Pete Hautman
1) Slider
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Hoping to win a cash prize in a pizza eating contest after racking up a tab on his mother's credit card, David must juggle his competitive eating training with the responsibility of looking after his autistic younger brother.
Author
Series
Klaatu diskos volume 1
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After thirteen-year-old Tucker Feye's parents disappear, he suspects that the strange disks of shimmering air that he keeps seeing are somehow involved, and when he steps inside of one he is whisked on a time-twisting journey trailed by a shadowy sect of priests and haunted by ghostlike figures.
3) Road tripped
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Physical Desc
330 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Steven "Stiggy" Gabel tries to cope with his father's suicide, his mother's depression, and his girlfriend's departure by taking off down the Great River Road from Minnesota to Louisiana.
4) Invisible
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
149 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Doug and Andy are unlikely best friends--one a loner obsessed by his model trains, the other a popular student involved in football and theater--who grew up together and share a bond that nothing can sever.
Author
Series
Klaatu diskos volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tucker Feye and Lah Lia each hurtle through time, relating their stories in alternating viewpoints that converge at crucial moments.
6) Doohickey
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
423 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
7) Rash
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the late twenty-first century Bo Marsten is unjustly accused of a causing a rash that plagues his entire high school. He loses it, and as a result, he's sentenced to work in the Canadian tundra, at a pizza factory that's surrounded by hungry polar bears. Bo finds prison life to be both boring and dangerous, but it's nothing compared to what happens when he starts playing on the factory's highly illegal football team. In the meantime, Bork, an artificial...
8) Godless
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
198 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Jason Bock and his friends create their own religion to worship the town's water tower, what started out as a joke begins to take on a power of its own.
9) Otherwood
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"'Hatred combined with lies and secrets can break the world." Grandpa Zach used to say that before he died, but Stuey never really knew what he meant. It was kind of like how he used to talk about quantum physics, or how he used to say ghosts haunted the overgrown golf course. But then one day, when Stuey and his best friend, Elly Rose, are playing in the deadfall in the middle of the woods, something totally unbelievable happens. As Stuey and Elly...
10) Blank confession
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Physical Desc
170 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A new and enigmatic student named Shayne appears at high school one day, befriends the smallest boy in the school, and takes on a notorious drug dealer before turning himself in to the police for killing someone.
11) Snatched
Author
Series
Bloodwater volume 1
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Sleuth ed.
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
200, 12 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Too curious for her own good, Roni, crime reporter for her high school newspaper, teams up with Brian, freshman science geek, to investigate the beating and kidnapping of a classmate.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
249 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ginger investigates a series of weird events taking place in her home town of Flinkwater, Iowa, beginning with people falling into comas while using their computers.
Author
Series
Flinkwater chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
People all over Flinkwater are losing their memories! In a town overflowing with eccentric scientists and engineers, this is nothing new, and Ginger Crump figures it's none of her business. She has her own problems. Like the strange cat that's been following her around-- a cat that seems to be able to read. And the report for school due Monday. And the fact that every digital book in Flinkwater has been vandalized by a fanatical censor, forcing Ginger...
15) Hole in the sky
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
In a future world ravaged by a mutant virus, sixteen-year-old Ceej and three other teenagers seek to save the Grand Canyon from being flooded, while trying to avoid capture by a band of renegade Survivors.
17) All-in
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Having won thousands of dollars playing high-stakes poker in Las Vegas, seventeen-year-old Denn Doyle hits a losing streak after falling in love with a young casino card dealer named Cattie Hart.
18) Eden west
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
During an eventful year for the Christian cult where he has grown up, seventeen-year-old Jacob finds his faith and devotion tested when he meets new friends from the outside world and encounters temptations that threaten his contentment.