Kevin Brooks
1) Lucas
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
On an isolated English island, fifteen-year-old Caitlin McCann makes the painful journey from adolescence to adulthood through her experiences with a mysterious boy, whose presence has an unsettling effect on the island's inhabitants.
2) Candy
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
After falling in love with Candy, a drug addict, Joe becomes desperate as he tries to keep his dream of working as a musician alive while trying to save Candy from her self-destructive ways.
7) Martyn Pig
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
Martyn Pig's life goes from bad to worse when he accidentally kills his father, and he must choose whether to tell the police the truth about what happened and be suspected of murder, or he can get rid of the body and pretend nothing ever happened.
Author
Publisher
Push
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Moo Nelson, shy, overweight, and bullied by his classmates, finds his life spinning out of control after he witnesses a car chase and a fight that results in a murder.
9) Being
Author
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
After having a routine exam that turns out to be anything but routine, Robert learns about the mechanical parts and plastic casings that make up his being, forcing him to flee the only world he has ever known and go on a dangerous search to find out who (and what) he is.
10) The bunker diary
Author
Publisher
Lerner Pub Group
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 540L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Linus Weems, a street person since leaving his wealthy father's home, is kidnapped and taken to an underground bunker where he is soon joined by five others, ranging in age from nine to seventy, who are alternately cared for and torturedby their unseen captor.
Author
Series
Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history volume no. 136
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English