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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Series:
MindWar trilogy volume 2.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
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.
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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.
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Average Rating:
4 stars
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"Hayley Kincaid and her father move back to their hometown to try a "normal" life, but the horrors he saw in the war threaten to destroy their lives"--
Book cover for "The inexplicable logic of my life"
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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"--
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love."--
Book cover for "Into the dangerous world"
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Average Rating:
2 stars
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Living in an art commune that her father burns down before taking his own life, Ror moves to a homeless residence in 1984 Manhattan, where she is torn by the opinions of others about how she should define herself as an artist.
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4.5 stars
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Teenaged Isobel "Belly" Conklin, whose life revolves around spending the summer at her mother's best friend's beach house, reflects on the tragic events of the past year that changed her life forever.
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Janie Johnson volume 5.
Description:
At college in New York City, Janie Johnson, aka Jennie Spring, seems to have successfully left behind her past as "The face on the milk carton," but soon she, her families, and friends are pursued by a true-crime writer who wants their help in telling her kidnapper's tale.
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With a band of assassins pursuing them, Julia and her companions continue their search for the witch Ko Dan while Julia struggles with her ability to vanish.
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Average Rating:
5 stars
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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.
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Series:
Jericho trilogy volume 3.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
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.
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Diviners volume 2.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
After a supernatural showdown with a serial killer, Evie O'Neill has outed herself as a Diviner and has become a media darling. In the meantime, a mysterious sleeping sickness has hit New York City, and the Diviners must band together to find the cause and the cure.
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Series:
Vampire Academy volume 6.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
Framed for the murder of Queen Tatiana, bodyguard Rose faces the trial of her life as best friend Lissa, a vampire princess, becomes first in line for the royal throne.
Book cover for "The last time we say goodbye"
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Average Rating:
4 stars
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After her younger brother, Tyler, commits suicide, Lex struggles to work through her grief in the face of a family that has fallen apart, the sudden distance between her and her friends, and memories of Tyler that still feel all too real.
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Series:
Gone novels volume 6.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
"Answers to every mystery of the FAYZ are revealed, unexpected heroes emerge as sacrifices are made, and the Darkness is finally conquered by a force even more powerful than itself in this conclusion to the Gone series"--
Book cover for "Lola and the boy next door"
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Average Rating:
4.6 stars
Description:
Lola lives an extraordinary life in San Francisco with her two dads and beloved dog, but when the Bells return to the house next door Lola recalls both the friendship-ending fight with Calliope and the crush she had on Cricket. Budding costume designer Lola lives an extraordinary life in San Francisco with her two dads and beloved dog, dating a punk rocker, but when the Bell twins return to the house next door Lola, recalls both the friendship-ending...
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4 stars
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A twisty psychological thriller about a girl whose older sister is found thirteen years after she was abducted from their front yard. But is she really who she claims to be?
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Relic master volume 2.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
The second installment in the Relic Master quartet!
Even though Tasceron and its Emperor have fallen, there is a rumor that the heiress to the throne still lives. If so, her life is in grave danger, especially from the Watch. Galen and Raffi must race to find and protect her.
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Book cover for "Loving vs. Virginia"
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3.5 stars
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Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Virginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.
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Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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New York Times bestselling series!

The first book in the New York Times bestselling series The Lying Game, by the author of the bestselling Pretty Little Liars series, Sara Shepard.

Shortly before her seventeenth birthday, Emma discovers she has a long-lost twin named Sutton Mercer. She contacts Sutton, who agrees to a rendezvous but never shows up.

Curious at first, Emma slips into Sutton's ultra-glamorous

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