Nick Podehl
1) Seconds away
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Mickey and new friends Ema and Spoon tracking down pieces of a mysterious puzzle and learning dangerous secrets about Mickey's father's death.
2) Shelter
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After tragic events tear Mickey Bolitar away from his parents, he is forced to live with his estranged Uncle Myron and switch high schools, where he finds both friends and enemies, but when his new new girlfriend, Ashley, vanishes, he follows her trail into a seedy underworld that reveals she is not what she seems to be.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
"Pursued by power-hungry Prentiss and mad minister Aaron, young Todd and Viola set out across New World searching for answers about his colony's true past and seeking a way to warn the ship bringing hopeful settlers from Old World."--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
"In 1963, thirteen-year-old Arthur is sentenced to community service helping the neighborhood Junk Man after he throws a brick at the old man's head in a moment of rage, but the junk he collects might be more important than he suspects. Inspired by the work of American folk artist James Hampton"--Provided by publisher.
6) Doll bones
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Zach, Alice, and Poppy, friends from a Pennsylvania middle school who have long enjoyed acting out imaginary adventures with dolls and action figures, embark on a real-life quest to Ohio to bury a doll made from the ashes of a dead girl.
7) Found
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Mickey Bolitar and his friends continue to investigate the Abeona Shelter, while Mickey searches for answers about his father's tragic death"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Alternate chapters follow teenagers Todd and Viola, who become separated as the Mayor's oppressive new regime takes power in New Prentisstown, a space colony where residents can hear each other's thoughts.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
NC 1100L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Henry Mosely, having decided his life is boring, ropes his friends Riley and Reed into a series of hair-raising adventures, including trying to break world records, visiting a haunted house, and solving a century-old murder.
10) Everlost
Author
Series
Skinjacker trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
After Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash they end up in Everlost, a limbo between live and death. Nick feels that he has found a home, but Allie will stop at nothing, even skinjacking, to break free.
11) After ever after
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Although Jeff and Tad, encouraged by a new friend, Lindsey, make a deal to help one another overcome aftereffects of their cancer treatments in preparation for eighth-grade graduation, Jeff still craves advice from his older brother Stephen, who is studying drums in Africa.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
One cold night, in a most unlikely corner of Chicago, two strangers cross paths. Two teens with the same name, running in two very different circles, suddenly find their lives going in new and unexpected directions, culminating in heroic turns-of-heart and the most epic musical ever to grace the high school stage.
13) Pop
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.
14) Monsters of men
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
As a world-ending war surges to life around them, Todd and Viola face monstrous decisions, questioning all they have ever known as they try to step back from the darkness and find the best way to achieve peace.
15) The time hackers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
When someone uses futuristic technology to play pranks on twelve-year-old Dorso Clayman, he and his best friend set off on a supposedly impossible journey through space and time trying to stop the gamesters who are endangering the universe.
16) The honest truth
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's never too late for the adventure of a lifetime. In all the ways that matter, Mark is a normal kid. He's got a dog named Beau and a best friend, Jessie. He likes to take photos and write haiku poems in his notebook. He dreams of climbing a mountain one day. But in one important way, Mark is not like other kids at all. Mark is sick. The kind of sick that means hospitals. And treatments. The kind of sick some people never get better from. So Mark...
17) Ice like fire
Author
Series
Snow like ashes trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
When Cordellan debt forces the Winterians to dig their mines for payment, they unearth something powerful and possibly dangerous: Primoria's lost chasm of magic. Theron sees this find as an opportunity -- with this much magic, the world can finally stand against threats like Angra. But Meira fears the danger the chasm poses -- the last time the world had access to so much magic, it spawned the Decay.
18) Beat the band
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 600L
Language
English
Description
Paired with the infamous "Hot Dog" Helen for a health class presentation on safe sex, tenth-grader Coop tries to regain his "cool" by entering his musically challenged rock group in the "Battle of the Bands" competition.
19) A kiss in time
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Princess Talia persuades seventeen-year-old Jack, the modern-day American who kissed her awake after a 300-year sleep, to take her to his Miami home, where she hopes to win his love before the witch who cursed her can spirit her away.
20) Frost Like night
Author
Series
Snow like ashes trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Angra is alive, his Decay is spreading-and no one is safe.Meira will do anything to save her world. With Angra trying to break through her mental defenses, she desperately needs to learn to control her own magic-so when the leader of a mysterious Order from Paisly offers to teach her, she jumps at the chance. But the true solution to stopping the Decay lies in a labyrinth deep beneath the Season Kingdoms. To defeat Angra, Meira will have to enter...