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Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
"Every Falling Star, the first book to portray contemporary North Korea to a young audience, is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age twelve to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang and lives by thieving, fighting, begging, and stealing rides on cargo trains. Sungju richly re-creates his scabrous story, depicting what it was like for a boy alone to create a new family with...
2) The gates
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund Boswell decide to begin their trick-or-treating three days before Halloween, but when he arrives upon the Abernathy's house at 666 Crowley Avenue, Samuel discovers they have inadvertently conjured up Satan and Samuel must use science, faith, and love to defeat the evil and save the world.
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
780L
Formats
Description
When the world's deadliest terrorist organization, Scorpia, stirs up trouble in the Middle East, it is up to fourteen-year-old MI6 agent Alex Rider to thwart their plans.
Author
Series
Door of no return volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
"A novel in verse about a boy escaping slavers during the nineteenth century."--
6) Drama
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 320L
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Description
Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of Moon over Mississippi as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going.
7) Ship breaker
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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Formats
Description
In a futuristic world, teenaged Nailer scavenges copper wiring from grounded oil tankers for a living, but when he finds a beached clipper ship with a girl in the wreckage, he has to decide if he should strip the ship for its wealth or rescue the girl.
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 10
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Presented with an unexpected assignment, Alex Rider's greatest nemesis, Yassen Gregoravich, recalls his life and the path that led him to become an assassin while his one-time friend, Alex's uncle, became a spy.
9) The fort
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Five middle schoolers find a fully stocked bomb shelter constructed decades ago in the local woods by an eccentric tycoon and lost until a hurricane exposes the entrance. So, how to keep the hideout secret from interfering grown-ups--and, more particularly, from scary teen psychopath, Jaeger Devlin.
12) Orbiting Jupiter
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
740L
Description
"Jack, 12, tells the gripping story of Joseph, 14, who joins his family as a foster child. Damaged in prison, Joseph wants nothing more than to find his baby daughter, Jupiter, whom he has never seen. When Joseph has begun to believe he'll have a future, he is confronted by demons from his past that force a tragic sacrifice"--
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"At the outset of World War II, Denmark did not resist German occupation. Deeply ashamed of his nation's leaders, fifteen-year-old Knud Pedersen resolved with his brother and a handful of schoolmates to take action against the Nazis if the adults would not. Naming their secret club after the fiery British leader, the young patriots in the Churchill Club committed countless acts of sabotage, infuriating the Germans, who eventually had the boys tracked...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In the summer of 1727, Quill and his friends are put ashore on a remote sea stac to harvest birds for food, and only the end of the world can explain why no boat returns to collect them. Includes afterword about the history of St. Kilda, list of the birds of St. Kilda, and glossary.
15) Skeleton Key
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 3
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In the third book in the number one bestselling Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz, teenage spy Alex faces his most dangerous challenge yet. Teaming up with the CIA, Alex must go to a remote Caribbean island called Skeleton Key, where the insane general Sarov is hatching explosive plans to re-write history.
16) The edge
Author
Series
Peak volume 2
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to participate in an "International Peace Ascent" in the Hindu Kush, with a team made up of under-eighteen-year-old climbers from around the world--but from the first something seems wrong, so when the group is attacked, and most of the climbers are either killed or kidnapped, Peak finds himself caught up in a struggle to survive, shadowed by the Shen, a mysterious snow leopard.
17) Boston Jacky: being an account of the further adventures of Jacky Faber, taking care of business
Author
Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 11
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
The irrepressible Jacky Faber, recently arrived in Boston, finds herself at odds with the Women's Temperance Union and local residents angry at the arrival of hundreds of Irish immigrants on a ship owned by Faber Shipping Worldwide.
Author
Series
Inquisitor's apprentice volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
In early twentieth-century New York, Sacha Kessler's ability to see witches earns him an apprenticeship to the police department's star Inquisitor, Maximillian Wolf, to help stop magical crime and, with fellow apprentice Lily Astral, Sacha investigates who is trying to kill Thomas Edison, whose mechanical witch detector that could unleash the worst witch-hunt in American history.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
He asked for spare change; she kept walking. But something made her turn around and go back. They met nearly every week for years, and built an unexpected, life-changing friendship that has today spanned almost three decades.
20) Ascent
Author
Series
Peak volume 3
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Peak Marcello is invited to climb Hkakabo Razi, one of the most isolated mountains in the world, but getting there involves a four-week trek through a tropical rainforest that is rife with hazards, which turns out to be more dangerous than summiting the mountain itself." -- Publisher.