Gordon Korman
21) Notorious
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told in different voices, on Centerlight Island, halfway between the United States and Canada, middle-schoolers Keenan and ZeeBee team up to seek gold rumored to be hidden there a famous gangster.
22) Schooled
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his hippie grandmother ends up in the hospital, Cap Anderson is forced to leave the commune where he is homeschooled and attend Claverage Middle School, where his odd looks and behavior make him the target of bullies.
23) Flashpoint
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amy and Dan Cahill have their final confrontation with twisted billionaire J. Rutherford Pierce, a man whose power has no limits and is one step away from being elected president.
24) Jackpot
Author
Series
Swindle mysteries volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Griffin Bing and his friends are trying to locate Mr. Fielder's missing thirty million dollar lottery ticket, and thwart the local bully, Darren Vader, who wants to find it for himself--and Mr. Bing's latest invention may help.
25) Slacker
Author
Series
Slacker volume 1
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
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 takingit 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...
26) Swindle
Author
Series
Swindle mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the SmartPick fruit picker.
27) Linked
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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...
28) The unteachables
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating voices, the teacher and students in room 117 find their lives changed over the course of a school year.
29) Memory maze
Author
Series
The hypnotists volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
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.
Author
Series
Kidnapped volume 1
Language
English
Description
It's every brother's worst fear: As Aiden and his sister Meg are walking home from school one day, a van pulls over and Meg is kidnapped. There's no way for Aiden to stop it from happening. He's the only witness to his sister's disappearance.Why has Meg been kidnapped? Is it for ransom? As a vendetta against Meg and Aiden's parents? Or is there an even bigger conspiracy at work?While Meg fends off her kidnappers and plans an escape, Aiden must
...Author
Series
The hypnotists volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Compelled to help the government in exchange for his family's protection, Jax uses his special powers to confront a hypnotic mastermind who has more than a few tricks up his sleeve.
32) Survival
Author
Series
Island (Gordon Korman) volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Six kids. One shipwreck. One deserted island. After their ship sinks, Luke, Ian, JJ, Sharla, Will, and Lyssa must find a way to survive. They have no food and very few supplies. They think they're all alone, but they're not. And that's even worse.
33) The hypnotists
Author
Series
The hypnotists volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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.
34) Shipwreck
Author
Series
Island (Gordon Korman) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows a group of six kids stranded on a deserted island as they embark on a quest for survival that tests their limits.
35) Jingle
Author
Series
Swindle mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Santa's Workshop Holiday Spectacular at the Colchester mansion is a long standing tradition in Cedarville, however Griffin, Ben, and Antonia are not happy to find that they have been volunteered as elves by their friend Logan and can not get out of it--but this year the pageant seem plagued by frequent electrical outages, and during one of them the valuable antique known as the Star of Prague disappears from the giant Christmas tree, and as they are...
36) The rescue
Author
Series
Kidnapped volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Aiden works with the FBI in order to rescue his sister Meg, who was kidnapped.
Author
Series
On the run volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Aiden and Meg must catch Frank Lindenauer, a mysterious figure hunted by the FBI and the only one who can free their parents from prison.
38) The contest
Author
Series
Everest volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Many people have tried to conquer Mt. Everest, but they've all been adults. Now a group of kids take on the challenge to become the youngest person to climb the deadly but intriguing mountain.
39) Unsinkable
Author
Series
Titanic volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although the Titanic ship is meant to be unsinkable, there is plenty of danger waiting on its maiden voyage for four of its passengers--Paddy, a stowaway; Sophie, under police custody; rich yet troubled Juliana; and Alfie, who hides a secret.
40) The summit
Author
Series
Everest volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Many people have tried to conquer Mt. Everest, but they've all been adults. Now a group of kids take on the challenge to become the youngest people to climb the deadly but intriguing mountain.