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Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Seventeen-year-old Mira lives in a small island beach town off the coast of New Jersey year-round, and when a devastating superstorm strikes she will face the storm's wrath and the destruction it leaves behind alone.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Told in two voices, high school juniors Allie, who now lives on the poor side of town, and Jake, the "Crestie" whose family bought her house, develop feelings for one another that are complicated by her former friends, his current ones, who refuse to forgive her for her father's bad investment that cost them all.
3) Takedown
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Seventh-grader Donald, living with his parents in New Jersey, is determined to master wrestling but discovers that to win at the sport he must learn to control his temper.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Six teens face a bioterrorist attack on American soil as four are infected with a mysterious disease affecting their small New Jersey neighborhood and two others, both brilliant computer hackers, assist the United States Intelligence Coalition in tracking the perpetrators.
6) Touched
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Nick is tormented by visions of "future memories, " and although he can risk changing these events if he goes "off script, " the results are often worse than what he has seen, but when he meets Taryn one summer at the Jersey shore he begins to understand where this hated power comes from and what it means.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 20
Description
Moved to a mansion in the South Jersey Pine Barrens, four teenagers, trying to recover from being poisoned by terrorists, struggle with health issues, personal demons, and supernatural events, as operatives try to track down the terror cell.
Author
Series
Hardy boys undercover brothers volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Frank and Joe travel to New Jersey where they investigate a series of robberies at jewelry stores. In Boardwalk Bust, Frank and Joe head to Ocean Grove, New Jersey, to investigate a rash of jewelry store robberies. The temperature's sizzling; will the boys be able to smoke out 'sticky fingers' before they're burned? Mission: Investigate and put a halt to the recent rash of jewelry store robberies. Potential danger on the ground and in the air. Location:...
9) Forever
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Two high school seniors believe their love to be so strong that it will last forever.
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Macmillan
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Description
New Jersey high school senior Reed Walton has never had a girlfriend, but once he gets his braces off, gets contact lenses, and turns into a "hottie, " his two best friends set up a website to remedy the situation.
Author
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"New Jersey girl Zora Emerson is attending her pre-college prep at Halstead University, where the incredibly wealthy and stuck-up students go, and after only a week she is feeling academically confident but socially out of place; then an awkward mix-up of cell phones brings her into closer contact with Owen Whittelsey (prince of a small European country) and his security guards--but it is when Owen asks her to be his date at his brother's royal wedding...
Author
Series
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"Jacky Hart has found a hidden talent in the performing arts, and she's a triple threat onstage! She wants nothing more than to act and sing all summer--but her parents have other plans for her"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In July, 1916, Chet Roscow is fascinated by news accounts of the great white shark said to be attacking people along the New Jersey shore not far from his home, but when he goes swimming in Matawan Creek he discovers the truth of the stories.
Author
Series
I survived volume 13
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
For eleven year-old Hugo Ballard, flying on the Hindenburg is a dream come true. Hugo, his parents, and his four-year-old sister Gertie, are making the thrilling four thousand mile journey across the Atlantic in a zeppelin as big as the Titanic. But as the zeppelin gets ready to land, a blast rocks the Hindenburg and fire consumes the ship. The entire disaster lasts a mere thirty-two seconds, but in those few seconds, Hugo finds himself separated...
15) Love in English
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Feeling blocked after moving from Argentina to New Jersey, a sixteen-year-old poet finds herself torn between a cute American boy in her math class and a Greek student who understands the struggles she is facing in an ESL class.
Ana moved to New Jersey from Argentina for her Junior year of high school. She's a poet and a lover of language-- except that now, she can barely understand what's going on around her, let alone find the words to express...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2023, 2022.
Description
In this interactive adventure, the reader who wants to be a cryptozoologist follows the clues to find the legendary Jersey Devil, which has been reported in the Jersey Pine Barrens since the eighteenth century. Includes brief notes on other New Jersey legendary creatures and ghosts.
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