Justine Larbalestier
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
When his father's business takes the family to New York City, a seventeen-year-old Australian boy must balance his desire to protect his ten-year-old sister, a diagnosable psychopath, from the world with the desperate need to protect the world from her.
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In a world in which everyone has a personal fairy who tends to one aspect of daily life, fourteen-year-old Charlie decides she does not want hers--a parking fairy--and embarks on a series of misadventures designed to rid herself of the invisible sprite and replace it with a better one, like her friend Rochelle's shopping fairy.
3) Razorhurst
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
In 1932, in Sydney's deadly Razorhurst neighborhood, where crime and razor-wielding men rule, two girls with contrasting lives who share the ability to see ghosts meet over a dead body and find themselves on the run from mob bosses.
4) Team Human
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
Residing in New Whitby, Maine, a town founded by vampires trying to escape persecution, Mel finds her negative attitudes challenged when her best friend falls in love with one, another friend's father runs off with one, and she herself is attracted to someone who tries to pass himself off as one.
5) Liar
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Compulsive liar Micah promises to tell the truth after revealing that her boyfriend has been murdered.
Author
Series
Magic or madness trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
From the Sydney, Australia, home of a grandmother she believes is a witch, fifteen-year-old Reason Cansino is magically transported to New York City, where she discovers that friends and foes can be hard to distinguish.
Author
Series
Magic or madness trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Fifteen-year-old Reason Cansino, whose life drastically changed when her mother went insane and she learned about her family's relationship with magic, must decide which path to take between magic and madness--use too much and die, use too little and go insane.
Author
Series
Magic or madness trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When fifteen-year-old Reason is pulled through the magical door connecting New York City with the Sydney, Australia, home of her grandmother, she encounters an impossibly ancient man who seems to have some purpose in mind for her.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
This collection features stories from bestselling and up-and-coming YA authors.
An exceptional anthology exploring the joys, heartbreaks and triumphs of immigration-- written by YA authors who are themselves immigrants and the children of immigrants. Their characters face random traffic stops, TSA detention, customs anxiety, and the daunting and inspiring journey to new lands... while also dancing at weddings, keeping diaries, teaching ESL. In presenting...