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1) Divergent
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
2) Gotcha!
Author
Series
Sisterhood series volume 21
Language
English
Description
Sometimes, justice is a long time coming. That's the case with Julie Wyatt, whose story strikes close to home for the original founder of the Sisterhood, Myra Rutledge, and her best friend--and fellow Sister--Annie. Julie is convinced her greedy daughter-in-law Darlene had something to do with the mysterious circumstances surrounding her son Larry's death.
3) Insurgent
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love"-- Provided by publisher.
4) Allegiant
Author
Series
Divergent trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered--fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories. But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she left...
6) The invaders
Author
Series
Brotherband chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Hal and the other Herons were charged with protecting the Skandian's sacred artifact, the Andomal, but when it is stolen they have to endure storms at sea, a cold winter, and a battle with bandits in their efforts to recover the relic.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A collection of four pre-Divergent stories plus three additional scenes from Divergent, all told from Tobias's point of view, that follow Tobias's transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, his Dauntless initiation, the first clues that a foul plan is brewing in the leadership of two factions, and the weeks after he meets Tris Prior.
Author
Series
Across the universe trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three months after Amy is disconnected from her family, she learns harrowing news about the spaceship Godspeed and accompanies Elder on a race to unlock a puzzle that was set in motion centuries earlier, a situation that is complicated by their growing feelings for each other.
Author
Language
English
Description
How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law...
10) Amal unbound
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Pakistan, Amal holds onto her dream of being a teacher even after becoming an indentured servant to pay off her family's debt to the wealthy and corrupt Khan family.
12) Homeless bird
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
216 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Koly enters into an ill-fated arranged marriage, she must either suffer a destiny dictated by India's tradition or find the courage to oppose it.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
No longer the little girls who slept curled together like small timid animals, Cosima and Halimeda Noline have grown into very independent women. When Cosima returns to Grace, Arizona, she is making a pilgrimage for both of them. She has come to reconcile memories by confronting their ailing father.
14) Brave
Author
Publisher
RP Kids
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents the ways in which ordinary kids are just as brave as superheroes, showing how they have courage when they perform such acts as check under the bed for monsters, persevere in a race, rescue a cat from a tree, fight illness, and tell the truth.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
202 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In October, 1942, seventeen-year-old Helmuth Hübener, imprisoned for distributing anti-Nazi leaflets, recalls his past life and how he came to dedicate himself to bring the truth about Hitler and the war to the German people.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Physical Desc
399 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Josiah Ransome sabotages Alfred Larribee, who has been able to break a wild stallion against all odds, when Josiah's chosen bets a precious emerald ring that Alfred Larribee will not be able to ride the horse.
17) Nana in the city
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A young boy is frightened by how busy and noisy the city is when he goes there to visit his Nana, but she makes him a fancy red cape that keeps him from being scared as she shows him how wonderful a place it is.
18) The hunters
Author
Series
Brotherband chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
403 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Determined to recover the Adomal and to prevent the pirate Zavac from doing more damage, Hal and his brotherband crew pursue Zavac to the lawless fortress of Ragusa where, if Hal is to succeed, he will have to go beyond his brotherband training and face the pirate one-on-one in a fight to the finish.
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Baffled by the sudden disappearance of the letter D, a young woman is summoned to the home of a former history teacher before arriving in an enslaved, wintry land where free thinking is under threat.
Author
Series
Lady Ilena volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
199 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Now chief of Dun Alyn, fifteen-year-old Ilena disgraces herself on the battlefield and, while subsequently exiled from her people, becomes involved in a plan to rescue King Arthur from his Saxon captors.
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