Scott Westerfeld
1) Uglies
Author
Series
Uglies volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Just before their sixteenth birthdays, when they will will be transformed into beauties whose only job is to have a great time, Tally's best friend runs away and Tally must find her and turn her in, or never become pretty at all.
2) Specials
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
After being captured and surgically transformed into a "special," teenaged Tally Youngblood, now a government agent programmed to protect society from outside threats, is ordered to eliminate the rebel colony New Smoke, Tally's former home.
3) Extras
Author
Series
Uglies volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Now that the world is in a complete cultural renaissance, fifteen-year-old Aya Fuse, an Extra, just wants to lay low, so when she discovers the secret lives of the Sly Girls, she wants to report their story, but Aya knows that would propel her into celebrity--a status she's not prepared for.
4) Pretties
Author
Series
Uglies volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Tally's transformation to perfect and popular including her totally hot boyfriend is everything she always wanted. But beneath the fun and freedom something is wrong and now Tally has to fight for her life because what she knows has put her in danger with the authorities.
5) Leviathan
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn, who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically engineered beasts.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine/Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 510L
Language
English
Description
In a society that considers children to be "Uglies" until they are transformed by surgery at age sixteen into "Pretties," fifteen-year-old Shay discovers a group of rebellious teens called the Crims and a world outside the city where she can decide to be real instead of a "Pretty."
7) Shatter city
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Language
English
Description
Assuming her twin's identity, Frey works to destroy her father. When a rebel uprising strands her in Pas, and the city comes under attack, Frey must step out of the shadows to find her missing sister and take action against her tyrant father.
8) Spill zone
Author
Series
Spill zone volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 340L
Language
English
Description
"Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. Uncanny manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone. The Spill claimed Addison's parents and scarred her little sister, Lexa, who hasn't spoken since. Addison provides for her sister by photographing the Zone's twisted attractions on illicit midnight rides. Art collectors pay top dollar for these bizarre...
9) Impostors
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Language
English
Description
In a world that is rapidly descending into chaos, Frey and Rafi are twin sisters, but few people know of Frey's existence, because she has been raised to be her sister's body double and lethal bodyguard, while Rafi has been raised to further the family's political power--but when their father sends Frey in her sister's place as collateral in a tricky deal, Col, the son of a rival leader, gets close enough to begin to suspect something, and Frey must...
Author
Series
Spill zone volume 2
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
GN 220L
Language
English
Description
After her own encounter with the Spill Zone gives her uncanny powers, Addison teams up with fellow survivor Don Jae, and a curious rag doll, Vespertine.
11) Youngbloods
Author
Series
Impostors volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Frey has spent her life in a family of deceivers, a stand-in for her sister, manipulated at her father's command. Free from them at last, she is finding her own voice -- and using it to question everything her family stood for. Tally was once the most famous rebel in the world. But for over a decade, she's kept to the shadows, allowing her myth to grow even as she receded. Now she sees that the revolution she led has not created a stable world. Freedom,...
12) Mirror's edge
Author
Series
Impostors volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Raised to be her twin sister Rafia's body double and bodyguard, but now with new face and body Frey and her lover Col are determined to return to Shreve to rescue Boss X, a friend and ally in the rebellion of the free cities against people like Frey's father, ruthless ruler of Shreve; but Frey is troubled by things even beyond the dangers of her mission--confusion over her own identity, guilt over having killed her brother (even if he was trying to...
13) Behemoth
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a whole new kind of genetically-engineered warships.
14) Horizon
Author
Series
Horizon volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
When Aero Horizon 16 crashes in the Arctic, eight children emerge from the wreckage to find themselves alone and surrounded, not by ice, but by a mysterious and deadly jungle full of carnivorous plants and predatory birds--the other five hundred people from the plane are gone, not necessarily dead, but taken by something that lives in the jungle.
15) Zeroes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
HL 660L
Language
English
Description
Told from separate viewpoints, teens Scam, Crash, Flicker, Anonymous, Bellwether, and Kelsie, all born in the year 2000 and living in Cambria, California, have superhuman abilities that give them interesting but not heroic lives until they must work as acommunity to respond to a high stakes crisis.
16) So yesterday
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Hunter Braque, a New York City teenager who is paid by corporations to spot what is "cool, " combines his analytical skills with girlfriend Jen's creative talents to find a missing person and thwart a conspiracy directed at the heart of consumer culture.
17) Afterworlds
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
In alternating chapters, eighteen-year-old Darcy Patel navigates the New York City publishing world and Lizzie, the heroine of Darcy's novel, slips into the "Afterworld" to survive a terrorist attack and becomes a spirit guide, as both face many challenges and both fall in love.
18) The secret hour
Author
Series
Midnighters volume 1
Publisher
Eos
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Upon moving to Bixby, Oklahoma, fifteen-year-old Jessica Day learns that she is one of a group of people who have special abilities that help them fight ancient creatures living in an hour hidden at midnight; creatures that seem determined to destroy Jess.
19) Goliath
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Alek and Deryn encounter obstacles on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek's throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love.
20) Peeps
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Cal Thompson is a carrier of a parasite that causes vampirism, and must hunt down all of the girlfriends he has unknowingly infected.