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1) Scythe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
""In a world where disease has been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ('gleaned') by professional reapers ('scythes'). Two teens must compete with each other to become a scythe--a position neither of them wants. The one who becomes a scythe must kill the one who doesn't"--
2) Thunderhead
Author
Series
Arc of a scythe volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rowan and Citra take opposite stances on the morality of the Scythedom, putting them at odds, and the Thunderhead is not pleased.
3) The toll
Author
Series
Arc of a scythe volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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 its core, the question remains: Is there anyone left who can stop him? The answer lies in the Tone, the Toll, and the Thunder"--
4) UnDivided
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three teens band together in order to sway the government to repeal all rulings in support of a procedure in which unwanted teenagers are captured and are unwound into parts that can be reused for transplantation.
5) Unwind
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In a world where parents can choose to have their teenagers unwound and harvested for transplants, teens must be on their best behavior, at least until their 18th birthday. Once 18, teens are free from the chains of the Bill of Life. So when Connor discovers that his parents have signed him away to the unwinding process, he knows he must escape.
6) UnSouled
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the destruction of the Graveyard, Connor and Lev are on the run, seeking a woman who may be the key to bringing down unwinding forever while Cam, the rewound boy, tries to prove his love for Risa by bringing Proactive Citizenry to its knees.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A collection of stories about Connor, Risa, and Lev after they have destroyed the Proactive Citizenry and are, apparently, free to live in a peaceful future.
8) UnWholly
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Thanks to Connor, Lev, and Risa, and their high-profile revolt at Happy Jack Harvest Camp, people can no longer turn a blind eye to unwinding. Ridding society of troublesome teens and, in the same stroke, providing much-needed tissues for transplant might be convenient, but its morality has finally been brought into question. However, unwinding has become big business, and there are powerful political and corporate interests that want to see it not...
10) Game changer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Transported into other dimensions by a seemingly random hit, a young football player visits alternate worlds that evolved differently in accordance with respective belief systems.
11) Dry
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
12) Roxy
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Two siblings get caught up in a wager between two manufactured gods, Roxicodone and Adderall, in this new thriller inspired by the opioid crisis"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
How did Lev Calder move from an unwillingly escaped Tithe to a clapper? In this revealing short story, Neal Shusterman opens a window on Lev's adventures between the time he left CyFi and showed up at the Graveyard.
Pulling elements from Neal Shusterman's critically acclaimed Unwind and giving hints about what is to come in the riveting sequel, UnWholly, this short story is not to be missed.
Pulling elements from Neal Shusterman's critically acclaimed Unwind and giving hints about what is to come in the riveting sequel, UnWholly, this short story is not to be missed.
14) Everwild
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nick, known as the dreaded "Chocolate Ogre," is trying to find all the children in Everlost and release them from the limbo they are in, while Mikey and Allie have joined a band of skinjackers and are putting themselves in danger by visiting the world of the living.
15) Downsiders
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Beneath the sewer grates and manholes of the city lies a strange and secret world called the Downside. Every Downsider knows that it's forbidden to go Topside, and most fear a collision of the two worlds. But fourteen-year-old Talon is curious about what goes on above ground, and one day he ventures out in search of medicine for his ailing sister. There he meets Lindsay, who is as curious about Talon's world as he is about hers. When Lindsay visits...
16) Siega (Scythe)
Author
Series
Publisher
BookaVivo
Pub. Date
2022
Language
Español
Description
Antes, las personas morían por causas naturales. Existían asesinos invisibles llamados enfermedades, el envejecimiento era irreversible y se producían accidentes de los que no se podía regresar. Ahora, todo eso ha quedado atrás y sólo perdura una verdad muy simple: la gente tiene que morir. Y esa es la tarea de los segadores. Porque en un futuro donde la humanidad controla la muerte, ¿quién decide cuándo y cómo sembrarla? Citra y Rowan acaban...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times bestselling Arc of the Scythe series continues with "captivating...thrilling" (School Library Journal) stories that span the timeline. Storylines continue. Origin stories are revealed. And new Scythes emerge!
There are still countless tales of the Scythedom to tell. Centuries passed between the Thunderhead cradling humanity and Scythe Goddard trying to turn it upside down. For years, humans lived in a world...
There are still countless tales of the Scythedom to tell. Centuries passed between the Thunderhead cradling humanity and Scythe Goddard trying to turn it upside down. For years, humans lived in a world...
18) Everlost
Author
Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Nick and Allie dont survive the car accident, but their souls dont exactly get where theyre supposed to go either. Instead, theyre caught halfway between life and death, in a sort of limbo known as Everlost: a shadow of the living world, filled with all the things and places that no longer exist. Its a magical, yet dangerous place where bands of lost kids run wild and anyone who stands in the same place too long sinks to the center of the Earth. When...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"There are still countless tales of the Scythedom to tell. 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. Neal Shusterman—along with collaborators David Yoon, Jarrod Shusterman, Sofía Lapuente, Michael H. Payne, Michelle Knowlden, and Joelle Shusterman—returns...
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