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1) Ender's game
Author
Series
Publisher
Library Services Branch, Province of British Columbia
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Child-hero Ender Wiggin must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From the author of Girl Last Seen comes a psychological thriller that delivers Nina Laurin's signature "heart-stopping" suspense (Heather Gudenkauf, New York Times bestselling author).
"...currently wanted by the police. If you know anything about the suspect's whereabouts, please call..."
I look up at the TV screen, and my twin brother's face is splashed across it, life-size.
It's a shock that makes my breath catch....
"...currently wanted by the police. If you know anything about the suspect's whereabouts, please call..."
I look up at the TV screen, and my twin brother's face is splashed across it, life-size.
It's a shock that makes my breath catch....
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children's Home Society. South Carolina, Present Day. Avery Stafford has lived...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As their cross-country journey with their parents continues through the midwest, twins Coke and Pepsi, now thirteen, again face strange assassins at such places as the first McDonald's restaurant and Cedar Point amusement park.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen/Harper Collins
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When the Smithfork family moves into a lavish Manhattan apartment building, they discover clues to a decades-old mystery hidden behind the walls of their new home.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Connecticut middle-schooler Jake and his older sister Kady are transported by a Mayan artifact to a strange world inhabited by a mix of people from long-lost civilizations who are threatened by prehistoric creatures and an evil alchemist, the Skull King.
9) Warlight
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Decades after World War II, Nathaniel Williams reflects on his experiences in 1945, when his parents left him and his sister in the care of a mysterious neighbor.
10) Jake and Lily
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Jake and Lily are twins and have always felt the same--like two halves of one person--but the year they turn eleven and Jake begins hanging out with Bump Stubbins, everything changes
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of New York City.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
On a cross-country vacation with their parents, twins Coke and Pepsi, soon to be thirteen, fend off strange assassins as they try to come to terms with their being part of a top-secret government organization known as The Genius Files.
15) Savvy
Author
Series
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Newbery honor book: 2009.
Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"--a magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is injured in a terrible accident.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When money disappears from fourth-grader Evan's pocket and everyone thinks that his annoying classmate Scott stole it, Evan's younger sister stages a trial involving the entire class, trying to prove what happened.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
At the end of the Second World War, Cyril Conroy combines luck and a single canny investment to begin an enormous real estate empire, propelling his family from poverty to enormous wealth. His first order of business is to buy the Dutch House, a lavish estate in the suburbs outside of Philadelphia. Meant as a surprise for his wife, the house sets in motion the undoing of everyone he loves. Cyril's son Danny and his older sister Maeve are exiled from...
18) Starters
Author
Series
Starters volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
To support herself and her younger brother in a world decimated by a viral outbreak , sixteen-year-old Callie hires her body out to seniors who want to experience being young again, and she lives a fairy-tale life until she learns that her body will commit murder, unless her mind can stop it.
19) Crunch
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The oldest Marriss brother, fourteen-year-old Dewey, attempts to be the "embodiment of responsibility" as he juggles the management of the family's bicycle repair business while sharing the household and farm duties with his siblings after a sudden energy crisis strands their parents far from home.
20) The sorceress
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
While armies of the Shadowrealms gather and Machiavelli goes to Alcatraz to kill Perenelle Flamel, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman accompany the Alchemist to England to seek Gilgamesh.
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