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1) The Giver
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
Author
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Since he was captured by the Glorious Path, a militant religion based on the teachings of a former soldier, fifteen-year-old Cal has served the Path in its brutal war with the remains of the United States government, and tried to survive and protect his younger brother but when he kills an officer to protect a stray dog, Cal is forced take his brother and the dog and run.
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The Giver: Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. -- Gathering blue: Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians....
4) Specials
Author
Series
Uglies volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Description
After being captured and surgically transformed into a "special," teenaged Tally Youngblood, now a government agent programmed to protect society from outside threats, is ordered to eliminate the rebel colony New Smoke, Tally's former home.
6) Sneak
Author
Series
Swipe series volume 2
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In a future United States under the power of a charismatic leader, thirteen-year-old Logan and his friends, a group of dissenters called the Dust, receive some startling information from the Markless community, opening their eyes to the message of Christianity and warning that humanity is now entering the End of Days.
Author
Series
Out of time volume Book 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
What happens when you live longer than you wanted to? Parvin Blackwater wanted to die, but now she's being called to be a leader. The only problem is, no one wants to follow. The Council uses Jude's Clock-matching invention to force "new-and-improved" Clocks on the public. Those who can't afford one are packed into boxcars like cattle and used for the Council's purposes. Parvin and Hawke find themselves on a cargo ship of Radicals headed out to sea....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Sadina, Isaac, and Jackie all learned about the unkind history of the Gladers from The Book of Newt and tall tales from Old Man Frypan, but when a rusty old boat shows up one day with a woman bearing dark news of the mainland--everything changes. The group and their islander friends are forced to embark back to civilization where they find Cranks have evolved into a more violent, intelligent version of themselves. The islanders are hunted by the...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
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 Abnegationto Dauntless, his Dauntless initiation, the first clues thata foul plan is brewing in the leadership of two factions, and the weeks after he meets Tris Prior"--Provided by OCLC.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"All Alice Liddell wants is to escape her Normal life in Oxford and find the parents who abandoned her ten years ago. But she gets more than she bargained for when her older sister Charlotte is arrested for having the infamous Wonder Gene-- the key to unlocking the curious Wonderland Reality. Soon, Alice receives a rather cryptic invitation to play for Team Heart in this year's annual -- and often deadly -- Wonderland Trials. Now she has less than...
Author
Series
Running out of time volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Twelve-year-old Zola, who has a surprising connection to Jessie, discovers that she's stuck in a fake utopian future, and that those around her are counting on her to help them escape.
13) The switch
Author
Pub. Date
c2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"Four months after the power went out and his father went missing, Henry travels alone to find his father through the lawless world of the Switch, where he learns just how far people will go to survive"--
14) Allegiant
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Formats
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...
15) Frost
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Sixteen-year-old Frost lives in a bombed out apartment in a post-apocalyptic world, with only her pet broot, Romes, and a robot named Bunt, who has her father's memories, for company--but now Romes is dying and her need to find help is forcing her to leave the apartment for the first time in her life, and face the streets which are a hunting ground for rogue robots and the dreaded Eaters.
16) Alebrijes
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Description
When thirteen-year-old Leandro takes the fall for his sister and is exiled into an ancient drone, he embarks on a perilous journey beyond the city's walls where he encounters mutant monsters, wasteland pirates, and fellow outcasts as he tries to save hissister and fellow Cascabeles from the oppressive regime.
17) Dustborn
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Description
When raiders sent by a man known as the General attack her village, Delta suspects he is searching for her. Delta sets out to rescue her family but quickly learns that in the Wastes no one can be trusted; perhaps not even her childhood friend, Asher, who has been missing for nearly a decade. If Delta can trust Asher, she just might decode the map and trade evidence of the Verdant to the General for her family. What Delta doesn't count on is what waits...
Author
Series
Murder Complex series volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
In a world where the murder rate is higher than the birth rate, fifteen-year-old Meadow, trained by her father to kill and survive in any situation, falls in love with Zephyr, a government assassin.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
It's been months since Perry was named Blood Lord of the Tides, and Aria was charged with an impossible mission; now they are about to be reunited. But their reunion is far from perfect. The Tides don't take kindly to Aria, a former Dweller. And with the worsening Aether storms threatening the tribe's precarious existence, Aria begins to fear that leaving Perry behind might be the only way to save them both.
20) Behind the Gates
Author
Series
Tomorrow girls volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"In a terrifying new world, four girls must depend on one another if they want to survive. Disaster and destruction are all thirteen-year-old Louisa has ever known. But now she and her best friend Maddie, are among the lucky few being sent to boarding school, far from home. Finally, a taste of freedom! Country Manor School isn't perfect: The girls' roommates are tough to get along with, and the school is hard work. Still, Louisa loves CMS--the survival...