William Sleator
1) Oddballs
Author
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
A collection of stories based on experiences from the author's youth and peopled with an unusual assortment of family and friends.
5) Test
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In the security-obsessed, elitist United States of the near future, where a standardized test determines each person's entire life, a powerful man runs a corrupt empire until seventeen-year-old Ann and other students take the lead in boycotting the test.
6) Parasite Pig
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Sixteen-year-old Barney, infected by an alien parasite, is taken to the planet J'koot, along with his friend Katie, by extraterrestrials intent on playing the dangerous game known as Interstellar Pig.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When her desperately ill older brother insists that she take him into their mysterious backyard garden, designed by their quantum physicist great uncle, fourteen-year-old Susan discovers that things are not always what they seem.
8) The beasties
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When fifteen-year-old Doug and his younger sister Colette move with their parents to a forested wilderness area, they encounter some weird creatures whose lives are endangered.
10) Boltzmon!
Author
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A boltzmon, remnant of a black hole, materializes in eleven-year-old Chris's bedroom and transports him to a parallel world, where he encounters the bitter woman his overbearing older sister will become, after his death, if he cannot convince her to change.
11) Hell phone
Author
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Seventeen-year-old Nick buys a used cell phone only to call his girlfriend, but strange and desperate people keep calling--one of them a denizen of Hell--begging for or demanding his help.
12) Blackbriar
Author
Pub. Date
2009, 1972.
Description
Back in print for a new generation! Right away, Danny feels something sinister about his new home, Blackbriar. The residents of the nearby town refuse to speak of it and can barely look him in the eyes, and he has strange dreams of fires and witches before awakening to shrieks of laughter. With help from a friend, he begins to unravel the mysteries of Blackbriar and its frightnening past, through the discovery of an ancient doll and a chilling...
13) The angry moon
Author
Pub. Date
[1970]
Description
An Indian girl insults the moon and is held prisoner by him until her friend reaches the sky country to rescue her.