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Author
Series
Smartest kid in the universe volume 1
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
When seventh-grader Jake McQuade mistakes the world's first ingestible knowledge pills for jelly beans, he suddenly knows all about physics and geometry and can speak Swahili (though Spanish would be a lot more useful)--but his sort-of girlfriend Grace thinks they can use his new found brilliance to save their middle school from the new principal, who is conspiring to get it shut down.
12 year old Jake's middle school is about to be shut down--unless...
2) Outrage
Author
Series
Singular menace volume 2
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
"Shay Remby and her gang of renegades have struck a blow to the Singular Corporation. In a daring raid, they rescued Shay's brother, Odin, from a covert Singular lab. They also liberated a damaged girl. A girl who literally knows too much. On the surface, Singular's a biotech company creating prosthetics for veterans. But Shay and Odin have discovered that beneath the shiny veneer is a shadow company, malevolently pushing the limits of science and...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
269 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes...
4) Bluebird
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
438 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1946, Eva arrives in New York City from the rubble of Berlin, supposedly looking for a new life but actually seeking justice against the Nazis that "escaped" with the help of the CIA. One in particular: the doctor who knows who Eva really is. Because her identity is the product of Project Bluebird, an experiment of the concentration camps involving brainwashing and mind control, which both the Americans and the Soviets would like access to--and...
5) Feet first
Author
Series
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the day the orphanage where he has grown up closes, J.D. discovers that he is the son of Frankenstein's monster, so he sets out to find the people that all the mismatched parts that he inherited came from--and do it before Frankenstein's creepy daughter, who wants to outdo her father, can find them.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Serenity has a recurring nightmare, but things get real when her parents take her brother, Peace, to Duppy Island for "treatment" and Serenity is confronted by the creepy Dr. Whisper and the faceless douen children who are trapped between the living and the dead.
7) I for an eye
Author
Series
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Searching in Los Angeles for the descendant of the man whose right eye was used to create his dad, J.D. discovers that the man, Sam Hammer, is a detective on the trail of a werewolf--and finds himself arrested at the request of Frankenstein's daughter.
Author
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Lucy Snow gets lost on her way to elementary school and mistakenly enrolls in a boarding school known as Hollow Fields, which educates fledgling mad scientists and evil geniuses, and where low grades can result in a severe form of detention.
9) Remember me
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Blue Owens wakes up with the overwhelming feeling that something is wrong with her memory, she meets Adam Mendoza, who explains that she paid to have her unpleasant memories erased in order to "start over"--and that begins Blue's journey to recover her memories and understand the truth of why she felt the need to lose them in the first place.
Author
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of ABDO / Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Reinforced library bound edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"A teenage girl with precognitive abilities ends up as the pawn of a government agency that wants to harness her powers for its own ends" --
11) Orphan eleven
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1939, after cruel treatment at her orphanage renders her mute, Lucy runs away and joins the circus, working with the elephants and unaware that the orphanage matrons are hunting for her.
Author
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of ABDO / Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Reinforced library bound edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"A teenage girl with precognitive abilities ends up as the pawn of a government agency that wants to harness her powers for its own ends."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of ABDO / Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Reinforced library bound edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Francine and her friends know they need to escape from Dr. Brenner's grueling experiments and Hawkins Laboratory before he can harness their collective powers, but they worry their opportunity to escape will arrive too late. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards." -- Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
590L
Physical Desc
157 pages: illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this combination of two separately published works, J.D. discovers that he is the son of Frankenstein's monster, and armed with the Doctor's journal he sets out to find his "relatives"--the descendants and relations of the people whose body parts Doctor Frankenstein used.
Author
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of ABDO / Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Reinforced library bound edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Francine and Ricky attempt a bold escape from Hawkins Laboratory and her precognitive abilities will be put to the test as she tries to rescue all of the gifted children from Dr. Brenner's cruel experiments. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards." -- Amazon.com.
17) The grief keeper
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After escaping a detention center at the U.S. border, seventeen-year-old Marisol agrees to participate in a medical experiment hoping to keep her and her younger sister, Gabi, from being deported to El Salvador.
Marisol and Gabi Morales are detainees of the United States government, caught crossing the U.S. border to escape the gang violence in their country after their brother was murdered. When Marisol learns that they are going to be sent home,...
18) Frankenstein
Author
Series
Publisher
Manga Classics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
320 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Manga adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic horror tale of a young man's obsession with creating life--and the horrors unleashed when he succeeds.