Anna-Marie McLemore
1) Wild beauty
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
For nearly a century, the Nomeolvides women have tended the grounds of La Pradera, hiding a terrible legacy, until mysterious Fel arrives and Estrella helps him explore his dangerous past.
For nearly a century the Nomeolvides women have tended the grounds and lush estate gardens of La Pradera. They have a tragic legacy: if they fall in love too deeply, their lovers vanish. When a strange boy appears in the gardens, he is a mystery to Estrella and...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
"To everyone who knows them, best friends Miel and Sam are as strange as they are inseparable. Roses grow out of Miel's wrist, and rumors say that she spilled out of a water tower when she was five. Sam is known for the moons he paints and hangs in the trees and for how little anyone knows about his life before he and his mother moved to town. But as odd as everyone considers Miel and Sam, even they stay away from the Bonner girls, four beautiful...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
"The del Cisne girls have never just been sisters; they're also rivals, Blanca as obedient and graceful as Roja is vicious and manipulative. They know that, because of a generations-old spell, their family is bound to a bevy of swans deep in the woods. They know that, one day, the swans will pull them into a dangerous game that will leave one of them a girl, and trap the other in the body of a swan. But when two local boys become drawn into the game,...
4) Lakelore
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Language
English
Description
"In this young adult novel by award-winning author Anna-Marie McLemore, two non-binary teens are pulled into a magical world under a lake - but can they keep their worlds above water intact? Everyone who lives near the lake knows the stories about the world underneath it, an ethereal landscape rumored to be half-air, half-water. But Bastián Silvano and Lore Garcia are the only ones who've been there. Bastián grew up both above the lake and in...
Author
Publisher
Puck
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
En esta novela young adult, dos adolescentes no binaries son arrastrades a un mundo m̀gico bajo un lago, pero ¿ser̀n capaces de mantener intacto el mundo exterior? Todos los que viven cerca del lago conocen las historias sobre el mundo que mora debajo, un paisaje eťreo que se rumora es mitad aire, mitad agua. Pero Bastìn Silvano y Lore Garcia son los ͠nicos que han ido all̕. Bastìn creci̤ en parte sobre el lago y en parte en el espacio...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Description
Lace Paloma and Cluck Corbeau, from feuding families of traveling performers, fall in love.
The Palomas and the Corbeaus have long been rivals and enemies, locked in an escalating feud for more than a generation. Both families make their living as traveling performers in competing shows--the Palomas swimming in mermaid exhibitions, the Corbeaus, former tightrope walkers, performing in the tallest trees they can find. Lace Paloma may be new to her...
Author
Series
Remixed classics volume 5
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Description
"Three teens chase their own version of the American Dream during the Roaring 20s in this YA remix of The Great Gatsby"--
New York City, 1922. Nicol̀s Caraveo, a 17-year-old transgender boy from Minnesota, has no interest in the city's glamor. Going to New York is all about establishing himself as a young professional, which could set up his future--and his life as a man--and benefit his family. Nick rents a small house in West Egg from his 18-year-old...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Language
English
Description
After Ciela and Lock are sexually assaulted at the same party, they develop a cautious friendship through her family's possibly-magical pastelería and his secret forest of otherworldly trees.
Graciela's whole world changes after she and a boy she barely knows are assaulted at the same party. She loses her gift for making enchanted pan dulce. Neighborhood trees vanish overnight, while mirrored glass appears, bringing reckless magic with it. Ciela...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
"Summer, 1518. A strange sickness sweeps through Strasbourg: women dance in the streets, some until they fall down dead. As rumors of witchcraft spread, suspicion turns toward Lavinia and her family, and Lavinia may have to do the unimaginable to save herself and everyone she loves. Five centuries later, a pair of red shoes seal to Rosella Oliva's feet, making her dance uncontrollably. They draw her toward a boy who knows the dancing fever's history...
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"From stories of first love, unrequited love, love that surprises, love that's been there all along, ten of the brightest and award-winning authors writing YA have taken on some of your favorite romantic tropes, embracing them and turning them on their heads. Readers will swoon for this collection of stories that celebrate love at its most humorous, inclusive, heart-expanding, and serendipitous."
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
These fifteen reimaginings of Shakespeare's classic works include a midsummer's dance in a gym. A cast party amongst the star. An ode to a fallen rap legend. The authors put a modern spin on the works, for contemporary audiences. -- adapted from jacket
12) Miss Meteor
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A teen who secretly arrived with the meteor that gave her small hometown its name discovers that she is turning back into stardust and teams up with her best friend in an effort to secure her human existence by entering a local beauty pageant that has always been won by thin, blonde, white girls.
Everyone knows Meteor, New Mexico got its name from the space rock that crashed into the desert nearby. Nobody knows that Lita Perez came with it-- or that...
Publisher
Harlequin Teen
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Language
English
Description
"History is filled with stories of women accused of witchcraft, of fearsome girls with arcane knowledge. Toil & Trouble features fifteen stories of girls embracing their power, reclaiming their destinies and using their magic to create, to curse, to cure--and to kill ... This collection reveals a universal truth: there's nothing more powerful than a teenage girl who believes in herself"--Publisher.