Michael Goldstrom
2) Refugee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps looming, he and his family board a ship bound for the other side of the world. Isabel is a Cuban girl in 1994. With riots and unrest plaguing her country, she and her family set out on a raft, hoping to find safety in America. Mahmoud is a Syrian boy in 2015. With his homeland torn apart by violence and destruction, he and his family begin a long trek toward...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audio, Inc
Pub. Date
p2012
Language
English
Description
From the author of the acclaimed novel Eternal on the Water, whose style is described as "Henry David Thoreau meets Nicholas Sparks" (Publishers Weekly), comes a novel about two brothers who save a girl from drowning when they are young-an experience that intertwines their destinies and changes their lives forever. On an early spring afternoon in rural New Hampshire, two brothers, Ed and Allard, are ice skating when they discover a girl who, with...
Author
Series
Genius Files volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Once the twins get their feet back on the ground, they embark on the final leg of their trip, which will take them from the Hoover Dam all the way to the Golden Gate Bridge. Chased by nefarious villains, the twins will be trapped with a venomous snake, pushed through a deadly turbine, and thrown into a volcano. And craziest of all, their parents might finally believe them!
Author
Series
Genius Files volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
On a cross-country vacation with their parents, twins Coke and Pepsi, soon to be thirteen, fend off strange assassins as they try to come to terms with their being part of a top-secret government organization known as The Genius Files.
Author
Series
Gabriel Finley volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Gabriel, with the help of the young raven Paladin, which whom he has a magical bond, travels to the foreboding land of Aviopolis, where he must face challenges and unanswerable riddles to rescue his long-missing father.
7) Blackout
Author
Series
Newsflesh volume 3
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 2041, Georgia Mason, held hostage by a team of CDC researchers, must find her way back to Shaun Mason, who is dealing with his own problems, such as zombie bears, mad scientists and rogue government agencies, before things get worse in her post-zombie, post-resurrection America.
8) Variant
Author
Series
Variant (Robison Wells) volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Benson Fisher thought that a scholarship to Maxfield Academy would be the ticket out of his dead-end life.
He was wrong.
Now he's trapped in a school that's surrounded by a razor-wire fence. A school where video cameras monitor his every move. Where there are no adults. Where the kids have split into groups in order to survive.
Where breaking the rules equals death.
But when Benson stumbles upon the school's real secret, he realizes that playing...
9) Feedback
Author
Series
Variant (Robison Wells) volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Perfect for fans of James Dashner's The Maze Runner, Feedback is the heart-stopping sequel to Variant
Benson Fisher escaped from Maxfield Academy's deadly rules and brutal gangs. He thought that the worst was over.
But now Benson is trapped in a different kind of prison-a town filled with familiar faces. Classmates from Maxfield who Benson had seen die. Friends he was afraid he had killed.
They are all pawns in the school's twisted experiment,...
Author
Series
I survived volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Ever since Danny's mom moved him to Hawaii, away from the dangerous streets of New York City, Danny has been planning to go back. He's not afraid of the crime or the dark alleys. And he's not afraid to stow away on the next ship out of Pearl Harbor. But that morning, the skies fill with fighter planes. Bombs opund the harbor. Bullets rain down on the beaches. Donny is shocked--and, for the first time, he is truly afraid. He's a tough city kid. But...
Author
Series
Under the never sky trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's been months since Perry was named Blood Lord of the Tides, and Aria was charged with an impossible mission; now they are about to be reunited. But their reunion is far from perfect. The Tides don't take kindly to Aria, a former Dweller. And with the worsening Aether storms threatening the tribe's precarious existence, Aria begins to fear that leaving Perry behind might be the only way to save them both
12) Never say genius
Author
Series
Genius Files volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As their cross-country journey with their parents continues through the midwest, twins Coke and Pepsi, now thirteen, again face strange assassins at such places as the first McDonald's restaurant and Cedar Point amusement park.
Author
Series
Genius Files volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Coke and Pepsi McDonald continue on their dangerous cross-county road trip, stopping at strange-but-real destinations in the South and facing such perils as an evil Elvis impersonator, a vat of acidic soda, and a giant recycling shredder"--
Author
Series
Genius Files volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"The wackiest road trip in history continues as the McDonald twins travel the Southwest dodging nefarious villains and visiting weird but true American landmarks"--
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In the closing days of World War I, the men of the U.S. Army's 77th Division, 308th Battalion were surrounded by German troups in the Argonne Forest. Without food, water or reserve ammunition, cut off from supply and communication lines, and subjected to constant assaults and bombardments, they managed to hold off the enemy until they were finally rescued after five days of desperate action.
16) Asylum
Author
Series
Asylum novels (Madeleine Roux) volume 1
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Three teens at a summer program for gifted students uncover shocking secrets in the sanatorium-turned-dorm where they're staying--secrets that link them all to the asylum's dark past.
17) Sanctum
Author
Series
Asylum novels (Madeleine Roux) volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Plagued by nightmares from their summer in the Brookline asylum, Dan, Abby, and Jordan return to New Hampshire College for a prosective students weekend, only to find themselves caught in a dark and dangerous mystery"--
Author
Series
Invisible Inkling volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"When Hank Wolowitz runs into trouble in the form a of lunch-stealing bully, he finds an unlikely ally in an invisible refugee pumpkin-loving bandapat named Inkling"-- Provided by publisher