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1) Divergent
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
A thrilling action-adventure film set in a world where people are divided into distinct factions based on human virtues. Tris Prior is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy by a faction leader to destroy all Divergents, Tris must learn to trust in the mysterious Four and together they must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it's too late.
"Woodley, at every turn, lets us...
2) Insurgente
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
Español
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Description
One choice can transform you-- or it can destroy you. But every choice has consequences, and as unrest surges in the factions all around her, Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves-- and herself-- while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love. Tris's initiation day should have been marked by celebration and victory with her chosen faction; instead, the day ended with unspeakable...
Author
Series
Carve the mark volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Living on a violent planet where everyone develops a unique power meant to shape the future, Akos and Cyra, youths from enemy nations, resent gifts that render them vulnerable to others' control before they become unlikely survival partners.
Author
Language
English
Description
"On the night of her high school graduation, Richelle Bach's father gives her and her identical twin sister, Michelle, matching opal necklaces. "These opals look identical," he tells them, "but the fire inside each is completely unique--just like the two of you." Indeed, the two sisters couldn't be more different, and their paths diverge as they embark on adulthood. Years pass, until--at their father's behest--they both come home for Christmas. What...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Hunted across the True Sea and haunted by the lives she took on the Fold, Alina must try to make a life with Mal in an unfamiliar land, all while keeping her identity as the Sun Summoner a secret. But she can't outrun her past--or her destiny.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Soldier. Summoner. Saint. The nation's fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army. The Darkling rules from his shadow throne while a weakened Alina Starkov recovers from their battle under the dubious protection of the zealots who worship her as a Saint. Now her hopes lie with the magic of a long-vanished ancient creature and the chance that an outlaw prince still survives....
Author
Language
English
Description
"Writer-to-watch Lauryn Chamberlain's sophmore novel, a paperback original, is a poignant, incisive story about life's "Sliding Doors" moments; it explores the disproportionate impact that the seemingly small choices we make in our youth have on the rest of our lives, jumping boldly through the years in alternating points of view, moving at the same unforgiving pace as do those precious, confusing years between college and real life. This is a novel...
8) Promised
Author
Language
English
Description
"Warwickshire, England, 1812. Fooled by love once before, Margaret vows never to be played the fool again. But then she finds that her father has promised her hand in marriage to Lord Williams, who is condescending and high-handed. Margaret will never consent to marrying such an odious man. Yet as Lord Williams inserts himself into her everyday life, proving himself intelligent and even kind, Margaret realizes that he is exactly the man she'd hoped...