James Patterson
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Rafe Khatchadorian enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.
2) I funny
Author
Series
I funny volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Resolving to become the world's greatest stand-up comedian despite less-than-funny challenges in his life, wheelchair-bound middle school student Jamie Grimm endures bullying from his mean-spirited cousin and hopes he will be fairly judged when he enters a local comedy contest.
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The time has come for Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel to face their ultimate enemy and, despite many obstacles, try to save the world from a sinister plan to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race.
4) Save Rafe!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Middle schooler Rafe Khachadorian faces his greatest challenge yet as he struggles to complete a week-long wilderness survival course to prove to his school administrators that he can succeed"--
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When millions of fish start dying off the coast of Hawaii and something is destroying hundreds of ships, the government enlists the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--to help get to the bottom of the disaster before it is too late.
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.
Author
Series
Katt vs. Dogg volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
A Dogg family and a Katt family are spending their vacations at Western Frontier Park fighting with each other when a youngster from each family becomes lost in the dangerous forest.
Author
Series
Crazy House volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
The revolution is about to get even crazier. Twin sisters Becca and Cassie barely escaped the Crazy House alive. Now they are trained, skilled fighters who fear nothing, not even the all-powerful United. Together the sisters hold the key to defeating the despotic government and freeing the people of the former United States. But to win this war, will the girls have to become the very thing they've sworn to hate?
Author
Series
I funny volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"While on a mission to win the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic regional competition, New York middle schooler Jamie Grimm copes with rival comics and bullies, a buddy in trouble, and a sudden family emergency, all with a sense of humor and a loyal group of friends"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Kenny Wright's active imagination he's a world famous superhero, but in the real world he's a sixth grade 'Grandma's Boy' whose struggles to fit in at his Washington D.C. inner city school will put his grades and family loyalty to the test"--
12) The gift
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After escaping imprisonment by the totalitarian regime known as the New Order, siblings Wisty and Whit Allgood, who possess magical powers, establish themselves as leaders of the Resistance, a hidden community of teenagers like themselves, hunted by the state and determined to defy its ban on the arts, magic, and all other forms of creativity.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"James Patterson and award-winning Zambian writer Ellen Banda-Aaku deliver an unforgettable survival story of a Maasai girl who faces down poachers to find a future among the elephants. Clever, sensitive Jama likes elephants better than people. While her classmates gossip - especially about the new boy, Leku - Jama takes refuge at the watering hole outside her village. There the twelve-year-old Maasai girl befriends a baby elephant she names Mbegu,...
15) The fire
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Whit and Wisty Allgood have led the resistance against a totalitarian regime that has banned all forms of creativity and executed their parents, but even the growing strength of the siblings' magic has not been able to stop the evil dictator, and they must somehow prepare for an imminent showdown.
Author
Series
Daniel X volume 3
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Daniel X continues to hunt for intergalactic aliens, he and his friends go to England searching for Beta, an outlaw who takes the form of fire and who killed Daniel's parents when he was two years old.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being accepted into a big-city art school, Rafe Khatchadorian expects seventh grade to be a math-and-history-free fun zone. However, he quickly discovers that school is more competitive than ever, and to score big in class he needs to find a way to turn his boring life into the inspiration for a work of art. In order to accomplish his goal, Rafe decides to try doing lots of new things like learning to play poker and going to a modern art museum....
19) Robots go wild!
Author
Series
House of robots volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
316 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Fifth grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez has to find a solution when his robot 'brother' has repeated malfunctions at school and a newer model robot steps in as competition--and his mother's job is in jeopardy as a result"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Tandy Angel struggles to remember key details about her passionate love affair with the handsome son of a family enemy while tackling two cases including a wrongful homicide charge against her brother and a series of murders occurring on New York's UpperWest Side.