Scott Westerfeld
1) Uglies
Author
Series
Publication Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Everybody gets to be supermodel gorgeous. What could be wrong with that? Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. Not for her license -- for turning pretty. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. In just a few weeks Tally will be there. But Tally's...
2) Pretties
Author
Series
Publication Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Tally's transformation to perfect and popular including her totally hot boyfriend is everything she always wanted. But beneath the fun and freedom something is wrong and now Tally has to fight for her life because what she knows has put her in danger with the authorities.
3) Specials
Author
Series
Publication Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The third installment of Scott Westerfeld's New York Times bestselling and award-winning Uglies series—a global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend.
Tally thought they were a rumor, but now she's one of them. A Special. A super-amped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid.
But maybe being perfectly programmed with strength and focus isn't better than anything she's ever known....
Tally thought they were a rumor, but now she's one of them. A Special. A super-amped fighting machine, engineered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid.
But maybe being perfectly programmed with strength and focus isn't better than anything she's ever known....
4) Extras
Author
Series
Publication Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The final installment of Scott Westerfeld's New York Times bestselling and award-winning Uglies series—a global phenomenon that started the dystopian trend.
A few years after rebel Tally Youngblood takes down the Specials regime, a cultural renaissance sweeps the world. "Tech-heads" flaunt their latest gadgets, "kickers" spread gossip and trends, and "surge monkeys" are hooked on extreme plastic surgery. Popularity rules, and...
A few years after rebel Tally Youngblood takes down the Specials regime, a cultural renaissance sweeps the world. "Tech-heads" flaunt their latest gadgets, "kickers" spread gossip and trends, and "surge monkeys" are hooked on extreme plastic surgery. Popularity rules, and...
5) Zeroes
Author
Series
Publication Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Don't call them heroes, but these six Californian teens have powers that set them apart. Take Ethan, a.k.a. Scam. He's got a voice inside him that'll say whatever you want to hear, whether it's true or not. Which is handy, except when it isn't -- like when the voice starts gabbing in the middle of a bank robbery. The only people who can help are the other Zeroes, who aren't exactly best friends these days. Enter Nate, a.k.a. Bellwether, the group's...
6) Behemoth
Author
Series
Publication Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a whole new kind of genetically-engineered warships.
7) Impostors
Author
Series
Impostors volume 1
Publication Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In a world that is rapidly descending into chaos, Frey and Rafi are twin sisters, but few people know of Frey's existence, because she has been raised to be her sister's body double and lethal bodyguard, while Rafi has been raised to further the family's political power--but when their father sends Frey in her sister's place as collateral in a tricky deal, Col, the son of a rival leader, gets close enough to begin to suspect something, and Frey must...
8) Leviathan
Author
Series
Publication Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.
Author
Series
Impostors volume 3
Publication Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Raised to be her twin sister Rafia's body double and bodyguard, but now with new face and body Frey and her lover Col are determined to return to Shreve to rescue Boss X, a friend and ally in the rebellion of the free cities against people like Frey's father, ruthless ruler of Shreve; but Frey is troubled by things even beyond the dangers of her mission--confusion over her own identity, guilt over having killed her brother (even if he was trying to...
10) Goliath
Author
Series
Publication Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Alek and Deryn encounter obstacles on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek's throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love.
11) Shatter city
Author
Series
Impostors volume 2
Publication Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Assuming her twin's identity, Frey works to destroy her father, but when a rebel uprising strands her in a city that comes under attack, Frey must step out of the shadows to find her missing sister and take action against her tyrant father.
12) Afterworlds
Author
Series
Afterworlds volume 1
Publication Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
In alternating chapters, eighteen-year-old Darcy Patel navigates the New York City publishing world and Lizzie, the heroine of Darcy's novel, slips into the "Afterworld" to survive a terrorist attack and becomes a spirit guide, as both face many challenges and both fall in love.
13) Nexus
Author
Series
Zeroes volume 3
Publication Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
After the shocking conclusion to Swarm, the zeroes are scattered, on the run, and desperate. They're up against challenges from within and from the world around them, and one thing is certain an epic showdown is guaranteed.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Publication Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In this future-set novella by bestselling author Scott Westerfeld, Kieran Black lives in a "perfect" world. Disease and starvation have been eradicated, sleep is unnecessary, and it takes no time at all to go from the Bahamas to the moon. But now Kieran has to take Scarcity, a class about how people lived in the bad old days. And as if sitting through an hour of Scarcity every day wasn't depressing enough, it's final projects time. Each student
...15) Peeps
Author
Series
Publication Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Bursting with sharp intelligence and sly humor, this young adult novel is an utterly original take on a popular archetype of horror.
“Both medical thriller and science fiction, this fast-paced, captivating modern vampire story is enriched with biology and history . . . . Entrancing throughout.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“This innovative vampire story, full of engaging characters and just enough horror...
“Both medical thriller and science fiction, this fast-paced, captivating modern vampire story is enriched with biology and history . . . . Entrancing throughout.”—Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“This innovative vampire story, full of engaging characters and just enough horror...
16) The secret hour
Author
Series
Midnighters volume 1
Publication Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Upon moving to Bixby, Oklahoma, fifteen-year-old Jessica Day learns that she is one of a group of people who have special abilities that help them fight ancient creatures living in an hour hidden at midnight; creatures that seem determined to destroy Jess.
17) So Yesterday
Author
Publication Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Ever wonder who was the first kid to wash jeans in acid or wear way-too-big pants on purpose? What about the mythical first guy who wore his baseball cap backwards?
Meet the Innovators, the people at the top of the cool pyramid. If it was your job to say what was cool, you wouldn’t complain about it . . . would you?
[A] clever, quirky romp . . . Hunter, whose anxiety underlies his need to be cool, is a charming narrator...
Meet the Innovators, the people at the top of the cool pyramid. If it was your job to say what was cool, you wouldn’t complain about it . . . would you?
[A] clever, quirky romp . . . Hunter, whose anxiety underlies his need to be cool, is a charming narrator...
Author
Series
Midnighters volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Publication Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The second book in New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld's Midnighters series.
As the Midnighters search for the truth about the secret hour, they uncover terrifying mysteries woven into the very fabric of Bixby's history, and a conspiracy that touches the world of daylight.
This time Jessica Day is not the only Midnighter in mortal danger, and if the group can't find a way to come together, they could lose one of
...19) The Last Days
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Set against the gritty apocalypse that began in Peeps, The Last Days follows five teenagers who find themselves creating the soundtrack for the end of the world.
“Fast-paced, fascinating, creepy and totally absorbing—another great read from Scott Westerfeld.”—Garth Nix, award-winning author of the Keys to the Kingdom series
Something evil is bubbling under New York. People are going crazy and vampires...
“Fast-paced, fascinating, creepy and totally absorbing—another great read from Scott Westerfeld.”—Garth Nix, award-winning author of the Keys to the Kingdom series
Something evil is bubbling under New York. People are going crazy and vampires...
20) Blue Noon
Author
Series
Midnighters volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Publication Date
2009
Language
English
Description
The third and final book in New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld's Midnighters series.
The five teenage Midnighters of Bixby, Oklahoma, thought they understood the secret midnight hour—until one morning when time freezes in the middle of the day.
As they scramble for answers, the Midnighters discover that the walls between the secret hour and real time are crumbling. Soon the dark creatures will break through to
...