Dan Gemeinhart
Author
Series
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
For five years, Coyote and her dad, Rodeo, have lived on the road in an old school bus, criss-crossing the nation. It's also how long ago Coyote lost her mom and two sisters in a car crash. Coyote hasn't been home in all that time, but when she learns that the park in her old neighborhood is being demolished--the very same park where she, her mom, and her sisters buried a treasured memory box--she devises an elaborate plan to get her dad to drive...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
590L
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the dead of night, a truck arrives in Slaughterville, a small town curiously named after its windowless slaughterhouse. Seven mysterious kids with suitcases step out of the vehicle and into an abandoned home on a dead-end street, looking over their shoulders to make sure they aren't noticed. But Ravani Foster covertly witnesses their arrival from his bedroom window. Timid and lonely, Ravani is eager to learn everything he can about his new neighbors:...
3) Good dog
Author
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
Brodie was a good dog. And good dogs go to heaven. Except Brodie can't move on. Not just yet. As wonderful as his glimpse of the afterlife is, he can't forget the boy he left behind. The boy he loved, and who loved him in return. The boy who's still in danger. So Brodie breaks the rules of heaven. He returns to Earth as a spirit. With the help of two other lost souls--lovable pitbull Tuck and surly housecat Patsy--he is determined to find his boy...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition, February 2015.
Lexile measure
550L
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A boy named Mark, tired of being sick with cancer, conceives a plan to climb Mount Rainier, and runs away from home with his dog, Beau--but with over two hundred miles between him and his goal, and only anger at his situation to drive him on nothing will be easy, and only his best friend, Jessie, suspects where he is heading.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Almost a year after settling down in Oregon, Coyote embarks on a cross-country road trip with her dad to scatter her mom's ashes, but the journey takes an unexpected turn when she realizes the secret to the chosen resting place lies in a lost book.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Joseph Johnson has lost just about everyone he's ever loved. He lost his pa in an accident. He lost his ma and his little sister to sickness. And now, he's lost his pony -- fast, fierce, beautiful Sarah, taken away by a man who had no right to take her. Joseph can sure enough get her back, though. The odds are stacked against him, but he isn't about to give up. He will face down deadly animals, dangerous men, and the fury of nature itself on his...
7) Scar Island
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jonathan Grisby has been sent to the Slabhenge Reformatory School for Troubled Boys, a former lunatic asylum which is currently run by a sadist who enjoys punishing the boys and setting them against each other; but when a lightning strike kills all the adults the boys find themselves suddenly free--and trapped on Scar Island which seems to be sinking into the ocean.