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Vesper

Posted on January 30, 2014 by webmaster

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Vesper: A Deviant's Novel
by Jeff Sampson

Emily Webb, 16, is a geek very aware of the glamorous crowd at school, and even more conscious of her uncomfortably curvaceous body. When the class’ other Emily is murdered, Emily W.’s relatively quiet existence gets left behind. Those familiar with contemporary werewolf plotting will recognize Emily W.'s shape-shifting well before she does but will nevertheless enjoy the ride as she sleuths the other Emily’s death, gets on the literal scent track of an unidentified but highly attractive boy, and creates havoc at parties she once never considered attending.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
860L	High School	40	Fantasy	2011	0061992771

Here I Am

Posted on December 19, 2013 by webmaster

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Here I Am
by Patti Kim

Newly arrived from their faraway homeland, a boy and his family enter into the lights, noise, and traffic of a busy American city. The language is unfamiliar. Food, habits, games, and gestures are puzzling. They boy clings tightly to his special keepsake from home and wonders how he will find his way. How will he once again become the happy, confident kid he used to be?

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
NP	Elementary School	320	Adventure	2013	1623700361

Nikolas and Company

Posted on November 13, 2013 by webmaster

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Nikolas & Co: The Mermaid and Moon Forgotten
by Kevin McGill

A long time ago in a world not so far away…” Senior stagecoach driver, Yeri Willrow, leads a group of mysterious passengers through one of the most fog-ridden night of his prestigious career. What he thought would be a simple drive and drop quickly turns into an attack by foul-breath, red-eyed creatures. Yeri learns that his mysterious passengers are a family of automaton-legged merfolk, and he is their only hope from the creature most foul. “Sometime in the near future…” Fourteen-year-old Nick lives in a time when one can zip from country to country in mach-speed hovercars, extend their life indefinitely through cerebral downloads, and have every whim taken care of by their ever faithful nannydrone.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
NP	Middle School	232	Adventure	2013	1470052911

Ten Miles Past Normal

Posted on November 13, 2013 by webmaster

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Ten Miles Past Normal
by Frances O’Roark Dowell

Janie Gorman strives to be a normal high school freshman, but the fact that she lives on a goat farm doesn’t help her much in her quest for “normal.” She hops on the school bus smelling of goat poop (thanks to her morning chore of milking the goats), and she eats lunch in the library, because none of her friends have the same lunch period as her. To make matters worse, Janie’s mom insists on writing an extremely embarrassing blog about “farm life.” None of these trials are made any easier by Janie’s knowledge that she was the one who recommended the move to the farm in the first place!

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
960L	High School	224	Comedy	2012	1416995862

Captain Awesome to the Rescue

Posted on November 12, 2013 by webmaster

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Captain Awesome to the Rescue
by Stan Kirby

Eight-year-old Eugene McGillicudy is an imaginative boy who loves comic books and superheroes. Eugene also has his very own super secret superhero alter ego named Captain Awesome.

When the McGillicudy family relocates to a new town called Sunnyview, Eugene starts a new school, finds a best friend, and even finds time to defend his toys from his two-year-old little sister, Molly! Luckily for Sunnyview, Captain Awesome is there to protect the town (and the universe) from a hilarious cast of comical “bad guys.”

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
NP	Elementary School	128	Comedy	2012	01442435615

Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Posted on November 10, 2013 by webmaster

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid
by Jeff Kinney

Greg Heffley has always been in a hurry to grow up. But is getting older really all it’s cracked up to be?

Greg suddenly finds himself dealing with the pressures of boy-girl parties, increased responsibilities, and even the awkward changes that come with getting older-all without his best friend, Rowley, at his side. Can Greg make it through on his own? Or will he have to face the “ugly truth”?

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
970L	Middle School	224	Comedy	2010	0810984911

All For One

Posted on October 4, 2013 by webmaster

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All For one – Elise Leonard Series

About Elise Leonard:

Elise was a successful teacher of inner-city kids for over 20 years before starting her writing career. She now lives in Florida.

About This Book:

All for One is the first book of The Smith Brothers series: MEET THE SMITH BROTHERS.
Storyline:

Four Brothers, all adopted, and all in the family business. They decided to open up a detective agency. Will they be able to solve their first case? Can they do it without killing each other? And why do they buy so much air freshener?
Details:

Published: 2009. All the books in this series are 100 pages (+/-). Contains approximately 8,100 words. ISBN: 978-1-935366-12-6. All books are Lexile 1 & 2.

Keoko

Posted on October 1, 2013 by webmaster

When My Name Was Keoko
by Linda Sue Park

Sun-hee and her older brother Tae-yul are proud of their Korean heritage. Yet they live their lives under Japanese occupation. All students must read and write in Japanese and no one can fly the Korean flag. Hardest of all is when the Japanese Emperor forces all Koreans to take Japanese names. Sun-hee and Tae-yul become Keoko and Nobuo.

Korea is torn apart by their Japanese invaders during World War II. Everyone must help with war preparations, but it does not mean they are willing to defend Japan.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
610L	Middle School	196	Historical Fiction	2002	0618133356

Blank Confession

Posted on October 1, 2013 by webmaster

Blank Confession
by Pete Hautman

16-year-old Shayne Blank walks into a police station and announces that he has killed someone. Detective Rawls, intrigued by Shayne’s calmness, allows the teen to lead him through the entire story, right up to the murder — including his evolving relationship with Mikey Martin,who finds himself the target of a sadistic bully.

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Mikey’s troubles start when he throws away a bag of drugs forced on him for safekeeping by his sister’s drug-dealing boyfriend. Consequently, he is threatened with bodily injury unless he pays Jon $500 (the arbitrary replacement fee for the drugs). Shayne offers to help Mikey sort out his situation. But Jon is an intransigent bully who refuses to listen to reason, resulting in several confrontations between him and Shayne that culminate in a violent showdown

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
700L	High School	176	Thriller/Suspense	2011	1416913289

All That is Red

Posted on October 1, 2013 by webmaster

All That is Red
by Anna Caltabiano

If you could choose a world without loneliness, without shame, grief, misery, or feeling of any kind, would you, if it also meant that you lost the simple pleasure of a picnic on a sunny day or the joy of falling in love? Would the allure of a comfortable numbness prove too tempting to resist? Could you choose between feeling pain and not feeling anything, ever again?

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A girl is caught in a world where this choice is fiercely contested. In the cross-fire between the Red and White empires, the feeling and the unfeeling, each bent on the other’s destruction, the girl must choose between emotion and oblivion, joining the ranks with the Reds as they fight to resist the Whites, but all the while struggling with her own desperate ambivalence.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
NA	High School	164	Fantasy	2012	1908775858

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