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1) Matilda
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
"Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a menacing, kid-hating headmistress. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull she suddenly discovers she has a remarkable power with which to fight back. It'll take a superhuman genius to give Miss Trunchbull what she deserves and Matilda may be just the one to do it!"--Amazon.com....
2) Carrie
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
An introverted girl with remarkable powers of telekinesis faces the horrors of teenage life and unleashes a few horrors of her own when she attends the high school prom.
Author
Series
Broken Earth novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The second novel in a new fantasy trilogy by Hugo, Nebula & World Fantasy Award nominated author N.K. Jemisin. THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS ... FOR THE LAST TIME. The season of endings grows darker, as civilization fades into the long cold night. Essun -- once Damaya, once Syenite, now avenger -- has found shelter, but not her daughter. Instead there is Alabaster Tenring, destroyer of the world, with a request. But if Essun does what he asks, it...
4) Firestarter
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
You are about to meet the sweetest, most irresistible little girl you've ever known--8-year-old Charlie McGee. She's everything that a proud father like Andy McGee could want--and all that he can fear. For Charlie was born with the most destructive power a human being has ever commanded--and somehow she must be saved from both herself and from those in high places who want to use her as their weapon.
Author
Series
Aurora cycle volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Our heroes are back. Kind of. First, the bad news: an ancient evil - you know, your standard consume-all-life-in-the-galaxy deal - is about to be unleashed. The good news? Squad 312 is standing by to save the day. They've just got to take care of a few small distractions first. Like the clan of gremps who'd like to rearrange their favourite faces. And the cadre of illegit GIA agents with creepy flowers where their eyes used to be, who'll stop at nothing...
6) Firestarter
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns eleven, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family's location, a...
9) Mind game
Author
Series
Ghostwalkers volume 2
Publisher
Jove Books
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Christine Feehan's blend of sizzling romance, high-stakes action and paranormal phenomena has landed this exciting author on the New York Times, USA Today and Publishers Weekly best-seller lists. Mind Game is a suspenseful gem seething with passion. The telekinetic Dahlia Le Blanc can make objects burst into flames. When she is targeted by assassins, skilled warrior Nicolas Trevane arrives just in time to rescue her-and ignite an incendiary passion."...
12) Freakling
Author
Series
Psi chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a traumatic accident removes his telekinetic ability, or psy, twelve-year-old Taemon is exiled to the "dud farm," where he is surprised to find kind, open people who enjoy using their hands but there are also mysteries at the colony and when Taemon unwittingly leaks one of the secrets he must find the courage to repair the damage, even if it means returning to the city from which he was banished.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
In this Southern saga begun by Michael McDowell and finished after his death by Tabitha King, seven-year-old Calley and her mother find themselves exiled to Pensacola Beach after the brutal murder of her father. There a woman awaits their presence—for Calley is no normal little girl.
14) Runaway
Author
Series
Fear Street. Original series volume 41
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Shadyside. It sounded like such a nice town, the perfect place for a runaway like Felicia. Nobody here would know about her dark powers. Nobody would know what she’s done. For once, she could be a normal girl. She could be safe. But someone in Shadyside discovers Felicia’s secret. Someone finds out about the awful things her powers made her do. Felicia doesn’t want to run away again. But if she stays, she might lose control. And then people...
15) The lost one
Author
Series
Daughters of the moon volume 6
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After awakening with amnesia and an overwhelming sense of danger, a teenager discovers that she has the gift of telekinesis and a long-standing war with the evil Followers of Atrox.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one strange little girl. It's 1984 and the citizens of Hawkins, Indiana are still reeling from the horrors of the demagorgon and the secrets of Hawkins Lab. Will Byers has been rescued from the Upside Down but a bigger, sinister entity still threatens those who survived.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
©1998
Language
English
Description
Stack, Ball and Bulldog arrive at a local funeral parlor to retrieve a lost drug stash held by the mortician Mr. Simms. But Mr. Simms has other plans for the boys. He leads them on a tour of his establishment, introducing them to his corpses. Even the dead have tales to tell, and Mr. Simms is willing to tell them all. And you'd better listen--because when you're in his 'hood, even everyday life can lead to extraordinary terror.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
For more than forty years, the U.S. government has researched extrasensory perception, using it in attempts to locate hostages, fugitives, secret bases, and downed fighter jets; to divine other nations' secrets; and even to predict future threats to national security. The intelligence agencies and military services involved include the CIA, DIA, NSA, DEA, the Navy, Air Force, and Army--and even the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Now, for the first time, Jacobsen...
Author
Series
Onyeka volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old Onyeka discovers that she has psychokinetic powers, her mother reveals that she is Solari, part of a secret group of Nigerian mutants that trains at the Academy of the Sun.
20) Up
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tired of being called Mouse and staying home while his brother helps on their father's fishing boat, Daniel proves himself when a problem arises that he can solve using his newly-developed, extraordinary talent.