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(0)Julia Whelan
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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"From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
"Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond, from the author of Me Before You and The Peacock Emporium Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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Description
"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
On the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary, Nick's wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police immediately suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they aren't his. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone. So what did really did happen to Nick's beautiful wife?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
"Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself... Regardless of why Evelyn has chosen her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. Summoned to Evelyn's Upper East Side...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
After ten years of exile among fairies who teach her to use her magically-enhanced strength and courage, Sleeping Beauty's daughter Aurora enlists the help of Niklaas, eleventh son of King Eldorio, in the fight to reclaim her throne.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early eighteenth-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name.
France, 1714. In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever-- and cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Addie LaRue's life will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art. After nearly 300 years,...
Author
Series
Vivian Apple volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
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"--
Author
Series
Charlotte Holmes volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson descendants, Charlotte and Jamie, students at a Connecticut boarding school, team up to solve a murder mystery.
Author
Series
Charlotte Holmes volume 4
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jamie and Charlotte join the theater program at Oxford, accidents start anew, giving them no choice but to throw themselves into a cold case.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"At the start of their senior year in high school, James (a girl with a boy's name) and Kat are inseparable, but by graduation, they're no longer friends. James prepares to head off to college as she reflects on the dissolution of her friendship with Kat while, in alternating chapters, Kat thinks about being newly in love and having a future that feels wide open"--
James (a girl with a boy's name) and Kat have been a pair since kindergarten. But...
14) The Black Witch
Author
Series
Black Witch chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
Elloren Gardner is the granddaughter of the last prophesied Black Witch, Carnissa Gardner, who drove back the enemy forces and saved the Gardnerian people during the Realm War. But while she is the absolute spitting image of her famous grandmother, Elloren is utterly devoid of power in a society that prizes magical ability above all else. When she is granted the opportunity to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming an apothecary, Elloren joins her...
15) In the end
Author
Series
In the after duology volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
An escaped Amy fights her way to the Fort Black survivor colony to find Kay's brother, Ken, in order to rescue Baby from the sinister Dr. Reynolds.
16) The iron flower
Author
Series
Black Witch chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
"Elloren Gardner and her friends were only seeking to right a few wrongs when they rescued a Selkie and freed a military dragon. The last thing they expected was to be thrust into a realm-wide underground resistance against Gardnerian conquest. While the Resistance struggles to fight back against the harsh rulings of the Mage Council, more and more Gardnerian soldiers descend upon the University, led by none other than Lukas Grey, now commander of...
17) In the After
Author
Series
In the after duology volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen
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.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
It starts before you can even remember: You learn the rules for being a girl ... Marin has always been good at navigating these unspoken guidelines. A star student and editor of the school paper, she dreams of getting into Brown University. Marin's future seems bright--and her young, charismatic English teacher, Mr. Beckett, is always quick to admire her writing and talk books with her. But when Bex takes things too far and comes on to Marin, she's...
19) Girl in pieces
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
As she struggles to recover and survive, seventeen-year-old homeless Charlotte "Charlie" Davis cuts herself to dull the pain of abandonment and abuse.