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1) Wonder
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author of the critically acclaimed Memory of Water returns with this literary ecological tale in the vein of Ursula K. Le Guin and Sheri S. Tepper, in which an innocent young woman becomes entangled in a web of ancient secrets and deadly lies that lie at the dark center of her prosperous island world.
Eliana is a model citizen of the island, a weaver in the prestigious House of Webs. She also harbors a dangerous secret-she can dream, an ability...
4) The bees
Author
Language
English
Description
A member of the lowest caste in her orchard hive, Flora 717, due to her courage and strength, finds her way into the Queen's inner sanctum where she discovers secrets about the hive that cause her to challenge authority and perform unthinkable acts.
5) Dark Eden
Author
Series
Dark Eden novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A marooned outpost of humanity struggles to survive on a startlingly alien world.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Eighteen-year-old Lena Mattacascar sets out for Scree, a weird place inhabited by Peculiars, seeking the father who left when she was young, but on the way she meets young librarian Jimson Quiggley and handsome marshall Thomas Saltre, who complicate her plans.
8) Elephant man
Author
Publisher
Annick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jospeh Merrick, a young nineteenth-century Englishman whose rare condition and severe deformities forced him to perform in freak shows, longs for kindness and human contact, in a fictionalized portrait of the man known as the "Elephant Man."
10) Freaks
Author
Publisher
Chicken House, Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In Victorian London, a lonely band of misfits trapped in a sideshow decides to put their extraordinary talents to use to solve the mysteries that no one else cares about, starting with the stealing of poor children from the banks of the Thames.
11) Dragon's keep
Author
Series
Wilde Island chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1145 A.D., as foretold by Merlin, fourteen-year-old Rosalind, who will be the twenty-first Pendragon Queen of Wilde Island, has much to accomplish to fulfill her destiny, while hiding from her people the dragon's claw she was born with that reflects only one of her mother's dark secrets.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"These stories are an extra peek at Auggie, a boy born with extreme facial abnormalities, before he started at Beecher Prep and during his first year there. Readers get to see him through the eyes of Julian, the bully; Christopher, Auggie's oldest friend; and Charlotte, Auggie's new friend at school."-- Provided by the publisher.
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