Scott Westerfeld
1) Leviathan
Author
Series
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically engineered beasts.
2) Impostors
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a world that is rapidly descending into chaos, Frey and Rafi are twin sisters, but few people know of Frey's existence, because she has been raised to be her sister's body double and lethal bodyguard, while Rafi has been raised to further the family's political power--but when their father sends Frey in her sister's place as collateral in a tricky deal, Col, the son of a rival leader, gets close enough to begin to suspect something, and Frey must...
3) Uglies
Author
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that? Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there. But Tally's...
4) Specials
Author
Series
Uglies volume 3
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
When she is turned into a super-modelesque super-fighting machine, Tally, a former ugly, is ordered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid in a carefully engineered world of perfection where she refuses to play by the rules.
5) Shatter city
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Assuming her twin's identity, Frey works to destroy her father, but when a rebel uprising strands her in a city that comes under attack, Frey must step out of the shadows to find her missing sister and take action against her tyrant father.
6) Extras
Author
Series
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
417 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse, an Extra, just wants to lay low, so when she discovers the secret lives of the Sly Girls, she wants to report their story, but she knows that would propel her into a celebrity status she's not prepared for.
7) Horizon
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Aero Horizon 16 crashes in the Arctic, eight children emerge from the wreckage to find themselves alone and surrounded, not by ice, but by a mysterious and deadly jungle full of carnivorous plants and predatory birds--the other five hundred people from the plane are gone, not necessarily dead, but taken by something that lives in the jungle.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Raised to be her twin sister Rafia's body double and bodyguard, but now with new face and body Frey and her lover Col are determined to return to Shreve to rescue Boss X, a friend and ally in the rebellion of the free cities against people like Frey's father, ruthless ruler of Shreve; but Frey is troubled by things even beyond the dangers of her mission--confusion over her own identity, guilt over having killed her brother (even if he was trying to...
9) Peeps
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.
10) Pretties
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Finally surgically transformed into a "pretty," sixteen-year-old Tally, now gorgeous and programmed to think only happy thoughts, is plagued by tangled memories of living in the Smoke, a rebel colony of "ugly" runaways hiding from the Special Circumstances authorities.
11) Zeroes
Author
Series
Zeroes trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Physical Desc
546 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Don't call them heroes, but these six Californian teens have powers that set them apart. Take Ethan, a.k.a. Scam. He's got a voice inside him that'll say whatever you want to hear, whether it's true or not. Which is handy, except when it isn't -- like when the voice starts gabbing in the middle of a bank robbery. The only people who can help are the other Zeroes, who aren't exactly best friends these days. Enter Nate, a.k.a. Bellwether, the group's...
12) Nexus
Author
Series
Zeroes volume 3
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Physical Desc
483 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Accused of murdering Swarm, Bellwether is in a high-security prison; Flicker, Crash, Mob, and Scam are on the run as suspected domestic terrorists. Meanwhile an army of Zeroes is gathering in New Orleans, around Piper--a new Zero with powers unknown. But the group faces internal threats, too. Can they learn to trust one another before an apocalyptic event occurs?
13) Swarm
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Physical Desc
448 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As they celebrate the opening of their underground nightclub, the Zeroes, six teenagers with unique abilities, learn about the sinister power of Swarm, who uses a crowd's rage to kill--and who loves killing Zeroes.
14) Afterworlds
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Physical Desc
599 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In alternating chapters, eighteen-year-old Darcy Patel navigates the New York City publishing world and Lizzie, the heroine of Darcy's novel, slips into the "Afterworld" to survive a terrorist attack and becomes a spirit guide, as both face many challenges and both fall in love.
15) Youngbloods
Author
Series
Impostors volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Frey has spent her life in a family of deceivers, a stand-in for her sister, manipulated at her father's command. Free from them at last, she is finding her own voice -- and using it to question everything her family stood for. Tally was once the most famous rebel in the world. But for over a decade, she's kept to the shadows, allowing her myth to grow even as she receded. Now she sees that the revolution she led has not created a stable world. Freedom,...
16) Goliath
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
543 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Alek and Deryn encounter obstacles on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek's throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love.
17) Behemoth
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Simon Pulse hardcover ed.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
485 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a whole new kind of genetically-engineered warships.
18) Spill zone
Author
Series
Spill zone volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
GN 340L
Physical Desc
211 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. Uncanny manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone. The Spill claimed Addison's parents and scarred her little sister, Lexa, who hasn't spoken since. Addison provides for her sister by photographing the Zone's twisted attractions on illicit midnight rides. Art collectors pay top dollar for these bizarre...
19) So yesterday
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Hunter Braque, a New York City teenager who is paid by corporations to spot what is "cool," combines his analytical skills with girlfriend Jen's creative talents to find a missing person and thwart a conspiracy directed at the heart of consumer culture.
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
GN 220L
Physical Desc
221 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. Strange manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone. Addison got close enough to the Spill Zone to touch it, literally. She survived the encounter, but came back changed. It turns out she's not alone. North Korea has its own Spill Zone, and a young man named Don Jae is the only one who made it out alive....