Adam Rapp
1) Punkzilla
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1200L
Language
English
Description
A runaway boy nicknamed Punkzilla who sustains himself on the streets of Portland through petty crimes decides to try to kick his meth habit, turn his life around, and go on a journey to Tennessee to visit his dying older brother.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Language
English
Description
Abducted by teen genius Bounce and her drifter friends Wiggins and Orange, three-year-old Frog seems content to eat cereal and play a video game about wolves all day--a game that parallels the reality around her--until Wiggins is overcome by guilt and tension and takes action.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
In a world where children under twelve are used as slave labor in subterranean lime mines, eleven-year-old Whensday Bluehouse struggles to survive the continuous poison rains and evade the ruthless Syndicate Soldiers.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"As late summer 1951 descends on Elmira, New York, Myra Larkin, thirteen, the oldest child of a large Catholic family, meets a young man she believes to be Mickey Mantle. He chats her up at a local diner and gives her a ride home. The matter consumes her until later that night, when a triple homicide occurs just down the street, opening a specter of violence that will haunt the Larkins for half a century. As the siblings leave home and fan across...
6) 33 snowfish
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
A homeless boy, running from the police with a fifteen-year-old, drug-addicted prostitute, her boyfriend who just killed his own parents, and a baby, gets the chance to make a better life for himself.
11) Decelerate blue
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A girl who thinks the rapid-fire, hyperkinetic culture of the country is counter-productive, is recruited into a resistance movement where the mode of survival is taking things ... slow. Herein lies a dark, breaktaking new vision of an all-too-possible future for America.
12) Winter passing
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that an ex-grad student and a would-be musician have moved in with her father, who cares more about his new friends than he does about his own health and well-being.