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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1. Beautiful chaos

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Author:
Garcia, Kami
Series:
Caster chronicles volume 3.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Swarms of locusts, record-breaking heat, and devastating storms ravage Gatlin as Ethan and Lena struggle to understand and control the impact of Lena's claiming, which is even causing her family members' abilities to dangerously misfire.

2. Beautiful redemption

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Author:
Garcia, Kami
Series:
Caster chronicles volume 4.
Average Rating:
4.9 stars
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When Ethan wakes after the chilling events of the Eighteenth Moon, his one goal is to return to Lena and his loved ones, while back in Gatlin, Lena vows to do whatever it takes to bring Ethan home--even trusting old enemies and risking the lives of those Ethan left to protect.

3. Beauty queens

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Author:
Bray, Libba
Average Rating:
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.

4. Captivate

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Author:
Jones, Carrie
Series:
Need series volume 2.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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In this sequel to Carrie Jones' New York Times bestselling Need, Zara discovers the fight to save her hometown from a brewing war isn't quite over . . .
Zara and her friends knew they hadn't solved the pixie problem for good. Far from it. The king's needs grow deeper every day he's stuck in captivity, while his control over his people gets weaker. It's made him vulnerable. And now there's a new king in town.
A turf war...

5. City of heavenly fire

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Author:
Clare, Cassandra
Series:
Mortal instruments volume 6.
Average Rating:
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 ...

6. The crown of embers

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Author:
Carson, Rae
Series:
Fire and thorns trilogy volume 2.
Average Rating:
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.

7. The: Dark Reunion

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Author:
Smith, L. J.
Series:
Vampire diaries. Original series volume 4.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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The Final Conflict...The Last Deadly Kiss

Elena

Now she rises from the dead to recreate the powerful vampire trio.

Stefan

Summoned by Elena, he keeps a promise to her and fights the most terrifying evil he's ever faced.

Damon

Joining the brother he once called enemy, Damon battles this new horror with strength, cunning, and deadly charm.

8. Dirt road home

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Author:
Key, Watt
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5 stars
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East Regional - Young Adult
YA KEY
Eva H. Perry Regional - Young Adult
YA KEY
Morrisville Community - Young Adult
YA KEY
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At Hellenweiler, a reformatory for second-offenders, fourteen-year-old Hal Mitchell will soon be free if he can avoid the gang violence of his fellow inmates, but the real enemy may lie elsewhere.

9. Endure

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Author:
Jones, Carrie
Series:
Need series volume 4.
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5 stars
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In the fourth and fianl book in a series that began with the New York Times bestselling Need, Zara and Nick must save the town of Bedford from evil forces before it's too late.
Rescuing Nick should have made all of Zara's problems disappear. Bedford's greatest warrior is back, not to mention Zara's true soul mate. But it seems it isn't enough. Nick isn't enough. Bedford is being ravaged by evil pixies and they need much more...

10. Ever the hunted: ever the outcast, ever the brave

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Author:
Summerill, Erin, 1978-
Series:
Clash of kingdoms volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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YA SUMMERIL
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Seventeen year-old Britta Flannery is the outcast daughter of a bounty hunter who must use her powers to track her father's killer in a world of warring kingdoms and dangerous magic.

11. Fear

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Author:
Grant, Michael, 1954-
Series:
Gone novels volume 5.
Average Rating:
4.9 stars
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As the young residents of Perdido Beach begin to better comprehend the truths of who they are and their relationships to one another, the Darkness finds a new way to be born, bringing their understanding of fear to a new level.

12. Free to Fall

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Author:
Miller, Lauren
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5 stars
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From the author of Parallel comes a high-stakes romantic puzzler set in a near-future where everyone's life is seamlessly orchestrated by personal electronic devices. Imaginative and thrilling, this fast-paced story with two starred reviews is not to be missed.

Fast-forward to a time when Apple and Google have been replaced by Gnosis, a monolith corporation that has developed the most life-changing technology to ever hit the market: Lux,

...

13. The Fury

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Author:
Smith, L. J.
Series:
Vampire diaries. Original series volume 3.
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5 stars
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Love can kill

Elena: with Damon at her side, and wild with her craving for blood, the changed Elena struggles to control her desires.

Damon: his hunger for the golden girl wars with his hunger for revenge against Stefan.

Stefan: tormented after losing Elena, he will do anything to get her back. Even if it means becoming what he once despised. . . .

Getting what they want may come at a deadly cost.

14. Grendel's guide to love and war

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Author:
Kaplan, A. E.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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When a local bully upsets the senior community by throwing wild parties, an effort that is complicated by Aarons PTSD and Toms unrequited feelings for the bullys sister, misfit Tom and his friend Ed take matters into their own hands.

15. Gutless

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Author:
Deuker, Carl
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5 stars
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YA DEUKER
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YA DEUKER
Remote Storage - Young Adult
YA DEUKER
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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.

16. Hero

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Author:
Kontis, Alethea
Series:
Woodcutter sisters volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Rough-and-tumble Saturday Woodcutter thinks she's the only one of her sisters without any magic—until the day she accidentally conjures an ocean in the backyard. With her sword in tow, Saturday sets sail on a pirate ship, only to find herself kidnapped and whisked off to the top of the world. Is Saturday powerful enough to kill the mountain witch who holds her captive and save the world from sure destruction? And, as she wonders grumpily,

...

17. Hunt for Jade Dragon

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Author:
Evans, Richard Paul
Series:
Michael Vey volume 4.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Michael, Taylor, Ostin, and the rest of the Electroclan head to Taiwan in search of nine-year-old child prodigy Lin Julung, or Jade Dragon, who the Elgen kidnapped for Hatch's army of electric children.

18. The inexplicable logic of my life

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Author:
Sáenz, Benjamin Alire
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"A story set on the American border with Mexico, about family and friendship, life and death, and one teen struggling to understand what his adoption does and doesn't mean about who he is"--

19. Julia vanishes

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Author:
Egan, Catherine, 1976-
Series:
Witch's child trilogy volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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YA EGAN
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YA EGAN
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YA EGAN
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Possessing an ability to hide on the edge of perception, Julia conceals her talents in a city where magic is banned and poses as a grand lady's housemaid alongside an eccentric band of fellow housemates who have ties to a powerful killer.

20. Just another hero

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Author:
Draper, Sharon M. (Sharon Mills)
Series:
Jericho trilogy volume 3.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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East Regional - Young Adult
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Holly Springs Community - Young Adult
YA DRAPER
Northeast Regional - Young Adult
YA DRAPER
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As Kofi, Arielle, Dana, November, and Jericho face personal challenges during their last year of high school, a misunderstood student brings a gun to class and demands to be taken seriously.