Laura Ruby
1) Bone Gap
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the investigation, and subjects him to even more ridicule and bullying.
Author
Series
York volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
It was only a few days ago that Tess Biedermann, Theo Biedermann, and Jaime Cruz, along with a mysterious figure from the past, managed to survive an assault on the location of the latest clue in the Morningstarr cipher -- and, in the process, made a shocking discovery about their own connection to this one-hundred-sixty-year-old enigma. Now the friends are divided. Tess and Theo have no idea what the photo they found in Greenwood Cemetery means,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Language
English
Description
When Frankie's mother died and her father left her and her siblings at an orphanage in Chicago, it was supposed to be only temporary - just long enough for him to get back on his feet and be able to provide for them once again. That's why she is not prepared for the day that he arrives for his weekend visit with a new woman on his arm and out-of-state train tickets in his pocket. Now Frankie and her sister, Toni, are abandoned alongside so many other...
Author
Publisher
Eos
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
In a future New York where most people can fly and cats are a rarity, a nondescript resident of Hope House for the Homeless and Hopeless discovers that although she is shunned as a "leadfoot, " she has the surprising ability to become invisible.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The pleasures of the novel go far beyond the crackling, breathless plot and the satisfaction of watching the puzzle fall into place. The book is shot through with humor, both laugh-out-loud and subtle." —New York Times Book Review
From National Book Award finalist and Printz Award winner Laura Ruby comes an epic alternate history series about three kids who try to solve the greatest mystery of the modern world:
...Author
Series
York volume 1
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Language
English
Description
In an alternate history of New York, three kids try to solve a modern-world puzzle and complete a treasure hunt laid into the streets and buildings of the city.
Author
Series
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
It was only a few weeks ago that the Biedermann twins, Tess and Theo, along with their friend Jaime Cruz, followed the secrets of the Morningstarrs' cipher further than anyone had in its century-and-a-half history -- and destroyed their beloved home in the process. But the Old York Cipher still isn't solved. The demolition of 354 W. 73rd Street only revealed the next clue in the greatest mystery of the modern world, and if Tess, Theo, and Jaime want...
Author
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Strange goings-on at her great-uncle's summer home in Cape May, New Jersey, draw Lily and a new friend into a mystery involving lost treasure, a fake medium, and ghosts of all sizes, shapes, and dispositions.
9) Play me
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 600L
Language
English
Description
Disappointed when he does not get the MTV production deal he so wants, high school senior Eddy leaves his girlfriend to take a road trip to find the mother who has left him and his younger stepbrother and taken a bit part in a television show.
11) Me and Ms. Too
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
For as long as Molly can remember, it's always just been her and Dad. Dad, who likes to splash in the pool, who likes to spin at the park, who bakes the best cookies around. But that was before Dad married Ms. Too. Ms. Too doesn't like to splash. She doesn't like to spin. And she can't bake anything. "But Molly, you used to love Ms. Too." That was before, when she was Molly's favorite librarian. Now everything has changed. But as Molly and Ms. Too...
Publisher
Imprint, a part of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Eleven fresh vampire stories from young adult fiction's leading voices! In this delicious new collection, you'll find stories about lurking vampires of social media, rebellious vampires hungry for more than just blood, eager vampires coming out--and going out for their first kill--and other bold, breathtaking, dangerous, dreamy, eerie, iconic, powerful creatures of the night. Welcome to the evolution of the vampire--and a revolution on the page. Vampires...