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21) Surprise island
Author
Series
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
Summer vacation on an almost private island gives the Aldens a challenge. Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather and are spending the summer on their own private island. There is a mysterious stranger on the island with a secret--but that's not the only surprise in store for the Boxcar Children.
Author
Series
Hardy boys mystery stories volume 1
Pub. Date
1959
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
180 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When the Hardys' wealthy neighbor is robbed, Joe and Frank are asked by their father to help solve the case.
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
When he keeps insisting that his little brother is missing even though no one else can remember that Liam ever existed, Charlie and his best friend Ana are determined to follow the instructions on a note that may help them find out what happened to Liam.
Charlie OReilly is an only child. Which is why it makes everyone uncomfortable when he talks about his brother. Liam. His eight-year-old kid brother, who, up until a year ago, slept in the bunk above...
25) 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.
26) The Unwanteds
Author
Series
Unwanteds volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a society that purges thirteen-year-olds who are creative, identical twins Aaron and Alex are separated, one to attend University while the other, supposedly Eliminated, finds himself in a wondrous place where youths hone their abilities and learn magic.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adam Moynihan's life used to be awesome. Straight As, close friends and a home life so perfect that it could have been a TV show straight out of the 50s. Then, his oldest brother died. Now, his fun-loving mom cries constantly, he and his remaining brother can't talk without fighting, and the father he always admired proved himself a coward by moving out when they needed him most. Jolene Timber's life is nothing like the movies she loves--not the happy...
28) Bone Gap
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the investigation, and subjects him to even more ridicule and bullying." -- Provided by publisher.
30) Turkey surprise
Author
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Description
A turkey hides from two brothers looking for food for Thanksgiving Day, and they end up finding something better to eat.
32) Long way down
Author
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
There are three rules in the neighborhood: Don't cry ; Don't snitch ; Get revenge. Will takes his dead brother Shawn's gun, and gets in the elevator on the 7th floor. As the elevator stops on each floor, someone connected to Shawn gets on. Someone already dead. Dead by teenage gun violence. And each has something to share with Will.
33) Digger man
Author
Lexile measure
AD 380L
Language
English
Description
A young boy imagines how he will use his digger to make a park where he and his little brother can play.
34) 96 miles
Author
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
During a massive blackout in rural Nevada, two brothers struggle to survive without their self-reliance-obsessed dad and without enough water cross the desert for help.
Dad always said if things get desperate, its okay to drink the water in the toilet. I never thought it would come to that. I thought Id sooner die than let one drop of toilet water touch my lips. Yet here I am, kneeling before a porcelain throne, holding a tin mug for scooping in...
35) Football hero
Author
Series
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old Ty's brother Thane is recruited out of college to play for the New York Jets, their Uncle Gus uses Ty to get insider information for his gambling ring, landing Ty and Thane in trouble with the Mafia.
Author
Language
English
Description
After Tom rescued Frankie the goldfish from his big brother Mark's toxic science experiment by zapping him back to life with a battery, Frankie somehow became a big fat zombie goldfish with dangerous hypnotic powers. Fortunately, Frankie has appointed himself Tom's bodyguard, and together, with a little help from their friends, they thwart Mark's Evil Scientist plans. Tom is looking forward to their annual family trip to the seaside, right up until...
37) Winter turning
Author
Series
Wings of fire volume 7
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
"Winter has been a disappointment to his royal IceWing family his whole life. When his sister, Icicle, runs away from Jade Mountain Academy, fleeing terrible crimes and possibly planning to commit more. Winter knows that they both need a second chance to make things right--if only he can find her. Winter's new clawmates, Moon, Qibli, and Kinkajou, won't let him make this dangerous journey alone. They don't seem to understand that IceWings, the most...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Jackie's goal include perfect grades, the perfect look, getting into the perfect school. If she can achieve that, then maybe her too-busy mom and dad will take notice. When her parents die in a tragic accident, Jackie is shipped off across the country to Colorado to live with the Walters, her new guardians... who just happen to have twelve sons (well, eleven, but their daughter, Parker, is basically one of the boys). The boys don't think a city girl...
39) The Fowl twins
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1060L
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
One week after their eleventh birthday, the Fowl twins--scientist Myles, and Beckett, the force of nature--befriend a troll who has clawed his way through the earth's crust to the surface. Unfortunately the troll is being chased by a nefarious nobleman and an interrogating nun, who both need the magical creature for their own gain, as well as a fairy-in-training who has been assigned to protect him. As the trio get shot at, kidnapped, buried, arrested,...
Author
Series
Unwanteds volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Divided by their society into Wanted and Unwanted at thirteen, estranged twin brothers Aaron and Alex have both run into trouble--as mage of Artime, Alex must defend the island from attack, while Aaron continues to scheme to take over the islands and get rid of the Unwanteds altogether.