Tim Jones
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Language
English
Description
After a disturbing freshman year at New York University, Mimi is happy to get away to her father's remote Canadian cottage, only to discover a stranger living there who has never heard of her or her father and who is convinced that Mimi is responsible for leaving sinister tokens around the property.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Description
Two teenagers who are living on the streets and barely getting by become involved in a complicated criminal plot, and make an unexpected connection with each other.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Trying to solve the mystery of his father's disappearance from their rural Canadian community, fourteen-year-old Jim gets help from the disturbed Ruth Rose, who suspects her stepfather, a local pastor.
4) Zoom away
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Zoom and his friend Maria search at the North Pole for elusive Uncle Roy.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
In 1963, when his family moves across town to a new school district in Ottawa, Canada, twelve-year-old Rex conspires with best friends James, Kathy, and Buster to attend the school in his old neighborhood.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Language
English
Description
When Evan's father dies suddenly, he finds the book his father had been reading, a diary of a Japanese soldier stranded on a Pacific Island during World War II. There was also an American soldier stranded there.
9) The maestro
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fleeing from his brutal father, fourteen-year-old Burl arrives at the remote cabin of an eccentric genius who in just one day changes the young man's life forever.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
The death of an apparent stranger in the Steeple family's old home triggers troubling questions for sixteen-year-old Declan as he tries to make sense of his fragmented dreams, random memories, and unexplained coincidences, hoping to learn the truth aboutthe mother who suddenly left when he was ten.
12) Stephen Fair
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
At the age of fifteen Stephen begins having nightmares like the ones that drove his older brother away from home, and eventually the dreams lead to a discovery that is shocking but that ultimately allows his family to come back together.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1962 with everyone nervous about a possible nuclear war, ten-nearly-eleven-year-old Rex, having just moved to Ottawa from Vancouver with his parents and five siblings, faces his own personal challenges as he discovers new friends and a new understanding of the world around him.
14) Zoom at sea
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Lexile measure
AD 700L
Language
English
Description
Zoom the cat loves water and is determined to follow the instructions his Uncle Roy left in his diary describing how to get to the sea.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 440L
Language
English
Description
After playing boisterously at the playground, Percy learns how to keep himself and his friends safe and still have a good time. Includes questions about the text and a note to parents about visual learning.
18) Good job, Ajay!
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 460L
Language
English
Description
Ajay's friends encourage him as he practices throwing a ball. Includes questions about the text and notes to parents on visual learning.
20) Envy
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Tim and Nick, best friends, neighbors and co-workers, are suddenly tripped up when one of Nick's harebrained, get-rich-quick schemes actually succeeds. VaPooRizer is a spray that literally makes dog poop, or any other kind of poop for that matter, evaporate into thin air. Tim, who had no faith in Nick's idea, passed on an opportunity to get in on the deal, can only watch as Nick's fortune -- and Tim's own envy -- grow to equally outrageous proportions....