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1) Graceling
Author
Series
Graceling Realm volume 1
Language
English
Description
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
Author
Series
Seven Realms novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Relates the intertwining fates of former street gang leader Han Alister and headstrong Princess Raisa, as Han takes possession of an amulet that once belonged to an evil wizard and Raisa uncovers a conspiracy in the Grey Wolf Court.
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Series
Maze runner trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
4) Killer Pizza
Author
Series
Killer Pizza volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
While working as summer employees in a local pizza parlor, three teenagers are recruited by an underground organization of monster hunters.
Author
Series
Prophecy of the sisters trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In late nineteenth-century New York state, wealthy sixteen-year-old twin sisters Lia and Alice Milthorpe find that they are on opposite sides of an ancient prophecy that has destroyed their parents and seeks to do even more harm.
Author
Language
English
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Books for Reluctant Readers (Intermediate/Middle School)
Middle Zone Mysteries
Newbery Award Winners
Newbery Winners 1922-2023
Middle Zone Mysteries
Newbery Award Winners
Newbery Winners 1922-2023
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Description
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
Author
Series
Calpurnia Tate volume 1
Language
English
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Description
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate learns about love from the older three of her six brothers and studies the natural world with her grandfather which leads to an important discovery.
10) The season
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Showing no interest in the sumptuous balls, lavish dinner parties, and country weekends enjoyed by the rest of early nineteenth-century London society, seventeen-year-old Lady Alexandra Stafford seeks adventure as she investigates the puzzling murder of the Earl of Blackmoor, father of devilishly handsome Gavin.
11) Pop
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.
13) Slob
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Language
English
Description
Picked on, overweight genius Owen tries to invent a television that can see the past to find out what happened the day his parents were killed.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Two years after being airlifted out of Vietnam in 1975, Matt Pin is haunted by the terrible secret he left behind and, now, in a loving adoptive home in the United States, a series of profound events forces him to confront his past.
15) Bull rider
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When his older brother, a bull-riding champion, returns from the Iraq War partially paralyzed, fourteen-year-old Cam takes a break from skateboarding to enter a bull-riding contest, in hopes of winning the $15,000 prize and motivating his depressed brother to continue with his rehabilitation.
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