Hilary Sycamore
Author
Series
Friends (Hale) volume 3
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Shannon is in eighth grade, and life is more complicated than ever. Everything keeps changing, her classmates are starting to date each other (but nobody wants to date her!), and no matter how hard she tries, Shannon can never seem to just be happy. As she works through her insecurities and undiagnosed depression, she worries about disappointing all the people who care about her. Is something wrong with her? Can she be the person everyone expects...
2) Mighty Jack
Author
Series
Mighty Jack volume 1
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jack dreads summer because his single mother has to work and leaves him at home with his boring little sister who is autistic. She doesn't talk at all. Ever. But one day while they are at a flea market, she does talk. She tells Jack to trade their mother's car for a box of mysterious seeds. It's the best mistake Jack has ever made!
Author
Series
Mighty Jack volume 2
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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...
4) Laika
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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
Mighty Jack volume 3
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teaming up with new friend Zita the spacegirl, Jack and Lilly confront an army of dangerous giants and screeds ready to lay siege to Earth and determined to end all human life
Author
Series
Eagle Rock trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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
Author
Series
Resistance trilogy volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Paul and Marie's bucolic French town is almost untouched by the ravages of WWII. When the Jewish parents of their friend Henri disappear, and Henri goes into hiding, Paul and Marie realize they must take a stand
Author
Series
Spill zone volume 2
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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
Series
Spill zone volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Three years ago an event destroyed the small city of Poughkeepsie, forever changing reality within its borders. Uncanny manifestations and lethal dangers now await anyone who enters the Spill Zone. The Spill claimed Addison's parents and scarred her little sister, Lexa, who hasn't spoken since. Addison provides for her sister by photographing the Zone's twisted attractions on illicit midnight rides. Art collectors pay top dollar for these bizarre...
10) Feynman
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Richard Feynman: physicist ... Nobel winner ... bestselling author ... safe-cracker. In this graphic novel biography, First Second presents the exploits of Nobel-winning quantum physicist, adventurer, musician, world-class raconteur, and one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century: Richard Feynman. Feynman tells the story of the great man's life from his childhood in Long Island to his work on the Manhattan Project and the Challenger disaster....
11) All together now
Author
Series
Eagle Rock trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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
12) Best friends
Author
Series
Friends volume 2
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When she becomes part of the in-crowd, Shannon begins to question whether she wants to remain there, in a story about popularity, first boyfriends, and finding a path in life