Julia Whelan
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Elloren hopes to free herself from the shadow of her grandmother's legacy as the last prophesied Black Witch by pursuing her dream of becoming an apothecary at Verpax University only to discover that the university is a treacherous place for her.
Author
Series
Black Witch chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
After being drawn into the resistance movement against the Mage Council, Elloren Gardner tries to remain distant from Lukas Grey, a military commander who is convinced that she has access to the power of the Black Witch, a magical force that will decide the future of Erthia.
3) In the end
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
It's been three months since Amy escaped New Hope, and she's been surviving on her own. Then one day Amy gets a call from Kay and hears the four words she had hoped she would never hear: Dr. Reynolds has Baby. Now it's a race against time, for Baby is in imminent danger, her life threatened by the malevolent doctor who had helped start the end of the world.
Author
Series
Lost voices trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
As a mermaid versus human war looms on the horizon, Luce falls in love with her sworn enemy Dorian and assumes her rightful role as queen of the mermaids.
5) Tease
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl faces criminal charges for bullying after a classmate commits suicide--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Vivian Apple returns home after the alleged 'Rapture' to find her devout parents gone and two mysterious holes in the roof. Vivian never believed in the Rapture, or the uber powerful Church of America. Now that she has been left behind, Vivan's quest for the truth begins--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The predicted Rapture was faked by Pastor Frick's Church of America and 3,000 Believers are now missing or dead. Seventeen-year-old Vivian Apple and her best friend Harpreet are revolutionaries, determined to expose the Church's diabolical power grab...and to locate Viv's missing heartthrob Peter Ivey--
8) Partials
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In a post-apocalyptic eastern seaboard ravaged by disease and war with a manmade race of people called Partials, the chance at a future rests in the hands of Kira Walker, a sixteen-year-old medic in training--
9) Ruins
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
As a war between the humans and the Partials looms, Samm finds himself trapped beyond a toxic wasteland, and Kira finds herself under the control of Dr. Morgan who is desperate to save the Partials.
10) Fragments
Author
Series
Partials sequence volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
With the help of Samm and Heron, Kira sets out on a desperate search for clues as to who she is, while Marcus and the remaining human population gear up for war with the Partials.
11) Die for me
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After their parents are killed in a car accident, sixteen-year-old Kate Mercier and her older sister Georgia, each grieving in her own way, move to Paris to live with their grandparents and Kate finds herself powerfully drawn to the handsome but elusive Vincent, who seems to harbor a mysterious and dangerous secret.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Grace, adopted at birth, is raised as an only child. At sixteen she's just put her own baby up for adoption, and now is looking for her biological family. She discovers Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio twin sister who was also adopted ; and Joaquin, their stoic older bio brother, who has no interest in bonding over their shared biological mother after seventeen years in the foster care system. Grace struggles between cautious joy at having found...
13) Daddy-Long-Legs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
First published in 1912, this classic epistolary novel is a delightful modern fairy tale about a plucky young orphan in search of her destiny.
For Jerusha Abbott, life has been anything but easy. Left to be raised in the bleak John Grier Home orphanage by unknown parents, she has no idea what her future holds, but her spirit and cheerful outlook have always kept her going. This resolute hopefulness captures the attention...
For Jerusha Abbott, life has been anything but easy. Left to be raised in the bleak John Grier Home orphanage by unknown parents, she has no idea what her future holds, but her spirit and cheerful outlook have always kept her going. This resolute hopefulness captures the attention...
14) In the After
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In a post-apocalyptic world where nothing is as it seems, seventeen-year-old Amy and Baby, a child she found while scavenging, struggle to survive while vicious, predatory creatures from another planet roam the Earth.
15) The twice lost
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
When humans declare war on mermaids, Luce swims to San Francisco Bay where she finds a group of twice lost girls, lost once when trauma turned them into mermaids and again when they defied mermaid law, and unites them into an army under her leadership.
16) Gem & Dixie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A story that broke my heart and put it back together again. You won't want to let Gem and Dixie go." —Sarah Dessen, New York Times bestselling author of Saint Anything
From renowned author and National Book Award finalist Sara Zarr comes a deep, nuanced, and gorgeously written story about the complex relationship between two sisters from a broken home.
Gem has never known what it is to have security. She's never
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Marin, a star pupil and editor of the school paper, is mentored by her English teacher, Mr. Beckett, but when he takes things too far and she tells the administration, she finds that no one believes her and she uses the newpaper to fight back, finding unexpected allies among her classmates.
Author
Series
Charlotte Holmes novel volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"In the explosive conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Charlotte Holmes series, Holmes and Watson think they're finally in the clear after graduating from Sherringford...but danger awaits in the hallowed halls of Oxford. Charlotte Holmes and Jamie Watson finally have a chance to start over. With all the freedom their pre-college summer program provides and no one on their tail, the only mystery they need to solve, once and for all, is what...