Gordon Korman
Author
Series
39 Clues volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A million dollars, or a clue? Police report a break-in at an elite hotel, and the suspects sound suspiciously like Amy and Dan. There's a car and speedboat chase and an angry mob! When there's a clue on the line, anything can happen.
2) Unplugged
Author
Pub. Date
20210105
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relates, in multiple voices, the adventures of a group of youngsters at an electronics-free wellness camp where wealthy, spoiled Jett, leads other campers in trying to stop a criminal.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Jackson Opus is descended from two powerful hypnotist bloodlines, but he's 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.
4) Ungifted
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2012.
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.
5) Slacker
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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...
8) Swindle
Author
Series
Swindle volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the Smart Pick fruit picker.
9) Masterminds
Author
Series
Masterminds volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A group of kids discovers they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment"--
Author
Series
Masterminds volume 2
Publisher
Balzer & Bray/Harperteen
Pub. Date
20170131
Language
English
Description
The clones of Project Osiris are free—but they’re being hunted. After their narrow escape from their “perfect” hometown, Eli, Tori, Amber, and Malik are finally in the real world and determined to expose the leaders of Serenity.
They decide to track down Tamara Dunleavy, the mysterious billionaire and founder of Project Osiris. Evading capture by breaking laws and sneaking into houses, hotels, buses, and cars—are they becoming the criminals...
11) Emperor's Code
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Tensions run high in the explosive 8th book of 39 Clues, the #1 New York Times bestselling series.One belief has sustained fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan, on their hunt for the 39 Clues: They are the good guys. But then a shocking discovery about their parents shatters everything Amy and Dan think they know, dividing the two siblings for the first time ever. When Dan disappears in a country of more than a billion...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Cameron Boxer, king of the slackers, has found something worth his time. By playing video games online in front of an audience he can find both fame AND fortune -- especially with Elvis (a beaver who seems to love video games as much as Cam) at his side. The only problem? Things keep getting in Cam's way. Like school. And the club he accidentally started. And the misguided people in his life who don't think beavers should be playing video games....
13) Memory maze
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Jackson Opus and his family have been forced into hiding because his identity as a powerful young hypnotist has been leaked out--but his enemy Dr. Mako is still out to find him to use his mesmerizing skills for evil purposes.
15) Framed
Author
Series
Swindle volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Griffin Bing is in big trouble when a Super Bowl ring disappears from his middle school's display case, replaced by Griffin's retainer, and the more he and his friends investigate, the worse his situation becomes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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"--
17) Notorious
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Told in different voices, on Centerlight Island, halfway between the United States and Canada, middle-schoolers Keenan and ZeeBee team up to seek gold rumored to be hidden there a famous gangster.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Paperbacks for Children
Pub. Date
2004.
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old best friends Jeff and Wiley, who like to give nicknames to their classmates, try to find the right one for the new girl Cassandra, while adjusting to the football coach who has become their new teacher.
19) Showoff
Author
Series
Swindle volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
After acting out at a mall dog show, Luthor is accused of ruining the career of a three-time best-in-show beagle, and Griffin springs him from the pound with a plan involving the dog, New York City, and a sinister saboteur.
20) Jackpot
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Griffin Bing and his friends are trying to locate Mr. Fielder's missing thirty million dollar lottery ticket, and thwart the local bully, Darren Vader, who wants to find it for himself--and Mr. Bing's latest invention may help.