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1) Unwind
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Description
The Second Civil War was fought over reproductive rights. The chilling resolution: Life is inviolable from the moment of conception until age thirteen. Between the ages of thirteen and eighteen, however, parents can have their child "unwound," whereby all of the child's organs are transplanted into different donors, so life doesn't technically end. Connor is too difficult for his parents to control. Risa, a ward of the state, is not enough to be kept...
2) Internment
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Language
English
Description
"Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens. With the help of newly made friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a journey to fight for freedom, leading a revolution against the internment camp's Director and his guards. Heart-racing and emotional, Internment...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain's King George III, Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe. What started as protest and unrest in the colonies soon escalated to a world war with devastating casualties. O'Reilly and Dugard recreate the war's landmark battles, including Bunker...
Author
Publisher
Zest Books
Language
English
Description
We love to root for the underdog, and that's part of why we're drawn to the stories of revolutionaries. Whether they fail, succeed, or succeed only to become what they once fought against, people who can rally others to their cause and shake up the status quo tend to be inherently interesting. This tells the stories of 50 such legends throughout the world, from people fed up with the Roman Empire, to the revolutionaries who helped create America.--Provided...
Author
Series
Shadow histories volume 1
Publisher
Redhook
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping tale of revolution and wonder in a world not quite like our own. It is the Age of Enlightenment -- of new and magical political movements, from the necromancer Robespierre calling for revolution in France to the weather mage Toussaint L'Ouverture leading the slaves of Haiti in their fight for freedom, to the bold new Prime Minister William Pitt weighing the legalization of magic amongst commoners in Britain and abolition throughout its...
Author
Series
Punto de lectura. Narrativa volume 4/15
Publisher
Punto de Lectura
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
10) UnDivided
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster/BFYR
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Three teens band together in order to sway the government to repeal all rulings in support of a procedure in which unwanted teenagers are captured and are unwound into parts that can be reused for transplantation.
11) The Elite
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The Selection began with thirty-five girls. Now with the group narrowed down to the six Elite, the competition to win Prince Maxon's heart is fiercer than ever -- and America is still struggling to decide where her heart truly lies. Is it with Maxon, who could make her life a fairy tale? Or with her first love, Aspen? America is desperate for more time. But the rest of the Elite know exactly what they want -- and America's chance to choose is about...
Author
Series
Panorama de narrativas volume 989
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
octubre 2018.
Language
Español
14) Revolution no. 9
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Abducted by the followers of a paramilitary sociopath responsible for a series of bizarre, high-profile murders, Dr. Carroll Monks is ensconced within a backwoods community and forced to care for his captor's dangerously ill son.
15) The Selection
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon. But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
"It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found dead near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their death as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's dictatorship. It doesn't have to. Everybody knows of Las...
Author
Language
English
Description
Isabel Montgomery starts to receive emails from her father, a man who had abandoned her in a hotel room ten years ago when his past finally caught up with him. Why has he contacted her now? Because he needs her help and is finally ready to reveal the truth. Isabel discovers that her father adopted a false identity in the hope of avoiding murder charges for a robbery gone wrong in 1974. Now, tracked down by a young newspaper reporter in search of a...
20) The one
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
The Selection changed America Singer's life in ways she never could have imagined. Since she entered the competition to become the next princess of Illéa, America has struggled with her feelings for her first love, Aspen -- and her growing attraction to Prince Maxon. Now she's made her choice ... and she's prepared to fight for the future she wants.