October 2013

All For One

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All For one - Elise Leonard Series

About Elise Leonard:

Elise was a successful teacher of inner-city kids for over 20 years before starting her writing career. She now lives in Florida.

About This Book:

All for One is the first book of The Smith Brothers series: MEET THE SMITH BROTHERS.
Storyline:

Four Brothers, all adopted, and all in the family business. They decided to open up a detective agency. Will they be able to solve their first case? Can they do it without killing each other? And why do they buy so much air freshener?
Details:

Published: 2009. All the books in this series are 100 pages (+/-). Contains approximately 8,100 words. ISBN: 978-1-935366-12-6. All books are Lexile 1 & 2.

Keoko

Posted on October 1, 2013 by webmaster

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When My Name Was Keoko
by Linda Sue Park

Sun-hee and her older brother Tae-yul are proud of their Korean heritage. Yet they live their lives under Japanese occupation. All students must read and write in Japanese and no one can fly the Korean flag. Hardest of all is when the Japanese Emperor forces all Koreans to take Japanese names. Sun-hee and Tae-yul become Keoko and Nobuo.

Korea is torn apart by their Japanese invaders during World War II. Everyone must help with war preparations, but it does not mean they are willing to defend Japan.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
610L	Middle School	196	Historical Fiction	2002	0618133356

Blank Confession

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Blank Confession
by Pete Hautman

16-year-old Shayne Blank walks into a police station and announces that he has killed someone. Detective Rawls, intrigued by Shayne’s calmness, allows the teen to lead him through the entire story, right up to the murder — including his evolving relationship with Mikey Martin,who finds himself the target of a sadistic bully.

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Mikey’s troubles start when he throws away a bag of drugs forced on him for safekeeping by his sister’s drug-dealing boyfriend. Consequently, he is threatened with bodily injury unless he pays Jon $500 (the arbitrary replacement fee for the drugs). Shayne offers to help Mikey sort out his situation. But Jon is an intransigent bully who refuses to listen to reason, resulting in several confrontations between him and Shayne that culminate in a violent showdown

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
700L	High School	176	Thriller/Suspense	2011	1416913289

All That is Red

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All That is Red
by Anna Caltabiano

If you could choose a world without loneliness, without shame, grief, misery, or feeling of any kind, would you, if it also meant that you lost the simple pleasure of a picnic on a sunny day or the joy of falling in love? Would the allure of a comfortable numbness prove too tempting to resist? Could you choose between feeling pain and not feeling anything, ever again?

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A girl is caught in a world where this choice is fiercely contested. In the cross-fire between the Red and White empires, the feeling and the unfeeling, each bent on the other’s destruction, the girl must choose between emotion and oblivion, joining the ranks with the Reds as they fight to resist the Whites, but all the while struggling with her own desperate ambivalence.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
NA	High School	164	Fantasy	2012	1908775858

Little Princess

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Little Princess: One Man’s Promise to to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal
by Connor Grennan

A true story of families and children, and what one person is capable of when faced with seemingly insurmountable odds.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
910L	High School	320	Realistic Fiction	2011	0061930067

Paper Towns

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Paper Towns
by John Green

Quentin Jacobsen, 17, has been in love with his next-door neighbor, Margo Roth Spiegelman, for his entire life. A leader at their Central Florida high school, she has carefully cultivated her ‘bad-ass’ image. Quentin is one of the smart kids. His parents are therapists and he is, above all things, “goddamned well adjusted.”

He takes a rare risk when Margo appears at his window in the middle of the night. They drive around righting wrongs via her brilliant, elaborate pranks. Then she runs away (again). He slowly uncovers the depth of her unhappiness and the vast differences between the real and imagined Margo.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
850L	High School	320	Romance	2009	014241493

Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour

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Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour
by Morgan Matson

Amy Curry thinks her life sucks. Her mom decides to move from California to Connecticut to start anew–just in time for Amy’s senior year. Her dad recently died in a car accident. So Amy embarks on a road trip to escape from it all, driving cross-country from the home she’s always known toward her new life.

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Joining Amy on the road trip is Roger, the son of Amy’s mother’s old friend. Amy hasn’t seen him in years, and she is less than thrilled to be driving across the country with a guy she barely knows. So she is surprised to find that she is developing a crush on him. At the same time, she is coming to terms with her father’s death and how to put her own life back together after the accident.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
850	Middle School	368	Adventure	2011	1416990666

Name of the Star

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The Name of the Star (Shades of London)
by Maureen Johnson

The day that Louisiana teenager Rory Deveaux arrives in London to start a new life at boarding school is also the day a series of brutal murders breaks out over the city, killings mimicking the horrific Jack the Ripper spree of more than a century ago. Soon “Rippermania” takes hold of modern-day London, and the police are left with few leads and no witnesses.

Except one. Rory spotted the man police believe to be the prime suspect. But she is the only one who saw him–the only one who can see him. And now Rory has become his next target.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
710L	Middle School	384	Thriller/Suspense	2011	0399256601

Matched

Posted on October 1, 2013 by webmaster

Matched
by Ally Condie

Cassia Reyes is a model student, daughter, and citizen. How could she not be when the Society has everything planned and functioning perfectly? All of her needs are met: food, shelter, education, career training, and even her future husband are selected by officials who know what is best for each individual by studying statistical data and probable odds.

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She even knows when she will die, on her 80th birthday, just as the Society dictates. At her Match Banquet she is paired with Xander, her best friend and certainly her soul mate. But when a computer error shows her the face of Ky, an Aberration, instead of Xander, cracks begin to appear in the Society’s facade of perfection. A series of events also shakes her dedication to Xander and puts her future in jeopardy.

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
680L	Middle School	400	Thriller/Suspense	2010	014241977X

Flip

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Flip
by Martyn Bedford

Alex Gray, a clarinet and chess-playing sensitive kid from a London suburb, wakes up one day in a much more muscular and athletic body known as Philip “Flip” Garamond.

Alex struggles with the disadvantages and begins to enjoy a few advantages of being someone he is not. Should he try to find his way back? Can he? Where is his own body? And is it even alive?

About the only one who recognizes Alex to NOT be Flip is the Garamond family retriever, Beagle, who gives him a growl each time he sees him. Soon, though, Alex finds friends on the web — folks who have experienced something called PE (no, not physical education — psychic evacuation) like him.

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It’s when a soul jumps the rails and lands in another body due to extreme physical duress or death of its own. Is it any wonder why Alex hesitates to type his own name in the Google search box? How would you like to read your own obit? Flip begins to perplex family and friends alike with some “new” habits (really his old ones).

Lexile Level	Content Rating	Number of Pages	Genre	Date Published	ISBN Number
720L	High School	272	Thriller/Suspense	2021	0375865527