Barry Lyga
1) Bang
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Sebastian Cody did something horrible, something no one, not even Sebastian himself can forgive. At the age of four, he accidentally shot and killed his infant sister with his father's gun. Now, ten years later, Sebastian has lived with the guilt and horror for his entire life. With his best friend away for the summer, Sebastian has only a new friend, Aneesa, to distract him from his darkest thoughts. But even this realtionship cannot blunt the pain...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious "Dear Old Dad," but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, so he secretly helps the police apprehend the town's newest murderer, "The Impressionist."
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Jazz Dent, who has been shot and left to die in New York City, his girlfriend, Connie, who is in the clutches of Jazz's serial killer father, Billy, and his best friend, Howie, who is bleeding to death on the floor of Jazz's own home in tiny Lobo's Nod, must all rise above the horrors their lives have become and find a way to come together in pursuit of Billy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A fifteen-year-old "geek" who keeps a list of the high school jocks and others who torment him, and pours his energy into creating a great graphic novel, encounters Kyra, Goth Girl, who helps change his outlook on almost everything, including himself.
5) Game
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
After solving a deadly case in the small town of Lobo's Nod, seventeen-year-old Jazz, the son of history's most infamous serial murderer, travels to New York City to help the police track down the Hat-Dog Killer.
6) Hero-type
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Feeling awkward and ugly is only one reason sixteen-year-old Kevin is uncomfortable with the publicity surrounding his act of accidental heroism, but when a reporter photographs him apparently being unpatriotic, he steps into the limelight to encourage people to think about what the symbols of freedom really mean.
7) The hive
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
It's the near future the day after tomorrow and the government has shut down online bullying once and for all. With BLINQ, its new social media platform, users can "like" or "share," but they can also "condemn" posts and if condemns reach a certain level, users can exact punishment from the original poster in real life. No more anonymous trolling! Instead... hive justice. Seventeen-year-old Cassie McKinney is angry at everything. She's just lost...
8) Boy toy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
After five years of fighting his way past flickers of memory about the teacher who molested him and the incident that brought the crime to light, eighteen-year-old Josh gets help in coping with his molestor's release from prison when he finally tells his best friends the whole truth.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Time is a funny thing in the hospital. In the mental ward. You lose track of it easily. After six months in the Maryland Mental Health Unit, Kyra Sellers, a.k.a. Goth Girl, is going home. Unfortunately, she’s about to find out that while she was away, she lost track of more than time.
Kyra is back in black, feeling good, and ready to make up with the only person who’s ever appreciated her for who she really is.
But
...10) EDITED
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"On its surface, this is the story of a boy, Mike, and the girl he loses. It's the story of how he swears to do anything and everything to get her back. It's also the story of a world going to ruin, a world like our own, but seen through a very warped and cracked mirror. It's also the story of a story, a story told only in flashes and excerpts and summaries, a story that contains clues that could fix this broken world or end it once and for all."...
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Series
The Flash. Crossover crisis trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This first installment in the Flash middle-grade series follows Barry Allen as he continues his mission to protect Central City"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set in a future world of environmental collapse and mass poverty, where a mysterious boy named Rose discovers he possesses inhuman powers that can irrevocably change the lives of everyone on the planet"--
On the ruined planet Earth, where people are confined to megacities and resources are scarce, Deedra endures a bleak existence. One day she comes across a beautiful boy named Rose struggling to cross the river-- a boy with a secretive past and...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
"When the Green Arrow needs help tracking down a sinister bomber in Star City, speedster Barry Allen is out the door in a flash. But as the Flash saves the day with his friends on Team Arrow, a huge dimensional rift appears over his hometown of Central City--and thousands of refugees with superspeed come pouring out. Can the combined skills of Team Arrow and the Flash's friends at S.T.A.R. Labs manage the chaos long enough to stop the rift from tearing...
14) Archvillain
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Kyle Camden develops greater mental agility and superpowers during a plasma storm that also brings Mighty Mike, an alien, to the town of Bouring, but while each does what he thinks is best, Kyle is labeled a villain and Mike a hero.
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Series
Language
English
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Description
While the Flash and Team Arrow closed the dimensional rift looming over Central City, they still have plenty of chaos to deal with: Cisco and Curtis are lost in time, thousands of speedster refugees are now stuck on their earth, and a mad bomber is at large. But when Anti-Matter Man arrives on Supergirl's doorstep on her home of Earth-38, it'll be all hands on deck for a team-up of epic proportions to stop him.
16) Time will tell
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Relates the efforts of teens Elayah, Liam, Jorja, and Marcie to solve a 1986 murder, and the actions of their then-teenaged fathers leading up to the crime.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
This is the story of the small town sheriff who captured one of the world's most ruthless and cunning murderers. A prequel to the New York Times bestselling thriller, I Hunt Killers.
It all started with Dead Girl #1 and Dead Girl #2, the first killings in the sleepy town of Lobo's Nod in decades. Two murders: just a coincidence, or something more sinister? One thing's for sure—it was definitely inconvenient in a year when...
It all started with Dead Girl #1 and Dead Girl #2, the first killings in the sleepy town of Lobo's Nod in decades. Two murders: just a coincidence, or something more sinister? One thing's for sure—it was definitely inconvenient in a year when...
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Language
English
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Description
Time. Reality. Space. Mind. Soul. Power. The infinity stones wait in the cosmos for someone with the will to weld them. Thanos sees them as a way to save his home and the people of Titan for generations to come. Exiled from his home planet, Thanos is determined to implement his plan... no matter how many billions have to die to bring balance to the universe. -- adapted from jacket
Author
Series
The Flash. Crossover crisis trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Barry Allen has to do the impossible: run into the future. To the 64th century, to be exact, where he must uncover Hocus Pocus's secrets and face the evil Abra Kadabra. Meanwhile, on Earth 1, in the present, Kid Flash continues to investigate Earthworm, hoping to stop him before he strikes again.
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Series
Language
English
Description
The Legends of Tomorrow enter the fray in this epic conclusion to the Crossover Crisis trilogy
The Flash and his friends have defeated Anti-Matter Man, but the race to save the multiverse is far from over. As a threat looms large at the end of Time itself, Barry, his Kryptonian allies, and the Green Arrow seek help from the leading experts on time travel, the Legends of Tomorrow. Meanwhile, Cisco has been taken by a mysterious figure-and Owlman's...