Young Adult - High Interest Low Readability (High - Low) (copy)

These are books intended for an older, more mature, audience (young adults). They feature themes and topics that are high interest for this age group while also being low readability (lower reading levels/Lexile Levels). It sets struggling older readers up for reading success. copied from /MyAccount/MyList/52947 - List: Young Adult - High Interest Low Readability (High - Low)

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Book cover for "Alligator bayou"
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Fourteen-year-old Calogero Scalise and his Sicilian family live in small-town Louisiana in 1898, when Jim Crow laws rule and anti-immigration sentiment is strong, so despite his attempts to follow American customs, disaster dogs his family at every turn.
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A group of teens is trapped by an avalanche in British Columbia--not all of them survive.
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4.3 stars
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Two vampire brothers compete for high stakes--the love of Elena Gilbert, a beautiful high school senior who is searching for excitement.
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Spending her summer vacation with her aunt, who lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, sixteen-year-old Heather MacNair is haunted by dreams and compelled to cut herself until she discovers a family secret and a past full of magic that could both save her and puther in mortal danger.
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4.9 stars
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When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.
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4.1 stars
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Elisa, a fugitive in her own kingdom, faces great challenges to rescue the man she loves from her enemies, prevent a civil war, and take back her throne but as her magic grows, Elisa discovers the shocking truth about her enemy's ultimate goal.
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Graceling realm volume 3.
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4.5 stars
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Eighteen-year-old Bitterblue, queen of Monsea, realizes her responsibility and the futility of relying on advisors who surround her with lies as she tries to help her people to heal from the thirty-five-year spell cast by her father. a violent psychopath with mind-altering abilities.
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"Seventeen-year-old Cardinal has escaped the virus that ravaged his town, leaving its victims alive but without their memories"--
Book cover for "Caught in the blizzard"
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Sam and Connor were enemies from the start. Sam was an Innu, close to the Arctic land that he loved. Connor was a white kid, only out for a few thrills. When a blizzard strikes, it forces them to work together to survive in the frozen Arctic.
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4.8 stars
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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 ...
Book cover for "The crown of embers"
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4.8 stars
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Elisa, struggling to master the power of the Godstone, takes a leap of faith and crosses an ocean accompanied by a one-eyed warrior, an enemy defector, and the man she is falling in love with in search of the source of its power.
Book cover for "Definitions of indefinable things"
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3 stars
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Follows three teens in a small town whose lives intersect in ways they never expected, teaching them that there are no one-size-fits-all definitions of depression, friendship, and love.
Book cover for "The door that led to where"
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1 stars
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When sixteen-year-old AJ Flynn finds a mysterious key at his new job at a London law firm, he and his scrappy friends begin a series of journeys to 1830 where they discover a crime only they can solve.
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Raven cycle volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater are awake, magic is swirling around Blue and The Raven boys and Ronan Lynch's ability to pull objects from his dreams is almost out of control but worst of all, the mysterious Gray Man is stalking the Lynch family, looking for something called the Greywaren.

15. Frost

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4.5 stars
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Sixteen-year-old Frost lives in a bombed out apartment in a post-apocalyptic world, with only her pet broot, Romes, and a robot named Bunt, who has her father's memories, for company--but now Romes is dying and her need to find help is forcing her to leave the apartment for the first time in her life, and face the streets which are a hunting ground for rogue robots and the dreaded Eaters.
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Once upon a con volume 1.
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4 stars
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In a modern version of "Cinderella," geek girl Elle Wittimer enters a cosplay contest behind her stepmother's back and meets teen actor Darien Freeman at a convention cosplay ball.
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In an attempt to find a cure after being diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen-year-old boy, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital.

18. Gutless

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5 stars
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With both good speed and good hands, wide receiver Brock Ripley should be a natural for the varsity team, but he shies from physical contact. When his issues get him cut from varsity, he also loses his friendship with star quarterback Hunter Gates. Now atarget for bullying, Brock struggles to overcome his fears and discover that, in his own way, he is brave enough.
Book cover for "Holding up the universe"
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4.1 stars
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"A boy with face blindness and a girl who struggles with weight fall in love."--
Book cover for "Hostage run"
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MindWar trilogy volume 2.
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4 stars
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Rick Dial, a gamer working with a secret government organization against high tech terrorists, finds himself faced with the impossible choice of saving his best friend Molly or saving the free world.