Kate Simses
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"With the rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve-year-old Gerta finds her family suddenly divided. She, her mother, and her brother Fritz live on the eastern side, controlled by the Soviets. Her father and middle brother, who had gone west in search of work, cannot return home. Gerta knows it is dangerous to watch the wall, to think forbidden thoughts of freedom, yet she can't help herself. She sees the East German soldiers with their guns trained on their...
3) Matched
Author
Series
Matched trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
In the Society, officials decide ... who you love, where you work, when you die. Cassia has always trusted their choices. It's hardly any price to pay for a long life, the perfect job, the ideal mate. So when her best friend appears on the Matching screen, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is the one ... until she sees another face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black. Now Cassia is faced with impossible choices : between...
4) Matched
Author
Series
Matched trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Cassia has always trusted the Society to make the right choices for her: what to read, what to watch, what to believe. So when Xander's face appears on-screen at her Matching ceremony, Cassia knows with complete certainty that he is her ideal mate . . . until she sees Ky Markham's face flash for an instant before the screen fades to black.
The Society tells her it's a glitch, a rare malfunction, and that she should focus on the happy life she's
...5) Crossed
Author
Series
Matched trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
20130312
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In search of a future that may not exist and faced with the decision of who to share it with, Cassia journeys to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky--taken by the Society to his certain death--only to find that he has escaped, leaving a series of clues in his wake. Cassia's quest leads her to question much of what she holds dear, even as she finds glimmers of a different life across the border
6) Reached
Author
Series
Matched trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
In search of a better life, Cassia joins a widespread rebellion against Society, where she is tasked with finding a cure to the threat of survival and must choose between Xander and Ky.
Cassia, Ky, and Xander return to the Society to save the one thing they have been denied for so long, the power to choose.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Twelve-year old orphan Emma Casey lives by a haunted graveyard in her Tennessee town, giving tours, and helping her brother and Granny Blue with the family bakery, and waiting for the destiny dream of her ancestors--but when it comes it shows her only a key, and she finds that she must solve a ghostly mystery that has haunted her town for generations.
8) Crossed
Author
Series
Matched trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Cassia sacrifices everything and heads to the Outer Provinces in search of Ky, where she is confronted with shocking revelations about Society and the promise of rebellion.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A powerful story set in small-town Arkansas in the 1950s that illuminates the friendship surrounding the arrival of Chinese immigrants in the segregated south.
Azalea is not happy about being dropped off to look after Grandmother Clark. Even if she didn't care that much about meeting the new sixth graders in her Texas hometown, those strangers seem much preferable to the ones in Paris Junction. Talk about troubled Willis DeLoach or gossipy Melinda...
10) Shatter Me
Author
Series
Shatter me (Mafi) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Appears on list
Description
Ostracized or incarcerated her whole life, seventeen-year-old Juliette is freed on the condition that she use her horrific abilities in support of The Reestablishment, a post-apocalyptic dictatorship, but Adam, the only person ever to show her affection, offers hope of a better future.
11) Unravel me
Author
Series
Shatter me (Mafi) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Description
"Juliette has escaped to Omega Point, the headquarters of the rebel resistance and a safe haven for people with abilities like hers. She is finally free from The Reestablishment and their plans to use her as a weapon, but Warner, her former captor, won't let her go without a fight."--
12) Defy me
Author
Series
Shatter me (Mafi) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Juliette Ferrars isn’t who she thinks she is. Nothing in her world is what it seemed. She thought she’d finally defeated the Reestablishment. She thought she’d finally taken control of her life, her power, and her pain. But Juliette has only just begun to unravel a lifetime of lies, and she finds herself faced with a familiar choice: Be a weapon. Or be a warrior. This time, she’s not alone. Stronger, braver, and more resilient than ever,...
13) Restore me
Author
Series
Shatter me (Mafi) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
"It's been sixteen days since Juliette Ferrars killed the supreme commander of North America and took over as ruler of the Reestablishment on the continent ... Juliette thought she'd won. She took over sector 45 and now has Warner by her side. But she's still the girl with the ability to kill with a single touch--and with so much power in her young hands, the world is watching her every move, waiting to see what happens next."--Dust jacket.
14) Ignite me
Author
Series
Shatter me (Mafi) volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Description
With Omega Point destroyed, Juliette doesn't know if the rebels, her friends, or even Adam are alive. But that won't keep her from trying to take down The Reestablishment once and for all. Now she must rely on Warner, the handsome commander of Sector 45. The one person she never thought she could trust. The same person who saved her life. He promises to help Juliette master her powers and save their dying world ... but that's not all he wants with...
15) Imagine me
Author
Series
Shatter me (Mafi) volume 6
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"Juliette Ferrars. Ella Sommers. Which is the truth and which is the lie? Now that Ella knows who Juliette is and what she was created for, things have only become more complicated. As she struggles to understand the past that haunts her and looks to a future more uncertain than ever, the lines between right and wrong -- between Ella and Juliette -- blur. And with old enemies looming, her destiny may not be her own to control. The day of reckoning...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
It's a whole new ride from master of horror and bestselling author R.L. Stine--with a story so fiendish that it can't be contained to just one book!
What should Carly Beth be for Halloween this year? TERRIFIED! Late at night, an ugly green mask is mysteriously calling out to her, and ugly green masks don't like to be ignored. If Carly Beth survives the night, even a scary theme park might sound like a vacation. Or maybe not! At HorrorLand, every...