Margaret Peterson Haddix
21) Remarkables
Author
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Marin and her neighbor Charley hope that by preventing a disaster that occurred twenty years ago, they can save Charley's dad from a future of guilt and self-destructive behavior.
One minute theyre there: laughing and having fun at the house next door. The next minute, the teens are gone. Like magic. Marin cant believe her eyes. Who are they? Can anyone else see them? What makes them so happy? Marin is lonely in this new town of hers...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old girl raised in a foster village is returned to her biological parents, and discovers home is not what she expected it to be.
Author
Series
Mysteries of trash and treasure volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Colin and Nevaeh are great at finding things. After all, they found each other and became best friends--even though their parents are business rivals. They also found hidden boxes of secret letters, which led them to unravel mysteries about kids from the 1970s. But when they started Mystery Solvers Inc., they didn't expect to be asked to find a ghost. Ree recruits them to investigate a series of old, spooky photos left behind in her family's new...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 710L
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Avery Armisted and sixteen-year-old Kayla Butts, once good friends, begrudgingly travel to Spain together for a summer vacation where they uncover a secret their families kept hidden from them their entire lives.
25) Just Ella
Author
Series
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
In this continuation of the Cinderella story, fifteen-year-old Ella finds that accepting Prince Charming's proposal ensnares her in a suffocating tangle of palace rules and royal etiquette, so she plots to escape.
26) Under their skin
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn investigate why their mother and new stepfather are keeping secrets, why they are forbidden to meet their stepsiblings, and, most important, why their lives are in danger.
27) Risked
Author
Series
Missing volume 6
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jonah, thirteen, and Katherine, eleven, travel through time to 1918 Russia just as Alexei, Anastasia, and the rest of Tsar Nicholas II's family is about to be executed. Author's note includes facts about the Romanov's and the mystery surrounding their deaths.
Author
Series
Children of exile volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Many surprises await twelve-year-old Edwy Watanaboneset when the Freds return him to Cursed Town, including that he has siblings in Refuge City who he will join in boarding school.
29) Redeemed
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015].
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
406 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jonah was able to save all of time from collapsing but in doing so gained a twin brother, Jordan, who must learn what has happened and do his own part to save time--and his parents." -- Provided by publisher.
30) Revealed
Author
Series
Missing volume 7
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
438 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After returning the missing children from history to their original time periods, thirteen-year-old Jonah must save time itself when aviator Charles Lindbergh mysteriously appears and kidnaps Jonah's sister.
31) Double identity
Author
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Bethany's parents have always been overprotective, but when they suddenly drop out of sight with no explanation, leaving her with an aunt she never knew existed, Bethany uncovers shocking secrets that make her question everything she thought she knew about herself and her family.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
NC 820L
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Cecilia has always known she is the true princess of Suala, but when she and her best friend, Harper, decide to speed up her ascendancy to the throne, they find danger and many imposters who challenge her claim.
Author
Series
Children of exile volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kiandra Watanaboneset reluctantly takes charge when she, her brothers Enu and Edwy, and some young friends are captured by Enforcers and sent to a prison on the planet Zacadi.
Author
Series
Under their skin volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old twins Nick and Eryn and their robot stepsiblings, Jackson and Ava, try to save humanity from killer robots.
37) Claim to fame
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Lindsay, a former child star whose career ended when she developed the ability to hear what anyone, anywhere says about her and apparently suffered a nervous breakdown, comes to see this as an asset when, after her father's death, she learns that she is not alone.
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
108 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Tish Bonner's high school English class has to keep a dumb journal for their teacher, Mrs. Dunphrey. Doesn't Mrs. Dunphrey know that kids are too busy coping with real life to be bothered with writing? But when 16-year-old Tish's life is turned upside down, her journal becomes her only confidante. Relying on her teacher's promise that she won't read any entry marked "don't read this," Tish writes about her loneliness and fear when her mother abandons...
39) Game changer
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While playing in the championship softball game, star pitcher KT Sutton blacks out and awakes to a changed world where the roles of academics and sports at her middle school have flipped, making talented athletes, such as KT, outcasts and brainy nerds popular.
40) Say what?
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
91 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When their parents begin saying the wrong thing every time six-year-old Sukie and her older brothers misbehave, the children discover that it is a plot and fight back with their own wrong phrases.