Andrew Eiden
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old half-alien Sydney Chambers leaves Earth to seek his long-missing father, and unearths a devastating, centuries-old secret about humanity.
Syd Chambers knows that there's life on other planets because he's descended from it. His father was from a distant world called Denza and has been missing-- presumed dead-- for years. When Syd discovers a device his father left behind which shows not only that he's alive, but where he is, Syd...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
As he grieves his best friend Benny's death, Mason and his friend Calvin, who are targeted by the neighborhood bullies, create an underground haven for themselves, but when Calvin goes missing Mason finds himself in trouble.
3) The bad seed
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The bad seed changes his mind about being bad and decides that he wants to be happy.
4) Grenade
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
On April 1, 1945 with the battle of Okinawa beginning, fourteen-year-old native Okinawan Hideki, drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps, is handed two grenades and told to go kill American soldiers; small for his age Hideki does not really want to kill anyone, he just wants to find his family, and his struggle across the island will finally bring him face-to-face with Ray, a marine in his very first battle--and the choice he makes then will...
Author
Series
Stick Dog volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stick Dog and his friends chase down a meat truck and make a new friend--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In rural north Georgia two decades after the Civil War, thirteen-year-old Lulu Hurst reaches high into her father's bookshelf and pulls out an obscure book, The Truth of Mesmeric Influence. Deemed gangly and undesirable, Lulu wants more than a lifetime of caring for her disabled baby brother, Leo, with whom she shares a profound and supernatural mental connection. Lulu begins to "captivate" her friends and family, controlling their thoughts and actions...
7) Truly Tyler
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A story about being your truest self—and trusting your truest friends. Cliques. Crushes. Comics. Middle school.
Ever since Tyler started getting into art and hanging out with Emmie, his friends and teammates have been giving him a hard time. He wonders why can’t he nerd out on drawing and play ball?
Emmie is psyched that she gets to work on a comics project with her crush, Tyler. But she gets the feeling that his friends don’t think she’s...
8) Stick dog
Author
Series
Stick Dog volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Stick Dog and his four friends - Stripes, Mutt, Poo-Poo and Karen - will do anything to steal some sweet-smelling hamburgers from a family at Picasso Park!"--
Introducing everyone's new best friend: Stick Dog! He'll make you laugh... he'll make you cry...but above all, he'll make you hungry. Follow stick dog as he goes on an epic quest for the perfect burger.
Author
Series
Stick Dog volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Stick Dog and his friends must execute a master plan for stealing hot dogs"--
11) Back roads
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harley Altmyer should be in college drinking Rolling Rock and chasing girls. He should be freed from his closed-minded, stricken coal town, with its lack of jobs and no sense of humor. Instead, he's constantly reminded of just how messed up his life is.With his mother in jail for killing his abusive father, Harley is an orphan with the responsibilities of an adult and the fiery, aggressive libido of a teenager. Just nineteen years old, he's marooned...
12) Game changer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
13) The black hour
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For Chicago sociology professor Amelia Emmet, violence was a research topic--until a student she'd never met shot her. He also shot himself. Now he's dead and she's back on campus, trying to keep up with her class schedule, a growing problem with painkillers, and a question she can't let go: Why? All she wants is for life to get back to normal, but normal is looking hard to come by. She's thirty-eight and hobbles with a cane. Her first student...
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Though Savannah Rose is a gifted ballerina, her real talent is keeping secrets. Schooled in silence by her long-dead mother, Savannah has always believed that her lifelong creed, 'I'm not the kind of girl who tells' will make her just like everyone else, normal, happy, safe. But in the aftermath of a brutal assault by her seemingly perfect boyfriend Tristan, Savannah must finally find the courage to confront the ghosts of her past, or lose herself...