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1) The giver
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In this new graphic novel edition, readers experience the haunting story of twelve-year-old Jonas and his seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment, through the brilliant art of P. Craig Russell that truly brings The Giver to life. Witness Jonas' assignment as the Receiver of Memory, watch as he begins to understand the dark secrets behind his fragile community, and follow the explosion of color into his world like never before....
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Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Four linked stories of discovery and survival begin with a Paleolithic-era girl who makes the first written signs, continue with Anna, who people call a witch, then a mad twentieth-century poet who watches the ocean knowing the horrors it hides, and concluding with an astronaut on the first spaceship from Earth sent to colonize another world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
720L
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Description
Oscar Indigo has never been good at baseball, so naturally he's nervous when he has to fill in for his team's injured All-Star, Lourdes. Luckily, Oscar has a mysterious gold watch that can stop time, which he uses to fake a game-winning home run. Now Oscar's the underdog hero of his town and even Lourdes wants to be his friend. But the universe is a precarious place, and you can't just steal time without any consequences. If Oscar doesn't find a way...
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Series
Moon Base Alpha volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
810L
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Description
In 2041 on Moon Base Alpha, thirteen-year-old Dash must solve the mystery of how Lars was poisoned before the base loses oxygen, forcing the colonists to return to Earth.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
"Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a mission: survive being catapulted across the mountains into goblin territory, deliver a priceless peace offering to their mysterious dark lord, and spy on the goblin kingdom -- from which no elf has returned alive in more than a hundred years. Brangwain's host, the goblin archivist Werfel, is delighted to show Brangwain around. They should be the best of friends, but a series of extraordinary double...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Description
Adri's, Catherine's, and Lenore's lives are intertwined but not in the way that one would think. Adri lives in 2065 Kansas, Catherine lives in 1930s Kansas, and Lenore lives in England in 1919. As Adri is preparing to go to Mars, she stays with her cousin in Kansas, where the training takes place. Upon settling in, she comes across letters written from Lenore to Beth. Through journals and, later, letters, Catherine narrates her own story of being...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
Raised in isolation in a post-apocalyptic world, Ami Miles escapes to seek her long-lost mother after her grandfather, knowing she is one of the few surviving women capable of child-bearing, arranges her marriage to a stranger.
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Series
Hilo volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 200L
Description
Hilo and his friends learn more about Hilo's past while they battle robots that were buried underground on Earth a thousand years ago.
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Series
Frank Einstein volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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Description
"Frank Einstein (kid-genius, scientist, and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, along with Klink (a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity) and Klank (a mostly self-assembled and artificial almost intelligence entity), once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival, this time studying the science and mysteries of the universe!"-- Provided by publisher.
11) The firefly code
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Series
Firefly code volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
Mori and her friends live a normal life on Firefly Lane in Old Harmonie, a utopian community where every kid knows he or she is genetically engineered to be better and smarter, but when a strangely perfect new girl named Ilana moves in, the friends begin to question the only world they have ever known.
12) One trick pony
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
In a future where alien beings consume technology as a few humans try to preserve it, Strata, her brother, and a friend are separated from their caravan and, with a wonderful robotic horse, must fight their way back.
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Series
Frank Einstein volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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Description
Boy genius and inventor Frank Einstein and his robot pals Klink (intelligent) and Klank (sort-of intelligent) study the science of ecology and conservation as they try to stop classmate and archrival T. Edison and his loggers from destroying the Midville Forest Preserve.
14) Satellite
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Description
Sixteen-year-olds Leo and the twins Orion and Libra were born and raised on Moon 2 by teams of astronauts and must now endure the dangerous trip to--and life on--Earth.
Author
Series
Hilo volume 5
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 240L
Description
As D.J., Gina, Hilo and Izzy go on another adventure together, Hilo gets even closer to answering the questions of his past. But the shocking answers he gets are not the ones he expected or wanted.
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Series
Even the darkest stars volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Kamzin dreamed of becoming one of the Emperor's royal explorers, the elite climbers tasked with mapping the wintry, mountainous Empire and spying on its enemies. Then River Shara, the greatest explorer ever known, arrives and demands to hire Kamzin -- not her older sister Lusha, as everyone had expected -- for his next expedition. River's mission to retrieve a rare talisman for the emperor; it means climbing Raksha, the tallest and deadliest mountain...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 23
Formats
Description
When Neverfell, who has no memory, arrives in Caverna, her facial expressions make her very dangerous to the people who live with blank faces or pay dearly to learn to simulate emotions.
In the underground city of Caverna, craftsmen create wines that remove memories, cheeses that make you hallucinate, and perfumes that convince you to trust the wearer, even as they slit your throat. The people of Caverna have faces as blank as untouched snow; only...
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Series
Frank Einstein volume 4
Publisher
Amulet Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
700L
Description
Boy genius Frank Einstein finds himself in competition with his classmate and archrival T. Edison and his sign-language-speaking sidekick, Mr. Chimp, over Frank's newest invention: the EvoBlaster Belt.
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Series
Beasts made of night volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
After he eats the sin of a royal, Taj, a talented aki, or sin-eater who consumes the guilt of others whose transgressions are exorcised from them by powerful but corrupt Mages, is drawn into a plot to destroy the city, and he must fight to save the princess he loves and his own life.
Taj is a talented aki, or sin-eater, who consumes the guilt of others: the transgressions are exorcised by powerful but corrupt Mages as "sin-beasts." After Taj eats...
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Series
5 worlds volume Book 1
Publisher
Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The Five Worlds are on the brink of extinction---unless five ancient and mysterious beacons are lit.
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