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Author
Series
Things not seen volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Gwen, who has been living with her grandfather in Manhattan while she attends music school, joins up with another music student to solve the mystery of her grandfather's sudden disappearance.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Irene helps in her grandfather's plant nursery, makes new friends, and begins to learn what she really wants and needs after her father, having lost his job as an investment banker, moves her and her mother to his father's farmhouse upstate.
Author
Series
Echo Falls mystery volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes aficionado Ingrid Levin-Hill tries to clear her grandfather's name when he is accused of murdering an environmental activist found dead on his farm.
4) Scorched
Author
Series
Scorched trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Trinity Foxx does not believe her grandfather's latest treasure is a real dragon's egg until soldiers invade trying to steal it, a strange boy tells her she must work with him to stop an impending dragon war, and the dragon inside the egg begins telling her what to do.
5) Unleashed
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Orphaned Kat McBride, nearly seventeen, must leave California to live with her grandfather in small-town Arkansas, where she is drawn into a paranormal world of feuding werewolf clans.
6) Doing right
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Puzzling over conflicting advice from family members, seventeen-year-old DeQuin Lewis continually faces trouble in his St. Paul, Minnesota, neighborhood, until a betrayal leads him to fresh start in an alternative school, one confrontation away from losing everything.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Tansy is used to moving every time her mother starts writing a new book, but in the small Texas town where her grandfather grew up, she is lured into the world of a troubled young man whose death sixty years earlier is shrouded in mystery.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a portal sends seventeen-year-old Lydia Bentley to 1945 at a secret military base near her Long Island home, she learns that her grandfather's stories of dangerous government experiments are true, that the Montauk Project was real, and that she needs the help of a darkly mysterious time traveler to return home.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lydia Bentley will do anything to fix the mistakes she made in the past, like losing her grandfather in time--and the only way she knows how to begin is by time traveling to 1980s New York with Wes, posed as a Montauk Project recruit"--
10) Beware the night
Author
Series
Beware the night volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the island of Bellona, life is peaceful--as long as the citizens dutifully worship the Sun, which protects them from all harm. Seventeen-year-old Veda knows that keeping the Sun happy will protect her and her grandfather from the Night, the dangerous people who snatch innocent citizens from their beds under the cover of darkness, never to be seen again. As long as Veda follows the rules, she will be safe. But when Veda's grandfather is offered...
11) Ichiro
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ichiro lives in New York City with his Japanese mother. His father, an American soldier, was killed in Iraq. Now, Ichi's mom has decided they should move back to Japan to live with Ichi's grandfather. Grandfather becomes Ichi's tour guide, taking him to temples as well as the Hiroshima Peace Park, where Ichi starts to question the nature of war. After a supernatural encounter with the gods and creatures of Japanese mythology, Ichi must face...
12) Breda's island
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In the vein of When You Trap a Tiger and Shouting at the Rain, this is the story of the journey one girl undertakes to find herself. After Breda Moriarity gets caught stealing one too many times, Breda's mom sends her to Ireland, a place she has never been, to live with the grandfather she has never met. While Breda doesn't want to be in this strange land, she finally gets to meet Granda, her mom's father. He's a grumpy farmer who is also a seanchai,...
13) Now
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While her physician-parents are working in Africa, eleven-year-old Zelda is living with her grandfather, eighty-year-old Holocaust-survivor Felix Salinger, in Australia, when a disaster leads them both to deal with unresolved feelings about the first Zelda, Felix's childhood friend.
Author
Series
A 14-day mystery volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Instead of spending a carefree summer exploring downtown Boston with best friend Ollie, thirteen-year-old Moxie must solve a famous art heist in order to protect those she loves from her ailing grandfather's gangster past. Includes facts about the 1990 Gardner Museum art theft.
16) Dog sense
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After he and his mother move from California to Montana to live with his grandfather, thirteen-year-old Guy gradually adjusts to the unfamiliar surroundings, makes a friend, and learns to deal with a bully, with the help of his Frisbee-catching dog, Streak.
17) House of Dance
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
During one of her daily visits across town to visit her dying grandfather, fifteen-year-old Rosie discovers a dance studio that helps her find a way to bring her family members together.
18) Into the Dark #3
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes aficionado Ingrid Levin-Hall tries to clear her grandfather's name when he is accused of murdering an enviromental activist found dead on his farm.
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