Todd Strasser
22) The good war
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
There's a new afterschool club at Ironville Middle School. Ms. Peterson is starting a video game club where the students will playing The Good War, a new game based on World War II. They are divided into two teams: Axis and Allies, and they will be simulating a war they know nothing about yet. Only one team will win. But what starts out as friendly competition, takes an unexpected turn for the worst when an one player takes the game too far. Can an...
23) No place
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"When Dan and his parents can no longer pay their mortgage, they end up homeless and living in a local tent city. It's a bad situation, and it only gets worse when the leader of the tent city is brutally beaten. Who is trying to shut down the tent city, and why?
Author
Series
Here comes Heavenly volume 1
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
She just appeared out of nowhere. Spiky purple hair, tons of earrings and rings. Hoops through her eyebrow and nostril, and tattoos on both arms. She said her name was Heavenly Litebody. Our nanny. Nanny??
28) The wave
Author
Pub. Date
2013, c1981
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Laurie and David recognize The Wave for what it is and set out to stop it.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Description
A futuristic reimagining of "Moby Dick" finds young Ishmael awakening aboard a ship on an unpolluted faraway planet where he harvests resources for a depleted Earth before witnessing his captain's growing obsession with a great sea creature.
33) Famous
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jamie Gordon had a taste of praise and recognition at age fourteen when her unflattering photograph of an actress was published, but as she pursues her dream of being a celebrity photographer, she becomes immersed in the dark side of fame.
Author
Series
Wordsworth books volume 2
Pub. Date
1995
Description
After using his talents to help out a four-footed friend, Wordsworth finds himself very popular, with every dog in town hounding him for favors. Then when a couple of trouble-making boys dognap him, suspicious newspaper reporters start nosing around, and suddenly Wordsworth's secret is in danger of being revealed.
35) If I grow up
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Growing up in the inner-city projects, DeShawn is reluctantly forced into the gang world by circumstances beyond his control.