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21) Sea witch
Author
Series
Sea witch volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ever since her best friend, Anna, drowned, Evie has been an outcast in her small fishing town. Hiding her talents, mourning her loss, drowning in her guilt. Then a girl with an uncanny resemblance to Anna appears offshore and, though the girl denies it, Evie is convinced that her best friend actually survived. That her own magic wasn't so powerless after all ... The rise of Hans Christian Andersen's iconic villainess is a heart-wrenching story of...
22) Sawkill Girls
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Furyborn comes a breathtaking and spine-tingling novel about three teenage girls who face off against an insidious monster that preys upon young women ..."--From publisher website.
Author
Series
Beasts made of night volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
After he eats the sin of a royal, Taj, a talented aki, or sin-eater who consumes the guilt of others whose transgressions are exorcised from them by powerful but corrupt Mages, is drawn into a plot to destroy the city, and he must fight to save the princess he loves and his own life.
24) Wayward son
Author
Series
Simon Snow volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story is supposed to be over. Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after... What he needs, according to his best friend, is a change of scenery. He just needs to see himself in a new light. That's how Simon and Penny and Baz end up in a vintage convertible, tearing across the American West. They find trouble, of course....
Author
Series
Wingfeather saga volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Janner Wingfeather's father was the High King of Anniera, but his father is gone. The kingdom has fallen, the royal family is on the run, and the Fang armies of Gnag the Nameless are close behind. Janner and his family seek refuge in the last safe place in the world, the Green Hollows. But there's a big problem. Janner's little brother--heir to the throne of Anniera--has grown a tail. And gray fur ...
26) Hunter
Author
Series
Hunter (Mercedes Lackey) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
They came after the Diseray. Some were terrors ripped from our collective imaginations, remnants of every mythology across the world. And some were like nothing anyone had ever dreamed up, even in their worst nightmares. Monsters. Long ago, the barriers between our world and the Otherworld were ripped open, and it's taken centuries to bring back civilization in the wake. Now, the luckiest Cits live in enclosed communities, behind walls that keep them...
27) The lost ones
Author
Series
Bendy and the ink machine volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
28) Not even bones
Author
Series
Market of monsters volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Nita's mother hunts monsters and, after Nita dissects and packages them, sells them online, but when Nita follows her conscience to help a live monster escape, she is sold on the black market in his place.
29) Hunted
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Though Yeva grew up with the city's highest aristocrats, far from her father's old lodge, she knows that the forest holds secrets and that her father is the only hunter who's ever come close to discovering them. So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters back to the outskirts of town, Yeva is secretly relieved. Out in the wilderness, there's no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas...or to submit to marrying...
30) The memory eater
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Alana Harlow must save her town from a memory-devouring monster.
Author
Series
Monstrumologist volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In 1888, twelve-year-old Will Henry chronicles his apprenticeship with Dr. Warthrop, a scientist who hunts and studies real-life monsters, as they discover and attempt to destroy a pod of Anthropophagi.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In post-apocalyptic New Orleans, now a sanctuary for supernatural beings, a hardened teenager on the run searches for the truth about her monstrous heritage and discovers a curse that could ignite the ancient war between gods and monsters.
33) Crown of thunder
Author
Series
Beasts made of night volume 2
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Taj has escaped Kos, but Queen Karima will go to any means necessary--including using the most deadly magic--to track him down"--
Author
Series
Devouring gray volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Four teenagers have the power to protect their town from a monster, but only if their families' secrets do not destroy them first.
35) Waking fire
Author
Series
Waking fire volume 1
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When her peaceful village of Lagusa is attacked by a Mistress sent to do the bidding of the power-hungry Sothpike and his army of undead monsters, Naira Khoum forms a resistance to stop the Mistress before Lagusa is beyond saving.
Author
Series
All these monsters volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Clara runs away from home to join a vigilante monster-flghting squad, only to discover that sometimes the most dangerous monsters are where you least expect them." --
37) Odd & true
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Told from separate viewpoints, Odette returns in 1909 after a two-year absence, promising to rescue her disabled sister, Tru, from the monsters they were taught to believe in.
Author
Series
All these monsters volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
While trying to expose a private security firm hired by the government to weaponize scrabs, Clara and Team Seven face their biggest threat yet--their own demons.
40) Beasts of prey
Author
Series
Beasts of prey volume 1
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old indentured beastkeeper Koffi and seventeen-year-old warrior candidate Ekon forge an unusual alliance and venture into the Greater Jungle to hunt down a monster that has been menacing their city for a century. Includes author's note.
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