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Author
Series
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When almost-sixth-grader Alex, a video game fanatic, is forced on a "playdate" with his neighbor Herbert, an inventor, the two travel to the twenty-second century and face off against aliens, who are not as benevolent as most people think.
Author
Series
Trapped in a video game volume 1
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
After getting sucked in the new game Full Blast with his friend Eric, Jesse starts to see the appeal of being in the game, but pretty soon, a mysterious figure begins following Eric and Jesse, and they discover they cannot leave the game.
3) Insignia
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Formats
Description
Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States Military to begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off-planet.
Author
Series
Nerdy dozen volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Recruited by the Air Force after hacking into a classified military training program, Neil Andertol and his video game buddies pilot what they believe to be an Air Force simulator to find a missing jet and rescue two endangered pilots.
5) Game over
Author
Series
Daniel X volume 4
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
In Tokyo, fifteen-year-old Daniel X faces two of the most dangerous aliens on the planet, who are plotting to use video games to control children and turn them into an army of doom.
7) Slacker
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
When eighth-grader Cameron Boxer creates the Positive Action Group at school he intends it as a diversion to fool his parents, teachers, and sister into letting him continue to concentrate on his video-gaming--but before he knows it other kids are taking it seriously, and soon he finds himself president of the P.A.G., and involved in community service, so the boy who never cared about anything is now the center of everything, whether he likes it or...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
An official tie-in to the globally popular video game traces the story of a new hero stranded in the world of Minecraft who must survive a harsh environment while unraveling the secrets of a mysterious island.
9) Lucky leaf
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After his mother tells him to stop playing video games and go outside, a young boy tries to catch the last leaf on a tree, thinking it will bring him luck.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
When Ted inherits his uncle's apartment "and all the treasure within, " he realizes the apartment is set up like a real-life video game and must solve the puzzles with his friends to discover the treasure.
Author
Series
Diary of an 8-bit warrior volume 1
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
"In the first in this series of three unofficial Minecraft adventure books, it's time for our 12-year-old hero to choose his future vocation to study at the Minecraftia school. His options are less than tantalizing: farmer, butcher, crafter, miner. What this noob really wants is to be a warrior like his hero, Steve. So when he learns that the five best students in school that year will get the chance to start warrior training, it's on"--Amazon.com....
13) Catalyst
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Description
"Tom Raines and his friends return to the Spire for their third year as superhuman government weapons, but the rules have been changed and Tom's training is put to the test"--
Tom Raines's exceptional gaming skills earned him a spot in the Intrasolar Forces, the country's elite military training program. Now dangerous changes have come to the Pentagonal Spire, where Tom and his friends train. When a mysterious figure starts fighting against the evil...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Because his family has moved again Josh Baxter is starting at a new school for the third time in two years, and this time he has really started off on the wrong foot--but when his mother takes away the video games that have become his refuge because of his poor grades, Josh realizes he has to come up with a new strategy for success.
Author
Series
Trapped in a video game volume 4
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
Alistair Gregory, the man who figured out how to put people into video games, is not what he seems. Jesse Rigsby is sure of that. Jesse's sure of something else too--he's being watched. To unravel the mystery, Jesse's going to have to transform himself into a superspy with serious retro-gaming skills. He'll need to outsmart a hyperintelligent android, outlast a tireless drone, and outswim an 8-bit shark. And if he can somehow pull all that off, Jesse...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Bianca Cooper, a normal sixteen-year-old student, escapes into the world of Minecraft after getting into a terrible car accident. Soon, however, she realizes she is trapped inside the game, and the in-game characters who have been attacking her resemble figures from her real life."--
17) The Joker virus
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The Joker has created a virus that infects the latest videogame craze, and turns players into zombies--but in order to defeat him Batman must first discover where he is hiding with the kidnapped creator of the videogame.
18) Rock & roll!
Author
Series
Ghost Detectors volume 15
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When the ghost of a rock star interferes with a music concert that Dandy, Malcolm, and his sister Cocoa are attending, the ghost detectors are on the job--but this time the key to victory may be a video game.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Sent outside by their mother on a rainy day, a child is dismayed when their handheld game falls into the pond before they encounter giant snails, wet mushrooms, and other elements that awaken them to the sensory aspects of nature.
20) Gamer army
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Even though he is only twelve, Rogan Weber is an obsessed gamer, whose motto, ego sum maximus, declares his confidence in his own abilities, and whose parents are also deeply involved in ultra high tech (a little too deeply sometimes); naturally he is thrilled to receive an invitation to join a tech giant's virtual reality TV gaming contest--but as the games become more and more intense and dangerous, he and his fellow gamers realize that something...
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