Gordon Korman
1) Supergifted
Author
Lexile measure
740L
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...
2) Linked
Author
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
"Link, Michael, and Dana live in a quiet town. But it's woken up very quickly when someone sneaks into school and vandalizes it with a swastika. Nobody can believe it. How could such a symbol of hate end up in the middle of their school? Who would do such a thing? Because Michael was the first person to see it, he's the first suspect. Because Link is one of the most popular guys in school, everyone's looking to him to figure it out. And because Dana's...
3) Masterminds
Author
Series
Masterminds volume 1
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
A group of kids discovers they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment. Eli Frieden lives in the most perfect town in the world: Serenity, New Mexico. Eli has never left Serenity. Then one day, he bikes to the edge of the city limits and something so crazy and unexpected happens, it changes everything. Eli convinces his friends to help him investigate further and soon it becomes...
4) Restart
Author
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chase does not remember falling off the roof, in fact he does not remember anything about himself, and when he gets back to middle school he begins to learn who he was through the reactions of the other kids--trouble is, he really is not sure he likes the Chase that is being revealed, but can he take the opportunity amnesia has provided and restart his life?
Author
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.
Wallace Wallace wont lie, even if it means detention. And after he handed in a scorching book report of the classic novel, Old Shep, My Pal, detention is just what hes been handed. He is sure...
Author
Series
39 clues volume 8
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the race to find the 39 Clues builds to its explosive finish, Amy and Dan must explore an ancient culture and steal a Clue guarded by thousands of the world's best-trained soldiers. It's the most dangerous Clue search yet ... and it may mean the end for Amy and Dan.
7) Payback
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Fighting for survival after being separated into pairs in the aftermath of a betrayal, the Project Osiris clones search for notorious mob boss Gus Alabaster while tracking down Eli's elusive DNA donor alongside a surprising new ally.
Author
Series
Hypnotists volume 1
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Jackson Opus is descended from two powerful hypnotist bloodlines, but he has just begun to realize that he can control other peoples' actions with sometimes frightening results--especially when the head of the Sentia Institute plans to use Jackson for his own benefit.
9) Ungifted
Author
Series
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
When Donovan Curtis pulls a major prank at his middle school, he thinks he's finally gone too far. But thanks to a mix-up by one of the administrators, instead of getting in trouble, Donovan is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students. Although it wasn't exactly what Donovan had intended, the ASD couldn't be a more perfectly unexpected hideout for someone like him. But as the students and teachers...
10) One false note
Author
Series
39 clues volume 2
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
A million dollars, or a clue? Police report a break-in at an elite hotel, and the suspects sound suspiciously like Amy and Dan. There's a car and speedboat chase and an angry mob! When there's a Clue on the line, anything can happen.
11) War stories
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
There are two things Trevor loves more than anything else: playing war-based video games, and his great-grandfather Jacob, who is a true-blue, bona fide war hero. At the height of the war, Jacob helped liberate a small French village, and was given a hero's welcome upon his return to America. Now it's decades later, and Jacob wants to retrace the steps he took during the war--from training to invasion to the village he is said to have saved. Trevor...
12) Level 13
Author
Series
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
"Cameron Boxer, king of the slackers, has finally found something worth his time. By gaming online he can find both fame and fortune--especially with Elvis (a beaver who seems to love video games as much as Cam) at his side. Or on his shoulder. The only problem? Things keep getting in the way of Cam's gaming. Like school. And the club he accidentally started. And the misguided people in his life who don't think beavers should be playing video games....
13) Whatshisface
Author
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Cooper Vega and his military family has moved so often that he is used to new schoolmates not knowing his name, but at the moment he has a bigger problem--his new phone is haunted by the ghost of Roderick Northrop, a boy from the sixteenth-century, who needs his help to finish a quest, which is somehow tied up in the Stratford Middle School production of Romeo and Juliet.
14) Slacker
Author
Series
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
When eighth-grader Cameron Boxer creates the Positive Action Group at school he intends it as a diversion to fool his parents, teachers, and sister into letting him continue to concentrate on his video-gaming--but before he knows it other kids are taking it seriously, and soon he finds himself president of the P.A.G., and involved in community service, so the boy who never cared about anything is now the center of everything, whether he likes it or...
15) The fort
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The morning after Hurricane Leo rips through the town of Canaan, residents awaken to widespread destruction--power outages, downed branches, uprooted trees, broken windows and damaged roofs. Four eighth-grade friends--Evan, Jason, Mitchell, and CJ--meet to explore the devastation. The tight-knit group is dismayed to find that Evan has brought along a stray--Ricky, who is new to their town and school, and doesn't have any friends yet. Ricky is the...
16) Memory maze
Author
Series
Hypnotists volume 2
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jackson Opus and his family have been forced into hiding because his identity as a powerful young hypnotist has been leaked out--but his enemy Dr. Mako is still out to find him to use his mesmerizing skills for evil purposes.
17) The medusa plot
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cahills are being kidnapped by a shadowy group known only as the Vespers. Now Amy and Dan have only days to fulfill a bizarre ransom request or their captured friends will start dying. Amy and Dan don't know what the Vespers want or how to stop them. Only one thing is clear. The Vespers are playing to win, and if they get their hands on the Clues ... the world will be their next hostage.
18) The rescue
Author
Series
Kidnapped volume 3
Pub. Date
2006
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
140 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Aiden works with the FBI in order to rescue his sister Meg, who was kidnapped.
19) The abduction
Author
Series
Kidnapped volume 1
Pub. Date
2006
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
137 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Aiden works with the FBI in order to rescue his sister Meg, who was kidnapped.
20) The search
Author
Series
Kidnapped volume 2
Pub. Date
2006
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
137 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Aiden works with the FBI in order to rescue his sister Meg, who was kidnapped.