
15) Indigo's star
Author
Series
Casson family volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Spurred on by his youngest sister, Rose, twelve-year-old Indigo sticks up for himself and an American boy who has replaced him as the primary target of the school bullies.
16) Half wild
Author
Series
Half bad trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
In a modern-day England where two warring factions of witches live amongst humans, seventeen-year-old Nathan has come into his own unique magical Gift, but he is on the run with the Hunters close behind, and they will stop at nothing until they have captured Nathan and destroyed his father.
Author
Series
Montmaray journals volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 22
Description
Sophie FitzOsborne and the royal family of Montmaray escaped their remote island home when the Nazis attacked. But now war has come to England--and the rest of the world. Even as bombs rain down on London, hope springs up in surprising places and love blooms. And when the Allies begin their drive across Europe, the FitzOsbornes take heart--maybe there will be a way to liberate Montmaray and go home at last.
18) I, Jack
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Jack, a Labrador Retriever, tells about his daily life of food, walks, and the "apedogs" and "funny-looking dogs" (cats) in his pack, as well as how everything changes when a pretty girl dog moves into the neighborhood. Includes explanatory footnotes written by the cats.
19) Wolven
Author
Series
Wolven volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Snaggly teeth, patchy white fur, raddled orange eyes - Woody's a far cry from cute. Yet Nat is strangely drawn to the rough mutt that howls at the moon. And before long, NAt learns that Woody's not a dog at all - he's a Wolven: a shape-shifter that changes from beast to boy without much warning. But Nat's not the only one wise to Woody's secret: A rogue government agency has picked up his scent. They're on the hunt to trap him and turn him into a...
20) Slated
Author
Series
Slated trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In a future England, sixteen-year-old Kyla is one of the "slated," those whose memories have been erased usually because they have committed serious crimes, but as she observes more and more strange events, she also gains more memories which put her and her boyfriend, Ben in danger.