William Sleator
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Living in a dreary new home with his father dead, his mother hospitalized, and his grandfather increasingly distant, fourteen-year-old Isaac's wish for someone to reach out to him comes true in the form of a phantom arm that appears in a mirror box designed to help amputees, warning of danger.
2) Oddballs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
A collection of stories based on experiences from the author's youth and peopled with an unusual assortment of family and friends.
6) Test
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
In the security-obsessed, elitist United States of the near future, where a standardized test determines each person's entire life, a powerful man runs a corrupt empire until seventeen-year-old Ann and other students take the lead in boycotting the test.
7) Fingers
Author
Description
Eighteen-year-old Sam has always been jealous of his younger brother, Humphrey, the famous "wonder child" pianist. But now, that Humphrey is fifteen, the one-time child prodigy isn't able to get any more bookings. Sam's mother refuses to accept that Humphrey's career is over and devises a scheme to recapture his fame: Sam will compose "new works" by a long dead gypsy composer, and they will tell the world that the composer is dictating the music to...
Author
Description
When eleven-year-old Tycho discovers that the mysterious egg-shaped object he dug up in his garden is a time travel device, he can't resist using his newfound power. Soon he is jumping back and forth in time, mostly to play tricks on his bossy older brothers and sister. But, every time he uses the device, he notices that things are different when he gets back-and the futures he visits are getting darker and scarier. Then Tycho comes face-to-face with...
10) Interstellar pig
Author
Pub. Date
2004, c1984
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Barney's boring seaside vacation suddenly becomes more interesting when the cottage next door is occupied by three exotic neighbors who are addicted to a game they call "Interstellar Pig."
11) House of stairs
Author
Pub. Date
1974
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Five sixteen-year-old orphans of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in a house of endless stairs as subjects for a psychological experiment.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When her desperately ill older brother insists that she take him into their mysterious backyard garden, designed by their quantum physicist great uncle, fourteen-year-old Susan discovers that things are not always what they seem.
13) Parasite Pig
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Sixteen-year-old Barney, infected by an alien parasite, is taken to the planet J'koot, along with his friend Katie, by extraterrestrials intent on playing the dangerous game known as Interstellar Pig.
14) The beasties
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When fifteen-year-old Doug and his younger sister Colette move with their parents to a forested wilderness area, they encounter some weird creatures whose lives are endangered.
16) Blackbriar
Author
Pub. Date
2009, 1972.
Description
Back in print for a new generation! Right away, Danny feels something sinister about his new home, Blackbriar. The residents of the nearby town refuse to speak of it and can barely look him in the eyes, and he has strange dreams of fires and witches before awakening to shrieks of laughter. With help from a friend, he begins to unravel the mysteries of Blackbriar and its frightnening past, through the discovery of an ancient doll and a chilling...
17) Hell phone
Author
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Seventeen-year-old Nick buys a used cell phone only to call his girlfriend, but strange and desperate people keep calling--one of them a denizen of Hell--begging for or demanding his help.
18) Boltzmon!
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A boltzmon, remnant of a black hole, materializes in eleven-year-old Chris's bedroom and transports him to a parallel world, where he encounters the bitter woman his overbearing older sister will become, after his death, if he cannot convince her to change.
19) The angry moon
Author
Pub. Date
[1970]
Description
An Indian girl insults the moon and is held prisoner by him until her friend reaches the sky country to rescue her.