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 "Rainbow road"
Star rating for Rainbow road
Series:
Rainbow trilogy volume 3.
Description:
While driving across the United States during the summer after high school graduation, three young gay men encounter various bisexual and homosexual people and make some decisions about their own relationships and lives.
Book cover for "The Raven Boys"
Star rating for The Raven Boys
Series:
Raven cycle volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
Though she is from a family of clairvoyants, Blue Sargent's only gift seems to be that she makes other people's talents stronger, and when she meets Gansey, one of the Raven Boys from the expensive Aglionby Academy, she discovers that he has talents of his own--and that together their talents are a dangerous mix.
Book cover for "The Replacement"
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Average Rating:
3.5 stars
Description:
Mackie Doyle is The Replacement - left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago. He has been raised among us. But he is not one of us. Now, he must face the dark creatures of the slag heaps from which he came and find his rightful place - in our world or theirs.
"Unsettling villains and intriguing moral ambivalence make this effort shockingly original and . . .breathtaking." - Booklist, starred review
"Even after finishing the book,...

104. Reunited

Book cover for "Reunited"
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Series:
The reawakened volume 3.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Lily, now part human, part lion, and part fairy, must make a final voyage toward her destiny and defeat the evil god Seth once and for all.
Book cover for "Revolution"
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Average Rating:
2.7 stars
Description:
When an angry, grieving musician faces expulsion from her private school, she travels to Paris to complete a school assignment and uncovers a diary written during the French revolution.
Book cover for "Rise of the Elgen"
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Series:
Michael Vey volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.9 stars
Description:
Fifteen-year-old Michael Vey, born with Tourette's syndrome and special electromagnetic powers, joins his techno-genius best friend and an alliance of other "electric" teenagers to battle powerful foes in the jungles of Peru, where Michael learns the Order of Elgen's plan to "restructure" the world. Michael Vey, born with Tourette's syndrome and special powers, joins his best friend and an alliance of other "electric" teenagers to battle foes in...
Book cover for "The Rithmatist"
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Series:
Rithmatist volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
As Wild Chalklings threaten the American Isles and Rithmatists are humanity's only defense, Joel can only watch as Rithmatist students learn the magical art that he would do anything to practice.
Book cover for "The rock and the river"
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In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.

109. Run

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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Bo Dickinson is a seventeen-year-old girl from a bad family, but she is also over-protected, legally blind, Agnes Atwood's best friend--so when Bo calls in the middle of the night, desperate to get out of town, Agnes helps her to steal the Atwoods' car and the two girls go on the run, even though Agnes is not sure exactly what they are running from.
Book cover for "Salt to the sea"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
As World War II draws to a close, refugees try to escape the war's final dangers, only to find themselves aboard a ship with a target on its hull.
Book cover for "The Scorch trials"
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Series:
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
After surviving horrific conditions in the Maze, Thomas is entrapped, along with nineteen other boys, in a scientific experiment designed to observe their responses and gather data believed to be essential for the survival of the human race.
Book cover for "The shade of the moon"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
"Jon Evans is one of the lucky ones--until he realizes that escaping his safe haven may be the only way to truly survive"--
Book cover for "Shadow kiss"
Star rating for Shadow kiss
Series:
Vampire Academy volume 3.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
While Rose is coping with the darker effects of being shadow-kissed, her relationship with Dimitri is finally taking off, and when he disappears during a Strigoi attack on St. Vladimir's Academy, she must make a terrible choice.
Book cover for "Shadowshaper"
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Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
When the murals painted on the walls of her Brooklyn neighborhood start to change and fade in front of her, Sierra Santiago realizes that something strange is going on--then she discovers her Puerto Rican family are shadowshapers and finds herself in a battle with an evil anthropologist for the lives of her family and friends.

115. Sinner

Book cover for "Sinner"
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Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
Former frontman for the band Narkotika Cole St. Clair returns to California in hopes of renewing his relationship with Isabel Culpeper.
Book cover for "So Much Closer"
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Average Rating:
3 stars
Description:
Another contemporary thought-provoking romance from the author of the City Love trilogy!
When Brooke discovers that the love of her life, Scott Abrams, is moving from their New Jersey suburb to New York City for senior year, she decides to follow him there. Living with her estranged father and adjusting to a whole new school are challenging—and things get even worse when she finds out that Scott already has a girlfriend. But as she learns to...
Book cover for "Something Like Fate"
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Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Best friends Lani and Erin couldn’t be more different. Lani’s reserved and thoughtful; Erin’s bubbly and outgoing. Lani likes to do her own thing; Erin prefers an entourage. There’s no possible way they could be interested in the same guy.

So when Erin starts dating Jason, Lani can’t believe she feels such a deep connection with him—and it may be mutual. The more Lani fights it, the more certain she feels that

...
Book cover for "Spirit bound"
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Series:
Vampire Academy volume 5.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
Description:
When she returns to St. Vladimir's after a heartbreaking journey to Dimitri's birthplace, Rose eagerly anticipates graduation despite her fears that Dimitri will not be able to resist his vampire drive to stalk and transform her. Rose Hathaway has finally returned to St. Vladimir's and to her best friend, Lissa. But Rose's heart still aches for Dimitri, and she knows he's out there, somewhere. He has tasted her blood, and now he is hunting her. Only...
Book cover for "The struggle"
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Average Rating:
3.3 stars
Description:
Two vampire brothers compete for high stakes--the love of Elena Gilbert, a beautiful high school senior who is searching for excitement.
Book cover for "The summer I turned pretty"
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Average Rating:
4.2 stars
Description:
Belly spends the summer she turns sixteen at the beach just like every other summer of her life, but this time things are very different.