Nancy Werlin
1) Double helix
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
After being acquitted of murder, seventeen-year-old David goes to stay with relatives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he finds himself forced to face his past as he learns more about his strange young cousin Lily.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
Phoebe, a member of the wealthy Rothschilds family, befriends Mallory, an awkward new girl in school, and the two become as close as sisters, but Phoebe does not know that Mallory is a faerie, sent to the human world to trap the ordinary human girl into fulfilling a promise made by her ancestor Mayer to the queen of the faeries.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Description
"When five high school students are brought together under mysterious circumstances, they begin to piece together a theory that their parents are working together to kill them all"--
7) Impossible
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Lucy discovers her family is under an ancient curse by an evil Elfin Knight, she realizes to break the curse she must perform three impossible tasks before her daughter is born in order to save them both.
8) Unthinkable
Author
Series
Scarborough Fair trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Fenella, the first of cursed Scarborough girls, is challenged to accomplish three tasks of destruction against her family in order to finally leave her miserable life of purgatory in the faerie realm and return to the human world"--
9) Black mirror
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Convinced her brother's death was murder rather than suicide, sixteen-year-old Frances begins her own investigation into suspicious student activities at her boarding school.
Author
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Two lonely teenagers, one the son of a widower rabbi and the other the sister of an autistic twin, are drawn together by a tragic accident, and discover they have more in common than they might have guessed.