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1) Halt's peril
Author
Series
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tennyson, the false prophet of the Outsider cult, has escaped and Halt is determined to stop him before he crosses the border into Araluen, but Genovesan assassins put Will and Halt's extraordinary archery skills to the test.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Language
English
Formats
Description
Father is a prophet. Infallible. The Chosen One. Seventeen-year-old Piper will do anything for Father...until the day the government raids the compound and separates her from her siblings, from all of Father's followers--even Caspian, the boy she loves. Desperate to escape deprogramming after being rescued from the cult, Piper wants to rejoin her family. She's living with a woman They claim is her real mother--and Piper plans to escape.
3) The project
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lo Denham wants to expose the Unity Project as a cult and reconnect with her indoctrinated sister, but as she immerses herself in the group with no signs of Bea, Lo begins to question everything she thought was true.
Author
Series
Blackthorn key volume 1
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
"'Tell no one what Ive given you.' Until he got that cryptic warning, Christopher Rowe was happy, learning how to solve complex codes and puzzles and creating powerful medicines, potions, and weapons as an apprentice to Master Benedict Blackthornwith maybe an explosion or two along the way. But when a mysterious cult begins to prey on Londons apothecaries, the trail of murders grows closer and closer to Blackthorns shop. With time running out, Christopher...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood are living together in a fabulous loft; their warlock son, Max, has started learning to walk; and the streets of New York are peaceful and quiet--well, relatively. Until the night that two old acquaintances break into Magnus's apartment and steal the powerful Book of the White. Now Magnus and Alec need to follow the thieves to Shanghai: they need some backup to accompany them, and they need a babysitter. Also, someone...
Author
Publisher
Harper/Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
590L
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Behind the white-washed walls of the compound, life was simple. Follow the rules, "live in the light," and all would be well. But on the outside, things are different. There are colors and toys and food. There are liars and darkness. And twelve-year-old Zylynn now faces a difficult decision--to stay here with the enemy or find her way back to the light. And neither may be what it seems." -- jacket.
10) Shallow graves
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After waking in a shallow grave, Breezy, a high school senior, crosses the country seeking answers about her death and resurrection, discovering along the way a host of supernatural creatures, as well as a human cult determined to 'free' them at any cost." -- Provided by publisher.
11) Creed
Author
Publisher
Flux
Language
English
Formats
Description
When their car breaks down, Dee, her boyfriend Luke, and his brother Mike walk through a winter storm to take refuge in a nearby deserted town called Purity Springs, but in the morning they see the town is populated with a deadly cult and find themselves at the mercy of the charismatic leader, Elijah Hawkins.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Teen
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
398 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him--the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world's population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can't get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with. But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately...
13) Painted devils
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
504 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When misfortune strikes, the 'reformed' jewel thief Vanja manipulates a remote village for help and in turn, accidentally starts a cult around a Low God, the Scarlet Maiden. Soon after, her nemesis-turned-suitor Emeric and a supervising prefect arrive to investigate the claim of godhood, and she realizes how in over her head she must be. But the Scarlet Maiden does reveal herself...only to claim Emeric as her virgin sacrifice. Desperate to save the...
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Description
After his older brother is killed, David turns to anger and his parents to religion, but just as David's life is beginning to make sense again his parents press him and his sister to join them in cutting worldly ties to prepare for the Rush, when the faithful will be whisked off to heaven.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
417 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Agnes loves her home of Red Creek -- its quiet, sunny mornings, its dusty roads, and its God. There, she cares tirelessly for her younger siblings and follows the town's strict laws. What she doesn't know is that Red Creek is a cult, controlled by a madman who calls himself a prophet. Then Agnes meets Danny, an Outsider boy, and begins to question what is and isn't a sin. Her younger brother, Ezekiel, will die without the insulin she barters for once...
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
940L
Physical Desc
502 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The ancient god has been resurrected and sealed inside Beru's body. Both of them are at the mercy of the Prophet Pallas, who wants to subjugate the Six Prophetic Cities; but the god is growing stronger. Far away, Anton is learning to harness his powers as a Prophet. He plans to lead Jude, Hassan, and Beru's sister Ephyra on a desperate quest to destroy the god, Pallas, and save the world from darkness-- even if it requires an unbearable sacrifice....
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Gabry lives a quiet life in a town trapped between a forest and the ocean, hemmed in by the dead who hunger for the living, but her mother Mary's secrets, a cult of religious zealots who worship the dead, and a stranger from the forest who seems to know Gabry threaten to destroy her world.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Miriam, sixteen, is chosen for marriage by someone other than the boy she loves and begins to question her entire life in New Jerusalem, a desert compound safe from the world's evils.
Author
Series
All our hidden gifts volume 2
Publisher
Walker Books US, a division of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
389 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Maeve, Roe, Fiona, and Lily -- the four friends have been inseparable since the ritual that released Lily from the Housekeeper's spell and granted them each a supernatural gift. But now, with Roe at university and Fiona and Lily chasing dreams of life beyond their hometown, Maeve worries about a lonely future. What are the prospects for a teen psychic with bad grades and a terrible temper? Isolated and insecure, Maeve is vulnerable once more to Aaron,...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edtion.
Physical Desc
325 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fern's lived at the Ranch, an off-the-grid, sustainable community in upstate New York, since she was six. The work is hard, but Fern admires the Ranch's leader, Dr. Ben. So when Fern's mother sneaks them away in the middle of the night and says Dr. Ben is dangerous, Fern doesn't believe it. She wants desperately to go back, but her mom just keeps driving. Suddenly thrust into the treacherous, toxic, outside world, Fern thinks only about how to get...