Mark Turetsky
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"It's 1951, and twelve-year-old Pete Collison is a regular kid in Brooklyn, New York, who loves Sam Spade detective books and radio crime dramas. But when an FBI agent shows up at Pete's doorstep, accusing Pete's father of being a Communist, Pete is caught in a real-life mystery. Could there really be Commies in Pete's family?"--
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Series
Flashback Four volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Miss Z, a mysterious billionaire and a collector of rare photographs, is sending her four recruits back in time on a mission to capture, for the first time, one of the most important moments in American history-- Abraham Lincoln giving his famous Gettysburg address"--
3) Notorious
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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.--
4) Supergifted
Author
Series
Ungifted volume Book 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Donovan Curtis has never been what anyone would call "gifted." But his genius friend Noah Youkilis is actually supergifted, with one of the highest IQs around. After years at the Academy for Scholastic Distinction, all Noah dreams of is the opportunity to fail if he wants to. And he's landed in the perfect place to do it--Donovan's school. Almost immediately, Noah finds himself on the wrong side of cheerleading captain Megan Mercury and alpha jock...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2017
Language
English
Description
Hoping to become the world's greatest detective, Inspector Flytrap, a Venus Flytrap, assisted by his assistant, Nina the Goat, investigates a thrilling mystery at the Capitol Building at the request of President Horse G. Horse.
Author
Series
Shadows of New York volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"NYPD detective Sheryn Sterling has had her eye on Alex Traynor ever since his friend Cori fell to her death under suspicious circumstances a year ago. Cori's death was ruled a suicide, but Sheryn thinks Alex--a wartime photojournalist suffering from PTSD--got away with murder. When Alex's fiancée, Emily, a talented and beloved local doctor, suddenly goes missing, Sheryn suspects that Alex is again at the center of a sticky case. Sheryn dislikes...
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Series
The candymakers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When four twelve-year-olds, including Logan, who has grown up never leaving his parents' Life Is Sweet candy factory, compete in the Confectionary Association's annual contest, they unexpectedly become friends and uncover secrets about themselves during the process.
8) Conspiracy
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Series
Plot to kill Hitler volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Berlin, November 1943. The city is blanketed by explosions. Siblings Gerta and Max Hoffmann live a surprisingly carefree childhood amid the air raids. Berlin is a city going about its business, even as it's attacked almost nightly. But one night, the sirens wail, and the Hoffmanns' neighborhood is hit. A mortally wounded man comes to their door, begging to be let in. He asks for Karl, their father. Gerta and Max watch as Karl tries in vain to save...
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Series
Flashback Four volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sent back in time to 79 AD, on a mission to photograph the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, the Flashback Four race to get their picture.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a near future world of heat, greed, and hunger, Devin earns a coveted spot in a home for abandoned children that promises unlimited food and toys and the hope of finding a new family, but Devin discovers the home's horrific true mission when he investigates its intimidating Administrator and the zombie-like sickness that afflicts some children.
11) Little Excavator
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Little Excavator wants to help the big rigs transform a vacant lot into a neighborhood park, but he is too small to get the job done! That is, until he finds a job that is a perfect Little E-sized task"--
Author
Series
The candymakers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It has been a few months since the nationwide New Candy Contest, and Logan, Miles, Philip, and Daisy have returned to their regular lives. But when the winning candy bar comes down the conveyor belt at the Life Is Sweet candy factory, Logan realizes something's very wrong. . . . When the Canymaker announces that they will be going on tour to introduce the new candy bar, the four friends see this as an opportunity to make things right. But with a...
13) Pi in the sky
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Joss, the seventh son of the Supreme Overlord of the Universe, must team up with a human girl to re-create Earth, when the planet is accidentally erased from existence.
14) Manatee summer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Peter and his best friend, Tommy, have a goal for their last summer before middle school: finish their Discovery Journal, a catalog of the wildlife around their Florida town. When they spot a manatee in a canal, Peter knows they've found something special--and when the manatee is injured by a boat, something to protect! As Peter joins the fight to save Florida manatees, he also finds himself taking care of his ailing grandfather and facing an unwelcome...
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Series
Origami Yoda books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Harvey, upset when his Darth Paper finger puppet brings humiliation, gets Dwight suspended, but Origami Yoda asks Tommy and Kellan, now in seventh grade, to make a new casefile to persuade the School Board to reinstate Dwight.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values, and beliefs.
17) Coral
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Language
English
Description
The worlds of Coral, Brooke, and Merrick, teens wounded by mental illness and family problems, collide and they must choose what to leave behind in order to survive and start fresh. --
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Series
Inspector Flytrap volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventures of Inspector Flytrap and Nina the Goat continue in this next chapter book from New York Times bestselling author Tom Angleberger and Newbery Honor winner Cece Bell!
Meet Inspector Flytrap. He's a Venus flytrap and world-class solver of BIG DEAL mysteries.
Meet Nina the Goat. She's a goat and Inspector Flytrap's trusty assistant—except when she eats the clues!
This time, they've
19) Robo-Dodo rumble
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Koko Dodo's cookie shop is facing some stiff competition from an evil robotic dodo, and a giant sea monster starts destroying the town, but Didi Dodo has some daring plans.
Author
Series
Inspector Flytrap volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
From husband-and-wife team Tom Angleberger, creator of the New York Times bestselling Origami Yoda series, and Cece Bell, author/illustrator of the Newbery Honor graphic novel El Deafo, comes the start to a funny and clever illustrated chapter-book series about a mystery-solving Venus flytrap. With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, this early-chapter-book series is a must for beginning readers.
Inspector Flytrap in the...