Tom Mcneal
1) Far far away
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist
Children's Book Battles: 2021_22 Middle Schools
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Children's Book Battles: 2021_22 Middle Schools
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Formats
Description
When Jeremy Johnson Johnson's strange ability to speak to the ghost of Jacob Grimm draws the interest of his classmate, Ginger Boltinghouse, the two find themselves at the center of a series of disappearances in their hometown.
3) Zipped
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
Winner of the PEN Center USA Literary Award for Children's Literature
A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
Winner of the 2004 Texas TAYSHAS High School Reading List
When fifteen-year-old Mick Nichols discovers a secret about his stepmother, he comes obsessed with uncovering the truth. But before he can get to the bottom of it, Mick is confronted by a series of strange robberies and a close friend with a dark secret of her own....
A New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age
Winner of the 2004 Texas TAYSHAS High School Reading List
When fifteen-year-old Mick Nichols discovers a secret about his stepmother, he comes obsessed with uncovering the truth. But before he can get to the bottom of it, Mick is confronted by a series of strange robberies and a close friend with a dark secret of her own....
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
For sixteen-year-old Lana life is often difficult, with a flirtatious foster father, an ice queen foster mother, a houseful of special needs children to care for, and bullies harrassing her, until the day she ventures into an antique shop and buys a drawing set that may change her life.