Hero’s Journey

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

Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour

Posted on October 1, 2013 by webmaster

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Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour
by Morgan Matson

Amy Curry thinks her life sucks. Her mom decides to move from California to Connecticut to start anew–just in time for Amy’s senior year. Her dad recently died in a car accident. So Amy embarks on a road trip to escape from it all, driving cross-country from the home she’s always known toward her new life.

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Joining Amy on the road trip is Roger, the son of Amy’s mother’s old friend. Amy hasn’t seen him in years, and she is less than thrilled to be driving across the country with a guy she barely knows. So she is surprised to find that she is developing a crush on him. At the same time, she is coming to terms with her father’s death and how to put her own life back together after the accident.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
850	Middle School	368	Adventure	2011	1416990666

Treasure Island

Posted on October 1, 2013 by webmaster

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Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson

A classic tale of a treasure map, a perilous sea journey across the Spanish Main, a mutiny led by the infamous Long John Silver, and a lethal scramble for buried treasure as seen through the eyes of cabin boy Jim Hawkins.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
1100L	Middle School	160	Adventure	1993	1416925082

Hatchet

Posted on September 30, 2013 by webmaster

The Hatchet
by Gary Paulsen

Brian Robeson, 13, is the only passenger on a small plane flying him to visit his father in the Canadian wilderness when the pilot has a heart attack and dies. The plane drifts off course and finally crashes into a small lake.

Miraculously Brian is able to swim free of the plane, arriving on a sandy tree-lined shore with only his clothing, a tattered windbreaker, and the hatchet his mother had given him as a present.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
1060	Middle School	192	Triller/Suspense	1997	1416925082