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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Waging a fierce competition for which they have trained since childhood, circus magicians Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love with each other and share a fantastical romance that manifests in fateful ways.
Author
Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times best-selling author of The Overnight Guest comes a twisty locked-room thriller about a mysterious, high-stakes game show that proves life-threatening. The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive. Five contestants have been chosen to compete for ten million dollars on the game show One Lucky Winner. The catch? None of them knows what (or who) to expect, and it will be live streamed all over the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Michael is a skilled Internet gamer in a world of advanced technology. When a cyber-terrorist begins to threaten players, Michael is called upon to seek him and his secrets out"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have...
Author
Series
Caraval volume 2
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Having made a deal with a criminal to save her sister Scarlett from a disastrous arranged marriage, Tella must win Caraval and uncover Legend's identity, or risk losing everything, including her life.
Swept up in the magical world of Caraval, Donatella Dragna has finally escaped her father and saved her sister Scarlett from a disastrous arranged marriage. But Tella isn't yet free. She made a desperate bargain with a mysterious criminal, and what...
Author
Series
Mr. Lemoncello volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Kyle gets to stay overnight in the new town library, designed by his hero (the famous gamemaker Luigi Lemoncello), with other students but finds that come morning he must work with friends to solve puzzles in order to escape"-- Provided by publisher.
7) Panic
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"In the poor town of Carp, New York, a group of teens enters a high-stakes game that involves a series of secretive, possibly deadly challenges throughout the summer, with the winner receiving more than $50,000--enough money to start a new life"-- Provided by publisher.
8) Slacker
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When eighth-grader Cameron Boxer creates the Positive Action Group at school he intends it as a diversion to fool his parents, teachers, and sister into letting him continue to concentrate on his video-gaming--but before he knows it other kids are taking it seriously, and soon he finds himself president of the P.A.G., and involved in community service, so the boy who never cared about anything is now the center of everything, whether he likes it or...
11) The time hackers
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
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. Seventh-grader Dorso Clayman opens his locker door to find a dead body. Thirty seconds later it disappears. It's not the first bizarre thing that has appeared in his locker and then vanished.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Splat the Cat is excited to play games with his friends -- until he loses every game! Will Spalt find a way to have fun?"--Page [4] of cover. Looking forward to a fun-filled playdate with his friends Spike and Plank, Splat the Cat is dismayed when things start going wrong, from his fall during a game to his inability to find a good hide-and-seek spot
Ages 4 and up
Reading level: Beginning reading
14) Playing hero
Author
Series
Spider-Man volume Set 4
Publisher
Spotlight
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Spider-Man must team up with a bullying braggart to defeat a video game that has come to life.
15) The escape room
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In the lucrative world of Wall Street finance, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie and Sam are the ultimate high-flyers. Ruthlessly ambitious, they make billion-dollar deals and live lives of outrageous luxury. Getting rich is all that matters, and they'll do anything to get ahead. When the four of them are ordered to participate in a corporate team-building exercise that requires them to escape from a locked elevator, things start to go horribly wrong. They...
Author
Series
Adventure Zone volume Volume 4
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A desperate call for help interrupts holiday celebrations at the Bureau of Balance, and sends Taako, Magnus and Merle on a high-stakes mission to find and reclaim a fourth deadly relic: a powerful transmutation stone, hidden somewhere in the depths of a floating arcane laboratory that's home to the Doctors Maureen and Lucas Miller. An unknown menace has seized control of the stone, and is using it to transform the lab into a virulent pink crystal...
Series
Diary of a Minecraft zombie volume 3
Publisher
Herobrine Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Join 12 year old zombie and all of his school friends, as they prepare to go on a spring break "scarecation." What kind of crazy adventures can happen on a Zombie scarecation? Imagine a Zombie amusement park full of fun and excitement for all types of Minecraft Mobs - including a Mob Haunted House!"--Page [4] of cover.
Series
Diary of a Minecraft zombie volume 5
Publisher
Herobrine Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"How much trouble can a 12 year old Zombie get into, just to take his mind off of the grueling last few weeks before Summer break? A lot more than you would expect! "--Page [4] of cover.
Series
Diary of a Minecraft zombie volume 9
Publisher
Herobrine Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"A Zombie Apocalypse is threatening to end Minecraft as we know it. And it also just might totally ruin Zombie's 13th Birthday Party. But, will Zombie and his friends be able to stop the Zombie Apocalypse so that they can finally enjoy some cake and cookies at Zombie's Birthday Bash?" -- from back cover.
20) Olympig!
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Pursued by Mr. Hamstring, a reporter who is sure he will fail, Boomer becomes the first pig ever to compete in the Animal Olympics and demonstrates that attitude can be more important than winning.