Gordon Korman
Author
Series
On the run volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
As Aiden and Meg Falconer have been chased from state to state by the FBI while trying to prove their parents innocent of a crime, the killer they know only as Hairless Joe has drawn near, and so has the truth they seek.
2) Swindle
Author
Series
Swindle volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The thrills take to the seas in the latest breakneck-speed adventure from ace storyteller Gordon Korman.Aiden and Meg Falconer are on the hunt for the one man who might be able to free their parents from jail. The hitch? There are plenty of other people on the hunt for THEM, including the FBI and an eerie, hairless killer. After one close call too many, the Falconers find themselves stowed away on a ship -- but the chase doesn't end there. Instead,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The thrills intensify in the next installment of Gordon Korman's adventure ON THE RUN.One man holds the key to freeing Aidan and Meg Falconer's parents from prison: a mysterious figure named Frank Lindenauer. Aidan and Meg must cross the country to try to catch him . . . even as the FBI tries to catch them first. In California, Aidan and Meg fall in with a crowd that already has its share of trouble going on. They want to believe they've found...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Aiden and Meg Falconer find and confront the man who could free their parents in this thrilling conclusion to the first ON THE RUN series.Aiden and Meg Falconer have been all across country, looking for the man who framed their parents and sent them off to life in prison. Now they've found him -- and need to trap him before he gets away again. But it isn't going to be easy. Hairless Joe is a professional killer ... and he's not about to let two...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Aiden and Meg Falconer are now celebrities ... for all the wrong reasons. It's much harder to be on the run when the whole country's looking for you....Aiden and Meg Falconer are out to find the evidence that will free their parents from a life sentence in prison. But in order to do that, they have to live undercover. Ever since they broke out of a juvenile detention facility, they've been chased by the FBI ... and by a strange killer they've nicknamed...
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Series
Language
English
Description
Two kids break out of a juvenile detention center and become fugitives in order to clear their convicted parents' names in this heartstopping series from kid-read master Gordon Korman.Aidan and Meg Falconer are their parents' only hope. The Falconers are facing life in prison -- unless Aidan and Meg can follow a trail of clues to prove their innocence. The problem? Right now they're trapped in a juvenile detention center. Until they escape one...
8) Restart
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
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?
9) Slugfest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Forced to take Physical Education Equivalency, aka "Slugfest," in summer school so he can maintain his star spot on the JV football team, Yash recruits his fellow PE rejects to train with him and pass this course, an endeavor that turns into a summer he'll never forget"-- Provided by publisher.
11) MIXED UP
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-olds Reef and Theo have a mutual problem: their memories are getting mixed up, and that means that Reef is losing his memory of his mother, recently dead of COVID, which terrifies him--but for Theo his new memories are helping him deal with his domineering father.
12) The unteachables
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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.
13) Ungifted
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.
14) One false note
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A million dollars, or a clue? Police report a break-in at an elite hotel, and the suspects sound suspiciously like Amy and Dan. There's a car and speedboat chase and an angry mob! When there's a Clue on the line, anything can happen.
15) Slacker
Author
Series
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...
16) Supergifted
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Donovan Curtis has never been what anyone would call "gifted." But his genius friend Noah Youkilis is actually supergifted, with one of the highest IQs around. After years at the Academy for Scholastic Distinction, all Noah dreams of is the opportunity to fail if he wants to. And he's landed in the perfect place to do it -- Donovan's school. Almost immediately, Noah finds himself on the wrong side of cheerleading captain Megan Mercury and alpha jock...
17) Unplugged
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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.
18) 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...
19) The fort
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When a tight-knit group of middle school friends discover a trap door in the woods that leads to a completely intact bomb shelter, they vow to keep the place a secret while sharing their individual secrets to build the safest space possible.
20) The hypnotists
Author
Series
Hypnotists volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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.