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21) My sister Rosa
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
When his father's business takes the family to New York City, a seventeen-year-old Australian boy must balance his desire to protect his ten-year-old sister, a diagnosable psychopath, from the world with the desperate need to protect the world from her.
Author
Series
Antsy Bonano volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone.
23) The here and now
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Seventeen-year-old Prenna, an immigrant who moved to New York when she was twelve, came from another time and she and the other travelers must follow strict rules to avoid destroying the new life they have worked so hard to get, as well as the one person Prenna is desperate to protect.
Author
Series
Mortal instruments volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 32
Description
"Darkness has descended on the Shadowhunter world. Chaos and destruction overwhelm the Nephilim as Clary, Jace, Simon, and their friends band together to fight the greatest evil they have ever faced: Clary's own brother. Nothing in this world can defeat Sebastian, but if they journey to the realm of demons, they just might have a chance." --
25) Peeps
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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.
26) Darius & Twig
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
"Two best friends, a writer and a runner, deal with bullies, family issues, social pressures, and their quest for success coming out of Harlem"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
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.
28) A northern light
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Description
In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.
29) Always a witch
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Haunted by her grandmother's prophecy that she will soon be forced to make a terrible decision, witch Tamsin Greene risks everything to travel back in time to 1887 New York to confront the enemy that wants to destroy her family.
30) The legacies
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
During the annual initiation of members into the exclusive Legacy Club, the surprise nomination of Tori Tasso, a scholarship student, jeopardizes the club's clandestine truths and leads to a perilous Legacy Ball where one attendee does not make it out alive.
31) Burn Baby Burn
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Nora Lopez is seventeen during the summer of 1977, when New York is besieged by arson, a massive blackout, and a serial killer named Son of Sam. Meg Medina transports us to a time when tempers and temperatures ran high to share the story of a young woman who discovers that the greatest dangers are often closer than we like to admit.
32) The diviners
Author
Series
Diviners volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 23
Description
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.
Author
Series
Mortal instruments volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Trust is dangerous, and to love is to destroy. Plunge into the fourth installment in the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series and "prepare to be hooked" (Entertainment Weekly).
The Mortal War is over, and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She's training to become a Shadowhunter and to use her unique power. Her mother is getting married to the love...
The Mortal War is over, and sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is back home in New York, excited about all the possibilities before her. She's training to become a Shadowhunter and to use her unique power. Her mother is getting married to the love...
34) Quarantine
Author
Series
Alone (James Phelan) volume 3
Description
In the scant few weeks since an explosion decimated New York City, sixteen year old Jess has lived through unimaginable. Only two type of people are left: chasers, infected with a virus that turns them into bloodthirsty killing machines and those they hunt. Jess isn't waiting to be a victim. There's a collective of survivors in the city. Once he's located them, they can find some way out of Manhattan and Jesse can get help for those he's guiltily...
36) Another Faust
Author
Series
Another series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Description
"On a single night, five children suddenly vanish from their homes in Paris, Glasgow, Rome, and London. Years later, five enigmatic teenagers make an impressive entrance at an exclusive New York holiday party with their strange but beautiful governess, Madam Vileroy. Rumor and intrigue follow the Faust children to the elite Manhattan Marlowe School, where their very presence brings unexplainable misfortune..."--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Series
Magic in Manhattan volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Love spells run amok in New York City when high school freshman Rachel asks her younger sister, who is a witch, for magical help in winning the affection of heartthrob Raf Kosravi.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Nala Robertson reluctantly agrees to attend an open mic night for her cousin-sister-friend Imani's birthday. Tye Brown, the MC is perfect, except-- he is an activist and is spending the summer putting on events for the community when Nala would rather watch movies and try out the new seasonal flavors at the local creamery. In order to impress Tye, Nala tells a few tiny lies to have enough in common with him. As they spend more time together, some...
Author
Series
Magic in Manhattan volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Rachel and her younger sister, both witches, spend the summer at Camp Wood Lake, where Rachel tries to have a normal camp experience while surreptitiously honing her newly discovered talents.
40) Code Orange
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
While conducting research for a school paper on smallpox, Mitty finds an envelope containing 100-year-old smallpox scabs and fears that he has infected himself and all of New York City.