Iain Lawrence
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Nicknamed after his hometown of Kakabeka, Canada, Kak dreams of flying with the Allied bombers in World War II. So at 16, underage and desperate to escape his abusive parents, he enlists in the Canadian Air Force. Soon he is trained as a wireless operator and sent to a squadron in England, where he’s unabashedly gung ho about flying his first op. He thinks the night ops over Germany will be like the heroic missions of his favorite comic-book heroes....
3) The wreckers
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Shipwrecked after a vicious storm, fourteen-year-old John Spencer attempts to save his father and himself while also dealing with an evil secret about the English coastal town where they are stranded.
4) Ghost boy
Author
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Unhappy in a home seemingly devoid of love, a fourteen-year-old albino boy who thinks of himself as Harold the Ghost runs away to join the circus, where he works with the elephants and searches for a sense of who he is.
8) The Convicts
Author
Series
Curse of the Jolly Stone trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
His efforts to avenge his father's unjust imprisonment force fourteen-year-old Tom Tin into the streets of nineteenth-century London, but after he is convicted of murder, Tom is eventually sent to Australia where he has a surprise reunion.
Author
Series
Curse of the Jolly Stone trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Bad luck continues to follow Tom Tin and his mates as they find themselves aboard a formerly abandoned ship, are taught to be sailors by two black-hearted castaways they rescue, and sail to a Caribbean island where they make important new friends and enemies.
10) The cannibals
Author
Series
Curse of the Jolly Stone trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Tom Tin and his friend Midgely--with assorted juvenile criminals--escape the ship taking them to serve their terms in Australia and head for a Pacific island, forgetting Tom's father's warnings about headhunters and cannibals.
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When, after a four-year absence, seventeen-year-old Squid returns to her childhood home on a remote lighthouse island off British Columbia with her young daughter in tow, she and her parents try to come to terms with each other and the painful events of the past, especially the death of her older brother.
12) The Seance
Author
Pub. Date
p2008
Description
Best-selling author Iain Lawrence's adventures and mysteries for children and young adults are enormously popular selections. In the midst of the roaring '20s, Scooter, the son of a psychic, admires Harry Houdini. He can't wait to see Houdini perform his amazing new illusion. But backstage at the show, Scooter finds something that he wishes were merely an illusion: a dead body floating in Houdini's tank.
13) The séance
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In 1926, magician Harry Houdini arrives in the city to perform magic and to expose fraudulent mediums but thirteen-year-old Scooter King, who works for his mother making her séances seem real, needs Houdini's help to solve a murder.
14) Gemini summer
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In 1965, Danny's grief over the death of his older brother Beau is eased when a stray puppy adopts him, but he soon realizes that Beau is somehow in the dog, and sets out to make his brother's dream of seeing a rocket launch at Cape Kennedy come true.