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1) Code Orange
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
While conducting research for a school paper on smallpox, Mitty finds an envelope containing 100-year-old smallpox scabs and fears that he has infected himself and all of New York City.
2) Avalon High
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Having moved to Annapolis, Maryland, with her medievalist parents, high school junior Ellie enrolls at Avalon High School where several students may or may not be reincarnations of King Arthur and his court.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Steph Landry finds an old book on how to be popular and decides to change her social status by following its advice, much to the bafflement of her two best friends.
5) Payback time
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Overweight, somewhat timid Mitch reluctantly agrees to be the sports reporter for the Lincoln High newspaper because he's determined to be a writer, but he senses a real story in Angel, a talented football player who refuses to stand out on the field--or to discuss his past.
Author
Publisher
Viking Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old high school sophomore Marisa, who has an anxiety disorder, decides that this is the year she will get what she wants--a boyfriend and a social life--but things do not turn out exactly the way she expects them to.
7) Stork
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After her parents' divorce, Katla and her mother move from Los Angeles to Norse Falls, Minnesota, where Kat immediately alienates two boys at her high school and, improbably, discovers a kinship with a mysterious group of elderly women--the Icelandic Stork Society--who "deliver souls."
8) Trapped
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Seven high school students are stranded at their New England high school during a week-long blizzard that shuts down the power and heat, freezes the pipes, and leaves them wondering if they will survive.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a small South Carolina town, where it seems little has changed since the Civil War, sixteen-year-old Ethan is powerfully drawn to Lena, a new classmate with whom he shares a psychic connection and whose family hides a dark secret that may be revealed on her sixteenth birthday.
10) Jinx
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jean "Jinx" Honeychurch, the descendant of a witch, must leave Iowa to live with relatives in Manhattan after the first spell she casts goes awry, but she will have to improve her skills to stop her cousin from practicing black magic that endangers them and the boy they both like.
11) Prism
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
California high school students Kaida, Zeke, and Joy fall into a parallel universe in which all resembles their normal lives except that there is no medicine nor health care, which could mean big trouble for Joy, whose arm was injured in the accident that started their troubles.
12) Stuck on Earth
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
On a secret mission to evaluate whether the human race should be annihilated, a space alien inhabits the body of a bullied fourteen-year-old boy.
13) Frost like night
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"The final book in the Snow Like Ashes series, a high-fantasy adventure following Meira as she tries to defeat the evil king of Spring"--
14) The rise of nine
Author
Series
Lorien Legacies volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
The aliens must come together because their power is in numbers.
The third installment in the action-packed Lorien Legacies series that launched with "I Am Number Four" and "The Power of Six", finds the stakes higher than ever as John, Number Six, and Number Seven desperately try to find the rest of the Lorien Nine before it's too late.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When Cammie Morgan arrives at her friend Macey's five-star hotel for the Democratic National Convention, where Macey's father is about to receive the vice presidential nomination, she thinks she's in for an exciting end to her summer break. But if you're a Gallagher Girl, 'exciting' and 'deadly' are never far apart.
16) Fever Crumb
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.
17) I am number four
Author
Series
Lorien Legacies volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.
18) Red kayak
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Living near the water on Maryland's Eastern Shore, thirteen-year-old Brady and his best friends J.T. and Digger become entangled in a tragedy which tests their friendship and their ideas about right and wrong.
19) The Juvie three
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Gecko, Arjay, and Terence, all in trouble with the law, must find a way to keep their halfway house open in order to stay out of juvenile detention.
20) Smiles to go
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler/Harper Collins
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Will Tuppence's life has always been ruled by science and common sense but in ninth grade, shaken up by the discovery that protons decay, he begins to see the entire world differently and gains new perspective on his relationships with his little sister and two closest friends.