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Fiction F Alb Anna Strong and the Revolutionary War Culper spy ring (Lexile 840) During the American Revolution Anna Strong becomes an unsung heroine when she finds ingenious ways to communicate top-secret messages to her fellow spies, helping to save the American colonies from British rule.
F Ald War is over It's 1918, and war is everywhere. John's dad is fighting in the trenches far away in France. His mother works in the munitions factory. His teacher says that John is fighting, too, that he at war with enemy children in Germany. One day, in the wild woods outside town, John has an impossible moment: a meeting with a German boy named Jan. John catches a glimpse of a better world, in which children like Jan and himself can come together and scatter the seeds of peace.
F Ang Beware the power of the dark side! (Lexile 840) Luke Skywalker and his friends in the Rebel Alliance formulate a daring plan to battle with the Empire and its evil leaders, Darth Vader and the Emperor.
F Ang The mighty Chewbacca in the forest of fear! (Lexile 770) Chewbacca the Wookie thought he was on a boring cat-sitting job--but his true mission is much more dangerous. With the help of a young bounty hunter/librarian and a cargo droid--who is actually undercover Rebel spy K-2SO--Chewie must make his way through a bizarre forest with fear-causing mist, fight off deadly creatures, recover a sacred book and rescue his friend Han Solo. If anyone can do it, it's the mighty Chewbacca!
F Ang Stranded on Planet Strip Mall! Stranded on a planet filled with dry cleaners, nail salons, and chain restaurants, Rocket and Groot face killer robots bent on customer service and raccoon-eating toilets.
F Avi The button war: a tale of the Great War Patryk and Jurek are as much friends as rivals in the small Russian-occupied Polish village where they live. When, in August 1914, Patryk finds an old button on the forest floor, Jurek becomes jealous. Not long after, World War I comes to Poland, bringing one invading army after another. Jurek devises a dare among the group of boys: whoever steals the best military button will be Button King. They agree. The contest is on. The competition escalates from stealing uniform buttons on a wash line to looting the bodies of dead soldiers. Leading the charge is Jurek, who will do anything to be Button King. It's only Patryk who tries to stop Jurek's increasingly dangerous game before it leads to deadly consequences.
F Avi Gold rush girl Victoria longs for independence and adventure, and she yearns to accompany her father as he sails west in search of real gold! But it is 1848, and Tory isn't even allowed to go to school, much less travel all the way from Rhode Island to California. Determined to take control of her own destiny, Tory stows away on the ship. Though San Francisco is frenzied and full of wild and dangerous people, Tory finds freedom and friendship. Until one day, when her younger brother is
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kidnapped. Tory is spurred on a treacherous search for him in Rotten Row, a part of San Francisco Bay crowded with hundreds of abandoned ships.
F Bac The last human After machines take control of Earth, following the extinction of humans, 12-year-old robot XR 935A confronts its prejudices about humans and begins to reconsider its own existence within robot society after discovering and befriending a twelve-year-old human girl.
F Bar Goodbye, Mr. Spalding (Lexile 650) In 1930s Philadelphia, 12-year-old Jimmy and his best friend Lola live across the street from Shibe Park, home of the Philadelphia Athletics baseball team. Their families and others on the street make extra money by selling tickets to bleachers on their flat rooftops, which have a perfect view of the field. However, falling ticket sales at the park prompt the park owner to decide to build a wall that will block the view. Jimmy and Lola come up with a variety of ways to prevent the wall from being built, knowing that not only will they miss the view, but their families will be impacted from the loss of income. As Jimmy becomes more and more desperate to save their view, his dubious plans create a rift between him and Lola, and he must work to repair their friendship.
F Beh The disaster days (Lexile 750) Thirteen-year-old Hannah's first real babysitting job turns into a nightmare when a major earthquake knocks out power and phones, cuts off the island, and leaves her stranded with two children.
F Bon Pendragon's heir High school can be hard enough. But for 16-year-old Elaine, things have become almost unbearable. She's having visions of knights in shining armor bleed into her everyday life, visions that refuse to go away, unless she draws them. But visions become the least of her problems after a bizarre attack at their school where she appears to be the intended target. At the last moment, she's whisked away by robotic knights in shining armor to the massive fortress of the legendary superhero Pendragon. Tech gazillionaire, cybernetic genius, and long lost dad?
F Bon Zora and me (Lexile 860) A fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood with her best friend Carrie as they learn about life, death, and the differences between truth, lies, and pretending.
F Bur Ana María Reyes does not live in a castle (Lexile 720) With a new sibling (her fourth) on the way and a big piano recital on the horizon, Dominican-American Ana María Reyes tries to win a scholarship to a New York City private school.
F Car Home for vengeance and valor After years in foster care, April gets to live in a mansion where she and four other children are caught up in a mystery related to a missing heir, a lost legacy, and the Phantom.
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F Cer The storm runner To prevent the Mayan gods from battling each other and destroying the world, thirteen-year-old Zane must unravel an ancient prophecy, stop an evil god, and discover how the physical disability that makes him reliant on a cane also connects him to his father and his ancestry.
F Cha Alcatraz: a chilling interactive adventure (Lexile 790) You Choose adventure that takes place at Alcatraz Island.
F Chi Blink and you die (Lexile 780) Ruby Redfort is running scared. A whole bunch of people want her dead. And worst of all, one of them is on her team.
F Chi Pick your poison (Lexile 800) Wisecracking, code-cracking girl detective Ruby Redfort gets an unexpected taste of the action in her fifth fast-paced adventure.
F Chi Ruby Redford catch your death (Lexile 820) Thirteen-year-old Ruby Redfort is an undercover agent and genius codebreaker.
F Chi Ruby Redfort feel the fear (Lexile 850) When a ghostly foe begins stealing from the highest buildings in Twinford, Ruby Redfort is ready to defy death one more time to capture the bandit.
F Chi Ruby Redfort take your last breath (Lexile 840) Skilled code-cracker and detective Ruby Redfort has an adventure at sea in which she must crack the case of the Twinford pirates while avoiding a vile sea monster and the evil Count von Viscount.
F Coc Uncle Drew and the bat dodger When nine-year-old Teddy Caldwell breaks Uncle Drew Weems's kitchen window with a baseball, he soon learns a lot more about his elderly neighbor. During the Great Depression, he was the valet to Bopeep Shines, a legend of the Negro Leagues.
F Col The Artemis Fowl files (Lexile 760) Two original short stories, plus puzzles, interviews with characters, and other writings that unlock secrets of the Artemis Fowl books, which feature a 12-year-old evil genius and his dealings with fairies and other magical beings.
F Col Artemis Fowl: the Arctic incident (Lexile 670) Thirteen-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl must join forces with his nemesis, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police, in order to save his father--one of the few people in the world Artemis loves--who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya.
F Col Artemis Fowl: the Atlantis complex (Lexile 900) When an army of fairy space probes programmed to destroy Atlantis return to Earth, Artemis Fowl attempts to stop the destruction of the city.
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F Col Artemis Fowl: the eternity code (Lexile 620) Artemis Fowl creates an extraordinarily powerful computer with stolen fairy technology, but his business deal hopes go sour when a Chicago businessman steals his invention and mortally wounds Artemis's loyal bodyguard.
F Col Artemis Fowl: the lost colony (Lexile 740) Teenager Artemis Fowl solves a temporal equation that helps him and Captain Holly Short track fairy demons who are appearing from another dimension, but there is another person who has figured out the formula and abducts one of the beings.
F Col Artemis Fowl: the opal deception (Lexile 740) Artemis Fowl, having reverted to his criminal ways, travels to Berlin to steal a famous painting from a German bank, not realizing his old rival, Opal, has been waiting for a chance to destroy him.
F Col The Fowl twins (Lexile 1060) Eleven-year-old twins Myles and Beckett Fowl enjoy adventure and mayhem while helping a troll escape nefarious forces that want his magic.
F Cus How to save the universe without really trying A 31st-century boy and a 21st-century girl team up to save the universe, evade an evil race of bog mutants, and make a quick pit stop to visit the moon in Dimension Why.
F Das The hunt for dark infinity (Lexile 820) After being kidnapped by Mr. Chu, Atticus "Tick" Higginbottom and his friends Paul and Sofia must survive a series of tests in several different Realities.
F Deu Golden arm Lazarus Weathers, a high school senior from the wrong side of the tracks, seeks to protect his half-brother while pitching his way out of poverty, one strike at a time.
F DiC Beverly, right here (Lexile 480) Beverly has run away from home plenty of times, but that was when she was just a kid. Now that she's 14 years old, she figures, it's not running away. It's leaving. Determined to make it on her own, Beverly finds a job and a place to live and tries to forget about her dog, Buddy, now buried underneath the orange trees back home; her friend Raymie, whom she left without a word; and her mom, who has never cared about anyone but herself. Beverly doesn't want to depend on anyone, and she definitely doesn't want anyone to depend on her. But despite her best efforts, she can't help forming connections with the people around her--and gradually, she learns to see herself through their eyes.
F DiC Louisiana's way home (Lexile 630) When Louisiana’s granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana isn't overly worried. After all, Granny has many middle-of-the-night ideas. But this time, things are different. This time, Granny intends for them never to return. Separated from her best friends, Raymie and Beverly,
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Louisiana struggles to oppose the winds of fate (and Granny) and find a way home. But as Louisiana's life becomes entwined with the lives of the people of a small Georgia town she starts to worry that she is destined only for good-byes.
F DiC The magician's elephant (Lexile 730) When 10-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day who tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures in an attempt to find her.
F DiC Raymie Nightingale (Lexile 550) Hoping that if she wins a local beauty pageant her father will come home, Raymie practices twirling a baton and performing good deeds as she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a drama queen and a saboteur.
F Doe Edinburgh Castle: a chilling interactive adventure ( Lexile 580) You Choose adventure that takes place at Edinburgh Castle in Scotland.
F Doe Gettysburg Battlefield: a chilling interactive adventure (Lexile 620) You Choose adventure that takes place at the Gettysburg Battlefield in Pennsylvania.
F Doe The haunted sanatorium: a chilling interactive adventure (Lexile 630) You Choose adventure that takes place in an abandoned hospital.
F Doe The Queen Mary: a chilling interactive adventure (Lexile 630) A You Choose adventure that takes place aboard the haunted ship, the Queen Mary.
F Doe The Winchester Mystery House: a chilling interactive adventure (Lexile 610) A You Choose adventure that takes place inside the Winchester Mystery House.
F Dur Journey across the Hidden Islands (Lexile 640) When two princesses--twin sisters--travel to pay respects to their kingdom's dragon guardian, unexpected monsters appear, and tremors shake the earth. The Hidden Islands face unprecedented threats, and the old rituals are failing. With only their strength, ingenuity, and flying lion to rely on, can the sisters find a new way to keep their people safe?
F Dur Spark Naturally quiet since birth, Mina and her stormbeast, Pixit, lead others like themselves in defying authority and attempting to spread the truth that Alorria's idyllic weather comes at a steep cost.
F Dur The stone girl's story (Lexile 660) A girl made of stone, forever 12 years old, has outlasted the father who carved her and gave her life, but now the magical marks that animate her are fading and she must leave her mountain home and find help in the valley below if she wants her story--and those of her family--to continue.
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F Ell The good hawk Agatha is a Hawk, brave and fierce, who protects her people by patrolling the high walls of their island home. She is proud of her job, though some in her clan whisper that it is meant to keep her out of the way because of the condition she was born with. Jaime is an Angler. He hates the sea. Worse, he's been chosen for a duty that the clan hasn't required for generations: to marry. The elders won't say why they have promised him to a girl in a neighboring clan, but there are rumors of approaching danger. When disaster strikes and the clan is kidnapped, it is up to Agatha and Jaime to travel across the haunted mainland of Scotia to Norveg, with help along the way from a clan of nomadic Highland bull riders and the many animals who are drawn to Agatha's extraordinary gift of communication.
F Eng It all comes down to this (Lexile 680) In the summer of 1965, Sophie's family becomes the first African Americans to move into their upper middle-class neighborhood in Los Angeles. When riots erupt in nearby Watts, she learns that life and her own place in it are a lot more complicated than they had seemed.
F Faj Hercules and his 12 labors : an interactive mythological adventure (Lexile 670) Interactive adventures about the mythical Greek hero Hercules and his 12 labors.
F Gra Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's library (Lexile 720) Kyle Keeley is the class clown, popular with most kids (if not the teachers), and an ardent fan of all games: board games, word games, and particularly video games. His hero, Luigi Lemoncello, the most notorious and creative gamemaker in the world, just so happens to be the genius behind the building of the new town library. Lucky Kyle wins a coveted spot to be one of the first 12 kids in the library for an overnight of fun, food, and lots and lots of games. But when morning comes, the doors remain locked. Kyle and the other winners must solve every clue and every secret puzzle to find the hidden escape route. And the stakes are very high.
F Gun Olympians vs. Titans: an interactive mythological adventure (Lexile 670) Takes readers on a self-guided tour of the mythical war between the Olympian and Titan gods with each choice affecting the outcome of the story.
F Hah Closed for the season: a mystery story (Lexile 670) When 13-year-old Logan and his family move into a run-down old house in rural Virginia, he discovers that a woman was murdered there and becomes involved with his neighbor Arthur in a dangerous investigation to try to uncover the killer.
F Hah Deep and dark and dangerous: a ghost story (Lexile 650) When 13-year-old Ali spends the summer with her aunt and cousin at the family's vacation home, she stumbles upon a secret that her mother and aunt have been hiding for over thirty years.
F Hah Guest: a changeling tale Young Mollie traverses eerie, perilous lands to retrieve her baby brother, Thomas, from the Kinde Folke, malicious sprites who snatched him and left a hideous changeling in his place.
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F Hah The old Willis place: a ghost story (Lexile 630) Tired of the rules that have bound them ever since "the bad thing happened," 12-year-old Diana ignores her brother's warnings and befriends the daughter of the new caretaker, setting in motion events that lead to the release of the spirit of an evil woman who once ruled the old Willis place.
F Hah One for sorrow: a ghost story (Lexile 660) When unlikeable Elsie dies in the influenza pandemic of 1918, she comes back to haunt Annie to make sure she'll be Annie's best--and only--friend soon.
F Hah Took: a ghost story (Lexile 690) A witch called Old Auntie is lurking near Dan's family's new home. He doesn't believe in her at first, but is forced to accept that she is real and take action when his little sister, Erica, is 'took' to become Auntie's slave for the next fifty years.
F Hal The forgotten sisters (Lexile 750) Miri is eager to return to her beloved Mount Eskel after a year at the capital, but the king and queen ask her to first journey to a distant swamp and start her own miniature princess academy for three royal cousins, but once there she must solve a mystery before she can return home.
F Hal The unbeatable Squirrel Girl: Squirrel meets world (Lexile 700) After 14-year-old Doreen, uses her extraordinary powers to stop a group of troublemakers she becomes a full-fledged superhero called Squirrel Girl.
F Hau Otherwood (Lexile 630) "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 their overgrown golf course. But then one day, after Stuey and his best friend, Elly Rose, spend countless afternoons in the deadfall in the middle of the woods, something totally unbelievable happens. As Stuey and Elly Rose struggle to come to grips with their lives after that reality-splitting moment, all the things Grandpa Zach used to say start to make a lot more sense. This is a book about memory and loss and the destructive nature of secrets, but also about the way friendship, truth, and perseverance have the ability to knit a torn-apart world back together.
F Hen Count all her bones (Lexile 710) Griffin, the teen who helped Cheyenne, who is blind, escape in Girl, Stolen, goes missing right before he's set to testify at his father's trial. Cheyenne sets out to save her former captor.
F Her Sal & Gabi break the universe In order to heal after his mother's death, thirteen-year-old Sal learns to reach into time and space to retrieve things--and people--from other universes.
F Hig Perseus the hero: an interactive mythological adventure (Lexile 600) Interactive adventures about the mythical Greek hero Perseus in you choose format.
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F Hoe The epic adventures of Odysseus: an interactive mythological adventure (Lexile 550) Interactive adventures about the mythical Greek hero Odysseus in you choose format.
F Hoe Hades and the underworld: an interactive mythological adventure (Lexile 670) Takes readers on a self-guided quest into the Underworld with each choice affecting the outcome of the story. F Hoe Jason, the Argonauts, and the Golden Fleece: an interactive mythological adventure (Lexile 650) Interactive adventures about the mythical Greek hero Jason and his quest for the Golden Fleece in you choose format.
F Hoe The quest of Theseus: an interactive mythological adventure (Lexile 640) Takes readers through the journey of ancient Greek hero Theseus in which readers' choices drive the story.
F Hoe The Tower of London: a chilling interactive adventure (Lexile 620) A You Choose adventure that takes place in the Tower of London.
F Hoe The Trojan War: an interactive mythological adventure (Lexile 680) Takes readers on a self-guided journey through the Trojan War, making choices that will affect the story's outcome.
F Hug The breaker boys (Lexile 640) In 1897, Nate Tanner, the hot-tempered twelve-year-old son of wealthy Pennsylvania mine owners, goes against his father's wishes by befriending some of the boys who work in the mines and gets caught up in a disastrous clash between mine workers and the law.
F Joh Ice dogs (Lexile 690) In this survival story set in Alaska, 14-year-old Vicky and her dog sled team find an injured sledder in the wilderness.
F Kac Masters of silence (Lexile 750) Siblings Helen and Henry know how powerful silence can be. In a desperate act to escape the Nazis in their native Germany, their mother brings them to a convent in France. She promises to return for them, but until she does, they must reveal nothing about their past and assume strange new identities. Henry, traumatized by the experience, falls silent. It's only visits from a local mime, the children's one source of joy, that help bring Henry out of his mute state and show him and his sister how to find hope and healing once again.
F Kac The sound of freedom (Lexile 750) It's 1926 and the Jews of Krakow know that the hatred and violence directed at them can only end in tragedy. Anna begs her father to leave Poland, but how can he give up his position as a celebrated clarinetist with the Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra? When Ann hears that the world-renowned violinist Bronislaw Huberman is auditioning Jewish musicians for a new orchestra in Palestine, she tries to save her family, but will it be enough?
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F Kep Making it home: an unofficial Minecraft adventure (Lexile 520) Jasmine has a great imagination, but when her friend Matt tells their group of friends that he has a VR headset that can send him into the world of Minecraft, she finds it a little hard to believe. When Jaz tries the headset out for herself, she learns the truth--but then a creeper comes along and does what creepers do! She'll need to rebuild her shelter before she can find her way home.
F Kid Lord of the mountain (Lexile 610) In 1927, Nate Owens, thirteen, sets out from Bristol, TN, against the wishes of his father, a self-proclaimed preacher, to find himself and the song he thinks will heal his broken family.
F Las Stanley Hotel: a chilling interactive adventure (Lexile 650) You Choose adventure that takes place at the Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado.
F Lee Dragon Pearl (Lexile 780) Min, a 13-year-old girl with fox-magic, stows away on a battle cruiser and impersonates a cadet in order to solve the mystery of what happened to her brother in the Thousand World Space Forces.
F Lee Lines we draw: a story of imprisoned Japanese Americans (Lexile 790) Sumiko Adachi's life is uprooted when an arbitrary dividing line through Phoenix forces her family into a confinement camp.
F Lip The twinning project (Lexile 570) Tom and Eddie, identical twins and mirror opposites living on two different Earths some fifty years apart, must switch places and identities to thwart the alien scientists who threaten their planets.
F Lup Fast break (Lexile 840) Since his mother's death, Jayson, 12, has focused on basketball and surviving but he is found out and placed with an affluent foster family of a different race, and must learn to accept many changes, including facing his former teammates in a championship game.
F Mas Ember (Lexile 820) After Ember is saved from a house fire, she is brought to the Sterling family, who run a ranch that trains rescue dogs.
F Mba Tristan Strong punches a hole in the sky (Lexile 680) Seventh-grader Tristan Strong tumbles into the MidPass and, with allies John Henry and Brer Rabbit, must entice the god Anansi to come out of hiding and seal the hole Tristan accidentally ripped in the sky.
F McD Courageous: a novel of Dunkirk (Lexile 820) It is the end of May 1940, the British government has put out a call for fishing boats to help rescue the British soldiers trapped at Dunkerque. Aiden, the son of a fisherman, with access to his father's dory--is forbidden by his parents to go, but Aiden has already lost one brother to the war, and his other brother is somewhere over there with the British Expeditionary Force. Despite his fear of the ocean, he and his best friend Sally set out to rescue George and his fellow soldiers.
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F Mel Hurricane season Eleven-year-old Fig enrolls in an art class to better understand her father, a composer and pianist whose mental illness she tries to conceal from classmates, neighbors, and social services.
F Mil Bluecrowne: a Greenglass House story (Lexile 840) In 1810, Lucy Bluecrowne, twelve, is bored living ashore with her stepmother and half-brother until two nefarious strangers identify her little brother as the pyrotechnical prodigy they need for their evil plan.
F Mil The ghost collector Ghosts aren't meant to stick around forever. Shelly and her grandmother catch ghosts in their hair. Just like all the women in their family, they can see souls who haven't transitioned yet; it's their job to help the ghosts along their journey. When Shelly's mom dies suddenly, Shelly's relationship to ghosts--and death--changes. Instead of helping spirits move on, Shelly starts hoarding them. But no matter how many ghost cats, dogs, or people she hides in her room, Shelly can't ignore the one ghost that's missing. Her mom's ghost.
F Mil The thief knot (Lexile 800) When her parents are recruited to help solve a puzzling crime, Marzana assembles a group of unusual kid detectives, including the ghost of a ship captain’s daughter, to explore hidden passageways and magical architecture to foil a band of kidnappers.
F Mor The Endermen invasion (Lexile 640) Steve is invited to participate in an elite building competition on Mushroom Island. Steve builds his dream house to impress the judges, but just as they begin judging, the island is overrun with Endermen. Mushroom islands are known for not having hostile mobs, so everyone knows it's the work of a griefer.
F Mor The quest for the diamond sword: a Minecraft gamer's adventure: an unofficial novel (Lexile 750) When zombies attack a village, it is up to Steve to go on a quest to mine for diamonds, so he can turn them into a sword, defeat the undead, and save the villagers.
F Mor Willa and the whale Twelve-year-old Willa, grieving the loss of her mother, a renowned marine biologist, discovers she can talk to whales.
F Mur Front and center (Lexile 980) D.J. Schwenk finds her life taking an unexpected turn just as she was thinking things were finally calming down, and as she tries to make important decisions about her future, she discovers romance and adventure in the unlikeliest places.
F Mur Heaven is paved with Oreos (Lexile 780) Fourteen-year-old Sarah keeps a journal of her pilgrimage to Rome with her eccentric grandmother, Z, her evolving relationship with best friend Curtis, and daily conversations with Curtis's sister and star athlete, D.J.
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F Nye Lost in the jungle When Jack and his genius foster siblings, Ava and Matt, discover inventor Hank Witherspoon is missing, they travel deep into the Amazon jungle, overcoming strange creatures, a raging river, and some very clever foes to find their friend and protect his big idea.
F Opp Bloom (Lexile 670) The invasion begins--but not as you'd expect. It begins with rain. Rain that carries seeds. Seeds that sprout--overnight, everywhere. These new plants take over crop fields, twine up houses, and burrow below streets. They bloom--and release toxic pollens. They bloom--and form Venus flytrap-like pods that swallow animals and people. They bloom--everywhere, unstoppable. Or are they? Three kids on a remote island seem immune to the toxic plants. They each have strange allergies--and yet not to these plants. What's their secret? Can they somehow be the key to beating back this invasion? They'd better figure it out fast, because it's starting to rain again.
F Par Prairie lotus In Dakota Territory in the 1880s, half-Chinese Hanna and her white father face racism and resistance to change as they try to make a home for themselves.
F Pas Anya and the dragon (Lexile 720) In an alternate ninth century, twelve-year-old Anya and a new friend face a Viking and a Tsar to protect the water dragon that saved her life, putting her family's home at risk.
F Pat East (Lexile 900) A young woman journeys to a distant castle on the back of a great white bear who is the victim of a cruel enchantment.
F Pat West (Lexile 840) When a sudden storm destroys Charles' ship and he is presumed dead, Rose believes something sinister is at work and she sets off on a perilous journey, with the fate of the entire world at stake.
F Per Chula the fox After a surprise attack on a hunting party leaves Chula, a Chickasaw boy living in the Homeland during the turbulent 18th century, without his beloved father, Chula finds himself thrust into the challenging world of a Chickasaw warrior. Haunted by his father's restless spirit, Chula looks to his Uncle Lheotubby to help him become a warrior. Despite his youth, he is determined to join the men who seek retaliation, as he vows to avenge his father. Young Chula is soon faced with the difficulties and confusions of warfare and manhood. Is he destined for the path of the warrior? Or does a different future await him?
F Pol The taste of rain This novel takes place in a Japanese internment camp in China in WWII, where 13-year-old Gwen follows the Girl Guide code in order to survive.
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F Por Tentacle & wing (Lexile 750) Twelve-year-old Ada is a Chimera, one of a number of children born with human and animal DNA thanks to a genetic experiment gone wrong. When she is shipped off to a quarantined school for other kids like herself, she senses that the facility is keeping a secret, which, if discovered, could upend everything the world knows about how Chimeras came into being.
F Pre Village of scoundrels: a novel based on a true story of courage during WWII In the 1940s, remote Les Lauzes, France, houses Jews, unregistered foreigners, forgers, and others who take great risks to shelter refugees and smuggle them to safety in Switzerland.
F Qui Apple in the middle (Lexile 760) Bouncing in the middle of two cultures, Apple meets her Indian relatives, shatters Indian stereotypes, and learns what it means to find her place in a world divided by color.
F Ras Do fish sleep? ( Lexile 690) Ten-year-old Jette wrestles with the death of her younger brother, Emil, at age six, recalling special times they had together, his long-term illness, and his funeral, as well as her parents' grief.
F Rig Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Lexile 890) Sixteen-year-old Jacob, having traveled to a remote island after a family tragedy, discovers an abandoned orphanage, and, after some investigating, he learns the children who lived there may have been dangerous and quarantined and may also still be alive.
F Rit Changeling (Lexile 710) Twelve-year-olds Tinn and Cole, raised as human twins in sleepy Endsborough, risk their lives in the Wild Wood, Oddmire Swamp, and the Deep Dark to learn which is a goblin changeling with an important mission.
F Sav Embers of destruction (Lexile 740) Trenton, Kallista, and their friends from Discovery trace the origins of the dragons to San Francisco where they must battle a powerful white dragon in order to save the city and everyone who lives there.
F Sch The hired girl (Lexile 810) Fourteen-year-old Joan, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself--because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl could only dream of--a woman with a future.
F Sim Zora and me (Lexile 840) When Zora Neale Hurston and her best friend, Carrie Brown, discover that the town mute can speak after all, they think they've uncovered a big secret. But Mr. Polk's silence is just one piece of a larger puzzle that stretches back half a century to the tragic story of an enslaved girl named Lucia. As Zora's curiosity leads a reluctant Carrie deeper into the mystery.
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F Smi Ascent: a Peak Marcello adventure (Lexile 680) Fifteen-year-old Peak is invited to climb Hkakabo Razi, one of the most isolated mountains in the world, but getting there involves a four-week trek through a tropical rainforest that is rife with hazards, which turns out to be more dangerous than summiting the mountain itself.
F Smi Independence Hall (Lexile 660) Quest and his stepsister Angela are thrust into the dangerous world of the American Secret Service and the Israeli Mossad when they learn Angela's real mother was a former Secret Service agent who was killed by a terrorist group.
F Smi Kitty Hawk (Lexile 620) The president's daughter has been kidnapped by the elusive and lethal Ghost Cell. Quest (Q) and Angela are in hot pursuit with vicious winds and blinding rain thwarting them at every turn.
F Smi The White House (Lexile 670) Q and Angela attempt to learn the truth about the supposed death of Angela's real mother, who used to be a Secret Service agent, while trying to figure out who they can trust.
F Sno Beauty and the basement (Lexile 560) In this modern version of Beauty and the Beast, unhappy fifteen-year-old Carlo has been living in the basement of his family's mansion ever since his father died--until beautiful fifteen-year-old Belle shows up to pay for the rose her father picked in the garden.
F Sno Cassie and the Woolf (Lexile 550) Caleb Woolf has designs on the basket of food that Cassie Cloak takes to her grandmother every Sunday, so they set a trap to teach him a lesson.
F Sno Dandelion and the witch (Lexile 670) For 14 years Dandelion has lived in a house with the witch she thinks is her mother, but when she shows signs of growing up, the witch locks her in a tower in the woods--where a boy named Arthur hears her singing.
F Sno The girl and the seven thieves (Lexile 690) Eira escapes when her stepmother tries to have her killed, and finds herself taken in by seven thieves who agree to help her in her plan to take down the Wicked Witch of the West Side.
F Sno The glass voice (Lexile 710) Chantella is being treated like a servant by her oblivious father's new wife and her awful twins--but Chantella gets a chance to sing at the Next Teen Star audition when her former nanny shows up to set things right.
F Sno Hansen and Gracie (Lexile 760) Hansen and Gracie are orphaned twins, but their ability to hear each other even when they are not together has made them strange, and prevented them from being adopted--so when the evil officials from the orphanage abandon them in the woods they set out to find a home of their own.
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F Sno A home in the sky (Lexile 630) Jack trades his bike for some magic beans, and climbs the beanstalk to the apartment of Mr. Briareus, a large man with a magic chicken and a singing harp.
F Sno The sealed-up house (Lexile 750) Brendan is fascinated by the house on Willow Avenue, and by the story the mysterious school nurse tells him of the girl trapped within--but though he manages to free the Sova family, the enchantment still lingers, even onto the next generation.
F Sur Vampires on the run (Lexile 690) Two suspicious writers from New York arrive in Quinnie's small Maine town. They claim to be the confidants of a vampire count. But Quinnie begins to wonder if the authors are vampires themselves.
F Ter Winter in wartime (Lexile 690) Michiel and his village join the resistance in German-occupied Holland during World War II.
F Tho The magnolia sword: a ballad of Mulan (Lexile 840) When her ailing father is conscripted to fight invaders from the north, Mulan dresses as a man to take his place in the army, but an old enemy and an attraction for her troop's commander complicate her mission.
F Van Flipped (Lexile 720) In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.
F Wal Elephant secret (Lexile 660) Thirteen-year-old Sam and her father scrape by caring for rescued elephants until an offer comes through that may not only save the sanctuary, it may also restore an extinct species.
F Wes Impostors (Lexile 640) In a world that is rapidly descending into chaos, Frey and Rafi are twin sisters, but few people know of Frey's existence, because she has been raised to be her sister's body double and lethal bodyguard, while Rafi has been raised to further the family's political power--but when their father sends Frey in her sister's place as collateral in a tricky deal, Col, the son of a rival leader, gets close enough to begin to suspect something, and Frey must decide whether to deal with him violently or finally assume her own identity.
F Wil Danger at the haunted gate It's 1850, and you are continuing on the treacherous Oregon Trail. In this second book of four, you need to get to Devil's Gate, the halfway mark on your 2,000-mile journey West. Keep watch! Danger awaits you on your way to those eerie cliffs. Which path will you choose in the face of danger? With more than twenty possible endings, choose wrong and you'll never make it to Devil's Gate. Choose right and blaze a trail that gets you closer to Oregon City!
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F Wil The race to Chimney Rock (Lexile 690) It's 1850, and you are setting off on the treacherous Oregon Trail. Your goal is to get you and your family to Chimney Rock. But many dangers await you on the journey ahead. Wild animals, natural disasters, sickness, and other obstacles stand between you and your destination. Which path will get you safely across the prairie? Choose wrong and you'll never make it to Chimney Rock on time.
F Wil The road to Oregon City The end of the Oregon Trail is near, young pioneer--the fourth and final leg of your journey starts here. But, do you have the grit to make it to Oregon City? The wild frontier is full of risks and unpredictable surprises!
F Wil The search for snake river A family must survive the dangerous ford of the wild Snake River along the Oregon Trail, in a book where the reader's choices determine the outcome of the expedition.
F Wil White Rose (Lexile 1080) Tells the story of Sophie Scholl, a young German college student who challenges the Nazi regime during World War II as part of the White Rose, a non-violent resistance group.
Graphic Novels GN Ale The crossover (Lexile 670) Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
GN Bel El Deafo (Lexile 420) A graphic novel memoir of author/illustrator Cece Bell who grew up hearing impaired.
GN Col Artemis Fowl: the eternity code: the graphic novel Artemis Fowl plans to go straight after one more criminal feat, but his last job goes wrong, leaving his bodyguard, Butler, mortally wounded. The only hope Artemis has of saving his friend's life is to gain the help of his former rival, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police.
GN Col Artemis Fowl: the graphic novel Artemis Fowl, having reverted to his criminal lifestyle following his last run-in with the fairies, travels to Berlin intending to steal a famous painting from a German bank, not realizing his old rival, Opal Koboi, has been just waiting for a chance to destroy him.
GN Col Artemis Fowl: the graphic novel A graphic novel adaptation of Eoin Colfer's novel in which a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold; but the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
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GN Col Artemis Fowl: the graphic novel The adolescent criminal mastermind, Artemis Fowl, must join forces with his nemesis, Captain Holly Short, in order to save his father who has been kidnapped by the Russian mafia.
GN Col The supernaturalist: the graphic novel In Satellite City, 14-year-old Cosmo Hill escapes from his abusive orphanage and teams up with three people who share his unusual ability to see supernatural creatures. Together they determine the nature and purpose of the swarming blue Parasites that are invisible to most humans.
GN Col Eoin Colfer Artemis Fowl: the graphic novel (Lexile 460) When a 12-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a nasty troll.
GN Hal Apocalypse taco Twins Axl and Ivan, with Sid as their driver, make a late-night fast-food run for a high school theater crew but return to discover that aliens have made copies of everything.
GN Pei Big Nate: blow the roof off! Follow the adventures of 11-year-old Nate Wright, who's band is invited to play at the P.S. 38 annual open house.
GN Pei Big Nate: game on! (Lexile 300) Follow the adventures of sixth-grader Nate Wright and his middle school friends through a variety of hapless sports encounters.
GN Ste The Ender Eye prophecy: an unofficial graphic novel for Minecrafters (Lexile 330) Peace has finally been restored in Xenos, but Phoenix longs to return home to her family of miners. She spends her days searching for clues about her real identity. Just when Phoenix is losing hope, two miner ambassadors arrive, looking for a girl from their legends who is said to wear an enchanted Ender eye necklace and is destined to save their village. Could that girl be Phoenix?
GN Ste Revenge of the zombie monks: an unofficial graphic novel for Minecrafters (Lexile 340) The monks of Xenos grow enchanted golden apples for the villagers who live in their border world. The monks also guard the knowledge that keeps Xenos and its citizens safe. But now the monks have been zombified! What will the people of Xenos do now that they have no protection?
GN Sti Just beyond Middle school feels like the worst place imaginable, but for Jess, Josh, and Marco, their school may actually be the worse place in this world or any other! After a chance encounter with a deadly creature stalking the school halls, these three unsuspecting students are whisked away to a horrifying realm beyond the school boiler room where they must unravel a terrifying mystery.
GN Vec The red zone: an earthquake story A vivid and poignant portrayal of a boy and his town in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake in Italy.