Willo Davis Roberts
1) Scared stiff
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
When their mother disappears, two brothers go to stay with a great uncle in a mobile home park next to an abandoned amusement park and begin a search which puts themselves in danger.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Cici hopes for a romantic summer at the beach but instead finds herself trying to solve a murder which had occurred there the previous year.
"One summer changes everything. Two kids, two lives -- ruined before they even began. One, a girl, dead - strangled in an empty cabin. The other, a boy, spending the rest of his life in jail for her murder. To Cici, it all seems so unreal. These were kids she had grown up with, whom she had...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
First eleven-year-old Megan is astonished when her mother insists on taking her and her younger brother up to the lake cottage a week before school is out; then they find mysterious strangers following them.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
When her father is called home on business from their summer vacation, fourteen-year-old Nikki is forced to cope with adult-sized problems: her young new stepmother is traumatized by childhood memories, while Nikki feels she is being stalked on her new friend Julian's property.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
During a frightening trip spent in airplanes and airports between Seattle and San Francisco, eleven-year-old Gracie and her two cousins Charlie and Eddie get involved with sinister characters, identical flight bags, and an assault on an innocent old lady.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
What they thought would be a dream vacation turns into a nightmare for twelve-year-old Lewis and his twin sister Alison, when they accompany their irresponsible new neighbors on a trip to Yellowstone Park and are chased by two mysterious men.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1992.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
En route to stay with her uncle in Texas in the late 1860s, twelve-year-old Jo experiences a stagecoach robbery and becomes involved with a reluctant young outlaw aiming to change his ways.
12) Hostage
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Kaci interrupts burglars in the process of robbing her house, she and her nosy elderly neighbor Mrs. Banducci are kidnapped and held hostage by the desperate and ruthless criminals.
13) Caught!
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
After a bus journey in search of their father, thirteen-year-old Vickie and her younger sister discover that he is missing and may need their help.
14) Nightmare
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
When a falling body strikes Nick's car as he drives under an overpass, the police call the man's death a suicide, but Nick suspects murder and finds his life in danger when he tries to investigate.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1990.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
To avoid foster home care while their mother is recuperating from illness, three children run off to the home of a grandmother they have never seen, where they find a cold reception and a terrible secret.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
What they thought would be a dream vacation turns into a nightmare for twelve-year-old Lewis and his twin sister Alison, when they accompany their irresponsible new neighbors on a trip to Yellowstone Park and are chased by two mysterious men.
19) The magic book
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
[1988]
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
When Alex and his friends try the spells in an old book, things don't happen quite as they'd thought, but they decide to try the bully spell on the school bully anyway.
20) Pawns
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
After her mother's death and her father's suicide, fourteen-year-old Teddi finds some stability when she moves in with Mamie, her good-hearted next door neighbor--until the arrival of a woman claiming to be the pregnant wife of Mamie's son who recently died in a plane crash.