Gordon Korman
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amy and Dan Cahill's quest to find the million dollars takes them to Vienna, where they must outwit their power-hungry relatives as they seek to solve a clue involving Mozart.
2) Framed
Author
Series
Swindle mysteries volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Griffin Bing is in big trouble when a Super Bowl ring disappears from his middle school's display case, replaced by Griffin's retainer, and the more he and his friends investigate, the worse his situation becomes.
3) Restart
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Chase does not remember falling off the roof, in fact he does not remember anything about himself, and when he gets back to middle school he begins to learn who he was through the reactions of the other kids--trouble is, he really is not sure he likes the Chase that is being revealed, but can he take the opportunity amnesia has provided and restart his life?"--Provided by publisher.
4) Masterminds
Author
Series
Masterminds trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"A group of kids discovers they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment"--
5) Swindle
Author
Series
Swindle mysteries volume 1
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.
6) Showoff
Author
Series
Swindle mysteries volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Accused of ruining a champion dog's career after an unfortunate incident at a mall show, Luthor is sent to the pound, prompting a skeptical Griffin to hatch a daring plan involving a sinister saboteur, a reclusive trainer, and large supply of red dye.
7) Zoobreak
Author
Series
Swindle mysteries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a class trip to a floating zoo where animals are mistreated and Savannah's missing pet monkey is found in a cage, Long Island sixth-grader Griffin Bing and his band of misfits plan a rescue. Book #2
8) War stories
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Trevor Firestone loves playing war-based video games and he idolizes his great-grandfather Jacob who came home from World War II a celebrated hero; now ninety-three Jacob wants to retrace his journey in memory and reality and return to the small French village that his unit liberated, and Trevor is going with him--but not everyone in the town want Jacob to come, and Trevor is going to learn an important lesson: real war is not a video...
9) Linked
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
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...
10) 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.
11) Whatshisface
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Cooper Vega and his military family has moved so often that he is used to new schoolmates not knowing his name, but at the moment he has a bigger problem--his new phone is haunted by the ghost of Roderick Northrop, a boy from the sixteenth-century, who needs his help to finish a quest, which is somehow tied up in the Stratford Middle School production of Romeo and Juliet.
12) Hideout
Author
Series
Swindle mysteries volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Luthor's former owner, Swindle, is back trying to reclaim his dog, and it is up to Griffin Bing, Savannah Drysdale and their friends to hide the Doberman until they can come up with a plan to rescue him from the vicious crook.
13) The fort
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
The morning after Hurricane Leo rips through the town of Canaan, residents awaken to widespread destruction -- power outages, downed branches, uprooted trees, broken windows and damaged roofs. Four eighth-grade friends -- Evan, Jason, Mitchell, and CJ -- meet to explore the devastation. The tight-knit group is dismayed to find that Evan has brought along a stray -- Ricky, who is new to their town and school, and doesn't have any friends yet. Ricky...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eighth-grade football hero Wallace Wallace is sentenced to detention attending rehearsals of the school play where, in spite of himself, he becomes wrapped up in the production and begins to suggest changes that improve not only the play but his life as well.
15) Jackpot
Author
Series
Swindle mysteries volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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.
16) Unplugged
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relates, in multiple voices, the adventures of a group of youngsters at an electronics-free wellness camp where wealthy, spoiled Jett, leads other campers in trying to stop a criminal.
17) Schooled
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Homeschooled by his hippie grandmother, Capricorn (Cap) Anderson has never watched television, tasted a pizza, or even heard of a wedgie. But when his grandmother lands in the hospital, Cap is forced to move in with a guidance counselor and attend the local middle school. While Cap knows a lot about tie-dyeing and Zen Buddhism, no education could prepare him for the politics of public school.
18) Slacker
Author
Series
Slacker volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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 taking it 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...
19) Pop
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.
20) The medusa plot
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
One by one, distress calls start coming in from around the globe. Cahills are being kidnapped by a shadowy group known only as the Vespers. Now Amy and Dan have only days to fulfill a bizarre ransom request or their captured friends will start dying.