Gordon Korman
2) Linked
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Appears on list
Description
"Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika. Nobody can believe it. How could such a symbol of hate end up in the middle of their school? Who would do such a thing? Because Michael was the first person to see it, he's the first suspect. Because Link is one of the most popular guys in school, everyone's looking to him to figure it out. And because Dana's...
4) The fort
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
From the bestselling author of 'Restart', the story of a middle-school "band of brothers" - five friends who need to stick together after they set up a hideout in an abandoned bomb shelter and discover that the only way to be true friends is to reveal their secrets and help each other out. Gordon Korman grew up in Thornhill, ON. A Dewey Diva pick. Ages 8 to 12
5) Ungifted
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.
6) Pop
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Mason and Ty were once the very best of friends, like two nerdy sides of the same coin . . . until seventh grade, when Ava Petrakis came along. Now Mason can trace everything bad in his life to that terrible fight they had over the new girl. The one thing he'd give anything for is a do-over. But that can't happen in real life--can it? As a science kid, Mason knows do-overs are impossible, so he can't believe it when he wakes up from a freak accident...
8) Zoobreak
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
After a class trip to a floating zoo where animals are mistreated and Savannah's missing pet monkey is found in a cage, Long Island sixth-grader Griffin Bing and his band of misfits plan a rescue.
9) Swindle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the SmartPick fruit picker.
10) One false note
Author
Series
The 39 clues volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Amy and Dan Cahill's quest to find the million dollars takes them to Vienna, where they must outwit their power-hungry relatives as they seek to solve a clue involving Mozart.
11) The search
Author
Series
Kidnapped volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Despite the efforts of her brother, the FBI, and her parents, Meg Falconer is still missing and even Meg's kidnappers cannot find her since she always seems to give them the slip.
12) The rescue
Author
Series
Kidnapped volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
As Aiden Falconer and FBI Agent Harris are closing in on the people who kidnapped Meg, Meg, unaware of the efforts to rescue her, tries to escape on her own and is never where she is suppose to be.
Author
Series
On the run volume chase 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
With their parents facing life in prison, Aidan and Meg Falconer race against time to evade the authorities and an unknown attacker to prove their innocence.
Author
Series
The 39 clues volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
An escalating race to find the 39 Clues finds Amy and Dan pursuing a Clue guarded by thousands of the world's best-trained soldiers, an effort that separates them in explosively dangerous ways.
15) Restart
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Appears on list
Description
Chase does not remember falling off the roof, in fact he does not remember anything about himself, and when he gets back to middle school he begins to learn who he was through the reactions of the other kids--trouble is, he really is not sure he likes theChase that is being revealed, but can he take the opportunity amnesia has provided and restart his life?
Author
Series
On the run volume chase 6
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When Aiden and Meg Falconer discover that Hairless Joe, a killer and madman, holds the key to freeing their parents from prison, they decide to try and trap him, despite the dangers.
17) Public enemies
Author
Series
On the run volume chase 5
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
Aiden and Meg have been crossing borders as fugitives on a mission to prove that their parents are innocent of the crime they were convicted for, but the FBI and a killer known as Hairless Joe are quickly closing in.
Author
Series
On the run volume chase 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When the chase gets too intense on land, Aiden and Meg Falconer, fugitives from the FBI and running away from a killer, stow away on a sea bound freighter, but the crew becomes suspicious and a monster storm is on the way.
19) The Juvie three
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Gecko, Arjay, and Terence, all in trouble with the law, must find a way to keep their halfway house open in order to stay out of juvenile detention.
20) The Medusa plot
Author
Series
The 39 clues Cahills vs. Vespers volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Unable to return to their normal lives despite the end of the Clue hunt, new Madrigal leaders Amy and Dan anxiously prepare for a retaliatory strike by the Vespers, who kidnap a number of Cahill family members and demand that Amy and Dan steal a famous painting.