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Author
Series
(John Anthony).Ranger's apprentice volume 8
Pub. Date
2010.
Lexile Measure
830L
Summary
Halt, Will, and Horace set out for Hibernia, where a quasi-religious group, the Outsiders, is sowing confusion and sedition, and they find that secrets from Halt's past may hold the key to restoring order before the last kingdom is undermined.
2) Halt's peril
Author
Series
(John Anthony).Ranger's apprentice volume 9
Lexile Measure
800L
Summary
Tennyson, the false prophet of the Outsider cult, has escaped and Halt is determined to stop him before he crosses the border into Araluen, but Genovesan assassins put Will and Halt's extraordinary archery skills to the test.
3) Awake
Author
Summary
"A car accident causes Scarlett to start remembering pieces of an unfamiliar past. When a new guy moves into town, Scarlett feels an instant spark. But Noah knows the truth of Scarlett's past, and he's determined to shield her from it...because Scarlett grew up in a cult called Eternal Light, controlled by her biological parents. And they want her back"--
Author
Lexile Measure
810L
Summary
Since he was captured by the Glorious Path, a militant religion based on the teachings of a former soldier, fifteen-year-old Cal has served the Path in its brutal war with the remains of the United States government, and tried to survive and protect his younger brother but when he kills an officer to protect a stray dog, Cal is forced take his brother and the dog and run.
Author
Summary
Stacey wants nothing more than to have a normal life as she heads off to college, hoping to forget the tragic accident that killed her boyfriend, but when she begins having disturbing dreams, she realizes she cannot put the past behind and turns to the folk magic her grandmother taught her to learn the truth about her dreams.
7) Family
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile Measure
840L
Summary
In the 1960s, seventeen-year-old Melinda leaves an abusive home for San Francisco, meets the charismatic Henry, and follows him to his desert commune where sex and drugs are free, but soon his "family" becomes violent against rich and powerful people and she is compelled to join in.
8) Eden West
Author
Summary
Tackling faith, doubt, and transformation, National Book Award winner Pete Hautman explores a boy's unraveling allegiance to an insular cult. Twelve square miles of paradise, surrounded by an eight-foot-high chain-link fence: this is Nodd, the land of the Grace. It is all seventeen-year-old Jacob knows. Beyond the fence lies the World, a wicked, terrible place, doomed to destruction. When the Archangel Zerachiel descends from Heaven, only the Grace...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile Measure
850L
Summary
Moonbeam, seventeen, survives a devastating confrontation between government forces and the cult she grew up in, but will need a lot of help to heal mentally, emotionally, and physically.
Before, she lived inside the fence. She was never allowed to leave the property, never allowed to talk to Outsiders, never allowed to speak her mind. Because Father John controlled everything-- and Father John liked rules. Disobeying Father John came with terrible...
Author
Series
100 volume 4
Pub. Date
2016.
Summary
When a fanatical cult determined to cleanse the war-ravaged Earth threatens the one hundred, Clarke sets off to make peace with these strangers while Glass falls under the spell of the cult's magnetic message.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile Measure
590L
Summary
"Behind the white-washed walls of the compound, life was simple. Follow the rules, "live in the light, " and all would be well. But on the outside, things are different. There are colors and toys and food. There are liars and darkness. And twelve-year-old Zylynn now faces a difficult decision--to stay here with the enemy or find her way back to the light. And neither may be what it seems." -- jacket.
12) Beneath
Author
Series
I Q.Beneath volume 1
Pub. Date
2015
Lexile Measure
HL 610L
Summary
Pat O'Toole has always idolized his older brother, Coop, right up until the day Coop ran away from their home just outside Washington, D.C. -- now a year later he has received a package containing a digital voice recorder and a cryptic message from his brother, which will lead Pat on a strange and dangerous journey to the mysterious Community living beneath the streets of New York.
13) Above
Author
Series
I Q.Beneath volume 2
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile Measure
570L
Summary
Pat O'Toole, his brother Coop, and their new companion, Kate, have narrowly escaped the cultlike community below New York City but must try to stop the cult's leader, Kate's grandfather.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 6
Lexile Measure
760L
Summary
Nancy encounters a mysterious saleswoman in a perfume shop, a curious man on the train, and then finds herself trying to decipher a strange code.
16) Devil in Ohio
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Summary
Jules Mathis comes home from school to find a strange girl sitting in her kitchen. Mae is one of the patients at the hospital where her psychiatrist mother works. She's only supposed to stay for a few days, but soon Mae is wearing Jules's clothes, sleeping in her bedroom, edging her out of her position on the school paper, and flirting with Jules's crush. Then things get weird.... Jules walks in on a half-dressed Mae, startled to see a pentagram carved...
Author
Series
All our hidden gifts volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Summary
Maeve, Roe, Fiona, and Lily -- the four friends have been inseparable since the ritual that released Lily from the Housekeeper's spell and granted them each a supernatural gift. But now, with Roe at university and Fiona and Lily chasing dreams of life beyond their hometown, Maeve worries about a lonely future. What are the prospects for a teen psychic with bad grades and a terrible temper? Isolated and insecure, Maeve is vulnerable once more to Aaron,...
18) The project
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Summary
After their parents died, Bea Denham joined The Unity Project, leaving Lo in the care of their great aunt. Thanks to its extensive charitable work and community outreach, The Unity Project has won the hearts and minds of most in the Upstate New York region, but Lo knows there's more to the group than meets the eye. She has spent the last six years of her life trying-- and failing-- to prove it. When a man shows up at the magazine Lo works for claiming...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Summary
"'I plead the blood.' Those were the last words seventeen-year-old golden boy quarterback Clay Tate heard rattling from his dad's throat when he discovered him dying on the barn floor of the Neely cattle ranch, clutching a crucifix to his chest. Now, on the first anniversary of the Midland, Oklahoma, slaughter, the whole town's looking at Clay like he might be next to go over the edge. Clay wants to forget the past, but the sons and daughters of the...
20) Together we rot
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Formats
Summary
"Wil Greene's mom has been missing for over a year, and the police are ready to call the case closed-they claim she skipped town and you can't find a woman who wants to disappear. But she knows her mom wouldn't just leave ... and she knows the family of her former best friend, Elwood Clarke, has something to do with it. Elwood has been counting down the days until his 18th birthday-in dread. It marks leaving school and joining his pastor father in...