Caroline B Cooney
Author
Language
English
Description
"Clementine Lakefield leads a simple life in her retirement community in Sun City, South Carolina. But while she plays cards, substitute teaches, and has learned to text with her niece and nephew, Clemmie is not who she says she is. Behind her carefree facade, she is hiding a lifetime of secrets. When Clemmie's curmudgeonly neighbor goes missing, Clemmie suddenly finds herself at the center of a dangerous conspiracy. From international bestselling...
3) Flash fire
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
As fire sweeps through a canyon near Los Angeles, teenagers Danna and Hall Press and other children whose parents are not around must work together to save themselves.
Author
Series
Janie Johnson volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.
Author
Series
Janie Johnson volume 4
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While still adjusting to the reality of having two families, her birth family and the family into which she was kidnapped as a small child, seventeen-year-old Janie makes a shocking discovery about her long-gone kidnapper.
Author
Series
Janie Johnson volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The members of two families have their lives disrupted when a teenage girl who had been kidnapped twelve years earlier discovers that the people who raised her are not her biological parents. Sequel to "The Face on the Milk Carton."
Author
Series
Janie Johnson volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Janie feels devastated when she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her and her family through his college radio program.
Author
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Language
English
Description
I'm Going to Give You a Bear Hug!, written by bestselling author Caroline B. Cooney and illustrated by Tim Warnes, is a playful and comforting bedtime book that imagines all the wonderful ways a child might give and receive a hug. Whether it's a big bear, gasp for air, knock over a chair hug or a wet and drippy, slimy, slippy fish hug, children will giggle their way through all the imaginative examples. Cooney's sweet, whimsical rhymes encourage playful...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, eleven-year-old Mercy and her family and neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians and their French allies, and forced to march through bitter cold to French Canada, where some adapt to new lives and some still hope to be ransomed.
11) Wanted!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Everyone is after Alice for the murder of her father-even the real murderer.
12) Hush little baby
Author
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
My ex-stepmother just handed me a baby, and she's driving away. When Kit Innes's estranged ex-stepmother, Dusty, unexpectedly drives up and pushes a large cloth-covered parcel into Kit's arms, Kit doesn't know what to expect. Especially when the bundle turns out to be a tiny, adorable baby. A tiny, adorable, mysterious baby boy. Whose baby is it? Where did Dusty go and when will she be back? Is the baby Kit's half-sibling? Before these questions can...
13) The Snow
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[1990]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Will Christina and her friends survive the winter at the Schooner Inne with their sanity intact? The second book in the Fog, Snow, and Fire trilogy finds seventh-grader Christina back at the creepy Schooner Inne after a blissful Christmas vacation at home on Burning Fog Isle in Maine. Mr. and Mrs. Shevvington, the creepy principal and his wife, have everyone convinced that Christina's dramatic stories of last semester were just far-fetched yarns....
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Freddy leads a life of little responsibility, following his own meandering path. His only real attachment is to his memory-challenged grandmother, whose nursing home he regularly visits. His far-flung sisters may belittle his artistic ambitions, and his grandmother only occasionally knows who he is, but he can go with the flow. When another nursing home resident is murdered, though, Freddy panics. He can't take care of his grandmother alone, and...
15) Burning up
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When a girl she had met at an innercity church is murdered, fifteen-year-old Macey channels her grief into a school project that leads her to uncover prejudice she had not imagined in her grandparents and their wealthy Connecticut community.
16) Freeze tag
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Suppose that you really could freeze somebody' There always was something a little off about Lannie, but when she poses the question during a game of freeze tag, 'Suppose that you really could freeze somebody', Meghan and Tuesday think she's joking and just being her usual weird self. But Lannie's freezing power horrifyingly turns out to be anything but a game. To save Meghan and Tuesday from Lannie, popular neighborhood boy West Trevor must make...
17) Fatal bargain
Author
Series
Vampire's promise volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1993.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A vampire holds a group of teenagers prisoner in his house. In order to be released, one must volunteer to stay behind.
18) The terrorist
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Laura, an American living in London, tries to find the person responsible for the death of her younger brother Billy, who has been killed by a terrorist bomb.
19) Twins
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Mary Lee and Madrigal are identical twins, alike in every way. Or so it seems until Mary Lee gets her wish to live her sister's life and realizes that Madrigal was not the person she seemed to be.
20) The perfume
Author
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Dawn doesn't want to try the perfume because she doesn't like it's scent, or its name--Venom. But something inside her is forcing her to try it.