Andrew Eiden
4) Grenade
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
On April 1, 1945 with the battle of Okinawa beginning, fourteen-year-old native Okinawan Hideki, drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps, is handed two grenades and told to go kill American soldiers; small for his age Hideki does not really want to kill anyone, he just wants to find his family, and his struggle across the island will finally bring him face-to-face with Ray, a marine in his very first battle--and the choice he makes then will...
5) Stowaway
Author
Series
Icarus chronicles volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Description
The beloved author of Posted and Ms. Bixby's Last Day returns with the first book in a coming-of-age sci-fi duology about Leo, a kid trying to navigate the galaxy in order to save his family—and, possibly, the planet Earth.
When scientists discover a rare and mysterious mineral buried in the Earth’s crust, they have no idea that it just happens to be the most valuable substance in the entire universe. It’s not long before aliens show up to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The Bad Seed is in a good mood...for once. That's because there's a really cool book at the library available for checkout. The Bad Seed reads, and reads, until the book can't be read anymore. But suddenly, he gets bad news: The book must be returned to the library so another seed can enjoy it. Will the bad seed return to his baaaaaad ways and keep the book? Pick up this really cool book to find out! The Bad Seed Goes to the Library is a Level 1 I...
7) Notorious
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Told in different voices, on Centerlight Island, halfway between the United States and Canada, middle-schoolers Keenan and ZeeBee team up to seek gold rumored to be hidden there a famous gangster.--
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Description
Take a trip inside Riley's head with Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear, and Disgust; travel to infinity and beyond with Buzz Lightyear and Woody; swim the oceans with Marlin and Dory; and more. Featuring retellings of all seventeen Disney-Pixar feature films.
9) Slugfest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
"Yash is the best athlete at Robinette Middle School-so good, in fact, that he’s already playing on the high school's JV sports teams. Imagine his shock when he learns that his JV practices have kept him from earning a state-mandated credit for eighth-grade PE. To graduate, he has to take Physical Education Equivalency-PEE, also known as "Slugfest" in summer school. Yash recruits his fellow PE rejects to train with him and pass this course, an endeavor...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
A #1 New York Times Bestseller!
Based on the New York Times bestselling picture book sensation The Bad Seed, Jory John and Pete Oswald present: The Good, the Bad, and the Spooky!
Halloween is the Bad Seed's favorite holiday of the year. But what's a seed to do when he can't find a show-stopping costume for the big night? Postpone trick-or-treating for everyone, of course!
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
"Is it a flying saucer? Is it a Frisbee? Or is it the best thing they've ever tasted? Stick Dog and his crazy canine crew have discovered a newfangled flavor--and it's even more delicious than hamburgers and hot dogs. It's pizza! And they won't be satisfied until they get some slices of their own. But it won't be easy. There's a kitten to rescue, a plan to make, and the messiest--and most dangerous--game of catch they've ever played. Pizza is on the...
13) Ashfall prophecy
Author
Series
Ashfall volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2022.
Description
"Syd Chambers grew up on Earth with his human mother and barley remembered his alien father, who left on a mission when Syd was very young. Syd used to wonder if his father was still alive, waiting for him out there in the vastness. But he learned the truth on the planet Ashfall - his father had died protecting a devastating secret about the history between humans and Denzans. Syd is now faced with a choice - free humanity from imprisonment on Earth,...
14) Ashfall legacy
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Sixteen-year-old half-alien Sydney Chambers leaves Earth to seek his long-missing father, and unearths a devastating, centuries-old secret about humanity.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"In the tradition of Joe Bageant's Deer Hunting With Jesus and J.D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy, an intimate account of social change, country music, and a vanishing way of life as a Shenandoah town collides with the twenty-first century"--
Author
Series
Stick Dog volume 12
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Weird things are happening in Stick Dog's snow-covered neighborhood. Strangely shaped pinecones hang from trees. Humans sing merry songs all over town. And an odd man is making a list and checking it twice. Mutt, Karen, Stripes, and Poo-Poo have tons of questions. And for the first time, Stick Dog doesn't have answers. But their good friend Lucy does. So when the dogs learn all about Santa Claus, their hilarious quest to celebrate the holiday begins....
17) The God Game
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Five best friends in a high school computer club get sucked into an underground hacker's game run by a mysterious A.I. that thinks it's God; as the Game pits them against each other, it offers the ultimate promise--win and learn the meaning of life or die.
18) Burning nation
Author
Series
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Idaho is a war zone under Federal occupation, and Danny Wright and his friends in the Idaho Militia are determined to fight back, running guerrilla missions against the army--but what at first seemed like a straightforward battle against governmental repression quickly grows murky, and Danny finds that even winning the war does not mean an end to tyranny.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In 1890 Washington the only family Joseph Johnson has left is his half-wild Indian pony, Sarah, so when she is sold by a man who has no right to do so, he sets out to get her back--and he plans to let nothing stop him in his quest.
Author
Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Jedidiah Robbins is a man on a crusade. From town to town, his Gospel train rides the rails of 1920s Appalachia, spreading the Good News with his daughter and a loyal group of roustabouts in tow. But Jedidiah's traveling revival company has a secret: in addition to offering the gifts of the Holy Spirit, it also delivers spirits of another kind. Prohibition is in full swing, but The Sword of the Lord train keeps the speakeasies in the towns it visits...