Ashes, Ashes

Ashes, Ashes (2013)

by Jo Treggiari

ISBN: 9780545255646

Interest Level by Scholastic: Gr.7-9

Interest Level by AR: Middle Grade +    Reading Level by AR: Gr.5.4

Lexile: 810L     DRA: 70   Guided Reading(Fountas & Pinnell)Z

  Age: 11+    UK Equivalent: Key Stage 3

Type: Chapter Book, US Book     Genre: Sci-Fi, Young Adult

Synopsis: In a future Manhattan devastated by environmental catastrophes and epidemics, 16-year-old Lucy survives alone until vicious hounds target her and force her to join Aidan and his band, but soon they learn that she is the target of Sweepers, who kidnap and infect people with plague. (Credits to Scholastic)

The Bar Code Tattoo

The Bar Code Tattoo (2007)

by Suzanne Weyn

ISBN: 9780545470544

Interest Level by Scholastic: Gr.7-9   Reading Level by Scholastic: Gr.4.8

IL by AR: Middle Grade +    RL by AR: Gr.5.0

Lexile: 720L     DRA: 70   Guided Reading(Fountas & Pinnell)Z

  Age: 10+    UK Equivalent: Key Stage3

Type: Chapter Book, US Book     Genre: Young Adult, Sci-Fi

Synopsis: Kayla is ostracized at school because she refused to get the required tattooed bar code and now she and her family must run to avoid the dangers threats against them.  (Credits to Follett)

Graceling

 

Graceling (2009)

by Kristin Cashore

ISBN: 9780545175302

Interest Level by Scholastic: Gr.10-12   Reading Level by Scholastic: Gr.4.5

IL by AR: Upper Grade    RL by AR: Gr.5.5

Lexile: 730L     

  Age: 15+    UK Equivalent: Lower Key Stage 4

Type: Chapter Book, UK Book     Genre: Fantasy Fiction

Synopsis:  In a world where some are born with often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa teams up with a young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king. The plot contains sexual situations and violence. (Credits to Accelerated Reader)

The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond

The Blossoming Universe of Violet Diamond (2014)

by Brenda Woods

ISBN: 9780399257148

Interest Level by AR: Middle Grade   Reading Level by AR: Gr.4.3

IL by Follett: Gr.3-6    RL by Follett: Gr.3.9

  Age: 8+

Type: Chapter Book, US Book     Genre: Family Story

Synopsis:Violet, a smart, funny, brown-eyed, brown-haired girl in a family of blonds, finally meets the African American side of her family and learns more about her heritage.   (Credits to Accelerated Reader)

Divergent

Divergent

by Veronica Roth

ISBN: 9780007538065

Interest Level by Scholastic: Gr.9-12   Reading Level by Scholastic Gr.5.3

IL by AR: Upper Grade     RL by AR: Gr.4.8

Lexile: 700L     DRA: 70     Guided Reading(Fountas & Pinnell):Z 

  Age: 13+

Type: Chapter Book, US Book     Genre: Science Fiction

Synopsis:  In Beatrice Prior’s dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue: Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is; she can’t have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.  (Credits to Scholastic)

Waiting For Anya

Waiting For Anya

by Michael Morpurgo

ISBN: 9781405229272

Interest Level by Scholastic: Gr.3-5   Reading Level by Scholastic Gr.7.1

IL by AR: Upper Grade     RL by AR: Gr.5.1

Lexile: 770L

  Age: 13-15 y/o

Type: Chapter Book, UK Book     Genre: Historical Fiction

Synopsis:  Twelve-year-old Jo helps a Jewish man and Jewish children escape to Spain from France when the village of Lescun is invaded by German soldiers.   (Credits to Scholastic)

Across the Nightingale Floor

Across the Nightingale Floor

by Lian Hearn

ISBN: 9780330415286

Interest Level by Scholastic: High School     Reading Level by Scholastic: Gr6.4

IL by AR: Upper  Grade     RL by AR: Gr.5.9

IL by Follett: YA Fiction

Type: Novel, US Books     Genre: Historical Fiction

Synopsis: One boy. One journey. One hidden destiny.(Credits to Amazon UK)

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

by Judith Kerr

ISBN: 9780007274772

Interest Level by Scholastic: Young Adult    Reading Level by Scholastic: Gr5.1

IL by AR: Upper Grade     RL by AR: Gr.5.7 

Type: Novel, UK Books     Genre: Biography, Historical Fiction

Synopsis: Partly autobiographical, this is first of the internationally acclaimed trilogy by Judith Kerr telling the unforgettable story of a Jewish family fleeing from Germany at the start of the Second World War.  Suppose your country began to change. Suppose that without your noticing, it became dangerous for some people to live in Germany any longer. Suppose you found, to your complete surprise, that your own father was one of those people.  That is what happened to Anna in 1933. She was nine years old when it began, too busy with her schoolwork and toboganning to take much notice of political posters, but out of them glared the face of Adolf Hitler, the man who would soon change the whole of Europe – starting with her own small life.  Anna suddenly found things moving too fast for her to understand. One day, her father was unaccountably missing. Then she herself and her brother Max were being rushed by their mother, in alarming secrecy, away from everything they knew – home and schoolmates and well-loved toys – right out of Germany…(Credits to Amazon UK)