Cloud
2) Breakout
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Description
"Nora Tucker is looking forward to summer vacation in Wolf Creek--two months of swimming, popsicles, and brushing up on her journalism skills for the school paper. But when two inmates break out of the town's maximum security prison, everything changes. Doors are locked, helicopters fly over the woods, and police patrol the school grounds. Worst of all, everyone is on edge, and fear brings out the worst in some people Nora has known her whole life....
4) Holes
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell Yearling
Pub. Date
2000
Description
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
5) Coraline
Author
Formats
Description
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
6) Crenshaw
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"A story about a homeless boy and his imaginary friend that proves in unexpected ways that friends matter, whether real or imaginary"--
Author
Series
Magnus Chase and the gods of Asgard volume 1
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Magnus Chase, a homeless boy living in Boston, finds out he is the son of a Norse god.
8) Liar & spy
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Seventh-grader Georges adjusts to moving from a house to an apartment, his father's efforts to start a new business, his mother's extra shifts as a nurse, being picked on at school, and Safer, a boy who wants his help spying on another resident of their building.
12) The hypnotists
Author
Series
Hypnotists volume 1
Formats
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.
14) The best man
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
"Archer has four important role models in his life--his dad, his grandfather, his uncle Paul, and his favorite teacher, Mr. McLeod. When Uncle Paul and Mr. McLeod get married, Archer's sixth-grade year becomes one he'll never forget"--
15) Shadow weaver
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Twelve-year-old Emmeline possesses the unique ability to manipulate shadows, but when her magical powers are threatened by a noble family she desperately turns to Dar, her shadow friend, who offers to save her if Emmeline makes Dar flesh again, but this bargain only puts Emmeline's life in further jeopardy.
16) Slider
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Hoping to win a cash prize in a pizza-eating contest after racking up a tab on his mother's credit card, David must juggle his competitive eating training with the responsibility of looking after his autistic younger brother.
Author
Series
Last kids on Earth volume 1
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLc
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"After a monster apocalypse hits town, average thirteen-year-old Jack Sullivan builds a team of friends to help slay the eerily intelligent monster known as Blarg"--
Author
Series
A Robyn Hoodlum adventure volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
When Nott City is taken over by a harsh governor, Ignomus Crown, and her parents disappear, twelve-year-old Robyn Loxley flees for her life and joins a group of children trying to take back what is rightfully theirs in this futuristic retelling of Robin Hood.