Hilary Sycamore
Author
Series
Mighty Jack volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Jack might be the only kid in the world who's dreading summer. But he's got a good reason: summer is when his single mom takes a second job and leaves him at home to watch his autistic kid sister, Maddy. It's a lot of responsibility, and it's boring, too, because Maddy doesn't talk. Ever. But then, one day at the flea market, Maddy does talk -- to tell Jack to trade their mom's car for a box of mysterious seeds. It's the best mistake Jack has ever...
Author
Series
Mighty Jack volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Like a bolt from the blue, Jack's little sister Maddy is gone--carried into another realm by an ogre. When Jack and Lilly follow Maddy's captor through the portal, they are ready for anything . . . except what they find waiting for them in the floating crossroads between worlds. Even the power of their magic plants may not be enough to get them back to earth alive. Alone and injured, Jack and Lilly must each face their own monsters--as well as giants...
Author
Series
Eagle Rock trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
"When her band's drummer and fellow guitarist start dating, life gets awkward for eighth-grader Bina, a talented musician and songwriter, whose discomfort only multiplies when her best friend Austin develops a crush on her."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Eagle Rock trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Fancy Pink is offered a record deal their parents say no, so they decide to make an album on their own, if they can raise enough money without raising their parents' suspicions.
5) Battling Boy
Author
Series
Battling boy volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A twelve-year-old demigod is sent to help the people of Arcopolis, a city infested with monsters.
6) Best Friends
Author
Series
Friends (Hale) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Sixth grade is supposed to be perfect. Shannon’s got a sure spot in the in-crowd called The Group, and her best friend is their leader, Jen, the most popular girl in school. But the rules are always changing, and Shannon has to scramble to keep up. She never knows which TV shows are cool, what songs to listen to, and who she’s allowed to talk to. Who makes these rules, anyway? And does Shannon have to follow them? Shannon begins to question whether...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Jack and Lilly are no strangers to heroics. They've befriended dragons, battled giants, and even earned the loyalty of a goblin army. So when they meet Zita the Spacegirl, fresh from her interplanetary travels and seeking their help to face a new threat, they're more than ready for another adventure.
But the danger growing just outside the door to their world is greater than anything the new friends could have imagined. An army of giants and screeds...
9) Laika
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
This is the journey of Laika, the abandoned puppy destined to become Earth's first space traveler. With the blending of fact and fiction, this story intertwines three compelling lives. Along with Laika, there is Korolev, a driven engineer at the top of the Soviet space program and Yelena, the lab technician responsible for Laika's health and life.
Author
Series
Spill zone volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. Strange manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone. Addison got close enough to the Spill Zone to touch it, literally. She survived the encounter, but came back changed. It turns out she's not alone. North Korea has its own Spill Zone, and a young man named Don Jae is the only one who made it out alive....
Author
Pub. Date
c2020.
Description
Edward O. Wilson, one of the world's preeminent biologists, launches his career not in a classroom but roaming outside, exploring beaches, woods, and swamps with an insatiable drive to understand the natural world. Wilson's critically acclaimed memoir Naturalist is an inspiring account of his growth as a scientist and the evolution of the fields he helped define. This new [graphic adaptation] brings Wilson's childhood and celebrated career to life...
12) Bloody Chester
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In 1870 Dakota Territory, "Bloody" Chester Kates is in for some surprises when he agrees to burn down the town of Whale, believed to be inhabited by something wicked, in order for the Union Pacific to continue construction of the railroad.
13) Defiance
Author
Series
Resistance trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In 1943, as the German occupation of France continues, the Tessier siblings increase their involvement in the Resistance while staying out of the way of the Millice, the Vichy military police. Includes facts about Charles De Gaulle and his support of resistance movements.
14) Friends
Author
Series
Friends (Hale) volume 1
Pub. Date
2017-
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
An incredible series about what it's like to grow up middle-class and female in the United States. Navigating friendships, struggling with self-image, having big emotions, being painfully awkward, middle school drama, making the grade-- all issues shared from Shannon Hale's childhood notes.