Todd Strasser
1) Fallout
Author
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
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Description
When an unthinkable nuclear attack occurs in an alternate-reality 1962, Scott is forced into his father's bomb shelter with his family and neighbors, where they rapidly consume limited supplies and fear the worst about the fate of the world outside.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
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Description
Madison, a senior at a suburban New York high school, tries to uncover who is responsible for the disappearance of her friends, popular students mentioned in the posts of an anonymous blogger, while she, herself, is being stalked online and in-person.
Author
Lexile measure
HL 830L
Language
English
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Description
"With his girlfriend away, eighteen-year-old Lucas Baker's only plans for the summer are to mellow out with his friends, smoke weed, drop a tab or two, and head out in his microbus for a three-day happening called the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. But life veers dramatically off track when he suddenly finds himself in danger of being drafted and sent to fight in Vietnam" -- Dust jacket.
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Language
Español
Description
Parece ficción, pero es un hecho real. En 1969, en un instituto de California, un profesor puso en marcha el experimento educativo más controvertido de la Historia: creó un movimiento entre sus alumnos, al que bautizó La Ola, para ilustrar el auge del nazismo en Alemania y los terribles acontecimientos que este trajo consigo. Creía tenerlo bajo control, pero se equivocaba. Las consecuencias de dicho experimento se recogen en este libro escalofriante,...
Author
Language
English
Description
The Wave is based on a true incident that occurred in a high school history class in Palo Alto, California, in 1969. The powerful forces of group pressure that pervaded many historic movements such as Nazism are recreated in the classroom when history teacher Burt Ross introduces a "new" system to his students. And before long "The Wave," with its rules of "strength through discipline, community, and action,” sweeps from the classroom through the...
Author
Language
English
Description
The charm of the crazy Clampett clan lives on! After striking oil on his land in the Ozarks, Jed Clampett decides the sophisticated life in Beverly Hills is just what he and his kin-Jethro Bodine, Elly May, and Granny-deserve. Humorous antics ensue when they proceed to shake up privileged society with their hayseed ways. This novelization of the film features all of the favorite characters from the original series-including uptight banker Mr. Drysdale...
10) The good war
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
177 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
There's a new afterschool club at Ironville Middle School. Ms. Peterson is starting a video game club where the students will playing The Good War, a new game based on World War II. They are divided into two teams: Axis and Allies, and they will be simulating a war they know nothing about yet. Only one team will win. But what starts out as friendly competition, takes an unexpected turn for the worst when an one player takes the game too far. Can an...
11) Boot camp
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
238 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After ignoring several warnings to stop dating his teacher, Garrett is sent to Lake Harmony, a boot camp that uses unorthodox and brutal methods to train students to obey their parents.
12) Slide or die
Author
Series
DriftX volume 1
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st Simon Pulse ed.
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
198 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kennin is drawn into the dangerous world of racing cars in Las Vegas, Nevada.
13) Battle drift
Author
Series
DriftX volume 2
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st Simon Pulse ed.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
201 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kennin's gaining popularity with the gearheads, and the word on the street is all about his sweet driving skills. Everyone wants a piece of him, but to go legit, he's got to give up the illegal tsuisos...and the major cash involved with them. But, when his sister's creep boyfriend starts trouble, Kennin realizes that he's got to do what's right for his family -- even though it won't be easy. Kennin's ride may be amping, but his decisions may ultimately...
14) Sidewayz glory
Author
Series
DriftX volume 3
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st Simon Pulse ed.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
197 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
The only street racing around Las Vegas is at the hottest casino on the strip. Kennin is under pressure to quit the scene and get his life back on track, but when he's offered five grand to fix his ride, he knows exactly what he must do.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
810L
Physical Desc
414 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Aboard the Pequod, seventeen-year-old Ishmael arrives on the planet Cretacea to hunt down great ocean-dwelling beasts to harvest and send back to the resource-depleted Earth. But the ship's captain, Ahab, who lost his leg to the Great Terrafin years ago, is obsessed with hunting down the beast. The classic tale of Moby Dick as set in the future.
16) Price of duty
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Physical Desc
177 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young man, injured and home from the war, is lauded as a hero. But he doesn't feel very heroic in the face of all that he witnessed"--
Hailed as a hero, twenty-year-old Jake returns to his pro-military hometown and family injured physically and emotionally, unsure if he can return to active duty but uncomfortable with the alternative.
Hailed as a hero, being considered for a Silver Star, Jake returns to his pro-military hometown and family injured...
17) Beyond the reef
Author
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
243 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
19) Kill you last
Author
Series
"Thrill"-ogy volume 03
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
1993
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
107 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A retelling, based on the screenplay, of the adventures of four young musketeers in seventeenth-century France as they try to outwit the enemies of the king.