David Klass
Author
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"There's a new rule at Jack Logan's sports-crazy high school: all students must play on a team. So Jack and a group of anti-athletic friends decide to go rebel. They create a third-string soccer team whose mission is to avoid victory at any cost. But as the team's losing formula becomes increasingly successful at attracting fans and attention, Jack and his teammates are winning in ways they never expected--and don't know how to handle." -- Dust jacket....
4) Firestorm
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
His mother is not his mother. His father is not his father. But, if Jack hadn't broken the high school rushing record that night, he never would have known and nothing would have changed. He'd just be going out for pizza, playing football, trying yet again to score with his girlfriend, P.J. But, he did break the record. He appeared on the news. And, now they've found him.
Jack plunges into a space-time, bending game of survival with no way out. The...
Author
Language
English
Description
What makes an average American high school suddenly become violent?
As Joe Brickman heads into the fall of his senior year, he's looking forward to the soccer season, when he will captain the Lawndale team. And surely, this will be the year when he and his neighbor Kristine stop teasing each other and begin dating. But scary, unpredictable things start happening at Lawndale High. It's hard to tell what touches off the storm. Is it the arrival of...
6) Whirlwind
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In Firestorm, the first book of the Caretaker Trilogy, seventeen-year-old Jack Danielson saved the world's oceans, but at great personal cost - his parents were killed and everything he knew and believed in was turned upside down.
Now Jack has come home to see P.J., his girlfriend and sole remaining touchstone. But she's missing, and blame falls on Jack. On the run with Gisco, his crafty canine sidekick, Jack is literally caught up in a whirlwind...
Author
Language
English
Description
A taut psychological thriller for teens.
Seventeen-year-old Jeff thought he would never again have to deal with his older brother, a convicted murderer serving a life sentence. But, after six years, Troy's sentence has been overturned on a technicality and he is released from prison. He returns to a family deeply divided about having him back home. Jeff can't forget how his life was disrupted by his brother, how his family had to move to another...
8) Timelock
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
In Timelock, the thrilling finale to the Caretaker Trilogy, the end of life as we know it has arrived, and history will be made -- or lost -- at the hands of one young hero.
Jack Danielson has spent the last year saving the oceans and the Amazon, attempting to fulfill a prophecy that was written before his birth. Now he's more than ready to get back to life as a typical teenager and spend some quality time with his girlfriend, P.J. Too bad the world...
Author
Language
English
Description
Kendall is football town, and Jerry Downing is the high school's star quarterback, working to redeem himself after he nearly killed a girl in a drunk driving accident last year. Carla Jenson, lead reporter for the school newspaper's sports section, has recruited Jerry to co-author a blog chronicling the season from each of their perspectives. When Jerry's best friend on the team takes a hit too hard and gets hurt, Carla wonders publicly if injury...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A fiendishly clever serial bomber and self-styled 'eco-terrorist' hits targets across America--and a conflicted young FBI agent may be the only person with the unique skills needed to catch him. A massive FBI manhunt is underway for an elusive and terrifyingly efficient serial bomber. He's just struck his sixth target, Idaho's Boone Dam, killing a dozen innocent people. But the bomber, who calls himself 'Green Man', insists these drastic acts of...
11) Grandmaster
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books, Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
226 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A father-son chess tournament reveals the dark side of the game"--
12) California Blue
Author
Pub. Date
1994
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
13) Second impact
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
980L
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Jerry Downing, star quarterback in a small football town, gets a second chance after his drunk driving had serious consequences, Carla Jensen, ace reporter for the school newspaper, invites him to join her in writing a blog, mainly about sports.
14) Kiss the girls
Series
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Washington DC detective Dr. Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) travels to North Carolina to investigate the apparent kidnapping of his niece (Gina Ravera). Aided by escaped kidnapee Kate McTiernan (Ashley Judd), Cross hunts down the kidnapper, who operates under the pseudonym "Cassanova".
15) Emperor
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Immediately after Emperor Hirohito's World War II surrender, General MacArthur suddenly finds himself the de facto ruler of a foreign nation. He challenges his expert on Japanese culture, General Fellers to provide evidence in ten short days to decide if the Japanese Emperor, worshipped as a god by his people but accused of war crimes, should be punished or saved, as the fate of a nation waits.
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Full screen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An idealistic young woman falls for a rebel leader and takes on a murderous dictator. Today, November 25 is observed in many Latin American countries as the International Day Against Violence Towards Women. This is based on the story of the Mirabal sisters, whose deaths became the final blow to the regime of Leonidas Trujillo, who was assassinated six months later.