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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Stuck at the Philadelphia airport by an incoming blizzard results, Mira hitches a ride to Pittsburgh with a group of college kids who were on her initial flight. As the trip begins she discovers that her fellow travelers aren't friends like she thought. They're strangers-- and every one of them seems to be hiding something dangerous. The roads go from slippery to terrifying. People's belongings disappear. Someone in the car is lying-- and may be sabotaging...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following a difficult freshman year, Scott Hudson is hoping that sophomore year will be easier, but after a disaster of a first week he finds himself faced with new challenges--including a particularly demanding English teacher, a school board member whose budget cutting is covering up a crime, and the discovery that his friendship with Lee, the Goth girl he met last year, is turning into something else entirely.
Author
Series
Better Nate Than Ever volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When E.T.: The Musical closes, Nate reluctantly returns home to begin high school and, with his best friend, Libby, makes a project of turning Dickens' Great Expectations into a musical.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After a tornado, Axel, who loves birds, finds an injured eaglet, and helps to rescue it--and also helps to resolve the problems in his broken family, and draw his father back home.
5) Wolf Hollow
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Growing up in the shadows cast by two world wars, Annabelle has lived a mostly quiet, steady life in her small Pennsylvania town. Until the day new student Betty Glengarry walks into her class. Betty quickly reveals herself to be cruel and manipulative, and while her bullying seems isolated at first, things quickly escalate, and reclusive World War I veteran Toby becomes a target of her attacks. While others have always seen Toby’s strangeness,...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It wasn't Tillie's choice to leave Philadelphia. But after everything that happened junior year, her mom insisted the quiet suburb of Willow Creek was the perfect place to get a fresh start, to put the trauma and rumors behind them. Madison Frank is theperfect distraction. Beautiful, fun, and from the wealthy side of town, Madison is the kind of girl who has a pull stronger than gravity. She commands attention, even inspires obsession. And by the...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Several months after the tragic events set in motion by bully Betty Glengarry, Annabelle McBride is struck by lightning during a powerful summer storm, leaving her with heightened senses that give her a new understanding of animals and help her learn about compassion and forgiveness.
8) Saving Marty
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"When Lorenzo adopts a runt piglet destined for auction, an unexpected, life-changing friendship forms"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When the school assigns each eighth-grader the name of a teenager who died in the past year as a lesson in mortality, Worm Tarnauer, who thrives on being invisible, doesn't count on Becca Finch, the seventeen-year-old car crash victim who changes everything.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 33
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
1955
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
An unusual hex sign leads Nancy Drew to Pennsylvania Dutch country in pursuit of a thief who stops at nothing to get rid of her.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Relates a seriously bad day in the life of Pennsylvania teenager Kirby Burns, in which he faces dangerous classmates, discovers that a friend is hiding a terrible secret, and grapples with the one-year anniversary of his sister's death.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"City girl Effie Starr Zook is not excited about spending the summer on her aunt and uncle's farm in Nowheresville, Pennsylvania, until she stumbles across a mystery that leads her smack into an old family feud"--
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Gideon and Ishmael Hofstadt, ages sixteen and seventeen, accidentally start a hoax that aliens have landed, turning their town of Lansburg, Pennsylvania, into a circus. Told through narrative, police interviews, text messages, blog posts, and more." --
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Tessa left Fayette, Pennsylvania when she was nine. Cassie never left-- and if she parties hard enough maybe one day her demons will disappear. The childhood friends have never talked about what they saw that night. Now Tessa has come back to Fayette... to Wyatt Stokes, sitting on death row... to Lori Cawley, Callie's dead cousin... and to the one other person who may be hiding the truth.
15) My mastodon
Author
Publisher
Creative Editions
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the 19th-century work of the Peale family, young Sybilla helps assemble a mastodon skeleton in the family's museum, then refuses to let her brother exhibit it in London. Includes historical notes.
Author
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Cordelia and her family move into the house they just inherited in Pennsylvania, a former insane asylum the locals call Hysteria Hall--unfortunately the house does not want defiant girls like Delia, so it kills her, and as she wanders thehouse, meeting the other ghosts and learning the dark secrets of the Hall, she realizes that she has to find a way to save her sister, parents, and perhaps herself.
17) The hired girl
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Joan Skraggs, just like the heroines in her beloved novels, yearns for real life and true love. But what hope is there for adventure, beauty, or art on a hardscrabble farm in Pennsylvania where the work never ends? Over the summer of 1911, Joan pours her heart out into her diary as she seeks a new, better life for herself--because maybe, just maybe, a hired girl cleaning and cooking for six dollars a week can become what a farm girl...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Seventh grader Oliver, a Civil War buff and weekend reenactor, is partnered with two misfits--Ella, who is on the verge of failing all her classes, and Kevin, who is Oliver's lunch companion--to create a documentary about the wartime experience of a Civil War contemporary, and while they conduct research in local historical societies, collaborate on a script, and edit the film, they discover secrets about their Pennsylvania soldier and learn how to...
19) The Santa thief
Author
Publisher
Spark Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"It's winter in Girard, Pennsylvania and the pond is completely frozen over--ready for a young boy to go skating! But Georgie's ice skates are too small. All Georgie wants for Christmas is a new pair of skates. But times are tough in 1920s Pennsylvania, and he gets the disappointing news Santa might not come this year. Follow Georgie as he decides to take matters into his own hands by stealing Santa's identity and discovers what Christmas is all about....
20) Ghetto cowboy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Cole's behavior causes his mother to drive him from Detroit to Philadelphia to live with a father he has never known, but who soon has Cole involved with a group of African-American "cowboys" who rescue horses and use them to steer youths away from drugs and gangs.
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