Kenneth Oppel
1) Bloom
Author
Series
Overthrow volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
The invasion begins--but not as you'd expect. It begins with rain. Rain that carries seeds. Seeds that sprout--overnight, everywhere. These new plants take over crop fields, twine up houses, and burrow below streets. They bloom--and release toxic pollens. They bloom--and form Venus flytrap-like pods that swallow animals and people. They bloom--everywhere, unstoppable. Or are they? Three kids on a remote island seem immune to the toxic plants. Anaya,...
2) Hatch
Author
Series
Overthrow volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
First the rain brought seeds. Seeds that grew into alien plants that burrowed and strangled and fed. Seth, Anaya, and Petra are strangely immune to the plants' toxins and found a way to combat them. But just as they have their first success, the rain begins again. This rain brings eggs. That hatch into insects. Not small insects. Bird-sized mosquitos that carry disease. Borer worms that can eat through the foundation of a house. Boat-sized water striders...
3) Airborn
Author
Series
Matt Cruse volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.
4) Thrive
Author
Series
Overthrow volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
The alien invasion of Earth is imminent. But maybe not all the aliens are united. A rebel faction has reached out to Anaya, saying there's a way to stop the larger invastion--a way for humans and hybrids and cryptogens to work together. Can they be trusted? Or is this a trap? It's not even clear if Anaya, Petra, and Seth are united--some of the hybrids think they'd be better off if the aliens won... With everything on the line, these three teens will...
5) Starclimber
Author
Series
Matt Cruse volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
As members of the first crew of astralnauts, Matt Cruse and Kate De Vries journey into outer space on the Starclimber and face a series of catastrophes that threaten the survival of all on board.
6) Darkwing
Author
Series
Silverwing volume 4
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Dusk, the world's first bat, must lead his colony to safety in a time of changing species.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
A train is on its maiden voyage across the country, and first-class passenger Will Everett is about to embark on an adventure. Will ends up with a key to a train car containing priceless treasures; he becomes the target of sinister figures from his past. So Will joins a traveling circus, enlisting the aid of Mr. Dorian, the ringmaster and Maren, a girl his age who is an escape artist. With villains fast on their heels, can Will and Maren reach Will's...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the late nineteenth century, a budding romance develops between Rachel and Samuel, two teenagers from rival families of fossil hunters heading out to the badlands in seach of a rare dinosaur skeleton.
9) The nest
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When wasps come to Steve in a dream offering to fix his sick baby brother, he thinks all he has to do is say yes. But yes may not mean what Steve thinks it means. --Provided by publisher.
10) Inkling
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When an inkblot, who can write, listen, learn, and draw, jumps out of Mr. Rylance's sketchbook, Ethan believes he may be the answer to their problems and names him Inkling.