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2) Scat
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing.
3) Chomp
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When the difficult star of the reality television show "Expedition Survival" disappears while filming an episode in the Florida Everglades using animals from the wildlife refuge run by Wahoo Crane's family, Wahoo and classmate Tuna Gordon set out to find him while avoiding Tuna's gun-happy father.
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1955, Woodrow and his cousin Gypsy befriend a new girl in their seventh grade class in rural Virginia, and the three of them set off to find Woodrow's missing mother, encountering unlikely and intriguing coincidences along the way.
6) Deeper
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
As young archaeologist Will Burrows continues to search for his lost father in the strange underground world he has discovered beneath the city of London, he stumbles across a sinister plot with terrible implications for the world above.
7) Tunnels
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world underneath London, full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward "Topsoilers" like Will and his father.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"One day a young couple wakes to find a boy asleep on their porch. Unable to speak, the boy cannot explain his history. What kind of people would leave their child with strangers? All John and Marta know is that they have been chosen to care for this boy. As their connection to him grows, they embrace his exuberant spirit and talents. The three of them blossom into an unlikely family, but how long can their happiness last?"-- From dust jacket flap....
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Amari, a poor Black girl from the projects, gets an invitation from her missing brother to join the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs and join in the fight against an evil magician.
11) One came home
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In the town of Placid, Wisconsin, in 1871, Georgie Burkhardt is known for two things: her uncanny aim with a rifle and her habit of speaking her mind plainly.But when Georgie blurts out something she shouldn't, her older sister Agatha flees, running off with a pack of "pigeoners" trailing the passenger pigeon migration. And when the sheriff returns to town with an unidentifiable body-wearing Agatha's blue-green ball gown-everyone assumes the worst....
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When his parents disappear after a fierce storm, eleven-year-old Danny, unaccustomed to acts of bravery, comes to their rescue after finding a valuable shard of wood that enables him to talk to plants and animals and battle terrifyingly powerful enemies,including the demonic Sammael.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In his second adventure, eleven-year-old Gregor returns to the world beneath New York City to rescue his kidnapped sister, Boots, and fulfill a prophecy that will restore peace to the people, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders who populate the underworld.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In Portland, Oregon, between soccer games and beginning seventh grade, twelve-year-old Madison Kincaid and new classmate Jake try to track down her missing best friend, while also helping her attorney father solve a missing-persons case.
16) Sent
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Jonah, Katherine, Chip, and Alex suddenly find themselves in 1483 at the Tower of London, where they discover that Chip and Alex are Prince Edward V and Richard of Shrewsbury, imprisoned by their uncle, King Richard III, but trying to repair history without knowing what is supposed to happen proves challenging. Author's note includes historical facts about the princes and king.
Author
Publisher
Disney Editions
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When the evil Overtakers gain control of a computer server at the Magic Kingdom, allowing them to put the holographic hosts into permanent comas if they should fall asleep, Finn and the others race against time to find the missing Jez and foil the plan.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Best friends Annabelle and Tiffany risk placing all of doll kind in danger when they run away while trying to prevent Tilly from being sent back to London before they can determine if she is Annabelle's long-lost baby sister.
19) The strangers
Author
Series
Greystone secrets volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
The Greystone kids thought they knew. Chess has always been the protector over his younger siblings, Emma loves math, and Finn does what Finn does best--acting silly and being adored. They've been a happy family, just the three of them and their mom.But everything changes when reports of three kidnapped children reach the Greystone kids, and they're shocked by the startling similarities between themselves and these complete strangers. The other kids...
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007, c1962
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin O'Keefe (athlete, student, and one of the most popular boys in high school). They are in search of Meg's father, a scientist who disappeared while engaged in secret work for the government on the tesseract problem.
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