Barry Lyga
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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Seventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious "Dear Old Dad," but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, so he secretly helps the police apprehend the town's newest murderer, "The Impressionist."
2) The hive
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
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Cassie Mckinney has always believed in the Hive. Social media used to be out of control. People were torn apart by trolls and doxxers. Even hackers like Cassie's dad were powerless against it. But then came the Hive. A better way to sanction people for what they do online. Cause trouble, get too many "condemns", and a crowd can come after you to teach you a lesson in real life. It's safer, fairer, and perfectly legal. Entering her senior year of high...
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The Flash. Crossover crisis trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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"This first installment in the Flash middle-grade series follows Barry Allen as he continues his mission to protect Central City"--
A new criminal mastermind who can manipulate reality and control the actions of others has descended upon Central City, and the Flash must solve the mystery before he falls under the villain's spell.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
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A chunk of old memory, adrift in a pool of blood. Sebastian Cody did something horrible, something no one--not even Sebastian himself--can forgive. At the age of four, he accidentally shot and killed his infant sister with his father's gun. Now, ten years later, Sebastian has lived with the guilt and horror for his entire life. With his best friend away for the summer, Sebastian has only a new friend--Aneesa--to distract him from his darkest thoughts....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
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Jazz Dent, who has been shot and left to die in New York City, his girlfriend, Connie, who is in the clutches of Jazz's serial killer father, Billy, and his best friend, Howie, who is bleeding to death on the floor of Jazz's own home in tiny Lobo's Nod, must all rise above the horrors their lives have become and find a way to come together in pursuit of Billy.
6) Game
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 17
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After solving a deadly case in the small town of Lobo's Nod, seventeen-year-old Jazz, the son of history's most infamous serial murderer, travels to New York City to help the police track down the Hat-Dog Killer.
9) Edited
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"On its surface, this is the story of a boy, Mike, and the girl he loses. It's the story of how he swears to do anything and everything to get her back. It's also the story of a world going to ruin, a world like our own, but seen through a very warped and cracked mirror. It's also the story of a story, a story told only in flashes and excerpts and summaries, a story that contains clues that could fix this broken world or end it once and for all."...
10) Archvillain
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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Twelve-year-old Kyle Camden develops greater mental agility and superpowers during a plasma storm that also brings Mighty Mike, an alien, to the town of Bouring, but while each does what he thinks is best, Kyle is labeled a villain and Mike a hero.
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The Flash. Crossover crisis trilogy volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Barry Allen has to do the impossible: run into the future. To the 64th century, to be exact, where he must uncover Hocus Pocus's secrets and face the evil Abra Kadabra. Meanwhile, on Earth 1, in the present, Kid Flash continues to investigate Earthworm, hoping to stop him before he strikes again.
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The Legends of Tomorrow enter the fray in this epic conclusion to the Crossover Crisis trilogy
The Flash and his friends have defeated Anti-Matter Man, but the race to save the multiverse is far from over. As a threat looms large at the end of Time itself, Barry, his Kryptonian allies, and the Green Arrow seek help from the leading experts on time travel, the Legends of Tomorrow. Meanwhile, Cisco has been taken by a mysterious figure-and Owlman's...
13) Johnny Quick
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
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Based on the hit CW TV show, this second title in The Flash middle-grade series follows Barry Allen as he continues his mission to protect Central City from the sinister Hocus Pocus-but this time, a new evil lurks beneath the city streets . . . Written by New York Times-bestselling author Barry Lyga, this brand-new, original adventure builds upon the world of The Flash. This is one fans won't want to miss!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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It's the crossover event fans have been waiting for, as The Flash joins forces with Green Arrow!
When the Green Arrow needs help tracking down a sinister bomber in Star City, speedster Barry Allen is out the door in a flash. But as The Flash saves the day with his friends on Team Arrow, a huge dimensional rift appears over his hometown of Central City-and thousands of refugees with superspeed come pouring out. Can the combined skills of Team Arrow...
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The can't-miss crossover adventure continues as Supergirl and the Flash team up to save the multiverse!
While the Flash and Team Arrow closed the dimensional rift looming over Central City, they still have plenty of chaos to deal with: Cisco and Curtis are lost in time, thousands of speedster refugees are now stuck on their earth, and a mad bomber is at large. But when Anti-Matter Man arrives on Supergirl's doorstep on her home of Earth-38, it'll...
16) Hero-type
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Barry Lyga has received high praise from publications like Booklist, School Library Journal and Publishers Weekly. A frank novel combining realistic teenage dialogue and biting comedy, Hero-Type addresses many questions on the minds of contemporary teens. After rescuing a classmate, otherwise unremarkable Kevin Ross is hailed as a hero. But then he commits a shocking act that destroys his new popularity and threatens to reveal a dark secret.
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A high-flying YA anthology featuring thirteen short stories that turn superhero tropes on their head and offer fresh perspectives on modern mythsTriumph. Tragedy. The empyreal. The infernal. Even the mundane, filtered through the fantastical. Superheroes are, appropriately enough, a sort of super-genre, encompassing all other story types.This YA anthology features thirteen short stories that creatively turn superhero tropes on their head, while still...
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Edited/Unedited is bestselling and beloved author Barry Lyga's passion project, a duology fifteen years in the making. At its heart, it is a meta-love-story involving two teens, whose crumbling relationship coincides with a crumbling reality and sends them on a wild and surreal ride to their creator... Barry Lyga. More than that, it is a meditation on writing itself. Unedited represents Barry's brave decision to lay his process bare - to include every...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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A fifteen-year-old "geek" who keeps a list of the high school jocks and others who torment him, and pours his energy into creating a great graphic novel, encounters Kyra, Goth Girl, who helps change his outlook on almost everything, including himself.
20) Time will tell
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 20
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Relates the efforts of teens Elayah, Liam, Jorja, and Marcie to solve a 1986 murder, and the actions of their then-teenaged parents leading up to the crime.