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Author
Series
Spy school volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Superspy middle schooler Ben Ripley races against time and across state lines - traveling by car, train, boat and plane - to track Murray Hill down before Ben's cyber enemies can find him"--
Author
Series
F.A.R.T. Diaries volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"When a tween boy [Codename: Furious Popcorn] picks up what he thinks is a cookbook and finds a diabolical parenting manual, his world turns upside down. The Ultimate Guide to Hacking Your Kids was written by an organization called F.A.R.T. (Families Against Rotten Teens), a secret society of grizzled parents whose origins date back to antiquity. FP is determined to get to the bottom of this, but when he begins investigating F.A.R.T., the manual goes...
Author
Series
The hypnotists volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Is it a gift or is it a curse? Jax Opus can use his color-changing eyes to make people do what he wants. But soon Jax is pulled into a dangerous conspiracy devised by a mysterious group...and now they're going to make Jax do what THEY want" --
Author
Series
The hypnotists volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jackson Opus is descended from two powerful hypnotist bloodlines, but he has just begun to realize that he can control other peoples' actions with sometimes frightening results--especially when the head of the Sentia Institute plans to use Jackson for his own benefit.
Author
Series
Pegasus series (Kate O'Hearn) volume 6
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Emily is contending with great changes, including diminished powers, but goes to London to rescue Agent B and others from the CRU, where she makes horrible discoveries about the agency's history.
Author
Series
Whispering Pines (Heidi Lang) volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"When otherworldly forces descend on their town of Whispering Pines, conspiracy theorist Rae, who's searching for her lost father, and Caden, who's haunted by the ghost of his brother, must band together to save their home"--
Author
Series
Train to impossible places volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Suzy Smith joins the troll-operated Impossible Postal Express, but she botches her first delivery by stealing a cursed snow globe containing a boy who claims there is a plot to take control of the Union of Impossible Places.
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 13
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While Coryn and his companions journey to a wintery realm where mysterious owls live, the king becomes the target of an assassination plot and it is up to Primrose and Eglantine to save him.
Author
Series
Spy school volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
With SPYDER apparently defeated, thirteen-year-old Benjamin Ripley is hoping for some peace at spy school, but when the CIA conference room next to where Ben and Alexander are trying to explain everything to Ben's parents (no easy task) is blown up, suspicion falls on fellow trainee (and secret crush) Erica.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Seventh-graders Tommy, Spike, and Karim register with an online application to become monster hunters and find themselves caught up in a conspiracy and with more monsters than they expected.
11) The scourge
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When the lethal plague known as the Scourge returns to Keldan the victims are sent to Attic Island, and Ani Mells of the River People is among them--but Ani does not feel sick, and with the help of her best friend, Weevil, she sets out to uncover the truth of what is happening, and expose the lies the people of Keldan have been told.
12) Moongarden
Author
Series
Plotting the stars volume 1
Publisher
Pixel+Ink
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Crumbling under the pressure at her elite school on the moon, misfit Myra Hodger discovers a lab full of toxic plants and uses her botanical magic to weed out its secrets, but quickly discovers some will do anything to take those secrets to the grave.
Author
Series
Smartest kid in the universe volume 1
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When seventh-grader Jake McQuade mistakes the world's first ingestible knowledge pills for jelly beans, he suddenly knows all about physics and geometry and can speak Swahili (though Spanish would be a lot more useful)--but his sort-of girlfriend Grace thinks they can use his new found brilliance to save their middle school from the new principal, who is conspiring to get it shut down.
Author
Series
Yeti files volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The merfolk of Atlantis have called in yeti Blizz Richards and his team of cryptozoologists to capture the kraken that is attacking their city, but when he starts to investigate, Blizz realizes that there is a lot the merfolk are not telling him--and something fishy is definitely going on.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Frustrated in his search for the lady who belongs to the glass slipper, Prince Patrick turns to Kara's father, the shoemaker, to ask who made the glass slippers; it can only have been a fairy godmother, but Kara is determined to help, and she enlists her friend Zed and his pet goat in the search--an adventure that could end up with the children thrown into the dungeon, because there is a conspiracy afoot, and the chief conspirator is in the heart...
16) GIJoe classified
Author
Series
G. I. Joe classified volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Moving to Springfield, a town controlled by his mother's powerful employer, tech giant DeCobray Industries, Stan is asked to beta test an augmented reality headset and soon discovers a sinister conspiracy at the heart of the town.
Series
Evil secret society of cats volume 2
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Ever wonder if all the little things cats do to distract, disrupt, and frustrate you in your daily life are actually part of a grand, evil conspiracy? Well, the answer is yes! Feline Commander and the Evil Secret Society of Cats return with more dastardly plots, while Doggoman and his little sister valiantly strive to protect humanity. In this volume you'll also meet Woofbot and Narayama, leader of the hamster gang!
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Evie Baker, storyteller, yearns for adventure, so she ventures into the Old Forest hoping to catch a Fel and compel it to use its magic to grant her wish; instead she stumbles into a nest of robbers and has to be rescued by the Queen's Guard--but maybe it is the start of a dangerous adventure because she and her new friend Max, a Guard messenger, have stumbled unto a conspiracy.
19) Forgotten city
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Thirteen years ago, the world ended. A deadly chemical called Waste began to spread across the globe, leaving devastation in its wake. Millions died. Cities fell into chaos. Anything the Waste didn't kill, it mutated into threatening new forms. Kobi has always believed he and his dad were the only survivors. But when his dad goes missing, Kobi follows his trail--and discovers a conspiracy even deadlier than the Waste itself. Non stop action, chilling...
Author
Series
Crime travelers volume 1
Publisher
Flying Solo Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"While sleeping on the rood of his father's hotel, thirteen-year-old Lucas Benes finds a baby alone and learns that the Good Company has restarted its profitable kidnapping business. Multilingual and already on his third passport, Lucas leads a network of international teenagers through the hotspots of Paris--from the catacombs to the Eiffel Tower--in an all-out effort to spoil a brainwashing ceremony that could potentially turn them all into "Good"...
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