Justine Larbalestier
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 14
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Aussie Che Taylor loves his younger sister, Rosa. But he’s also certain that she’s a psychopath—clinically, threateningly, dangerously. Recently Rosa has been making trouble, hurting things. Che is the only one who knows; he’s the only one his sister trusts. Rosa is smart, talented, pretty, and very good at hiding what she is and the manipulation she’s capable of. Their parents, whose business takes the family from place...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
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.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
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.
Publisher
Inkyard Press
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...