Neal Shusterman
1) Gleanings
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories that span the time when humans live in a world without hunger, disease, or death and Scythes act as the living instruments of population control.
2) Dry
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Caden Bosch is on a galleon that's headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the Marianas Trench. Caden Bosch is a brilliant high school student whose friends are starting to notice his odd behavior. Caden Bosch is designated the ship's artist in residence to document the journey with images. Caden Bosch pretends to join the school track team but spends his days walking for miles, absorbed by the thoughts in his...
4) The toll
Author
Series
Arc of a scythe volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Citra and Rowan have disappeared. Endura is gone. It seems like nothing stands between Scythe Goddard and absolute dominion over the world scythedom. With the silence of the Thunderhead and the reverberations of the Great Resonance still shaking the earth to its core, the question remains: Is there anyone left who can stop him? The answer lies in the Tone, the Toll, and the Thunder"--
Author
Series
Antsy Bonano volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
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.
7) UnWholly
Author
Series
Unwind dystology volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thanks to Connor, Lev, and Risa, and their high-profile revolt at Happy Jack Harvest Camp, people can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding. Ridding society of troublesome teens and, in the same stroke, providing much-needed tissues for transplant might be convenient, but its morality has finally been brought into question. However, unwinding has become big business, and there are powerful political and corporate interests that want to see it not...
8) UnSouled
Author
Series
Unwind dystology volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the destruction of the Graveyard, Connor and Lev are on the run, seeking a woman who may be the key to bringing down unwinding forever while Cam, the rewound boy, tries to prove his love for Risa by bringing Proactive Citizenry to its knees.
9) Undivided
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three teens band together in order to sway the government to repeal all rulings in support of a procedure in which unwanted teenagers are captured and are unwound into parts that can be reused for transplantation.
10) Antsy Does Time
Author
Series
Antsy Bonano volume 2
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Antsy Bonano, narrator of The Schwa Was Here, is back with another crazy tale. This time, Antsy signs a month of his life over to his "dying" classmate Gunnar Umlaut. Soon everyone at school follows suit, giving new meaning to the idea of "living on borrowed time." But does Gunnar really have six months to live, or is news of his imminent death greatly exaggerated? And when a family member suffers a heart attack after donating two years to...
11) I am the walrus
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Noah Prime discovers he can exhibit the traits and access the abilities of animals and must use them to fight back against those who are hunting him"--
12) Scythe
Author
Series
Arc of a scythe volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't"--
13) Game changer
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
With every rough tackle on the football field, high schooler Ash is bounced from one dimension to the next--in one place he lives in a gated community instead of tract housing and in another segregation continues to exist--forcing him to consider different perspectives while finding a way to save the universe from complete annihilation.
14) Nimbo
Author
Publisher
Nocturna
Pub. Date
2019
Language
Español
Formats
Description
No ha pasado más que un año desde que los caminos de Citra y Rowan se separaron, pero en este tiempo los rumores sobre un justiciero que persigue a los segadores corruptos se han multiplicado. Por todo el continente se oyen susurros de que los culpables acaban siempre devorados por las llamas.
La segadora Anastasia criba con compasión y desafía abiertamente las ideas del nuevo orden. No obstante, cuando su vida se ve amenazada y sus
...15) Edison's alley
Author
Series
Accelerati trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Nick and his friends race against their foes to retrieve more pieces of Tesla's free energy transmitter, only to see them fall into the hands of the Accelerati's shadowy leader"--
Nick has learned that the strange antiques in his attic bedroom were left there by the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla, pieces of his Far Range Energy Emitter, capable of transmitting "free energy" to the globe. Members of the Accelerati, a menacing secret society of physicists,...
Author
Series
Accelerati trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"It is up to Nick Slate to find the last of Nikola Tesla's powerful inventions--or face devastating consequences"--
18) Unwind
Author
Series
Unwind dystology volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Three teens embark upon a cross-country journey in order to escape from a society that salvages body parts from children ages thirteen to eighteen.
19) Shock the monkey
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When his best friend's crush gets abducted by aliens, Noah Prime must come out of hiding to help his friends find her and stop yet another intergalactic calamity from happening"--
20) Bruiser
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Brontë befriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody.