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Author
Series
Vampire kisses volume 4
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When eleven-year-old Valentine, younger brother of vampires Jagger and Luna, comes to Dullsville looking for them, he threatens goth-girl Raven's younger brother, Billy Boy, as well as her relationship with her vampire boyfriend, Alexander.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
Back in London, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman must determine whom they can and cannot trust as they search for both Scatty and an immortal who can teach Josh the magic of fire, while Doctor Dee and Machiavelli continue to seek power.
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
A story told through e-mails, newspaper articles, and short story excerpts, in which Niki, a teenaged girl abandoned by her father, believes that she and her brother can transform themselves into a cat and a hawk, and a sympathetic classmate coping with his mother's death tries to protect the pair from rumors of incest.
4) Fallout
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.
Author
Series
Janie Johnson volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
The members of two families have their lives disrupted when a teenage girl who had been kidnapped twelve years earlier discovers that the people who raised her are not her biological parents. Sequel to "The Face on the Milk Carton."
6) The Magician
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman continue their magical training in Paris with Nicholas Flamel, Scatty, and the Comte de Sant Germaine, pursued by Doctor Dee and the immortal Niccolo Machiavelli.
7) The fall
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
A retelling of Edgar Allen Poe's 'The Fall of the House of Usher' in which Madeline and her twin brother, Roderick, suffer from the Usher family illness but she hears the House talking to her, filling her dreams, controlling her actions, and ensuring she never leaves the property.
8) La línea
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
When fifteen-year-old Miguel's time finally comes to leave his poor Mexican village, cross the border illegally, and join his parents in California, his younger sister's determination to join him soon imperils them both.
Author
Pub. Date
20180206
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Five teenagers from different backgrounds meet in the waiting room of Boston General Hospital seeking information on their loved ones after a bridge collapse. Alternating points of view illustrate the struggle each teen goes through in dealing with the potential loss of their loved ones. The reader is given information that the characters aren't privy to, which brings each teenager's motivations for being there into question.
10) Wildings
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"Rivka, one of the magical elite, embarks on a quest to find her twin brother, Arik, who was sent away when he failed to develop his own magical abilities"--
11) Ender's game
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
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Once again, Earth is under attack. An alien species is poised for a final assault. The survival of humanity depends on a military genius who can defeat the aliens. But who? Ender Wiggin. Brilliant. Ruthless. Cunning. A tactical and strategic master. And a child. Recruited for military training by the world government, Ender's childhood ends the moment he enters his new home: Battle School. Among the elite recruits Ender proves himself to be a genius...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
When Apophis, the chaos snake, threatens to plunge the world into eternal darkness, siblings Carter and Sade Kane plan to use an ancient spell to destroy the snake, but first must rely on the murderous ghost of a powerful magician.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
With their house in foreclosure, sisters India and Mouse and brother Finn are sent to stay with an uncle in Colorado until their mother can join them, but when the plane lands, the children are welcomed by cheering crowds to a strange place where each of them has a perfect house and a clock that is ticking down the time.
15) They went left
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Appears on list
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Description
"Zofia, a teenage Holocaust survivor, travels across post- war Europe as she searches for her younger brother and seeks to rebuild her shattered life"--
16) La linea
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
When fifteen-year-old Miguel's time finally comes to leave his poor Mexican village, cross the border illegally, and join his parents in California, his younger sister's determination to join him soon imperils them both.
17) Breathless
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Appears on list
Description
At boarding school, Katie tries to focus on swimming and becoming popular instead of the painful memories of her institutionalized schizophrenic older brother.
Author
Series
Wind on fire trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Twins Bowman and Kestrel go on a journey to seek the promised land.
Author
Series
Wind on fire trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Fifteen-year-old Bowman uses his newly-discovered powers to join with his twin sister Kestrel in an attempt to liberate their people from the "beautiful but cruel" civilization which has enslaved them.
20) The witch haven
Author
Series
Witch haven volume 1
Formats
Description
Whisked away to Haxahaven Academy for Witches in 1911, seventeen-year-old Frances Hallowell soon finds herself torn between aligning herself with Haxahaven's foes, the Sons of St. Druon, to solve her brother's murder or saving Manhattan and her fellow witches.