Book+Blurbs

AR Quiz No. 101038 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **5.0** - AR Pts: **9.0** With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of the floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home. || Quiz No. 105478 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **4.3** - AR Pts: **8.0** Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores journeys north in a desperate attempt to cross the Arizona border and find work in the United States to support his family in central Mexico || AR Quiz No. 71754 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **4.8** - AR Pts: **8.0** When eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world, they trigger an epic battle involving men, bats, rats, cockroaches, and spiders while on a quest foretold by ancient prophecy. || Quiz No. 69127 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **5.5** - AR Pts: **12.0** Unlucky and unloved, Molly Moon, living in a dreary orphanage in a small English town, discovers a hidden talent for hypnotism and hypnotizes her way to stardom in New York City. || Quiz No. 58026 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **4.6** - AR Pts: **3.0** They didn't want to be on the boat in the first place. They didn't want to be stuck at sea with a bunch of strangers. However, when you're in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, there's no easy way out. || Quiz No. 69274 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **5.0** - AR Pts: **9.0** In the year 241, twelve-year-old Lina trades jobs on Assignment Day to be a messenger, to run to new places in her decaying but beloved city, perhaps even to glimpse Unknown Regions. || Quiz No. 114642 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **4.7** - AR Pts: **6.0** J.D. may not know the truth about her past, but she knows she's in danger and can't shake the dark visions haunting her dreams. She won't be safe until she figures out who she is and where she came from. Book #1 || Quiz No. 114652 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **4.1** - AR Pts: **8.0** While Devon was living with her grandmother for the summer, she accidentally told Lexi that she was popular back home and dated the most popular guy at school. Now, Lexi has moved to Devon's town and Devon has to keep up her "image." || Quiz No. 113950 EN Fiction **-** IL: **MG** - BL: **5.2** - AR Pts: **3.0** Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a school where he and his friend Rowley hope to survive as undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily. And when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take measures to save their friendship. || AR Quiz No. 101659 EN Fiction - IL: **UG** - BL: **4.9** - AR Pts: **18.0** When seventeen-year-old Bella leaves Phoenix to live with her father in Forks, Washington, she meets an exquisitely handsome boy at school for whom she feels an overwhelming attraction and who she comes to realize is not wholly human. || Quiz No. 45132 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **5.3** - AR Pts: **9.0** After his anger erupts into violence and to avoid prison, Cole agrees to participate in a sentencing alternative based on Native American Circle Justice at a remote Alaskan Island, and encounters a huge Spirit Bear that changes his life. || Quiz No. 367 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **5.7** - AR Pts: **7.0** After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends 54 days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given to him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. || Quiz No. 21573 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **4.3** - AR Pts: **13.** Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight. || Quiz No. 54675 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **5.0** - AR Pts: **9.0** Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a brilliant criminal mastermind, but even he does not know what he has taken on when he kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. These fairies are armed and they are dangerous. ||
 * [[image:http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/booklists/images/middleschool/HiaasenCarl_Flush.gif width="89" height="115"]] || [|Flush] by Hiaasen, Carl
 * [[image:crossing_the_wire.jpg width="87" height="100" align="left"]] || [|Crossing the Wire] by Hobbs, Will
 * [[image:http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/booklists/images/fantasy/CollinsSuzanne_GregortheOverlander.gif width="85" height="123"]] || [|Gregor the Overlander] by Collins, Suzanne
 * [[image:molly_moon.jpg width="88" height="112" align="left"]] || [|Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism] by Byng, Georgia
 * [[image:island.jpg width="86" height="99" align="left"]] || [|Island Book One: Shipwreck] by Korman, Gordon
 * [[image:city_of_ember.jpg width="86" height="98" align="left"]] || [|The City of Ember] by DuPrau, Jeanne
 * [[image:awakening.jpg width="86" height="109" align="left"]] || [|Awakening] by Wasserman, Robin
 * [[image:secret_life.jpg width="86" height="109" align="left"]] || [|The Secret Identity of Devon Delaney] by Barnholdt, Lauren
 * [[image:diary.jpg width="86" height="109" align="left"]] || [|Diary of a Wimpy Kid] by Kinney, Jeff
 * [[image:twilight.jpg width="86" height="105" align="left"]] || [|Twilight] by Meyer, Stephenie
 * [[image:touching_spirit_bear.jpg width="85" height="113" align="left"]] || [|Touching Spirit Bear] by Mikaelsen, Ben
 * [[image:Hatchet.jpg width="83" height="87" align="left"]] || [|Hatchet] by Paulsen, Gary
 * [[image:Tangerine.jpg width="81" height="106" align="left"]] || [|Tangerine] by Bloor, Edward
 * [[image:artemis_fowl_1.jpg width="83" height="101" align="left"]] || [|Artemis Fowl] by Colfer, Eoin

Abrahams, Peter AR Quiz No. 86936 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **4.3** - AR Pts: **10.0** Like her idol Sherlock Holmes, eighth grader Ingrid Levin-Hill uses her intellect to solve a murder case in her home town of Echo Falls. || AR Quiz No. 114826 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **6.1** - AR Pts: **12.0** Edgar, an eleven-year-old orphan, finds a book that reveals secrets about Atherton, his strictly divided world, even as geological changes threaten to shift the power structure that allows an elite few to live off the labor of others. Book #1 || AR Quiz No. 74909 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **3.5** - AR Pts: **7.0** A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister. || AR Quiz No. 119440 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **5.8** - AR Pts: **16.0** In the late nineteenth century, when Conor discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the king, he is branded a traitor, imprisoned, and forced to mine for diamonds under brutal conditions while planning a daring escape by way of a flying machine. || AR Quiz No. 101692 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **5.6** - AR Pts: **9.0** Young Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from "ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties." || AR Quiz No. 32275 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **4.1** - AR Pts: **4.0** Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like. || AR Quiz No. 87588 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **6.2** - AR Pts: **9.0** This selection of short stories features work from Brian Jacques, Jerry Spinelli, Chris Crutcher, Mo Willems, Chris Van Allsburg, Matt Groening, Neil Gaiman, the editors and columnists from SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, THE ONION, and ESQUIRE magazines, and more. || AR Quiz No. 123740 EN Fiction - IL: **UG** - BL: **5.3** - AR Pts: **15.0** In a future North America, where rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual survival competition, 16 year old Katniss's skills are tested when she voluntarily takes her sister's place. The plot contains graphic descriptions of violence. Book #1 || Johnson, Angela AR Quiz No. 79148 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **4.2** - AR Pts: **3.0** Devastated by the loss of a second father, thirteen-year-old Bird follows her stepfather from Cleveland to Alabama in hopes of convincing him to come home, and along the way helps two boys cope with their difficulties. . || AR Quiz No. 116008 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **4.9** - AR Pts: **6.0** Cap lives in isolation with his grandmother, a former hippie, but when she falls from a tree and breaks her hip, Cap is sent to a foster home where he has his first experience in a public school. || AR Quiz No. 118074 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **5.9** - AR Pts: **16.0** After glimpsing a hint of his destiny in a mysterious tapestry, twelve-year-old Max becomes a student at Rowan Academy, where he trains in mystics and combat in preparation for war with an ancient enemy that has been kidnapping children. Book #1 || AR Quiz No. 77198 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **5.1** - AR Pts: **15.0** Matt, a cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface. Book #1 || AR Quiz No. 101361 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **5.5** - AR Pts: **7.0** Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love. || AR Quiz No. 89885 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **4.7** - AR Pts: **13.0** Twelve-year-old Percy Jackson learns he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea. His mother sends him to a summer camp for demigods where he and his new friends set out on a quest to prevent a war between the gods. Book #1 || AR Quiz No. 114653 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **5.9** - AR Pts: **12.0** During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to religion classes, seventh-grader Holling stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of Shakespeare and he learns about the world he lives in. || Stewart, Trenton Lee AR Quiz No. 113801 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **5.6** - AR Pts: **18.0** After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where their mission is to stop the plan of the evil Ledroptha Curtain. || AR Quiz No. 119450 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **4.7** - AR Pts: **9.0** Adopted by white parents and sent to an exclusive Connecticut girls' school where she is the only black student, fourteen-year-old Lahni feels like an outcast, but when she hears gospel music for the first time, she finds her voice. ||
 * [[image:http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/booklists/images/middleschool/AbrahamsPeter_DowntheRabbitHole.gif width="83" height="110" link="@http://encore.einetwork.net/iii/encore/search/C%7CS0060737034%7COrightresult%7CU1?lang=eng&suite=def"]] || [|Down the Rabbit Hole: An Echo Falls Mystery]
 * [[image:http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/booklists/images/middleschool/CarmanPatrick_AthertonTheHouseofPower.gif width="85" height="117" link="@http://encore.einetwork.net/iii/encore/search/C%7CS9780316166706%7COrightresult%7CU1?lang=eng&suite=def"]] || [|Atherton: The House of Power] by Carman, Patrick
 * [[image:http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/booklists/images/middleschool/CholdenkoGennifer_AlCaponeDoesMyShirts.gif width="83" height="102" link="@http://encore.einetwork.net/iii/encore/search/C%7CS0399238611%7COrightresult%7CU1?lang=eng&suite=def"]] || [|Al Capone Does My Shirts] by Choldenko, Gennifer
 * [[image:http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/booklists/images/middleschool/ColferEoin_Airman.gif width="85" height="105" link="@http://encore.einetwork.net/iii/encore/search/C%7CS9781423107507%7COrightresult%7CU1?lang=eng&suite=def"]] || <span class="booklist_entry_author">[|Airman] by Colfer, Eoin
 * [[image:http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/booklists/images/middleschool/DelanyJoseph_RevengeoftheWitch.gif width="86" height="97" link="@http://encore.einetwork.net/iii/encore/search/C%7CS9780060766184%7COrightresult%7CU1?lang=eng&suite=def"]] || <span class="booklist_entry_author">[|Revenge of the Witch] by Delaney, Joseph
 * [[image:http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/booklists/images/middleschool/FlakeSharon_TheSkinImIn.gif width="82" height="108" link="@http://encore.einetwork.net/iii/encore/search/C%7CS1423103858%7COrightresult%7CU1?lang=eng&suite=def"]] || <span class="booklist_entry_author">[|The Skin I'm In] by Flake, Sharon G.
 * [[image:http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/booklists/images/middleschool/editedbyJonScieszka_GuysWriteforGuysRead.gif width="83" height="93" link="@http://encore.einetwork.net/iii/encore/search/C%7CS0670060070%7COrightresult%7CU1?lang=eng&suite=def"]] || <span class="booklist_entry_author">[|Guys Write for Guys Read] by Scieszka, Jon
 * [[image:http://coverscans.renlearn.com/9780439023481.jpg width="86" height="121"]] || [|The Hunger Games] by Collins, Suzanne
 * [[image:http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/booklists/images/middleschool/JohnsonAngela_Bird.gif width="83" height="104" link="@http://encore.einetwork.net/iii/encore/search/C%7CS0803728476%7COrightresult%7CU1?lang=eng&suite=def"]] || <span class="booklist_entry_author">[|Bird]
 * [[image:http://coverscans.renlearn.com/9780786856923.jpg width="81" height="113"]] || <span class="booklist_entry_author">[|Schooled] by Korman, Gordon
 * [[image:http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/booklists/images/middleschool/NeffHenryH_TheHoundofRowan.gif width="80" height="110" link="@http://encore.einetwork.net/iii/encore/search/C%7CS9780375838941%7COrightresult%7CU1?lang=eng&suite=def"]] || <span class="booklist_entry_author">[|The Hound of Rowan] by Neff, Henry H.
 * [[image:http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/booklists/images/middleschool/OppelKenneth_Airborn.gif width="78" height="109" link="@http://encore.einetwork.net/iii/encore/search/C%7CS0060531800%7COrightresult%7CU1?lang=eng&suite=def"]] || <span class="booklist_entry_author">[|Airborn] by Oppel, Kenneth
 * [[image:http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/booklists/images/middleschool/PerkinsLynneRay_CrissCross.gif width="81" height="102" link="@http://encore.einetwork.net/iii/encore/search/C%7CS9780060092726%7COrightresult%7CU1?lang=eng&suite=def"]] || <span class="booklist_entry_author">[|Criss Cross] by Perkins, Lynne Rae
 * [[image:http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/booklists/images/middleschool/RiordanRick_TheLightningThief.gif width="81" height="108" link="@http://encore.einetwork.net/iii/encore/search/C%7CS9780786856299%7COrightresult%7CU1?lang=eng&suite=def"]] || <span class="booklist_entry_author">[|The Lightning Thief] by Riordan, Rick
 * [[image:http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/booklists/images/middleschool/SchmidtGaryD_TheWednesdayWars.gif width="82" height="116" link="@http://encore.einetwork.net/iii/encore/search/C%7CS9780618724833%7COrightresult%7CU1?lang=eng&suite=def"]] || <span class="booklist_entry_author">[|The Wednesday Wars]by Schmidt, Gary D.
 * [[image:http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/booklists/images/middleschool/StewartTrentonLee_TheMysteriousBenedictSociety.gif width="79" height="108" link="@http://encore.einetwork.net/iii/encore/search/C%7CS9780316057776%7COrightresult%7CU1?lang=eng&suite=def"]] || <span class="booklist_entry_author">[|The Mysterious Benedict Society]
 * [[image:http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/booklists/images/middleschool/WrightBil_WhentheBlackGirlSings.gif width="83" height="115" link="@http://encore.einetwork.net/iii/encore/search/C%7CS9781416939955%7COrightresult%7CU1?lang=eng&suite=def"]] || <span class="booklist_entry_author">[|When the Black Girl Sings] by Wright, Bil

DiTerlizzi, Tony AR Quiz No. 70127 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **4.2** - AR Pts: **1.0** When the Grace children go to stay at their Great Aunt Lucinda's worn Victorian house, they discover a field guide to faeries and other creatures and begin to have some unusual experiences. The coauthor is Holly Black. Book #1 ||
 * [[image:http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/booklists/images/fantasy/DiTerlizziTony_TheFieldGuide.gif width="85" height="108"]] || <span class="booklist_entry_author"> ||  ||   || <span class="booklist_entry_author">[|The Field Guide]

Farmer, Nancy AR Quiz No. 81202 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **4.7** - AR Pts: **16.0** After Jack becomes apprenticed to a Druid bard, he and Lucy are captured by Viking Berserkers and taken to the home of King Ivar the Boneless and his half-troll queen, which leads Jack to undertake a quest to Jotunheim, home of the trolls. Book #1 ||
 * [[image:http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/booklists/images/fantasy/FarmerNancy_TheSeaofTrolls.gif width="86" height="108"]] || <span class="booklist_entry_author"> ||  ||   || <span class="booklist_entry_author">[|The Sea of Trolls]

Funke, Cornelia AR Quiz No. 82162 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **4.9** - AR Pts: **16.0** After learning that humans are headed toward his home, Firedrake, a silver dragon, a brownie and an orphan boy encounter friendly and unfriendly creatures during a quest to find the legendary valley known as the Rim of Heaven. || Korman, Gordon AR Quiz No. 86639 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **4.9** - AR Pts: **4.0** Aidan and Meg Falconer are their parents' only hope. The Falconers are facing life in prison unless Aidan and Meg can follow a trail of clues to prove their innocence. The problem? Right now they're trapped in a juvenile detention center. Book #1. || AR Quiz No. 125985 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **4.3** - AR Pts: **7.0** Amy and Dan, members of the powerful Cahill family, try to uncover the thirty-nine clues which will reveal the secrets of their lineage and find out what really happened to their parents. Book #1 ||
 * [[image:http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/booklists/images/fantasy/FunkeCornelia_DragonRider.gif width="88" height="106"]] || <span class="booklist_entry_author">[|Dragon Rider]
 * [[image:http://coverscans.renlearn.com/9780439651363.jpg width="90" height="115"]] || <span class="booklist_entry_author">[|Chasing the Falconers]
 * [[image:http://coverscans.renlearn.com/9780545060394.jpg width="90" height="101"]] || <span class="booklist_entry_author">[|The Maze of Bones] by Riordan, Rick

Jones, Diana Wynne AR Quiz No. 29765 EN Fiction - IL: **UG** - BL: **5.4** - AR Pts: **12.0** Eldest of three sisters, in a land where it is considered to be a misfortune, Sophie is resigned to her fate as a hat shop apprentice until a witch turns her into an old woman and she finds herself in the castle of the greatly feared Wizard Howl. || Kindl, Patrice AR Quiz No. 46846 EN Fiction - IL: **UG** - BL: **6.5** - AR Pts: **8.0** Rather than marry a cruel king or a seemingly dim-witted prince, an enchanted goose girl endures imprisonment, capture by several ogresses, and other dangers before learning exactly who she is. || Levine, Gail Carson AR Quiz No. 17769 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **4.6** - AR Pts: **8.0** In this novel based on Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given. || Nix, Garth AR Quiz No. 70137 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **5.9** - AR Pts: **12.0** Seven days. Seven keys. Seven virtues. Seven sins. One mysterious house is the doorway to a very mysterious world -- where one boy is about to venture and unlock a number of fantastical secrets. Book #1 || AR Quiz No. 89662 EN Fiction - IL: **MG** - BL: **7.0** - AR Pts: **12.0** When fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by battleschool, he becomes the reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt and winds up protecting the kingdom from danger. Book #1 || Pierce, Tamora AR Quiz No. 20708 EN Fiction - IL: **UG** - BL: **4.5** - AR Pts: **7.0** The first tale of Alanna who dreams of becoming a knight. She disguises herself as a boy in her quest to attain her dream and makes friends and enemies along the way. ||
 * [[image:http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/booklists/images/fantasy/JonesDianaWynne_HowlsMovingCastle.gif width="87" height="108" link="@http://encore.einetwork.net/iii/encore/search/C%7CS0688062334%7COrightresult%7CU1?lang=eng&suite=def"]] || <span class="booklist_entry_author">[|Howl's Moving Castle]
 * [[image:http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/booklists/images/fantasy/KindlPatrice_GooseChase.gif width="90" height="108" link="@http://encore.einetwork.net/iii/encore/search/C%7CS0618033777%7COrightresult%7CU1?lang=eng&suite=def"]] || <span class="booklist_entry_author">[|Goose Chase]
 * [[image:http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/booklists/images/fantasy/LevineGailCarson_EllaEnchanted.gif width="89" height="107" link="@http://encore.einetwork.net/iii/encore/search/C%7CS0064407055%7COrightresult%7CU1?lang=eng&suite=def"]] || <span class="booklist_entry_author">[|Ella Enchanted]
 * [[image:http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/booklists/images/fantasy/NixGarth_MisterMonday.gif width="91" height="108" link="@http://encore.einetwork.net/iii/encore/search/C%7CS0439551234%7COrightresult%7CU1?lang=eng&suite=def"]] || <span class="booklist_entry_author">[|Mister Monday]
 * [[image:http://coverscans.renlearn.com/9780399244544.jpg width="90" height="128"]] || <span class="booklist_entry_author">[|The Ruins of Gorlan] by Flanagan, John
 * [[image:http://www.carnegielibrary.org/kids/booklists/images/fantasy/PierceTamora_AlannatheFirstAdventure.gif width="94" height="105" link="@http://encore.einetwork.net/iii/encore/search/C%7CS0679801146%7COrightresult%7CU1?lang=eng&suite=def"]] || <span class="booklist_entry_author">[|Alanna: The First Adventure]