Neal Shusterman
1) Unwind
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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Description
In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives.
2) UnWholly
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Description
"Thanks to Connor, Lev, and Risa, and their high-profile revolt at Happy Jack Harvest Camp, people can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding. Ridding society of troublesome teens and, in the same stroke, providing much-needed tissues for transplant might be convenient, but its morality has finally been brought into question. However, unwinding has become big business, and there are powerful political and corporate interests that want to see it not...
3) Scythe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
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"A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life-and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe-a role that neither wants. These teens must master the 'art' of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing...
4) Everlost
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Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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Description
When Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash, they end up in Everlost, or limbo for lost souls, where although Nick is satisfied, Allie will stop at nothing--even skinjacking--to break free.
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Series
Antsy Bonano volume 1
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone.
6) The Toll
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
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"Citra and Rowan have disappeared. Endura is gone. It seems like nothing stands between Scythe Goddard and absolute dominion over the world scythedom. With the silence of the Thunderhead and the reverberations of the Great Resonance still shaking the earth to its core, the question remains: Is there anyone left who can stop him? The answer lies in the Tone, the Toll, and the Thunder"--
7) Everwild
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
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Nick, known as the dreaded "chocolate ogre," is trying to find all the children in Everlost and release them from the limbo they are in, while Mikey and Allie have joined a band of skinjackers and are putting themselves in danger by visiting the world of the living.
8) Thunderhead
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
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"Rowan has gone rogue and has taken it upon himself to put the Scythedom through a trial by fire. Literally. In the year since Winter Conclave, he has gone off-grid and has been striking out against corrupt scythes, not only in MidMerica, but across the entire continent. He is a dark folk hero now, Scythe Lucifer, a vigilante taking down corrupt scythes in flames. Citra, now a junior scythe under Scythe Curie, sees the corruption and wants to help...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
A high school boy and his friends decide to form a club of "second bests" and play anonymous tricks on each other's arch rivals. When the harmless pranks become life-threatening, however, no one in the club will admit responsibility.
10) Everfound
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Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 20
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Description
In the limbo that is Everlost, Mary, Nick, Allie, and others face the decisions that will determine whether that place and the Earth itself will continue to exist, as well as where their own futures lie.
11) UnSouled
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Series
Unwind dystology volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Description
After the destruction of the Graveyard, Connor and Lev are on the run, seeking a woman who may be the key to bringing down unwinding forever while Cam, the rewound boy, tries to prove his love for Risa by bringing Proactive Citizenry to its knees.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
When fourteen-year-old Lindsay meets Talon, who lives in the secret Downsider community that evolved in the subterranean passages of the subway built in New York in 1867, she and her new friend try to bridge the differences between their two cultures.
13) Duckling ugly
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Series
Dark fusion volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When sixteen-year-old Cara, a girl ugly enough to break mirrors, is drawn to a place where everyone can be beautiful, her deepest desire is to return home to say goodbye--and get revenge.
Author
Series
Accelerati trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"With a plot combining science and the supernatural, four kids are caught up in a dangerous plan concocted by the eccentric inventor, Nikola Tesla"--
15) Challenger deep
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
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Description
"A teenage boy struggles with schizophrenia"--
16) Antsy does time
Author
Series
Antsy Bonano volume 2
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Fourteen-year-old Anthony "Antsy" Bonano learns about life, death, and a lot more when he tries to help a friend with a terminal illness feel hopeful about the future.
17) Ship out of luck
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Series
Antsy Bonano volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Brooklyn-native Antsy Bonano embarks on the largest cruise ship in the world, where mischief, adventure, and deportation await.
18) Game changer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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Description
"All it takes is one hit on the football field, and suddenly Ash's life doesn't look quite the way he remembers it. Impossible though it seems, he's been hit into another dimension--and keeps on bouncing through worlds that are almost-but-not-really his own. The changes start small, but they quickly spiral out of control as Ash slides into universes where he has everything he's ever wanted, universes where society is stuck in the past...universes...
19) Gleanings
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Description
A collection of stories that span the time when humans live in a world without hunger, disease, or death and Scythes act as the living instruments of population control.
20) UnDivided
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Proactive Citizenry, the company which created Cam from the parts of unwound teens, has a plan: to mass produce Rewound teens like Cam for military purposes. But below the surface is of that horror lies another shocking level of intrigue: Proactive Citizenry has been suppressing technology that could make unwinding completely unnecessary. As Conner, Risa and Lev uncover these shocking secrets, enraged teens begin to march on Washington to demand justice...