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Author
Series
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
"It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother were in the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. 'Wild nights are my glory,' the unearthly stranger told them. 'I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me sit down for a moment, and then I'll be on my way. Speaking of ways, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.' A tesseract...
2) Babbitt
Author
Language
English
Description
Businessman George F. Babbitt loves the latest appliances, brand names, and the Republican Party. In fact, he loves being a solid citizen even more than he loves his wife. But Babbitt comes to resent the middle-class trappings he has worked so hard to acquire. Realizing that his life is devoid of meaning, he grows determined to transcend his trivial existence and search for greater purpose. Babbitt's quest for meaning forces him to ponder what it...
3) Crazy house
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a future world where teenagers are taken, imprisoned, and forced to fight for their survival, well-behaved Cassie will do whatever it takes to save her rebellious twin sister from Death Row.
Language
English
Description
"Once upon a time in a castle high on a hill lived an inventor whose greatest creation was named Edward. Although Edward had an irresistible charm, he wasn't quite perfect. The inventor's sudden death left him unfinished, with sharp shears of metal for hands. Edward lived alone in the darkness until one day a kind Avon lady took him home to live with her family. So began Edward's fantastical adventures in a pastel paradise known as Suburbia"--Container....
6) The Giver
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First American hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
163 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Keiko Furukura had always been considered a strange child, and her parents always worried how she would get on in the real world, so when she takes on a job in a convenience store while at university, they are delighted for her. For her part, in the convenience store she finds a predictable world mandated by the store manual, which dictates how the workers should act and what they should say, and she copies her coworkers' style of dress and speech...
10) Eventown
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The world tilted for Elodee this year, and now it's impossible for her to be the same as she was before. Not when her feelings have such a strong grip on her heart. Not when she and her twin sister, Naomi, seem to be drifting apart. So when Elodee's mom gets a new job in Eventown, moving seems like it might just fix everything. Indeed, life in Eventown is comforting and exciting all at once. Their kitchen comes with a box of recipes for Elodee to...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 59
Pub. Date
1992
Physical Desc
898 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
490L
Physical Desc
34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
When the lemmings encounter a bear, they are determined to help him be more "distinguished'--just like they are--but little do they realize this bear could be exactly what they need to save them from themselves.--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The bar code tattoo. Everybody's getting it. It will make your life easier, they say. It will hook you in. It will become your identity. But what if you say no? What if you don't want to become a code? For Kayla, this one choice changes everything. She becomes an outcast in her high school. Dangerous things happen to her family. There's no option but to run for her life. Individuality vs. conformity. Identity vs. access. Freedom vs. control.
Author
Series
Chicagoland Detective Agency volume no. 1
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
GN 570L
Physical Desc
60 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Required to attend summer school after moving to Chicagoland, thirteen-year-old manga-lover Megan Yamamura needs help from twelve-year-old computer genius Raf to escape the maniacal principal's mind-control experiment.
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Plainsville, no one ever wants to try anything different. It's always the same, same, same... But then one day, Julius and his friends decide it's high time for a change! Find out what happens in this Wild West adventure about the challenge -- and thrill -- of trying new things." -- Page [4] of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Francine Green doesn't speak up much, and who can blame her? Her parents aren't interested in her opinions, the nuns at school punish girls who ask too many questions, and the House Committee on Un-American Activities is blacklisting people who express unpopular ideas. There's safety in silence. Francine would rather lose herself in a book, or in daydreams about her favorite Hollywood stars, than risk attracting attention or getting in trouble.
But...
19) Brave new girl
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
830L
Physical Desc
255 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Dahlia 16 is one of five thousand girls created from a single genome to work for the greater good of the city. Trigger 17 thinks she's interesting. Beautiful. Unique. Which means he must be flawed. When Dahlia can't stop thinking about him, even though that means breaking the rules, she realizes she's flawed, too. But if she's flawed, then so are all her identicals. They'll all be recalled...and destroyed. Suddenly the girl who always follows the...
20) Red
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a town that values red hair above all else, someone threatens to expose pageant contestant Felicity's secret about her coppery locks.