Neal Shusterman
1) The toll
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Arc of a scythe volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
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In the finale to the Arc of a Scythe trilogy, dictators, prophets, and tensions rise. In a world that's conquered death, will humanity finally be torn asunder by the immortal beings it created? Citra and Rowan have disappeared. Endura is gone. It seems like nothing stands between Scythe Goddard and absolute dominion over the world scythedom. With the silence of the Thunderhead and the reverberations of the Great Resonance still shaking the earth to...
2) Bruiser
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
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The New York Times bestselling author of Challenger Deep, Neal Shusterman, delivers a suspenseful, eloquent, and thrilling novel that you won't be able to stop thinking about after you've put it down.
Tennyson is not surprised, really, when his family begins to fall apart, or when his twin sister, Brontë, starts dating
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IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
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Nick Slate, in order to protect his father and little brother, reluctantly must help the Accelerati complete Tesla's great device. Their power-mad leader wants nothing less than to control the world's energy-but there are still three missing objects to track down.
Nick's friends can't help him, as they are spread across the globe grappling with their own mysteries-with Vince in Scotland, Caitlin and Mitch on their way to New Jersey, and Petula's...
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IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
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Both Nick and the Accelerati have learned that the strange objects Nikola Tesla left in Nick’s attic are pieces of a Far Range Energy Emitter, capable of transmitting “free energy” to the globe. Some components of the contraption are still missing, but the objects themselves seem to be leading Nick to their current owners. Each piece is with the person who needs it the most.
But there are plenty of obstacles: Nick finds his judgment impaired...
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
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A captivating novel about mental illness that lingers long beyond the last page, Challenger Deep is a heartfelt tour de force by New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman.
Caden Bosch is on a ship that's headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the Marianas Trench.
Caden Bosch is a brilliant high school student whose friends are starting to notice his odd behavior.
Caden Bosch is designated the ship's artist...
6) Game Changer
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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All it takes is one hit on the football field, and suddenly Ash’s life doesn’t look quite the way he remembers it. Impossible though it seems, he’s been hit into another dimension—and keeps on bouncing through worlds that are almost-but-not-really his own. The changes start small, but they quickly spiral out of control as Ash slides into universes where he has everything he’s ever wanted, universes where society is stuck in the past…universes...
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(Autorisierte Lesefassung) Auch in einer Welt, in der Armut, Kriege, Krankheit und Tod besiegt sind, müssen Menschen sterben, und die Entscheidung über Leben und Tod treffen die Scythe. Sie sind auserwählt, um zu töten. Sie entscheiden, wer lebt und wer stirbt. Sie sind die Hüter des Todes. Aber die Welt muss wissen, dass dieser Dienst sie nicht kalt lässt, dass sie Mitleid empfinden. Reue. Unerträglich großes Leid. Denn wenn sie diese Gefühle...
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From New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman comes a thrilling, spine-tingling 32-page original short story that's perfect for fans of Unwind and UnWholly. Bones. They know the call of the ice. Anika knows the call of the ice, too. Living in an isolated port town in Alaska with her father and younger brother, Anika is practically steps away from the Harding Icefield, and Exit Glacier has always been her favorite place. But after a couple...
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Un segundo es lo que tarda su vida en transformarse.
Nada más recibir un golpe en la cabeza, la realidad de Ash cambia. Por imposible que parezca, ha llegado a una especie de mundo paralelo en el que su vida es similar..., pero al mismo tiempo muy diferente.
A medida que se desliza en bucle de un universo a otro, Ash empieza a ver las cosas desde nuevas perspectivas: algunas en las que tiene todo lo que siempre ha deseado y otras en las que ha...
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T-Bin has been traveling through space for years to deposit its passengers on a new planet, to give them a new life. But now, mere days from arrival, Tanner can't shake the feeling that there's a more sinister plot at work. A short story from Guys Read: Other Worlds, edited by Jon Scieszka.
11) Nimbo
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No ha pasado más que un año desde que los caminos de Citra y Rowan se separaron, pero en este tiempo los rumores sobre un justiciero que persigue a los segadores corruptos se han multiplicado.Por todo el continente se oyen susurros de que los culpables acaban siempre devorados por las llamas.
La segadora Anastasia criba con compasión y desafía abiertamente las ideas del nuevo orden.
No obstante, cuando su vida se ve amenazada y sus métodos se...
12) Trueno
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Todo cambió hace tres años: fue entonces cuando Anastasia y Lucifer desaparecieron; cuando el segador Goddard llegó al poder; cuando el Nimbo retiró la palabra a toda la humanidad, menos a Grayson Tolliver.
En este impactante desenlace de El arco de la Guadaña, la trilogía que Neal Shusterman comenzó con Siega, se pondrán a prueba las lealtades y reaparecerán viejos amigos. Pero el rugir del trueno siempre es el preludio de la tormenta,...
13) Scythe
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Arc of a scythe volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
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433 pages ; 22 cm.
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In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed (gleaned) by professional reapers (scythes). Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scythe's apprentices, and despite wanting nothing to do with the vocation they must learn the art of killing and come to understand the necessity of what they do. Only one of them will be chosen as a scythe's apprentice. And when it becomes clear that the...
14) Sed
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¿Hasta dónde llegarías para conseguir la última gota de agua?
Alyssa vive con su familia al sur de California, en un barrio residencial muy apacible... Hasta que, un día, del fregadero deja de salir agua. Tras padecer varios años de sequía, eso tampoco es extraño; allí todo el mundo está acostumbrado a las advertencias: no riegues el césped, no llenes la piscina, no te des duchas largas.
Pero esta vez ya no queda agua que ahorrar.
En...
15) Thunderhead
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Arc of a scythe volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
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504 pages; 22 cm.
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Rowan and Citra take opposite stances on the morality of the Scythedom, putting them at odds, and the Thunderhead is not pleased.
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[2022]
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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
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423 pages ; 22 cm
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A collection of stories that span the time when humans live in a world without hunger, disease, or death and Scythes act as the living instruments of population control.
Centuries passed between the Thunderhead cradling humanity and Scythe Goddard trying to turn it upside down. For years humans lived in a world without hunger, disease, or death, with Scythes as the living instruments of population control. These stories travel the timeline as the...
17) UnWind
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Unwind dystology volume 1
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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335 p. ; 22 cm.
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In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives.
18) I am the walrus
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Pub. Date
2023
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IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
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392 p. ; 21 cm.
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When fourteen-year-old Noah falls from the trees on his classmate Sahara, he doesn't understand how, or why, he would have been up there. It's just one more in a string of strange things happening to Noah lately.
19) Dry
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Pub. Date
2018
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
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390 pages 22 cm.
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A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.