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1) The Giver
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now a major motion picture, Lois Lowry's powerful and provocative Newbery Medal—winning tale has become one of the most influential novels of our time.
The story focuses on twelve-year-old Jonas who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world full of contentment and conformity. But when he's given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory, he begins to understand the dark secrets that form the foundation of his fragile community. This movie...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Lucky and the rest of his Pack encounter another group of dogs that has survived the Big Growl--and these new dogs may be their most dangerous enemies yet."--
3) The giver
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of Lois Lowry's The giver, a story of a young boy discovering the dark secrets behind his seemingly ideal world.
Author
Series
Uglies volume 1
Publisher
Ballantine Books/Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After befriending the Crims, a group of fellow teens who refuse to take anything in society at face value, Shay starts to question the whole concept of being transformed from an ordinary Ugly into a paragon of beauty. And as the Crims explore beyond the monitored borders of Uglyville into the forbidden, Shay must choose between the perks of being Pretty and the rewards of being real.
Author
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
A sister and brother, along with thousands of young people, have been kidnapped and either thrown in prison or turned up missing after accusations of witchcraft were made against them, and the ruling regime will do anything in order to suppress life and liberty, music and books.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Lucky and his Pack were able to defeat Terror's dogs. But their new world still holds many dangers. Now the Pack has come to the edge of a strange lake that seems to stretch on forever, and Lucky discovers that there is barely enough food to survive. As winter approaches and the dogs struggle for prey and shelter, Alpha makes it clear that his own needs come before the rest of the Pack. Meanwhile, the Fierce Dogs are determined to destroy Alpha's...
Author
Series
Hunger Games trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. Nothing is...
Author
Series
Hunger Games trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games,"...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds; that their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac. That is why they're banished for their sixteenth year, to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage. But not all of them will make it home alive. Tierney James dreams of a society that doesn't pit friend against friend or woman against woman. She fears the brutal elements,...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Hundreds of years in the future, Manhattan has become a deadly slum, run by mutant crime-lords and disinterested cops. Stuck in the middle is a young girl who thought she had no future, but learns she has a great destiny. In a world so poisoned that it doesn't notice the monsters on its streets, how can a street kid like Fray unite a fallen city against a demonic plot to consume mankind? Joss Whedon, the celebrated creator of Buffy the Vampire Slayer,...
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