Kevin Emerson
Author
Series
Chronicle of the dark star volume 1
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
It is Earth year 2213-but, of course, there is no Earth anymore. Not since it was burned to a cinder by the sun, which has mysteriously begun the process of going supernova. The human race has fled to Mars, but this was only a temporary solution while we have prepared for a second trip: a one-hundred-fifty-year journey to a distant star, our best guess at where we might find a new home.
Liam Saunders-Chang is one of the last humans left on Mars....
2) Drifters
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Jovie is adrift. She'd been feeling alone ever since her best friend, Micah, left her behind for a new group of friends--but when Micah went missing last fall, Jovie felt truly lost. Now, months later, the search parties have been called off, and the news alerts have dried up. There's only Jovie, biking around Far Haven, Washington, putting up posters with Micah's face on them, feeling like she's the only one who remembers her friend at all. This...
Author
Series
Chronicle of the dark star volume 2
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Liam and Phoebe, having barely escaped the exploding sun with their lives, travel to the rogue planet Delphi, where they hope to find help for their injured parents and pass along the truth they discovered about the destruction of Earth.
Author
Series
Oliver Nocturne volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old vampire Oliver Nocturne becomes involved with the human world despite himself when a human girl named Emalie takes a photograph of him and threatens to expose the existence of vampires.
Author
Series
Oliver Nocturne volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Oliver's friend Dean returns as a zombie and together they must discover whether their missing friend Emalie is responsible for the magical slayings of several vampires.
Author
Series
Oliver Nocturne volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Oliver and his brother Bane have never been close, and lately, things have only gotten worse. But when a murdered human is linked to an escaped jaguar - a jaguar Oliver saw his brother occupying that night at the zoo - Oliver can't help but feel worried for Bane. As the murders continue and Bane still doesn't come home, Oliver begins a dangerous search - one that will reveal much more than he thought he was looking for ... and that could risk more...
7) Blood ties
Author
Series
Oliver Nocturne volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Oliver, Dean, and Emalie search the underground vampire city of Morosia for Selene, a mysterious woman who may be able to help them discover what happened to Emalie's mother and what Oliver's destiny is.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Recounts the events that occur at the end of seventh grade, when a group of friends plan to trick Carlos, an annoying "problem" student who says he is visited by aliens, while they are on a field trip in the mountains of New Hampshire.
9) Breakout
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old eighth-grader Anthony Castillo uses "f-bombs" in the angst-ridden song he writes for his rock band, the Rusty Soles, and while it becomes an instant viral hit, he must decide if being a hero is worth the trouble that singing it on Arts Night would cause.