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Amity

Here is a house of ruin and rage, of death and deliverance. Here is where I live, not living. Here is always mine. When Connor's family moves to Amity, a secluded house on the peaceful banks Read More →

  • Lexile: 780
  • ATOS: 5.4
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2014
Cover: An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank
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An Unspeakable Crime: The Prosecution and Persecution of Leo Frank

Was an innocent man wrongly accused of murder? On April 26, 1913, thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan planned to meet friends at a parade in Atlanta, Georgia. But first she stopped at the pencil… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1210
  • ATOS: 8.8
  • Dewey: 364.152'3092
  • Copyright: 2010
Cover: Arctic Thaw: Climate Change and the Global Race for Energy Resources
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Arctic Thaw: Climate Change and the Global Race for Energy Resources

Ice in the Arctic is disappearing—and opportunity is calling. As climate change transforms the top of the world, warmer conditions are exposing a treasure trove of energy resources previously Read More →

  • Lexile: 1200
  • ATOS: 8.0
  • Dewey: 333.790911'3
  • Copyright: 2015
Cover: BZRK Apocalypse
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BZRK Apocalypse

From the Series BZRK

The Matrix meets Inner Space in this third book in the BZRK trilogy from New York Times best-selling author Michael Grant. The members of BZRK are preparing for their final stand. Noah and… Read More →

  • Lexile: 740
  • ATOS: 5.3
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2014
Cover: Believe
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Believe

When Janine Collins was six years old, she was the only survivor of a suicide bombing that killed her parents and dozens of others. Media coverage instantly turned her into a symbol of hope,… Read More →

  • Lexile: 510
  • ATOS: 3.9
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2013
Cover: Brooklyn, Burning
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Brooklyn, Burning

When you're sixteen and no one understands who you are, sometimes the only choice left is to run. If you're lucky, you find a place that accepts you, no questions asked. And if you're really… Read More →

  • Lexile: 760
  • ATOS: 4.8
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2011
Cover: Catch & Release
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Catch & Release

I should have died quick. But I didn't. I'm a miracle of modern medicine, only the medicine doesn't get much credit, I notice. People say I'm lucky, or I'm blessed, and then they turn away. Read More →

  • Lexile: 690
  • ATOS: 4.4
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2012

Changing Moon: Book 1

From the Series Nola's Worlds

In Alta Donna, the weather is great, the sunsets are super, and the stars twinkle brightly. Perfect, right? No! It’s super boring. Nothing real ever happens. Everybody says I spend too much… Read More →

  • Lexile: 370
  • ATOS: 2.9
  • Dewey: 741.5'944
  • Copyright: 2010
Cover: Chernobyl's Wild Kingdom: Life in the Dead Zone
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Chernobyl's Wild Kingdom: Life in the Dead Zone

After the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear explosion in Ukraine, scientists believed radiation had created a vast and barren wasteland in which life could never resurface. But the Dead Zone, as the… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1190
  • ATOS: 8.2
  • Dewey: 590.9477'8
  • Copyright: 2015
Cover: Death on Sacred Ground
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Death on Sacred Ground

In the deep woods of Pikes Landing, New York, on a Seneca reservation a girl is found murdered with an arrow through her heart. When they hear about the shocking death, Vivi and her father,… Read More →

  • Lexile: 580
  • ATOS: 4.2
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2001

Drowning Instinct

There are stories where the girl gets her prince, and they live happily ever after. (This is not one of those stories.) Jenna Lord's first sixteen years were not exactly a fairy tale. Her… Read More →

  • Lexile: 710
  • ATOS: 4.7
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2012

Emma

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

Emma Woodhouse is sure she'll never marry, and she's proud of it. However, that doesn't stop her from considering herself the village matchmaker. Though her friend, Harriet Smith, is already… Read More →

  • Lexile: 990
  • ATOS: 9.3
  • Dewey: 823'.7
  • Copyright: 2014

Even for a Dreamer Like Me: Book 3

From the Series Nola's Worlds

Library books. They look so innocent and helpful. But did you know there’s a border keeping the world of stories apart from the real-life world? And that the border must be guarded at all… Read More →

  • Lexile: 460
  • ATOS: 3.4
  • Dewey: 741.5'944
  • Copyright: 2010

Fad Mania!: A History of American Crazes

College students crammed into phone booths. Couples dancing until they drop. Daredevils swallowing one live goldfish after another. Streakers dashing naked down the street. Planking and flash Read More →

  • Lexile: 1070
  • Dewey: 973.91
  • Copyright: 2015

Ferrets and Ferreting Out: Book 2

From the Series Nola's Worlds

“It’s a little known fact, but ferrets secretly run the world.” I thought my biology report started out great. But did the teacher let me finish? No! No one ever lets me finish. They think I… Read More →

  • Lexile: 350
  • ATOS: 3.0
  • Dewey: 741.5'944
  • Copyright: 2010

Frankenstein: or, the Modern Prometheus

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

Victor Frankenstein, a young university student, becomes obsessed with discovering the secret to creating life. Over several months, he builds a creature out of body parts stolen from graves. Read More →

  • Lexile: 1040
  • ATOS: 12.4
  • Dewey: 823'.7
  • Copyright: 2014

Get Happy

Minerva has been raised by her single mother after her father left them. On her 17th birthday, she is shocked to discover that he has been trying to keep in touch, and that her mother has… Read More →

  • Lexile: 760
  • ATOS: 4.8
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2014
Cover: Girls vs. Guys: Surprising Differences between the Sexes
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Girls vs. Guys: Surprising Differences between the Sexes

Is it true that guys believe they're smarter than they really are? Or that girls talk more than guys? Do mosquitoes bite guys more than girls? Which sex is better at diapering babies,… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1020
  • Dewey: 155.3'3
  • Copyright: 2015

Great Expectations

From the Series First Avenue Classics ™

Pip is a young orphan who wants nothing more than to become a gentleman and be worthy of the beautiful but snobby Estella. So when he receives a large fortune from an unknown benefactor to… Read More →

  • Lexile: 1150
  • ATOS: 9.2
  • Dewey: 823'.8
  • Copyright: 2014
Cover: I Love Him to Pieces: Book 1
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I Love Him to Pieces: Book 1

From the Series My Boyfriend Is a Monster

Can love survive the zombie apocalypse? Maybe Dicey's first chance at a real relationship was dead from the start. She's the star of her high school baseball team, and Jack's the star of the… Read More →

  • Lexile: 260
  • ATOS: 2.4
  • Dewey: 741.5'973
  • Copyright: 2011
Cover: I Remember Beirut
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I Remember Beirut

Zeina Abirached, author of the award-winning graphic novel A Game for Swallows, returns with a powerful collection of wartime memories. Abirached was born in Lebanon in 1981. She grew up in Read More →

  • Lexile: 460
  • ATOS: 3.1
  • Dewey: 741.5'95692
  • Copyright: 2014

I Want to Live: The Dawn Rochelle Series, Book Two

From the Series Lurlene McDaniel Books

Fourteen-year-old Dawn Rochelle has had a busy year. She's been to summer camp and she's helped her brother make plans for his wedding. And Dawn has been in remission from the leukemia that… Read More →

  • Lexile: 650
  • ATOS: 4.4
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2003

If I Should Die Before I Wake

From the Series Lurlene McDaniel Books

Deanne doesn't want to spend her summer on silly debutante activities, like hanging out at the country club and flirting with the rich boys. She’d rather spend time with the kids in the… Read More →

  • ATOS: 3.8
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2004

In Trouble

Jamie and Elaine have been best friends forever, and now they're finally juniors in high school. Elaine has a steady boyfriend, and Jamie could have one—if she'd just open her eyes and see… Read More →

  • Lexile: 510
  • ATOS: 3.6
  • Dewey: [Fic]
  • Copyright: 2011