Kevin Brooks
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Lab
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Linus Weems, a street person since leaving his wealthy father's home, is kidnapped and taken to an underground bunker where he is soon joined by five others, ranging in age from nine to seventy, who are alternately cared for and tortured by their unseen captor.
2) iBoy
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Tom Harvey was an ordinary Londoner until an attack that caused fragments of an iPhone to be embedded in his brain, giving him incredible knowledge and power, but using that power against the gang that attacked him and a friend could have deadly consequences.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Faced with the possibility of living with a dreadful aunt, fifteen-year-old Martyn Pig decides not to tell authorities when his alcoholic father dies accidentally, instead asking a friend for her help in disposing of the body.
5) Lucas
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Caitlin's life changes from the moment she sees Lucas walking across the causeway one hot summer's day. He is the strangest, most beautiful boy she has ever seen - and when she meets him, her world comes alive. But to others, he quickly becomes an object of jealousy, prejudice and hatred. Caitlin tries to make sense of the injustice that lurks at every unexpected twist and turn, until she realizes that she must do what she knows in her heart is right....
6) Candy
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Joe becomes distracted from his music when he meets Candy and tries to give her hope for something beyond her violent world.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Moo Nelson, shy, overweight, and bullied by his classmates, finds his life spinning out of control after he witnesses a car chase and a fight that results in a murder.
Author
Series
Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history volume no. 136
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English