Laura Ruby
1) Bone Gap
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the investigation, and subjects him to even more ridicule and bullying.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When Frankie's mother died and her father left her and her siblings at an orphanage in Chicago, it was supposed to be only temporary - just long enough for him to get back on his feet and be able to provide for them once again. That's why she is not prepared for the day that he arrives for his weekend visit with a new woman on his arm and out-of-state train tickets in his pocket. Now Frankie and her sister, Toni, are abandoned alongside so many other...
3) Bad apple
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tola Riley, a high school junior, struggles to tell the truth when she and her art teacher are accused of having an affair.
Author
Series
York volume Bk. 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Publisher Annotation: National Book Award finalist Laura Ruby returns with the middle chapter in her epic alternate-history adventure?a journey that will test Tess, Theo, and Jaime and change their lives forever.
Author
Series
York (Laura Ruby) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
The thrilling conclusion to two-time National Book Award finalist Laura Ruby’s epic adventure through the streets of an alternate New York City.
It was only a few days ago that Tess Biedermann, Theo Biedermann, and Jaime Cruz, along with a mysterious figure from the past, managed to survive an assault on the location of the latest clue in the Morningstarr cipher—and, in the process, made a shocking discovery about their own connection to this...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
From National Book Award finalist and Printz Award winner Laura Ruby comes an epic alternate history series about three kids who try to solve the greatest mystery of the modern world: a puzzle and treasure hunt laid into the very streets and buildings of New York City. It was 1798 when the Morningstarr twins arrived in New York with a vision for a magnificent city: towering skyscrapers, dazzling machines, and winding train lines, all running on technology...
7) Good Girls
Author
Language
English
Description
Some people would say this is the story of a photograph. How it was taken and what happened to me after the whole world saw it. And it is. But it's also the story of a lot of other things. So look at the picture all you want. I am so much more than what you see.
8) Play Me
Author
Language
English
Description
Eddy knows how to play the game. He is, after all, the writer, director, and cameraman-the mastermind, really-behind the hit online TV show Riot Grrl 16. When it wins a contest to be aired on MTV (and it obviously will-have you seen the competition? ), he'll be famous. Then there's the game of love. Eddy knows all the tricks, and his favorite girls are the ones with the fishnets and cherry lipstick and legs up to there. The ones who know he doesn't...
Author
Series
York (Laura Ruby) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
National Book Award finalist Laura Ruby returns with the middle chapter in her epic alternate-history adventure-a journey that will test Tess, Theo, and Jaime and change their lives forever.
It was only a few weeks ago that the Biedermann twins, Tess and Theo, along with their friend Jaime Cruz, followed the secrets of the Morningstarrs' cipher further than anyone had in its century-and a-half history-and destroyed their beloved home in the process.
But...
10) Honokaa Town
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Walk down Mamane Street, the heart of Honokaa Town, and step back into the late 19th and early 20th century. Honokaa's single-wall, wooden plantation-era buildings are as much a symbol of Hawaii to local people as Diamond Head is to tourists. The commercial buildings have their emblematic false fronts and totan (corrugated iron) cladding. They contained, and still contain, mom-and-pop businesses that were founded upon personal relationships, required...
Author
Series
York (Laura Ruby) volume 1
Publisher
Walden Pond Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In an alternate history of New York, three kids try to solve a modern-world puzzle and complete a treasure hunt laid into the streets and buildings of the city.
12) Me and Ms. Too
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
For as long as Molly can remember, it's always just been her and Dad. Dad, who likes to splash in the pool, who likes to spin at the park, who bakes the best cookies around. But that was before Dad married Ms. Too. Ms. Too doesn't like to splash. She doesn't like to spin. And she can't bake anything. "But Molly, you used to love Ms. Too." That was before, when she was Molly's favorite librarian. Now everything has changed. But as Molly and Ms. Too...
Author
Series
York (Laura Ruby) volume 2
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
It was only a few weeks ago that the Biedermann twins, Tess and Theo, along with their friend Jaime Cruz, followed the secrets of the Morningstarrs' cipher further than anyone had in its century-and-a-half history -- and destroyed their beloved home in the process. But the Old York Cipher still isn't solved. The demolition of 354 W. 73rd Street only revealed the next clue in the greatest mystery of the modern world, and if Tess, Theo, and Jaime want...
Author
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In a future New York where most people can fly and cats are a rarity, a nondescript resident of Hope House for the Homeless and Hopeless discovers that although she is shunned as a "leadfoot," she has the surprising ability to become invisible.
16) Lily's ghosts
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Strange goings-on at her great-uncle's summer home in Cape May, New Jersey, draw Lily and a new friend into a mystery involving lost treasure, a fake medium, and ghosts of all sizes, shapes, and dispositions.
17) The chaos king
Author
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Georgie and Bug, a year older, have been pulled apart by the demands of their newfound fame and fortune, but join forces again when a punk, vampires, a giant sloth, and other creatures come after them on the streets of a New York City of the future.
Author
Series
York volume 3
Publisher
Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
©2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
It was only a few days ago that Tess Biedermann, Theo Biedermann, and Jaime Cruz, along with a mysterious figure from the past, managed to survive an assault on the location of the latest clue in the Morningstarr cipher-and, in the process, made a shocking discovery about their own connection to this one-hundred-sixty-year-old enigma. Now the friends are divided, [with Jaime convinced that Tess and Theo know the meaning of the photograph from Greenwood...
Author
Series
York volume 1
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In this epic alternate history, three kids try to solve the greatest mystery of the modern world: a puzzle and treasure hunt laid into the very streets and buildings of New York City. Tess, Theo, and their friend Jaime live in a Morningstarr apartment due to be demolished, which means the end of a legend. If they want to save their home, they have to prove that the Old York Cipher is real--which means they have to solve it.
Author
Series
Untold legends volume 1
Publisher
Imprint, a part of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Eleven fresh vampire stories from young adult fiction's leading voices! In this delicious new collection, you'll find stories about lurking vampires of social media, rebellious vampires hungry for more than just blood, eager vampires coming out--and going out for their first kill--and other bold, breathtaking, dangerous, dreamy, eerie, iconic, powerful creatures of the night. Welcome to the evolution of the vampire--and a revolution on the page. Vampires...