Mystery

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.

Paper Towns

Posted on October 1, 2013 by webmaster

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Paper Towns
by John Green

Quentin Jacobsen, 17, has been in love with his next-door neighbor, Margo Roth Spiegelman, for his entire life. A leader at their Central Florida high school, she has carefully cultivated her ‘bad-ass’ image. Quentin is one of the smart kids. His parents are therapists and he is, above all things, “goddamned well adjusted.”

He takes a rare risk when Margo appears at his window in the middle of the night. They drive around righting wrongs via her brilliant, elaborate pranks. Then she runs away (again). He slowly uncovers the depth of her unhappiness and the vast differences between the real and imagined Margo.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
850L	High School	320	Romance	2009	014241493

Heist Society

Posted on September 30, 2013 by webmaster

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Heist Society
by Ally Carter

After a childhood spent assisting her father, one of the world’s most talented art thieves, Katarina Bishop tries to leave the family business behind when she forges her way into a New England boarding school.

She quickly discovers, though, that her past is inescapable. Her father has been accused of stealing already stolen masterpieces from a dangerous Italian billionaire.

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Certain that her father is innocent, Kat resolves to find the missing paintings and return them to their unsavory owner, who has given her a two-week deadline. Carter, the author of the Gallagher Girls series, skillfully maintains suspense as Kat assembles a team of teen accomplices, travels across Europe, and plots an impossible art heist to save her dad.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
1060	High School	304	Adventure	2011	1423116615

Book of Dares

Posted on September 30, 2013 by webmaster

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Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares
by David Levithan and Rachel Cohn

Dash and Lily, 16, find themselves on their own in Manhattan at Christmas. Dash is alone by choice –he’s told each of his divorced parents that he’s spending the holiday with the other, leaving them both to take vacations out of town.

Lily’s parents are taking the honeymoon they couldn’t afford when they got married. They think that Lily is in the capable hands of her older brother, but he’s less interested in her than in his new boyfriend, and then he gets sick and spends most of the holiday in bed.

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He does, however, start in motion the activity that is central to the story. It involves a red Moleskine notebook with a list of literary clues that Lily leaves in the stacks at the Strand bookstore. Bookish and erudite Dash finds it and is intrigued enough to follow Lily’s lead and leave some clues of his own. The dares in the book’s title refer to innocent things such as going to various crowded places like Macy’s and FAO Schwartz to pick up messages. As the dares go on, the teens reveal more and more about themselves in the pages of the notebook, until they finally meet under the worst possible circumstances.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
860L	High School	272	Adventure	2010	0375859551

Girl Who Could Fly

Posted on September 27, 2013 by webmaster

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The Girl Who Could Fly
by Victoria Forester

Somewhere in the U.S., in a small farming community called Lowland County, a girl named Piper McCloud is born to a simple, God-fearing farmer and his wife. Piper has a special talent: she can fly.

When her talent for flying is discovered, a charismatic director of a special school takes Piper under her wing. She arrives at an amazing place with multiple floors and discovers a lot of other kids with extraordinary powers, too – as well as a nefarious plot to remove their special talents by altering their DNA.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
830	Middle School	352	Science Fiction	2010	0312602383

Billionaire’s Curse

Posted on September 23, 2013 by webmaster

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The Billionaire’s Curse
by Richard Newsome

Gerald Wilkins is an Australian youth who’s the recent heir to a fortune bequeathed to him by an English aunt he barely knew. While Gerald’s giddy, irresponsible parents use his good fortune to take a Caribbean vacation, the 12-year-old stays behind in London, facing threats connected to the recent theft of a world-renowned diamond.

His attempts to piece together how his aunt’s death and the diamond are connected involves sleuthing about museums and stuffy clubs, and leads to a dastardly attempt on his life by a creepy man of overwhelming strength who smells of bleach. Luckily, twins Ruby and Sam intervene, saving the new billionaire, and the threesome become fast friends.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
690	High School	352	Adventure	2010	0061944904

Money for Nothing

Posted on September 21, 2013 by webmaster

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Money for Nothing – 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:
MONEY FOR NOTHING is the sixth book of the Junkyard Dan series.

Details:

Published: 2008. All the books in this series are 100 pages (+/-). Contains approximately 10,400 words. ISBN: 978-0-9815694-5-1. All books are Lexile 1 & 2

Storyline:

Bubba finds a bag of money in the back seat! Whose money is it? And why didn’t they know it was missing?

Dried Blood

Posted on September 20, 2013 by webmaster

Dried Blood – 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:
This is the second book of the Junkyard Dan series.

Details:

Published: 2008. All the books in this series are 100 pages (+/-). This book contains approximately 10,500 words. ISBN: 978-0-9815694-1-3. All books are Lexile 1 & 2

Storyline:

A customer returns blood-covered parts. Could it mean murder? Dan needs to find out!

Black Pearl

Posted on September 20, 2013 by webmaster

The Black Pearl
by Scott O’Dell

Ramon wants to prove to his father, Blas Salazar, that he is just as good as Sevillano, Ramon’s worst enemy and Ramon’s father’s best pearl diver, at pearl diving. Manta Diablo, the monster of the deep, guards “The Pearl of the Heavens,” the ocean’s biggest pearl, that Ramon wants to dive for. Ramon got “The Pearl of the Heavens” and brought back home. When Ramon tells his father about the pearl, his father gives it to the church. Luzum, an old Indian tells Ramon that he should give it back to the Manta Diablo because the monster will come after him.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
980	Middle School	144	Drama	2010	0547334001

Found

Posted on September 20, 2013 by webmaster

Found (The Missing-Book 1)
by Margaret Peterson Haddix

A plane arrives at an airline gate unnoticed by radar and most personnel. There are no flight attendants, no pilot, in fact no adults at all, but there are 36 passengers. Each seat is inhabited by an infant. Thirteen years later in Ohio, teenage adoptees Jonah and his friend Chip begin receiving ominous messages declaring that they are among “the missing” and that someone is coming to find them. Frightened yet intrigued, the boys begin a search for their real identities with the help of Jonah’s younger sister. Their search leads them to a discovery that strains credulity and leads them into danger greater than they ever imagined possible.

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Thirteen-year-old Jonah has always known that he was adopted, and he’s never thought it was any big deal. Then he and a new friend, Chip, who’s also adopted, begin receiving mysterious letters. The first one says, “You are one of the missing.” The second one says, “Beware! They’re coming back to get you. “Jonah, Chip, and Jonah’s sister, Katherine, are plunged into a mystery that involves the FBI, a vast smuggling operation, an airplane that appeared out of nowhere — and people who seem to appear and disappear at will. The kids discover they are caught in a battle between two opposing forces that want very different things for Jonah and Chip’s lives.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
680	High School	336	Thriller/Suspense	2009	141695421