William Sleator
2) The boxes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
When she opens two strange boxes left in her care by her mysterious uncle, fifteen-year-old Annie discovers a swarm of telepathic creatures and unleashes a power capable of slowing down time.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Marco's love for travel and for his younger sister Lilly, who has psychic powers, leads him to journey to other universes, gaining the ability to go wherever he wishes without growing old.
6) Parasite Pig
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Barney, infected by an alien parasite, is taken to the planet J'koot, along with his friend Katie, by extraterrestrials intent on playing the dangerous game known as Interstellar Pig.
7) The beasties
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Doug and his younger sister Colette move with their parents to a forested wilderness area, they encounter some weird creatures whose lives are endangered.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
When his best friend dies in a plane crash, sixteen-year-old Ken has a ritual performed that will make him invulnerable, but soon learns that he had good reason to be suspicious of the woman he paid to lock his soul away.
9) Boltzmon!
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
A boltzmon, remnant of a black hole, materializes in eleven-year-old Chris's bedroom and transports him to a parallel world, where he encounters the bitter woman his overbearing older sister will become, after his death, if he cannot convince her to change.
10) House of stairs
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1974]
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Five fifteen-year-old orphans of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in a house of endless stairs as subjects for a psychological experiment on conditioned human response.
11) Oddballs
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
A collection of stories based on experiences from the author's youth and peopled with an unusual assortment of family and friends.
12) Rewind
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
Not long after learning that he was adopted, eleven-year-old Peter is hit by a car and then given several chances to alter events that could lead to his death.
13) The duplicate
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old David, finding a strange machine that creates replicas of living organisms, duplicates himself and suffers the horrible consequences when the duplicate turns against him.
14) Among the dolls
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1975], 2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Vicky is disappointed in her birthday gift of a dollhouse, but she experiences real terror when she is drawn into the house and the lives of its malicious inhabitants.
15) Blackbriar
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Bk Services
Pub. Date
[1972]
Language
English
Description
In the attempt to decipher a number of strange events after he moves into an old cottage, a boy discovers a group of English folk engaged in Devil worship.
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
When her desperately ill older brother insists that she take him into their mysterious backyard garden, designed by their quantum physicist great uncle, fourteen-year-old Susan discovers that things are not always what they seem.
17) The spirit house
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
1991.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Julie investigates the suspicious behavior of the Thai exchange student staying with her family and comes to believe in the wish-granting power of a spirit that appears to have followed him across the ocean.
18) Singularity
Author
Publisher
E.P. Dutton
Pub. Date
[1985]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old twins Harry and Barry stumble across a gateway to another universe, where a distortion in time and space causes a dramatic change in their competitive relationship.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
When aliens abduct both Leo and his artist friend Tim, Leo tries to determine why these creatures from outer space want particularly to use his friend's talent.
20) The angry moon
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1970]
Language
English
Description
An Indian girl insults the moon and is held prisoner by him until her friend reaches the sky country to rescue her.