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1) Roomies
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
While living very different lives on opposite coasts, seventeen-year-old Elizabeth and eighteen-year-old Lauren become acquainted by email the summer before they begin rooming together as freshmen at UC-Berkeley.
Author
Series
I survived (Graphic novels) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Chet Roscow is finally feeling at home in his uncle's little New Jersey town. He has three new friends, and they love cooling off in the creek on hot summer days. But then comes shocking news: A massive shark has been attacking swimmers in the ocean along the Jersey Shore, not far from where Chet is staying. Fear is in the air. So when Chet spots a gray fin in the creek, he's sure it's his imagination running wild. It's impossible he's about to come...
3) Dunk
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
While hoping to work as the clown in an amusement park dunk tank on the New Jersey shore the summer before his junior year in high school, Chad faces his best friend's serious illness, hassles with police, and the girl that got away.
4) Superfudge
Author
Series
Fudge books volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
Peter describes the highs and lows of life with his younger brother, Fudge.
Author
Series
Football genius novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Ty can't believe it when Coach V recruits him for the football team. But Ty's guardian won't let him play. Desperately worried, Ty must come up with a plan to save Than's football career - and ultimately, his life. When twelve-year-old Ty's brother Thane is recruited out of college to play for the New York Jets, their Uncle Gus uses Ty to get insider information for his gambling ring, landing Ty and Thane in trouble with the Mafia.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
As she turns twelve during the summer of 1953, Penny gains new insights into herself and her family while also learning a secret about her father's death. It's1953 and 11-year-old Penny dreams of a summer of butter pecan ice cream, swimming, and baseball. But nothing's that easy in Penny's family. For starters, she can't go swimming because her mother's afraid she'll catch polio at the pool. To make matters worse, her favorite uncle is living in a...
8) Deenie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A thirteen-year-old girl seemingly destined for a modeling career finds she has a deformation of the spine called scoliosis.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Although twelve-year-old Cassidy Bean keeps a book of bad things, she did not expect her summer with the Tremont family in rural New Jersey to be one of them--but this year Ursula, a local hoarder, has died under mysterious circumstances, and Cassidy finds that there a great many bad and dangerous things hidden in her house, including, perhaps, her vengeful ghost.
Author
Series
Chance to fly volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
After moving across the country, thirteen-year-old Natalie auditions for her new school's play and overcomes her fears and insecurities about performing in a wheelchair.
12) Takedown
Author
Series
Winning season volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Seventh-grader Donald, living with his parents in New Jersey, is determined to master wrestling but discovers that to win at the sport he must learn to control his temper.
13) Pinned
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Dealing with family problems, girls, and their own competitive natures, high school seniors Ivan Korske and Bobby Zane face each other in the final match of the New Jersey State Wrestling Championship.
14) After ever after
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Although Jeff and Tad, encouraged by a new friend, Lindsey, make a deal to help one another overcome aftereffects of their cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from his older brother Stephen, who is studying drums in Africa.
15) Technical foul
Author
Series
Winning season volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Jared, a high-scoring member of the Hudson City Middle School basketball team, gets angry when the point guard accuses him of being responsible for their string of losses, but finally realizes they can win only if he becomes a team player.
16) Pretenders
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Three girls, two guys, five secret journals. The five most popular students at Noble High have secrets to hide; secrets they wrote down in their journals. Now one of their own exposes the private entries... I am leaking these because I'm tired and I know you are too. The success bar is too high and pretending has become the only way to reach it. Instagrams are filtered, Facebook profiles are embellished, photos are shopped, reality TV is scripted,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
New Jersey girl Zora Emerson is attending her pre-college prep at Halstead University, where the incredibly wealthy and stuck-up students go, and after only a week she is feeling academically confident but socially out of place; then an awkward mix-up of cell phones brings her into closer contact with Owen Whittelsey (prince of a small European country) and his security guards--but it is when Owen asks her to be his date at his brother's royal wedding...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002, c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Thirteen-year-old Robert "Qwerty" Stevens uses the time machine he finds in his back yard to visit Thomas Edison's workshop in 1879, and there helps develop the electric light bulb, but then needs his sister's help to return to his own time.
19) Center field
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Mike lives for baseball and hopes to follow his idol into the major leagues one day, but he is distracted by a new player who might take his place in center field, an ankle injury, problems at home, and a growing awareness that something sinister is happening at school.
20) Streams of Babel
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Six teens face a bioterrorist attack on American soil as four are infected with a mysterious disease affecting their small New Jersey neighborhood and two others, both brilliant computer hackers, assist the United States Intelligence Coalition in tracking the perpetrators.