Boom!, (or, 70,000 Light Years)
When Jim and Charlie overhear two of their teachers talking in a secret language and the two friends set out to solve the mystery, they do not expect the dire consequences of their actions.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: extraterrestrial beings, interplanetary voyages, science fiction, england [X], science fiction
Goldstrike
After escaping Camp Twilight, eighteen-year-old Carl Hobbes and Beth, his girlfriend, begin a new life in London, England, where he attempts to program Sphynx Cargo's highly intelligent supercomputer to help protect them from the CIA and assassins.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 2
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: computer hackers, supercomputers, assassins, london (england), england [X], fugitives from justice, criminals
Stormbreaker
Presents a graphic novel adaptation of Anthony Horowitz's novel in which fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his deceased uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, M16.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 21
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: rider, alex (fictitious character), terrorism, orphans, spy stories, cartoons and comics, england [X]
Notes From A Totally Lame Vampire
Nigel Mullet, a 100-year-old vampire doomed to spend eternity in the body of a socially awkward fifteen-year-old boy, records his attempts to impress the love of his life, Chloe, while battling an embarrassingly overwhelming desire to sink his fangs into her.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 16
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1030
The Doomsday Box
Working on a highly-classified espionage project, four English teenagers go back in time to the Cold War in 1962 to prevent a global outbreak of the bubonic plague in the twenty-first century.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: plague, cold war, time travel, extrasensory perception, astral projection, england [X], spies, spy stories, spy stories
Demonglass
After learning that she is capable of dangerous magic, Sophie Mercer goes to England with her father, friend Jenna, and Cal hoping to have her powers removed, but soon she learns that she is being hunted by the Eye--and haunted by Elodie.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 34
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 770
subjects: supernatural, magic, witches, demonology, fathers and daughters, england [X], father-daughter relationship, ghost stories
Sequins, Secrets, And Silver Linings
Three fourteen-year-old friends with very different interests befriend a twelve-year-old Ugandan refugee whose gift for design takes off in the high-fashion world of twenty-first-century London.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800
The Secret Fiend
Holmes is approached by the beautiful Beatrice to help locate her friend who was abducted by the evil Spring Heeled Jack on Westminster Bridge.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 20
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: holmes, sherlock (fictitious character), missing persons, mystery and detective stories, england [X]
Scorpia Rising
Alex Rider must once again do battle against the terrorist organization responsible for the death of his parents--Scorpia--when their plot in the Middle East poses a threat to humanity, but this time around the risks are bigger and Alex will not walk away so easily.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 93
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
Flip
Sixteen-year-old Alex awakens to find that six months have gone by and he seems to be living in another boy's body, and as Alex tries to figure out what happened, he wonders if he will ever be able to return to the life he once knew.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: identity (psychology), supernatural, identity, england [X], identity (philosophical concept), individuality, paranormal fiction
Closer
Will Burrows believes he is safe at the very center of the earth, in a world that no one knows exists, but the Styx are close behind and will follow him anywhere, while on the surface, Drake and some unlikely allies unearth some critical secrets.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 34
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 940
subjects: underground areas, archaeology, adventure and adventurers, london (england), england [X], archaeologists, civilization, subterranean
Betrayal
Prompted by her love for the seemingly-doomed Sebastian, sixteen-year-old Evie Johnson returns for another term at the strangely sinister Wyldcliffe Abbey School where she and two close friends try to develop and combine their newly-discovered powers to save Sebastian and themselves from the encroaching forces of evil.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: boarding schools, supernatural, witches, schools, england [X], private schools, love stories
Ruby Red
Sixteen-year-old Gwyneth Shepherd unexpectedly travels through time to the eighteenth century, and she must find out why her mother lied about her date of birth to hide her ability, research her history, and work with Gideon, another time traveler.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 49
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 680
subjects: time travel, families, secret societies, family life, london (england), great britain, england [X]
Uncommon Criminals
Fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop and her fellow talented teenagers work together to find and steal the "Cleopatra Emerald" from an unscrupulous dealer and return it to its rightful owner, while a former love of her Uncle Eddie tries to get the gem for herself.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 41
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: precious stones, crime, swindlers and swindling, wealth, new york (state), europe, england [X], detective and mystery stories
In The Shadow Of The Lamp
Sixteen-year-old Molly Fraser works as a nurse with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War to earn a salary to help her family survive in nineteenth-century England.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 11
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810