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Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Mira lives in a small island beach town off the coast of New Jersey year-round, and when a devastating superstorm strikes she will face the storm's wrath and the destruction it leaves behind alone.
2) Takedown
Author
Series
Winning season volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Donald, living with his parents in New Jersey, is determined to master wrestling but discovers that to win at the sport he must learn to control his temper.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Although twelve-year-old Cassidy Bean keeps a book of bad things, she did not expect her summer with the Tremont family in rural New Jersey to be one of them--but this year Ursula, a local hoarder, has died under mysterious circumstances, and Cassidy finds that there a great many bad and dangerous things hidden in her house, including, perhaps, her vengeful ghost.
Author
Series
Football genius novels volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Ty can't believe it when Coach V recruits him for the football team. But Ty's guardian won't let him play. Desperately worried, Ty must come up with a plan to save Than's football career - and ultimately, his life. When twelve-year-old Ty's brother Thane is recruited out of college to play for the New York Jets, their Uncle Gus uses Ty to get insider information for his gambling ring, landing Ty and Thane in trouble with the Mafia.
Author
Series
Chance to fly volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After moving across the country, thirteen-year-old Natalie auditions for her new school's play and overcomes her fears and insecurities about performing in a wheelchair.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Robert "Qwerty" Stevens uses the time machine he finds in his back yard to visit Thomas Edison's workshop in 1879, and there helps develop the electric light bulb, but then needs his sister's help to return to his own time.
7) Deenie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A thirteen-year-old girl seemingly destined for a modeling career finds she has a deformation of the spine called scoliosis.
8) Center field
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Mike lives for baseball and hopes to follow his idol into the major leagues one day, but he is distracted by a new player who might take his place in center field, an ankle injury, problems at home, and a growing awareness that something sinister is happening at school.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, high school juniors Allie, who now lives on the poor side of town, and Jake, the "Crestie" whose family bought her house, develop feelings for one another that are complicated by her former friends, his current ones, who refuse to forgive her for her father's bad investment that cost them all.
10) Pretenders
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three girls, two guys, five secret journals. The five most popular students at Noble High have secrets to hide; secrets they wrote down in their journals. Now one of their own exposes the private entries... I am leaking these because I'm tired and I know you are too. The success bar is too high and pretending has become the only way to reach it. Instagrams are filtered, Facebook profiles are embellished, photos are shopped, reality TV is scripted,...
11) Ghost town
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
The beach. The boardwalk. The ghosts . . .
Author
Publisher
Point, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
New Jersey girl Zora Emerson is attending her pre-college prep at Halstead University, where the incredibly wealthy and stuck-up students go, and after only a week she is feeling academically confident but socially out of place; then an awkward mix-up of cell phones brings her into closer contact with Owen Whittelsey (prince of a small European country) and his security guards--but it is when Owen asks her to be his date at his brother's royal wedding...
13) Boardwalk bust
Author
Series
Hardy boys undercover brothers volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Frank and Joe travel to New Jersey where they investigate a series of robberies at jewelry stores. In Boardwalk Bust, Frank and Joe head to Ocean Grove, New Jersey, to investigate a rash of jewelry store robberies. The temperature's sizzling; will the boys be able to smoke out 'sticky fingers' before they're burned? Mission: Investigate and put a halt to the recent rash of jewelry store robberies. Potential danger on the ground and in the air. Location:...
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In a small New Jersey beach town, twelve-year-old Polly Madassa, who speaks like a character in her two favorite novels, "Pride and Prejudice" and "Anne of Green Gables," spends the summer making deliveries for her parents' bakery and playing matchmaker, with disastrous results.
15) Pinned
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dealing with family problems, girls, and their own competitive natures, high school seniors Ivan Korske and Bobby Zane face each other in the final match of the New Jersey State Wrestling Championship.
16) Roomies
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
While living very different lives on opposite coasts, seventeen-year-old Elizabeth and eighteen-year-old Lauren become acquainted by email the summer before they begin rooming together as freshmen at UC-Berkeley.
Author
Series
Saranormal volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Sara's unwanted ability to see spirits is intensified by her cross country move to an old New Jersey shore town with more than its fair share of ghosts.
Author
Series
I survived (Graphic novels) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Chet Roscow is finally feeling at home in his uncle's little New Jersey town. He has three new friends, and they love cooling off in the creek on hot summer days. But then comes shocking news: A massive shark has been attacking swimmers in the ocean along the Jersey Shore, not far from where Chet is staying. Fear is in the air. So when Chet spots a gray fin in the creek, he's sure it's his imagination running wild. It's impossible he's about to come...
19) After ever after
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Although Jeff and Tad, encouraged by a new friend, Lindsey, make a deal to help one another overcome aftereffects of their cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from his older brother Stephen, who is studying drums in Africa.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Army is reeling after her thoughtlessness leads to her dog's death, but channels her grief into a plan to help keep the new neighbors' autistic daughter from wandering away.