Gordon Korman
21) Notorious
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
336 pages
Description
Told in different voices, on Centerlight Island, halfway between the United States and Canada, middle-schoolers Keenan and ZeeBee team up to seek gold rumored to be hidden there a famous gangster.
22) Jingle
Author
Series
Swindle mysteries volume 8
Formats
Description
Santa's Workshop Holiday Spectacular at the Colchester mansion is a long standing tradition in Cedarville, however Griffin and his friends are not happy to find that they have been volunteered as elves by their friend Logan and can not get out of it--but this year the pageant seem plagued by frequent electrical outages, and during one of them the valuable antique known as the Star of Prague disappears from the giant Christmas tree, and as they are...
23) Jackpot
Author
Series
Swindle mysteries volume 6
Formats
Description
Griffin Bing and his friends are trying to locate Mr. Fielder's missing thirty million dollar lottery ticket, and thwart the local bully, Darren Vader, who wants to find it for himself--and Mr. Bing's latest invention may help.
24) Payback
Author
Series
Masterminds trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Fighting for survival after being separated into pairs in the aftermath of a betrayal, the Project Osiris clones search for notorious mob boss Gus Alabaster while tracking down Eli's elusive DNA donor alongside a surprising new ally.
25) Zoobreak
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
230 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
After a class trip to a floating zoo where animals are mistreated and Savannah's missing pet monkey is found in a cage, Long Island sixth-grader Griffin Bing and his band of misfits plan a rescue.
26) Swindle
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
252 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back, planning to use the money to finance his father's failing invention, the SmartPick fruit picker.
27) Flashpoint
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Unstoppable volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
222 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. + 6 game cards.
Description
Amy and Dan Cahill have their final confrontation with twisted billionaire J. Rutherford Pierce, a man whose power has no limits and is one step away from being elected president.
28) Ungifted
Author
Formats
Description
Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.
Author
Series
Island (Gordon Korman) volume 2
Formats
Description
The second installment in the survival suspense series Island, from bestelling and award-winning author Gordon Korman
Six kids. One shipwreck. One desert island.Stranded. Separated. Six kids are stuck on a desert island. They have no food. No shelter. Nobody knows they are lost. They must take from the island in order to survive. But what if they're not alone?
GORDON KORMAN is the beloved author of over one hundred novels for young readers,...
30) Slugfest
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Formats
Description
"From Gordon Korman, the New York Times bestselling author of Restart, comes a hilarious new story about a group of underdogs who come together when they are forced to attend summer school—for failing PE. Yash is the best athlete at Robinette Middle School—so good, in fact, that he’s already playing on the high school’s JV sports teams. Imagine his shock when he learns that his JV practices have kept him from earning a...
31) Unsinkable
Author
Series
Titanic volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
170 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
Although the Titanic ship is meant to be unsinkable, there is plenty of danger waiting on its maiden voyage for four of its passengers--Paddy, a stowaway; Sophie, under police custody; rich yet troubled Juliana; and Alfie, who hides a secret.
32) Collision course
Author
Series
Titanic volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
166 p. ; 20 cm.
Description
Four children aboard the Titanic--Sophie, Paddy, Juliana, and Alfie--believe the famed killer Jack the Ripper is on the ship with them, and the urgency of their mystery deepens as the "unsinkable" ship hits an iceberg.
33) Supergifted
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
297 pages ; 22 cm
Description
After years of attending a school for gifted children, Noah finds himself at a normal school where he immediately ends up on the wrong side of a cheerleading captain and a jock.
34) Schooled
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Homeschooled by his hippie grandmother, Capricorn (Cap) Anderson has never watched television, tasted a pizza, or even heard of a wedgie. But when his grandmother lands in the hospital, Cap is forced to move in with a guidance counselor and attend the local middle school. While Cap knows a lot about tie-dyeing and Zen Buddhism, no education could prepare him for the politics of public school.
35) Mixed up
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Twelve-year-olds Reef and Theo have a mutual problem: their memories are getting mixed up, and that means that Reef is losing his memory of his mother, recently dead of COVID, which terrifies him--but for Theo his new memories are helping him deal with his domineering father.
37) Una nota falsa
Author
Series
39 clues volume 2
Publisher
Editorial Planeta/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
172 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
"La carrera contrarreloj para encontrar las 39 pistas ha empezado, y los hermanos huérfanos Amy y Dan Cahill no pueden creer que estén a la cabeza de la búsqueda, que los lleva a Viena y Venecia. Pero, ¿lograrán encontrar allí la siguente pista, con el resto de la familia pisándoles los talones y poniéndoles trampas? ¡Amy y Dan temen no salir victoriosos!" --From publisher's description.
A million dollars, or a clue? Police report a break-in...
39) Pop
Author
Publisher
Balzer & Bray
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
260 pages, 7 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm
Description
Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.
Author
Series
Description
Gordon Korman offers another edge-of-your-seat action/adventure in a return to the trilogy format that sold more than 1 million copies of Island, Everest, and Dive.It's every brother's worst fear: As Aiden and his sister Meg are walking home from school one day, a van pulls over and Meg is kidnapped. There's no way for Aiden to stop it from happening. He's the only witness to his sister's disappearance.Why has Meg been kidnapped? Is it for ransom?...