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Airborn by Oppel - Matt a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface. Lexile 760 |
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Among the Hidden by Margaret Haddix - In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong. Lexile 800 |
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| Cages by Peg Kehret - After losing an acting role and fighting with her alcoholic stepfather, Kit is arrested for shoplifting and ordered to work, as part of her sentence, at an animal shelter. Lexile 660 | ||
| Code Orange by Caroline Cooney - While conducting research for a school paper on small-ox. Mitty finds an envelope containing 100 year old smallpox scabs and fears that he has infected himself and all of New York City. Lexile 850 | ||
| Code Talker: a Novel about the Navajo Marines of World War II by Joseph Bruchac - After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language. Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue. Lexile 910 | ||
| Criss-Cross by Lynne Rae Perkins - Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love. Lexile 820 | ||
| Eleanor's Story, an American girl in Hitler's Germany by Eleanor Ramrath Garner - The author shares her experience of World War II, from her trip across the Atlantic to dealing with the Gestapo. Lexile 940 | ||
| Flush by Carl Hiaasen - With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around the Florida Keys home. Lexile 830 | ||
| The Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean - In thirteenth-century China, after trying to save his widowed mother from a horrendous second marriage, twelve-year-old Haoyou has life-changing adventures when he takes to the sky as a circus kite rider and ends up meeting the great Mongol ruler Kublai Khan. Lexile 900 | ||
| The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan - After learning that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the sea, Percy Jackson is transferred from boearding school to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for demigods, and becomes involved in a quest to precent a war between the gods. Lexile 740 | ||
| Princess Academy by Shannon Hale - While attending a strict academy for potential princesses with the other girls from her mountain village, fourteen-year-old Miri discovers unexpected talents and connections to her homeland. Newbery honor book. Lexile 890 | ||
| Shadow Spinner by Susan Fletcher - When Marjan, a thirteen-year-old crippled girl, joins the Sultan's harem in ancient Persia, she gathers for Shahrazad the stories which will save the queen's life. Lexile 710 | ||
| Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli - In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever. Lexile 590 | ||
| Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen - After his anger erupts into violence, Cole, in order to avoid going to prison, agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on the native American Circle Justice, and he is sent to a remote Alaskan Island where an encounter with a huge Spirit Bear changes his life. Lexile 670 | ||
| Uglies by Scott Westerfeld - Transformation into a super beauty on her sixteenth birthday and reuniting with her friend Peris will only happen if Tally Youngblood's friend Shay also agrees to the operation. Lexile 770 | ||
| Under the Blood-Red Sun by Graham Salisbury - Tomikazu Nakaji's biggest concerns are baseball, homework, and a local bully, until life with his Japanese family in Hawaii changes drastically after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941. Lexile 640 | ||