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3) The Six
Author
Series
The Six (Mark Alpert) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
To save humanity, they must give up their own. Adam's muscular dystrophy has stolen his mobility, his friends, and in a few short years, it will take his life. Virtual reality games are Adam's only escape from his wheelchair. In his alternate world, he can defeat anyone. Running, jumping, scoring touchdowns: Adam is always the hero. Then an artificial intelligence program, Sigma, hacks into Adam's game. Created by Adam's computer-genius father, Sigma...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Two years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is home in Austin, Texas, trying to turn his life around. But it’s hard when you have a record, and everyone expects the worst from you. The only person who believes in him is Ginny, his 10-year old disabled neighbour. Together, they are learning to take small steps. And he seems to be on the right path, until X-Ray, a buddy from Camp Green Lake, comes up with a get-rich-quick scheme....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
**THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED SACRED LIES, NOW STREAMING ON FACEBOOK WATCH**
A Morris Award finalist and Golden Kite Honor Book!
A hard-hitting and hopeful story about the dangers of blind faith—and the power of having faith in yourself.
The Kevinian cult has taken everything from seventeen-year-old Minnow: twelve years of her life, her family, her ability to trust. And when she rebelled, they took away her...
A Morris Award finalist and Golden Kite Honor Book!
A hard-hitting and hopeful story about the dangers of blind faith—and the power of having faith in yourself.
The Kevinian cult has taken everything from seventeen-year-old Minnow: twelve years of her life, her family, her ability to trust. And when she rebelled, they took away her...
7) Just Breathe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
From the critically acclaimed author of Say What You Will and A Step Toward Falling comes a deeply emotional new novel, perfect for fans of Five Feet Apart and The Fault in Our Stars.
David Scheinman is the popular president of his senior class, battling cystic fibrosis.
Jamie Turner is a quiet sophomore, struggling with depression.
The pair soon realizes that they're able to be more themselves with each other than they can be with anyone else,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano books, Henry Holt and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Griffin, the teen who helped Cheyenne, who is blind, escape in Girl, Stolen, goes missing right before he's set to testify at his father's trial. Cheyenne sets out to save her former captor in this much-anticipated sequel. -- Provided by publisher.
9) Girl, stolen
Author
Series
Publisher
Christy OttavianoSquare fish, Henry Holt and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When an impulsive carjacking turns into a kidnapping, Griffin, a high school dropout, finds himself more in sympathy with his wealthy, blind victim, sixteen-year-old Cheyenne, than with his greedy father.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her story of fighting to belong in school and society -a powerful role model for young adults with a passion for activism"-- Provided by publisher.
11) The Call
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
You have three minutes to save your life . . .
THREE MINUTESYou wake up alone in a horrible land. A horn sounds. The Call has begun.TWO MINUTESThe Sidhe are close. They're the most beautiful and terrible people you've ever seen. And they've seen you.ONE MINUTENessa will be Called soon. No one thinks she has any chance to survive. But she's determined to prove them wrong. TIME'S UPCould you survive the Call?A genre-changing blend of fantasy, horror,...
12) The Degenerates
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Language
English
Description
In 1928, Maxine, Rose, Alice, and London face vicious attendants and bullying older girls at the Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded, each determined to change her fate at all costs.
13) All in pieces
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Young comes a heart-rending new novel about a girl struggling to deal with anger issues while taking care of her younger brother with special needs. "Anger-management issues." That's how they classified Savannah Sutton after she stuck a pencil in her ex-boyfriend's hand because he mocked her little brother, Evan, for being disabled. That's why they sent her to Brooks Academy-an alternative high school...
14) Dangerous
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
When aspiring astronaut Maisie Danger Brown, who was born without a right hand, and the other space camp students get the opportunity to do something amazing in space, Maisie must prove how dangerous she can be and how far she is willing to go to protecteverything she has ever loved.
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Language
English
Appears on list
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Description
A genre-defying debut, this queer historical YA centers a wild and reckless trio who fly in the face of small town tradition-full of compassion, love, and determination to live the lives of their choosing. It's 1904 on an island just west of Norway, and Asta Hedstrom doesn't want to marry her odious betrothed, Nils. But her mother believes she should be grateful for the possibility of any domestic future given her single-sided deafness, unconventional...
Author
Series
Cursebreaker series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
A New York Times bestseller!
"Has everything you'd want in a retelling of a classic fairy tale." - Jodi Picoult
In a lush, contemporary fantasy retelling of Beauty and the Beast, Brigid Kemmerer gives readers another compulsively readable romance perfect for fans of Marissa Meyer.
Fall in love, break the curse.
It once seemed so easy to Prince Rhen, the heir to Emberfall....
"Has everything you'd want in a retelling of a classic fairy tale." - Jodi Picoult
In a lush, contemporary fantasy retelling of Beauty and the Beast, Brigid Kemmerer gives readers another compulsively readable romance perfect for fans of Marissa Meyer.
Fall in love, break the curse.
It once seemed so easy to Prince Rhen, the heir to Emberfall....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thrilling suspense from New York Times bestselling and Edgar award winner Nancy Werlin. Five teens are students at Rockland Academy, and they're the only ones summoned to a meeting in an old building-when the roof caves in on them. They survive, but barely. It was a terrible accident. Or was it? Saralinda: "I'm a huge burden to my mother."Caleb: "I'm a monster."Kenyon: "My grandfather hates me."Antoine: "My mother has already tried to kill me twice."Evangeline:...
19) Kids of Appetite
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A gorgeous, insightful, big-hearted joy of a book." —Nicola Yoon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Everything, Everything
The critically acclaimed author of Mosquitoland brings us another batch of unforgettable characters in this New York Times bestselling tragicomedy about first love and devastating loss.
Victor Benucci and Madeline Falco have a story to tell.
...
The critically acclaimed author of Mosquitoland brings us another batch of unforgettable characters in this New York Times bestselling tragicomedy about first love and devastating loss.
Victor Benucci and Madeline Falco have a story to tell.
...
20) The broken raven
Author
Series
Shadow Skye series volume 2
Publisher
Walker Books, a division of Candlewick Press
Language
English
Description
Escaping from Norveg only to discover that their home has fallen to the treacherous Raasay, unlikely heroes Agatha and Jamie seek shelter with a clan that is under attack by terrifying shadow creatures, while Sigrid uses her extraordinary memory to evade a cruel king.
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