This document contains summaries of 20 books for children and young adults across various genres including fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and realistic fiction. The books range in reading level from grade 3 through 10 (Lexile 500-1050) and cover topics such as time travel, magic, family struggles, historical fiction, and adventure stories.

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8. In Victorian
London, Albert
Garrick, an
assassin-for-hire,
and his reluctant
young apprentice,
Riley, are
transported via
wormhole to
modern London,
where Riley teams
up with a young FBI
agent to stop
Garrick from
returning to his
own time and using
his newly acquired
scientific
knowledge and
power to change
the world forever.
© 2013
Lexile
Science Fiction

9. Having lost his
mother and his
hearing in a short
time, twelve-year-
old Ben leaves his
Minnesota home in
1977 to seek the
father he never
knew in New York
City, and meets
there Rose, who is
also longing for
something missing
from her life. Ben's
story is told in
words; Rose's in
pictures.
© 2011
Historical
Fiction/Illustrated
Novel
Lexile 830

10. Accompanied
by an eccentric,
human-sized
rat, Liza
embarks on a
perilous quest
through an
underground
realm to save
her brother
Patrick, whose
soul has been
stolen by the
evilest of
creatures--the
spider-like
spindlers.
© 2012
Lexile
Fantasy

11. When Bud gets
on the wrong
school bus he
finds himself at
Cosmos
Academy on
another planet,
where Earthlings
are considered
extremely
dangerous--can
he conceal his
identity as a
native of Earth
and still manage
to find his way
home?
© 2012
Lexile
Graphic Novel

12. Eleven-year-old
Jon Whitcroft
and new friend
Ella summon
the ghost of Sir
William
Longspee, who
may be able to
protect Jon
from a group of
ghosts that
threatens him
harm from the
day he arrives
at Salisbury
Cathedral's
boarding
school. Includes
historical notes.
© 2012
Lexile
Ghosts/Fantasy

13. Hoping to find his
lost brother,
Rownie escapes the
home of the witch
Graba and joins a
troupe of goblins
who perform in
Zombay, a city
where humans are
forbidden to wear
masks and act in
plays.
© 2012
Lexile 710
Fantasy

14. Tom goes with his
Uncle Harvey to
Peru, where they
narrowly escape
imprisonment and
death as they hunt
for buried treasure
after tracking
down a journal
written by John
Drake, a young
relative of Sir
Francis Drake, on a
voyage to Lima in
1577. Includes
biographical
information on
John and Francis
Drake.
© 2012
Lexile 640
Adventure

15. © 2011
Lexile 840
Sports
Seventh-grader Will Tyler
has been itching to
redeem himself for the
fumble that cost his team
a championship win last
year. But when his
struggling hometown
can't come up with the
money to finance youth-
league football, it seems
as though Will won't get
that chance -- at least not
without a little help. Will
writes a letter to the
chairman of a major
sneaker company, asking
for (and getting) corporate
sponsorship...but with so
many families leaving
town to find jobs, will
there even be enough kids
to play?

16. "Faced with the
death of his father
and a growing
international
scandal, Em
Governton must
uncover the secrets
behind the Knights
of Themis before
it's too late"
© 2012
Lexile
Adventure

17. When brothers
Simon, Henry,
and Jack move
with their
parents to
Arizona, they
are irresistably
drawn to
explore the
aptly named
Superstition
Mountain, in
spite of
warnings that
it is not safe.
© 2011
Mystery
Lexile 620

18. After an injury ends
former star pitcher
Peter Friedman's
athletic dreams, he
concentrates on
photography which
leads him to a
girlfriend, new
fame as a high
school sports
photographer, and
a deeper
relationship with
the beloved
grandfather who,
when he realizes he
is becoming senile,
gives Pete all of his
professional camera
gear.
© 2011
Lexile 800
Realistic Fiction

19. When her
parents swap
urban life in
Minneapolis for
rural life on a
farm 100 miles
away, twelve-
year-old Taylor
feels as if she is
living on
another planet.
© 2011
Lexile 630
Realistic Fiction

20. Sixth-grader
Sugar and her
mother lose
their beloved
house and
experience the
harsh world of
homelessness.
© 2012
Lexile
Realistic Fiction

21. Fifteen-year-old
Jennifer Strange
runs Kazam, an
employment
agency for
soothsayers and
sorcerers. Trouble
starts when
Jennifer has a vision
that predicts the
death of the last
dragon at the hands
of a dragonslayer.
© 2012
Lexile
Fantasy

22. In 1919,
seventeen-year-
old Hattie leaves
the Montana
prairie--and her
sweetheart
Charlie--to
become a female
reporter in San
Francisco.
© 2013
Lexile 720
Historical Fiction

23. In 1958 Little
Rock, Arkansas,
painfully shy
twelve-year-old
Marlee sees her
city and family
divided over
school
integration, but
her friendship
with Liz, a new
student, helps
her find her voice
and fight against
racism.
© 2012
Lexile 630
Historical Fiction

24. Narrates the
terrorist
attacks on the
United States
on September
11, 2001, from
the plane
hijackings to
the collapse of
the World
Trade Center.
© 2011
Lexile 840
Nonfiction

25. Twelve-year-old
Foster McFee
and her mother
escape from
her mother's
abusive
boyfriend and
end up in the
small town of
Culpepper,
West Virginia,
where they use
their strengths
and challenge
themselves to
build a new life,
with the help of
the friends they
make there.
© 2011
Lexile 540
Realistic Fiction

26. Devastated to learn
that an orphan
elephant in the
Dresden zoo where
their mother works
is to be euthanized
in anticipation of an
upcoming bombing,
Lizzie and Karl
persuade the zoo
director to let them
keep the elephant in
their garden.
© 2010
Lexile
Historical Fiction

27. In 1863, twelve-
year-old Will, who
longs to be a
drummer in the
Union army, is stuck
in his sleepy
hometown of
Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania, but
when the Union and
Confederate armies
meet right there in
his town, he and his
family are caught up
in the fight.Includes
historical notes,
glossary, and a
timeline of events.
© 2011
Lexile
Historical Fiction

28. Shortly before her
thirteenth
birthday, shy and
withdrawn Alyssa
is sent to stay
with her aunt,
uncle, and cousin
in her parents'
hometown of
Willow Falls,
where she makes
friends and
becomes involved
with an elderly
buyer and seller
of collectibles,
who seems to be
trying to give
Alyssa some kind
of mysterious
message.
© 2011
Lexile 720
Realistic Fiction

30. Tells the story of
Kendra, a witch,
and the first
three-hundred
years of her life,
including takes
on a classic fairy
tale, the 1666
plague in
Britain, the
Titanic disaster,
and the story of
a modern-day,
plain stepsister.
© 2012
Lexile 620
Historical
Fantasy

31. Everything
changes for
thirteen-year-old
Travis, a new
student who is
trying to hide his
illiteracy, when
he meets a sassy
classmate with
her own secrets
and a remarkable
teacher.
© 2011
Lexile 600
Realistic Fiction

32. © 2011
Lexile 670
Historical Fiction
In the Stalinist
era of the
Soviet Union,
ten-year-old
Sasha idolizes
his father, a
devoted
Communist,
but when
police take his
father away
and leave
Sasha
homeless, he
is forced to
examine his
own
perceptions,
values, and
beliefs.

33. © 2011
Realistic
Fiction/Humor
Lexile 920
In the historic town
of Norvelt,
Pennsylvania,
twelve-year-old Jack
Gantos spends the
summer of 1962
grounded for
various offenses
until he is assigned
to help an elderly
neighbor with a
most unusual chore
involving the newly
dead, molten wax,
twisted promises,
Girl Scout cookies,
underage driving,
lessons from history,
typewriting, and
countless bloody
noses.

34. © 2011
Lexile 800
Fantasy
Through a letter
to her English
teacher, fourteen-
year-old Lizzy
Mortimer of
Crabapple,
California, relates
her discovery that
she and her
eccentric
grandmother are
kin to Morgan le
Faye, charged
with saving the
last descendant of
King Arthur from
an untimely death
that would
endanger the
world.

35. Young Prince Rashko
believes that his
parents and his
older brother
Paulek, while
loveable, are utter
fools. He's even
more convinced of
this after the King
and Queen depart
castle Hladka Hvorka
unexpectedly, the
hostile Baron Temny
gathers his army
outside the castle
walls, and Paulek
invites Temny and
his troops inside.
Now it's up to Prince
Rashko to stop the
baron and save the
kingdom -- but,
smart as he is, is he
up to the challenge?
© 2011
Lexile 850
Fantasy

36. A Caldecott Medalist
presents a graphic novel
chronicling his own
journey as an artist during
WWII, when he was
shunned by his father,
who didn't understand his
son's artistic leanings, but
was embraced by Noro
Shinpei, Japan's leading
cartoonist.
© 2011
Lexile 560
Nonfiction

37. © 2011
Lexile 720
Fantasy
Ten years ago,
siblings Kate,
Michael, and
Emma were taken
from their parents'
home and have
lived in orphanage
after orphanage
ever since. Newly
arrived at their
latest abode, they
find an enchanted
old atlas that
transports them
back in time...and
into the clutches of
an evil countess
who's seeking the
book that they've
found.

38. © 2012
Lexile 710
Fantasy
In the country of
Carthya, a devious
nobleman
engages four
orphans in a
brutal
competition to be
selected to
impersonate the
king's long-
missing son in an
effort to avoid a
civil war.

39. © 2011
Lexile 730
Fantasy
A fearful
sixteen-year-
old princess
discovers her
heroic destiny
after being
married off to
the king of a
neighboring
country in
turmoil and
pursued by
enemies
seething with
dark magic.

40. © 2011
Lexile 670
Novel in Verse
When fourteen-
year-olds Wren
and Darra meet
at a Michigan
summer camp,
both are
overwhelmed by
memories from
six years earlier
when Darra's
father stole a
car, unaware
that Wren was
hiding in the
back.

41. A look at the
deaths of
several famous
people
throughout
history and the
circumstances
surrounding
those deaths.
© 2011
Lexile 950
Nonfiction

42. © 2011
Lexile
Realistic
Fiction
In the summer of
1986, eleven-year-
old April Grace,
who lives on a
rural Arkansas
farm with her
family, across a
field from her
grandmother, has
her sense of
Christian charity
tested when a
snooty couple
from San Francisco
moves into a
dilapidated house
down the road and
her grandmother
takes up with a
loud, obnoxious,
and suspicious-
acting Texan.

43. © 2012
Lexile
Science Fiction
Tom, a fourteen-
year-old genius at
virtual reality
games, is recruited
by the United
States Military to
begin training at
the Pentagon Spire
as a Combatant in
World War III,
controlling the
mechanized
drones that do the
actual fighting off-
planet.

44. © 2012
Lexile 1050
Romance
In order to
support her
family and
maintain their
ancient castle
in Lesser Hoo,
seventeen-
year-old Althea
bears the
burden of
finding a
wealthy suitor
who can
remedy their
financial
problems.

45. © 2011
Lexile 710
Science Fiction
In a dark future,
when North
America has split
into two warring
nations, fifteen-
year-olds Day, a
famous criminal,
and prodigy June,
the brilliant soldier
hired to capture
him, discover that
they have a
common enemy.

46. © 2011
Lexile 750
Adventure
When two
Florida
teenagers
become
stranded on a
tiny island in
the Everglades,
they attempt
to walk ten
miles through
swampland to
reach
civilization.

47. Michael Vey, a
fourteen-year
old who has
Tourette's
syndrome and
special electric
powers, finds
there are others
like him, and
must rely on his
powers to save
himself and the
others from a
diabolical group
seeking to
control them.
© 2011
Lexile 500
Science Fiction

48. © 2011
Lexile 710
Mystery
Rory, of Boueuxlieu,
Louisiana, is
spending a year at a
London boarding
school when she
witnesses a murder
by a Jack the Ripper
copycat and
becomes involved
with the very
unusual
investigation.

49. © 2011
Lexile 850
Realistic Fiction
While Doug
struggles to be
more than the
thug that his
teachers and the
police think him to
be, he finds an
unlikely ally in Lil
Spicer, as they
explore Audubon's
art.

50. ©2011
Lexile 770
Adventure
The children of
Britain's
ambassador to
Burkina Faso,
fifteen-year-old
Jake, who loves
technology and
adventure, and
thirteen-year-old
Kas, a budding
social activist, are
abducted and
spend time in the
Sahara desert with
Yakuuba Sor, who
some call a
terrorist but
others consider a
modern-day Robin
Hood.

51. © 2011
Lexile 930
Realistic Fiction
After the death of
Polly Portman,
whose award-
winning pies put
the town of
Ipswitch,
Pennsylvania, on
the map in the
1950s, her devoted
niece Alice and
Alice's friend
Charlie investigate
who is going to
extremes to find
Aunt Polly's secret
pie crust recipe.
Includes fourteen
pie recipes.

52. © 2012
Lexile
Historical
Fiction/Alternate
History
In an alternative
version of Victorian
London, a
seventeen-year-old
Dodger, a cunning
and cheeky street
urchin,
unexpectedly rises
in life when he
saves a mysterious
girl, meets Charles
Dickens, and
unintentionally puts
a stop to the
murders of Sweeny
Todd.

53. © 2012
Lexile
Science Fiction
The mining ship El
Cavador, beyond
Pluto, detects a
fast-moving
incoming object
headed toward
Earth. The crew
decides it's
probably not
important, but
they're wrong: it
represents the
opening wave of
the first Formic
War

54. © 2012
Lexile 940
Humor
Twelve-year-old
Tad navigates a
year filled with
girl problems,
school antics,
and the worst
summer job in
history, all told
in the form of
hilarious,
illustrated blog
entries

55. © 2012
Lexile 710
Mystery
Adopted by famous
Pinkerton Agency
Detective Hawking
in 1895 New York,
fourteen-year-old
Carver Young hopes
to find his birth
father, but when he
becomes involved in
the pursuit of
notorious killer Jack
the Ripper, Carver
discovers that
finding the truth can
be worse than
ignorance.

56. © 2011
Lexile
Realistic Fiction
When a school bus
accident leaves
sixteen-year-old
Jessica an
amputee, she
returns to school
with a prosthetic
limb and her track
team finds a
wonderful way to
help rekindle her
dream of running
again.

57. © 2012
Lexile 800
Fantasy
Orphaned by
the Border
Wars, Alina
Starkov is taken
from obscurity
and her only
friend, Mal, to
become the
protege of the
mysterious
Darkling, who
trains her to join
the magical elite
in the belief that
she is the Sun
Summoner, who
can destroy the
monsters of the
Fold.

58. © 2011
Lexile 700
Fantasy
From the age of
seven when she
became
scullery maid in
a castle, Molly
has seen visions
of the future
which, years
later, lead her
and friend
Tobias on an
adventure to
keep Alaric, the
heir to the
throne, safe
from a curse.

59. © 2011
Lexile 790
Realistic Fiction
Abandoned
by his mother
in an Acadia
National Park
campground,
Jack tries to
make his way
back to
Boston before
anyone
figures out
what is going
on, with only
a small toy
elephant for
company.

60. © 2011
Lexile 530
Realistic Fiction
Twelve-year-old
Raine spends the
summer at a
mysterious artists
colony and
discovers a secret
about her past.

61. © 2012
Lexile
Nonfiction
Traces the inspiring
life and career of
the late founder of
Apple, covering
topics ranging from
his struggles as an
adopted child and a
college dropout to
his Buddhist faith
and friendship with
Steve Wozniak, in a
portrait framed
around his
inspirationalStanfor
d University
commencement
speech.

62. © 2011
Lexile 760
Adventure
When North
Carolina fourteen-
year-old Dylan
Sands joins his
fifteen-year-old
cousin Rio in
running the Rio
Grande River, they
face a tropical
storm and a
fugitive kidnapper.

63. © 2011
Lexile 440
Realistic Fiction
For most of her
eleven years,
Delly has been in
trouble without
knowing why,
until her little
brother, R.B., and
a strange, silent
new friend,
Ferris, help her
find a way to be
good--and
happy--again.

64. © 2011
Lexile 860
Fantasy
Eleven-year-old
Princess Celie lives
with her parents,
the king and queen,
and her brothers
and sister at Castle
Glower, which adds
rooms or stairways
or secret
passageways most
every Tuesday, and
when the king and
queen are
ambushed while
travelling, itis up to
Celie--the castle's
favorite--with her
secret knowledge of
its never-ending
twists and turns, to
protect their home
and save their
kingdom.

65. © 2011
Lexile 990
Realistic Fiction
Throughout her
high school
years, as her
mother battles
cancer, Lupita
takes on more
responsibility for
her house and
seven younger
siblings, while
finding refuge in
acting and
writing poetry.
Includes glossary
of Spanish terms.

66. © 2011
Lexile 880
Fantasy
In a society that
purges thirteen-
year-olds who
are creative,
identical twins
Aaron and Alex
are separated,
one to attend
University while
the other,
supposedly
Eliminated, finds
himself in a
wondrous place
where youths
hone their
abilities and learn
magic.

67. © 2011
Lexile
Science Fiction
After years in
foster homes,
seventeen-year-
old Benson
Fisher applies to
New Mexico's
Maxfield
Academy in
hopes of securing
a brighter future,
but instead he
finds that the
school is a prison
and no one is
what he or she
seems.

68. © 2012
Lexile 790
Realistic
Fiction
Ten-year-old
Auggie Pullman,
who was born
with extreme
facial
abnormalities and
was not expected
to survive, goes
from being home-
schooled to
entering fifth
grade at a private
middle school in
Manhattan, which
entails enduring
the taunting and
fear of his
classmates as he
struggles to be
seen as just
another student.

69. © 2012
Lexile
Fantasy
In a world where
dragons and
humans coexist in
an uneasy truce
and dragons can
assume human
form, Seraphina,
whose mother
died giving birth
to her, grapples
with her own
identity amid
magical secrets
and royal
scandals, while
she struggles to
accept and
develop her
extraordinary
musical talents.

71. © 2012
Lexile 820
Realistic Fiction
Three
sophomore
best friends
use their
brains--and
their wits--to
find happiness
in high school.

72. © 2012
Lexile 730
Fantasy
Kami Glass is in love with someone
she's never met--a boy she's talked to
in her head since she was born. This
has made her an outsider in the sleepy
English town of Sorry-in-the-Vale, but
she has learned ways to turn that to
her advantage. Her life seems to be in
order, until disturbing events begin to
occur. There has been screaming in the
woods and the manor overlooking the
town has lit up for the first time in 10
years. The Lynburn family, who ruled
the town a generation ago and who all
left without warning, have returned.
Now Kami can see that the town she
has known and loved all her life is
hiding a multitude of secrets--and a
murderer. The key to it all just might be
the boy in her head. The boy she
thought was imaginary is real, and
definitely and deliciously dangerous

73. © 2011
Lexile 810
Ghost Story
Sixteen-year-old
Tansy is used to
moving every time
her mother starts
writing a new book,
but in the small
Texas town where
her grandfather
grew up, she is
lured into the world
of a troubled young
man whose death
sixty years earlier is
shrouded in
mystery.

74. © 2012
Lexile 620
Science Fiction
When a virus
deadly to adults
infects their high
school, brothers
David and Will
and the other
students soon
break into gangs
that fight each
other for survival
and the hope of
escaping their
quarantine.

75. © 2012
Lexile
Supernatural
While working on a
project translating
letters from
sixteenth-century
Prague, high school
senior Nora Kane
discovers her best
friend murdered
with her boyfriend
the apparent killer
and is caught up in a
dangerous web of
secret societies and
shadowy
conspirators, all
searching for a
mysterious ancient
device purported to
allow direct
communication with
God.

76. © 2012
Lexile 650
Supernatural
After his
girlfriend Holly is
fatally shot
during a violent
struggle,
nineteen-year-
old Jackson uses
his supernatural
abilities and
travels back in
time two years,
where he falls in
love with Holly all
over again, learns
that his father is
a spy, and
discovers
powerful
enemies of time
who will stop at
nothing to recruit
him for their own
purposes.

77. © 2012
Lexile
Supernatural
Residing in New
Whitby, Maine,
a town founded
by vampires
trying to escape
persecution,
Mel finds her
negative
attitudes
challenged
when her best
friend falls in
love with one,
another friend's
father runs off
with one, and
she herself is
attracted to
someone who
tries to pass
himself off as
one.

78. © 2012
Lexile 640
Realistic
Fiction
Wounded in Iraq
while his Army
unit is on convoy
and treated for
many months for
traumatic brain
injury, the first
person Ben
remembers from
his earlier life is his
autistic brother.

79. © 2012
Lexile 1020
Realistic
Fiction
This will be a
bittersweet
summer for
17-year-old
Taylor
Edwards,
whose family
has retreated
to their
beloved cabin
in the Poconos
for a few final
months of
togetherness
as Taylor's
father slowly
succumbs to
stage-four
cancer.

80. © 2011
Lexile 720
Realistic Fiction
After the death
of her mother in
an automobile
accident,
seventh-grader
Serena, who has
gotten the lead
in her middle
school play, is
left to handle
the day-to-day
challenges of
caring for
herself and her
younger brother
when their
father cannot
pull himself out
of his
depression.

81. © 2011
Lexile 840
Fantasy
Nineteen-year-old
returning
champion Sean
Kendrick competes
against Puck
Connolly, the first
girl ever to ride in
the annual Scorpio
Races, both trying
to keep hold of
their dangerous
water horses long
enough to make it
to the finish line.

82. © 2011
Lexile 810
Fantasy
Every other day, Kali
D'Angelo is a normal
16-year-old girl. But
on the alternating
days, she becomes
something else
entirely -- a super-
powered being with
an overwhelming
urge to track and kill
hellhounds, dragons,
zombies, and other
monsters. When, on
one of her normal
days, Kali recognizes
a demon mark on a
popular cheerleader
at school, she saves
the girl by
transferring the
mark to
herself...which gains
her a sort of internal
hitchhiker/guide.

83. © 2012
Lexile
Fantasy
Though she is
from a family of
clairvoyants, Blue
Sargent's only gift
seems to be that
she makes other
people's talents
stronger, and
when she meets
Gansey, one of the
Raven Boys from
the expensive
Aglionby
Academy, she
discovers that he
has talents of his
own--and that
together their
talents are a
dangerous mix.

84. © 2012
Lexile
Realistic Fiction
Valerie always wanted
to be the smart girl. The
pretty girl. The popular
girl. But not the rape
girl. That’s who she is
now. Rape Girl. Because
everyone seems to
think they know the
truth about what
happened with Adam
that day, and they don’t
think Valerie’s telling it.
Before, she had a best
friend, a crush, and a
close-knit family. After,
she has a court case, a
support group, and a
house full of strangers.
The real truth is,
nothing will ever be the
same.

85. © 2012
Lexile 680
Adventure
Robbie's last-
minute flight to
the Midway Atoll
proves to be a
nightmare when
the plane goes
down in shark-
infested waters,
but the real terror
begins when the
co-pilot Max pulls
her onto the raft

86. © 2011
Lexile 800
Realistic Fiction
Having spent several
years in and out of
hospitals for a life-
threatening illness,
pragmatic sixteen-
year-old Cam is
relocated by her
miracle-seeking
mother to a town in
Maine known for its
mystical healing
qualities.

87. © 2011
Lexile 710
Realistic
Fiction
In 1983, at an elite
boys' boarding
school in
Zimbabwe,
thirteen-year-old
English lad Robert
Jacklin finds himself
torn between his
black roommate
and the white
bullies still bitter
over losing power
through the recent
civil war.

88. © 2012
Lexile
Realistic
Fiction
Told from various
viewpoints,
Gabie and Drew
set out to prove
that their missing
co-worker Kayla
is not dead, and
to find her before
she is, while the
police search for
her body and the
man who
abducted her.

89. © 2012
Lexile 710
Historical
Fiction
Cambodian
child soldier
Arn Chorn-
Pond defied
the odds and
used all of his
courage and
wits to survive
the murderous
regime of the
Khmer Rouge.

90. © 2012
Lexile 990
Realistic
Fiction
Angel, a sixteen-
year-old girl
working the
streets of
Vancouver's
Downtown
Eastside,
befriends Melli,
an 11-year-old girl
in the same
situation and
realizes she must
do all that she can
to save Melli and
perhaps save
herself at the
same time.

91. © 2012
Lexile 590
Science
Fiction
When a group of
kids trapped
together in a
chain superstore
build a refuge
for themselves
inside, outside,
a series of
disasters from a
monster
hailstorm to a
chemical
weapons spill,
seems to be
tearing the
world apart.

92. © 2012
Lexile 700
Historical
Fiction/Crime
Narrated from
several different
perspectives, tells
the story of the
1956 murder of
two teenaged girls
in suburban
Baltimore,
Maryland.

93. © 2012
Lexile 1120
Realistic
Fiction
In the early
1990s, when gay
teenager
Cameron Post
rebels against her
conservative
Montana ranch
town and her
family decides
she needs to
change her ways,
she is sent to a
gay conversion
therapy center.

94. © 2012
Lexile 820
Realistic
Fiction
Seventeen-
year-old Greg
has managed to
become part of
every social
group at his
Pittsburgh high
school without
having any
friends, but his
life changes
when his
mother forces
him to befriend
Rachel, a girl he
once knew in
Hebrew school
who has
leukemia.

95. © 2013
Lexile
Romance
Set over the
course of one
school year in
1986, this is the
story of two star-
crossed misfits--
smart enough to
know that first
love almost never
lasts, but brave
and desperate
enough to try

96. © 2012
Lexile 1090
Nonfiction
This book
examines the
story of
America during
J. Edgar
Hoover's reign
as head of the
FBI.

97. © 2011
Lexile 820
Realistic
Fiction
In 1960s
Norfolk,
England,
seventeen-year-
old Clem
Ackroyd lives
with his mother
and
grandmother in
a tiny cottage,
but his life is
transformed
when he falls in
love with the
daughter of a
wealthy farmer
in this tale that
flashes back
through the
stories of three
generations.

98. © 2012
Lexile 790
Realistic
Fiction
After a brawl
with a rival
gang, sixteen-
year-old Azael,
a member of
Houston's MS-
13 gang and
the son of
illegal
Salvadoran
immigrants,
wakes up in an
unusual
juvenile
detention
center where
he is forced to
observe
another inmate
through a one-
way mirror.

99. © 2011
Lexile 810
Realistic
Fiction
Raised by an
unstable father
who keeps
constantly on the
move, Sam
Border has long
been the voice of
his silent younger
brother, Riddle,
but everything
changes when
Sam meets Emily
Bell and,
welcomed by her
family, the
brothers are
faced with
normalcy for the
first time.

100. © 2011
Lexile 850
Science
Fiction
Sixteen-year-old
Tom Harvey was
an ordinary
Londoner until
an attack that
caused fragments
of an iPhone to
be embedded in
his brain, giving
him incredible
knowledge and
power, but using
that power
against the gang
that attacked him
and a friend
could have
deadly
consequences.

101. © 2012
Lexile 750
Suspense
Seventeen-year-
old Jazz learned
all about being a
serial killer from
his notorious
"Dear Old Dad,"
but believes he
has a conscience
that will help fight
his own urges and
right some of his
father's wrongs,
so he secretly
helps the police
apprehend the
town's newest
murderer, "The
Impressionist.

102. © 2012
Lexile 730
Horror
Seventeen-year-
old Gene has
passed as a
vampire for years,
carefully following
every rule, but
now, just as he
finds a girl worth
fighting for, he is
chosen to
participate in the
hunt for the last
remaining
humans among
ruthless vampires
who soon suspect
his true nature.

103. © 2011
Lexile 710
Realistic
Fiction
Told from their
own
viewpoints,
seventeen-
year-old Jill, in
grief over the
loss of her
father, and
Mandy, nearly
nineteen, are
thrown
together when
Jill's mother
agrees to adopt
Mandy's
unborn child
but nothing
turns out as
they had
anticipated.

104. © 2012
Lexile 850
Historical
Fantasy
In the
fifteenth-
century
kingdom of
Brittany,
seventeen-
year-old Ismae
escapes from
the brutality of
an arranged
marriage into
the sanctuary
of the convent
of St. Mortain,
where she
learns that the
god of Death
has blessed
her with
dangerous
gifts--and a
violent destiny.

105. © 2012
Lexile 890
Realistic
Fiction
A mentally ill
teenager who
rides the "short
bus" to school
investigates the
sudden
disappearance
of his best
friend.

106. © 2012
Lexile 870
Sports
Four players at
the Final Four
of the NCAA
basketball
tournament
struggle with
the pressures
of tournament
play and the
expectations
of society at
large.

107. © 2012
Lexile 850
Realistic
Fiction
Sixteen-year-old
Hazel, a stage IV
thyroid cancer
patient, has
accepted her
terminal diagnosis
until a chance
meeting with a boy
at cancer support
group forces her to
reexamine her
perspective on love,
loss, and life.

108. © 2011
Lexile 710
Realistic
Fiction
Overburdened by
his parents'
bickering and a
bully's attacks,
fifteen-year-old
Lucky Linderman
begins dreaming
of being with his
grandfather, who
went missing
during the
Vietnam War, but
during a visit to
Arizona, his aunt
and uncle and
their beautiful
neighbor, Ginny,
help him find a
new perspective.

109. © 2012
Lexile 720
Realistic
Fiction
Struggling
through his
dyslexia to try to
fulfill his
girlfriend
Fiorella's
request for a
letter revealing
his secret self,
eighteen-year-
old Karl asks
Fiorella's
favorite author
for help, and he
agrees only if
Karl will submit
to a series of
interviews,
which prove
helpful to both
men.

110. In a dark future
America that
has devolved
into unending
civil wars,
orphans Mahlia
and Mouse
barely escape
the war-torn
lands of the
Drowned Cities,
but their fragile
safety is soon
threatened and
Mahlia will have
to risk
everything if she
is to save
Mouse, as he
once saved her.
© 2012
Lexile 690
Science
Fiction

111. © 2012
Lexile 710
Adventure/
Thriller
After waking up
on an operating
table with no
memory of how
she got there,
Noa must team
up with
computer
hacker Peter to
stop a corrupt
corporation with
a deadly secret.

112. © 2012
Lexile 730
Historical
Fantasy
Seventeen-year-
old Evie O'Neill is
thrilled when she
is exiled from
small-town Ohio to
New York City in
1926, even when a
rash of occult-
based murders
thrusts Evie and
her uncle, curator
of The Museum of
American Folklore,
Superstition, and
the Occult, into the
thick of the
investigation.

113. © 2012
Lexile
780
Realistic
Fiction
Colby's post-high
school plans have
long been that he
and his best
friend Beth would
tour with her
band, then spend
a year in Europe,
but when she
announces that
she will start
college just after
the tour, Colby
struggles to
understand why
she changed her
mind and what
losing her means
for his future.

114. © 2012
Lexile 1020
Realistic
Fiction
School outsider
Jesse, a lesbian,
is having secret
trysts with
Emily, the
popular student
council vice
president, but
when they find
themselves on
opposite sides
of a major issue
and Jesse
becomes more
involved with a
student activist,
they are forced
to make a
difficult
decision.

115. © 2011
Lexile 670
Thriller/Adventure
In the California
desert, fourteen-
year-old Angel is
on the run from
the man who
abused her, killed
her mother, and
intends to kill her
too.

116. © 2011
Lexile 850
Supernatural
Seventeen-year-
old Karou, a lovely,
enigmatic art
student in a
Prague boarding
school, carries a
sketchbook of
hideous,
frightening
monsters--the
chimaerae who
form the only
family she has ever
known.

117. © 2012
Lexile 700
Historical
Mystery
When Laura della
Scala's older
sister drowns,
Laura leaves the
shelter of the
convent where
she has spent the
last six years and
enters the upper
echelons of
sixteenth-century
Venetian society,
while she
searches for the
truth about what
happened to her
sister.

118. © 2012
Lexile 830
Sports
Finley, an unnaturally
quiet boy who is the
only white player on
his high school's
varsity basketball
team, lives in a
dismal Pennsylvania
town that is ruled by
the Irish mob, and
when his coach asks
him to mentor a
troubled African
American student
who has transferred
there from an elite
private school in
California, he finds
that they have a lot
in common in spite of
their apparent
differences.

119. © 2012
Lexile 920
Nonfiction
Recounts the
scientific
discoveries
that enabled
atom
splitting, the
military
intelligence
operations
that occurred
in rival
countries, and
the work of
brilliant
scientists
hidden at Los
Alamos.

120. © 2011
Lexile 1150
Nonfiction
Examines a
significant
confrontation
between
Reverend Fred
Shuttlesworth and
Commissioner
Bull Connor in
Birmingham,
Alabama, during
the Civil Rights
Movement that
brought violence
and change to this
southern city.

121. © 2011
Lexile 740
Realistic
Fiction
When
seventeen-year-
old Alex starts
dating Cole, a
new boy at her
high school, her
two closest
friends
increasingly
mistrust him as
the relationship
grows more
serious.

122. © 2012
Lexile 600
Horror/Ghost
Everyone thinks
seventeen-year-
old Jane has
attempted suicide
more than once,
but Jane knows
the truth: her
shadow is trying
to kill her.
Everyone thinks
seventeen-year-
old Jane has
attempted suicide
more than once,
but Jane knows
the truth: her
shadow is trying
to kill her.

123. © 2012
Lexile 730
Realistic
Fiction
A young girl uses
crystal meth to
escape the pain
of losing her
mother and
grandmother in
Hurricane
Katrina, and then
struggles to get
over her
addiction.

124. © 2011
Lexile 800
Adventure
Perry's parents
insist that he
take Gobi, their
quiet, Lithuanian
exchange
student, to
senior prom but
after an incident
at the dance he
learns that Gobi
is actually a
trained assassin
who needs him
as a henchman,
behind the wheel
of his father's
precious Jaguar,
on a mission in
Manhattan.

125. © 2012
Lexile
Realistic
Fiction
There's no one
Astrid feels she
can talk to about
this deep secret
or the profound
questions that
she's trying to
answer. But little
does she know
just how much
sending her love-
-and asking the
right questions--
will affect the
passengers' lives,
and her own, for
the better

126. © 2011
Lexile 750
Science
Fiction
After the eruption of
the Yellowstone
supervolcano
destroys his city and
its surroundings,
fifteen-year-old Alex
must journey from
Cedar Falls, Iowa, to
Illinois to find his
parents and sister,
trying to survive in a
transformed
landscape and a new
society in which all
the old rules of living
have vanished.

127. © 2011
Lexile 730
Horror/Science
Fiction
Alex, a resourceful
seventeen-year-old
running from her
incurable brain
tumor, Tom, who
has left the war in
Afghanistan, and
Ellie, an angry
eight-year-old, join
forces after an
electromagnetic
pulse sweeps
through the sky
and kills most of
the world's
population,
turning some of
those who remain
into zombies and
giving the others
superhuman
senses.

128. © 2012
Lexile 380
Realistic
Fiction
Fifteen-year-old
Ari Mendoza is
an angry loner
with a brother in
prison, but
when he meets
Dante and they
become friends,
Ari starts to ask
questions about
himself, his
parents, and his
family that he
has never asked
before.

129. © 2011
Lexile 690
Horror/Ghosts
For three years,
seventeen-
year-old Cas
Lowood has
carried on his
father's work of
dispatching the
murderous
dead, traveling
with his
kitchen-witch
mother and
their spirit-
sniffing cat, but
everything
changes when
he meets Anna,
a girl unlike any
ghost he has
faced before.

130. © 2011
Lexile
630
Science
Fiction
In a dystopian future
where chocolate and
caffeine are
contraband, teenage
cellphone use is
illegal, and water and
paper are carefully
rationed, sixteen-
year-old Anya
Balanchine finds
herself thrust
unwillingly into the
spotlight as heir
apparent to an
important New York
City crime family.

131. © 2012
Lexile
Science
Fiction
Battling aliens,
space pirates,
and
competitors,
Prince Khemri
meets a young
woman, named
Raine, and
learns more
than he
expected about
the hidden
workings of a
vast,
intergalactic
Empire, and
about himself

132. © 2012
Lexile 870
Realistic
Fiction
When a terrible
accident occurs,
Scotty feels
responsible for the
loss of someone she
hardly knew, and the
world goes wrong.
She cannot tell what
is a dream and what
is real. Her friends
are having a hard
time getting through
to her and her family
is preoccupied with
their own trauma.
But the prospect of
a boy, a dance, and
the possibility that
everything can fall
back into place soon
help Scotty realize
that she is capable
of adding her own
flavor to life

133. © 2012
Lexile 690
Realistic
Fiction
After Ellie dies
of a drug
overdose, her
brother, her
best friend, and
her best
friend's sister
face painful
secrets of their
own when they
try to uncover
the truth about
Ellie's death.

134. © 2012
Lexile
Science
Fiction
In the aftermath
of a series of
plane crashes
caused by birds,
seventeen-year-
old Reese and her
debate-team
partner, David,
receive medical
treatment at a
secret
government
facility and
become tangled
in a conspiracy
that is, according
to Reese's friend,
Julian, connected
with aliens and
UFOs.

135. © 2012
Lexile 600
Realistic
Fiction
Wealthy teen
Thea Parott's
jealousy of her
older, prettier,
more popular
sister Alex
prompts a series
of self-
destructive acts
that threaten
their seemingly-
idyllic lives.

136. © 2012
Lexile 820
Science
Fiction
On a futuristic
island paradise
where humans
are served by
enslaved
clones, a
sixteen-year-
old clone
named Elysia
seeks her own
freedom.

137. © 2013
Lexile
Realistic
Fiction
Two best friends,
a writer and a
runner, deal with
bullies, family
issues, social
pressures, and
their quest for
success coming
out of Harlem.

138. © 2011
Lexile
Thriller/Adventure
Boy Nobody is the
perennial new kid
in school, the one
few notice and
nobody thinks
much about. He
shows up in a new
high school, in a
new town, under a
new name, makes
few friends and
doesn't stay long.
Just long enough
for someone in his
new friend's family
to die -- of "natural
causes." Mission
accomplished, Boy
Nobody
disappears, and
moves on to the
next target.

139. © 2012
Lexile
Science
Fiction
In a near-future
world where
technologically
enhanced humans
are governed by a
strict set of conduct
laws, twenty-nine-
year-old Owen Gray
joins the ranks of a
persecuted
underclass that is
planning to change,
or destroy, the
world.

140. © 2012
Lexile 770
Realistic
Fiction
Unable to control
his binge eating, a
morbidly obese
teenager
nicknamed Butter
decides to make a
live webcast of his
last meal as he
attempts to eat
himself to death.

141. © 2012
Lexile 870
Realistic
Fiction
When Anna
returns from a
three-week stay
in a mental
hospital she
struggles to
resume a normal
life in the face of
her parents'
arguments and
peers who are
afraid to ask her
what happened.

142. © 2012
Lexile 1020
Historical
Fiction
In 1943, a British
fighter plane
crashes in Nazi-
occupied France
and the survivor
tells a tale of
friendship, war,
espionage, and
great courage as
she relates what
she must to survive
while keeping
secret all that she
can.

143. © 2012
Lexile 640
Historical
Fantasy/
Steampunk
In this twist on
Edgar Allen Poe's
gothic short story, a
wealthy teenaged
girl who can afford a
special mask to
protect her from
the plague that
decimated
humanity in the
mid-1800s, falls in
love, becomes
caught up in a
conspiracy to
overthrow an
oppressive
government, and
faces the threat of a
new plague.

144. © 2013
Lexile
1050
Realistic
Fiction
Steven "Crash"
Crashinsky
relates his
sordid ten-year
relationship with
David "Burn"
Burnett, the boy
he stopped from
taking their high
school hostage
at gunpoint.

145. © 2012
Lexile 630
Fantasy
When the goddess
Bayla fails to take
over Liyana's body,
Liyana's people
abandon her in the
desert to find a more
worthy vessel, but
she soon meets
Korbyn, who says
the souls of seven
deities have been
stolen and he needs
Liyana's help to find
them.

146. © 2012
Lexile
Science
Fiction
In a dystopian
colony of the
United States
where everyone
is born with
powers of the
elements, water,
wind, earth, and
fire, sixteen-
year-old
Thomas, the first
and only child
born without an
element seems
powerless, but is
he?

147. © 2013
Lexile
Science
Fiction/
Zombies
In the rural
mountains of
West Virginia,
seventeen-year-
old Michael
Faris tries to
protect his
fragile younger
brother from
the horrors of
the zombie
apocalypse

148. © 2013
Lexile
Realistic
Fiction
Russel Middlebrook and his
friends Min and Gunnar
are back, and they’re
laughing about something
they call the Elephant of
Surprise—the tendency for
life to never turn out the
way you expect. Sure
enough, Russel soon
happens upon a hot, but
mysterious guy named
Wade—even as he’s also
drawn back to an old flame
named Kevin. Meanwhile,
Min learns her girlfriend
Leah is keeping secrets,
and Gunnar just wants to
be left alone to pursue his
latest obsession,
documenting his entire life
online.

149. © 2012
Lexile 650
Fantasy
Known to him/herself only
as "A," the narrator of this
philosophically electrifying
novel wakes up every
morning in the body of a
different person. This
constant, inexplicable
change -- A is usually around
the same age but has
experienced different
genders, ethnicities,
personality types, etc. -- has
made A unusually
circumspect, mature, and
careful not to alter anything
that would impact the lives
of those whose bodies s/he's
inhabited. It makes for a
lonely existence...until A falls
in love with a girl named
Rhiannon and breaks those
rules, just to see her again.

150. © 2012
Lexile
Science
Fiction
Soon after
seventeen-year-
old Miranda
awakens with no
memory, she
discovers that
she can release a
mysterious
energy that
incites pure
terror in
everyone around
her except Peter,
who tells her she
is part of an elite
force of
genetically-
altered teens.

151. © 2012
Lexile
750
Realistic
Fiction
Fifteen-year-old Fitz
kidnaps the father
he has never
known, taking him
from his St. Paul
apartment building
at gunpoint, in an
attempt to address
his bewildering mix
of resentment and
yearning.

152. © 2012
Lexile
Thriller/Suspense
As a player in
NERVE, an
anonymous game
of dares broadcast
live online, high-
schooler Vee is
unhappy to be
watched
constantly but
finds it
exhilarating to be
paired with
handsome Ian
taking ever riskier
dares--until the
stakes become
too high.

153. © 2012
Lexile
Realistic
Fiction
After his parents
divorce, high
school junior
Vinnie Gold moves
to Long Island with
his mother and
new stepfather
and must
negotiate a secret
crush and a rather
complicated
connection with
the popular girl
next door.

154. © 2012
Lexile
Sports
Three high school
seniors face
mounting
pressures, at
home and
school, as they
start their last
season on the
varsity wrestiling
team

155. © 2012
Lexile
Realistic
Fiction
For eight of her
sixteen years
Carolina Mitchell's
older sister Hannah
has been a nun in a
convent, almost
completely out of
touch with her
family--so when she
suddenly abandons
her vocation and
comes home,
nobody knows
quite how to
handle the
situation, or
guesses what
explosive secrets
she is hiding.

156. © 2012
Lexile
Adventure
A troubled girl is
stranded in an
arctic winter
terrain after a
plane crash and
must fight for
survival with the
only other boy left
alive.

157. © 2013
Lexile
Mystery/Realistic
Fiction
High school student
"Meg" has changed
identities so often
that she hardly knows
who she is anymore,
and her family is
falling apart, but she
knows that two of the
rules of witness
protection are be
forgettable and do not
make friends--but in
her new home in
Louisiana a boy
named Ethan is
making that difficult.

158. © 2012
Lexile
Nonfiction
Rudy became the inspiration
for millions when a
Hollywood film depicting his
journey as a Notre Dame
football player became one
of the most influential sports
movies ever made. In Daniel
"Rudy" Ruettiger's only
autobiography, go behind the
scenes to experience the
heartache, triumph, and glory
through Rudy's own eyes,
and learn details of the ten
years it took to get the movie
made. "Football was my
salvation in high school,"
Rudy believes, and while he
dreamed of playing for Notre
Dame, he never believed he
was smart enough to make it
to the elite group of higher
education.