Madeleine L'Engle
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
A seventeen-year-old boy, former member of a tough New York gang, a blind and talented twelve-year-old musician, the Austin family, and Canon Tallis are among the key characters who become involved in a frightening and evil scheme relying on the ability of a refined laser to give complete power over people's minds.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
A marine biology student reporting to his summer job on an island off Portugal finds himself at the center of a power struggle between his boss and another group of Americans.
When Adam Eddington, a gifted marine biology student, makes the acquaintance of blond and beautiful Kali Cutter at Kennedy International Airport on his way to Portugal to spend the summer working for the renowned scientist Dr. O'Keefe, he has no idea that this seemingly chance...
25) Troubling a star
Author
Series
Austin family volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
As she tries to stay alive after being left on an iceberg in the Antarctic, sixteen-year-old Vicky recalls the series of events that brought her to the bottom of the world and involved her in a dangerous mystery.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
While working at a conference in Cyprus, sixteen-year-old Polly tries to come to terms with the emotionally tumultuous events preceding her arrival on the island and her relationships with old and new friends.
28) The other dog
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 700L
Language
English
Description
The family poodle protests at first when the master and mistress bring home a new "dog" to share the household.
34) Camilla
Author
Publisher
Dell
Pub. Date
1985.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Camilla gains new maturity through her relationship with her best friend's brother and the growing realization that her parents are fallible individuals.
Author
Series
Publisher
The Library of America
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This second volume gathers the final four Kairos novels, in which Meg and Calvin's daughter Polly takes center stage. In The Arm of the Starfish, Polly disappears, and Calvin's research assistant is implicated in her kidnapping. In Dragons in the Waters, Polly and her brother Charles are on a steamer bound for Venezuela when they help solve a murder connected to a stolen portrait of Simon Bolivar. Polly receives an education in different kinds of...
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 5
Publisher
Editorial Océano de México
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
"Polly O'Keefe se marcha a pasar una temporada con sus abuelos, Alex y Kate Murry, pues desea tomar un respiro del ajetreado ambiente en casa, donde debe convivir con sus padres, Calvin y Meg, y sus seis hermanos: Charles, Sandy, Dennys, Peggy, Johnny y Rosy. No podría ser mayor su sorpresa al descubrir en carne propia las fuerzas místicas que rodean el terreno en que se erige la antigua granja de los abuelos. Polly pronto se encontrará en...
Author
Publisher
Random Comics
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Español
Description
La novela gráfica de Una arruga en el tiempo, un clásico de la literatura fantástica, una obra de culto que ha inspirado películas como Interestellar y series como Lost . Una de las obras clave para entender el juego entre realidad, física cuántica y filosofía. Una joya de la ciencia ficción. Una noche de tormenta, Meg, su madre y su hermano pequeño -- que es un prodigio de las matemáticas -- están sentados a la mesa cuando una...