Lamar Giles
1) The getaway
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IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Jay discovers that the mountain resort where he lives and works with his friends and family is also a doomsday oasis for the rich and powerful who expect top-notch customer service even as the world outside the resort's walls disintegrates
Jay is living his best life at Karloff Country, one of the world's most famous resorts. He's got his family, his crew, and an incredible after-school job at the property's main theme park. Life isn't so great for...
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Legendary Alston Boys adventure volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"In this third Legendary Alston Boys adventure from Edgar Award nominated author Lamar Giles, Otto and Sheed have to team up with the Ellison twins to take down a corporation obsessed with the weirdness of Logan County and that's turning its residents into Money-Zombies. Otto and Sheed are back in yet another legendary adventure that just might take all their deduction skills, and a good bit of help from friends and family, to solve. With the Rorrim...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"The Last Last-Day-of-Summer reminds me that all children deserve to exist in magical spaces where their imaginations and familial bonds will them into heroism. Every single child should have the freedom to be one of The Legendary Alstons. And I, for one, am grateful to Giles, and this brilliant story, for that reminder. " – Jason Reynolds, author of Newbery Honoree Long Way Down
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4) Fake ID
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Lamar Giles takes readers on a wild and dark ride in this contemporary Witness Protection thriller, perfect for fans of James Patterson, Harlan Coben, and John Grisham.
Nick Pearson is hiding in plain sight. In fact, his name isn't really Nick Pearson. He shouldn't tell you his real name, his real hometown, or why his family just moved to Stepton, Virginia. And he definitely shouldn't tell you about his friend Eli Cruz and the major conspiracy
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After Virgil Hawkins reveals his secret identity as Static to his girlfriend, Daisy, she breaks up with him, leaving him free to go to a big music festival with his best friend Richie Foley (also known as superhero Gear), but they soon run into girls who each have secret identities of their own
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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In The Last Mirror on the Left, the second Legendary Alston Boys mystery from Edgar Award nominee Lamar Giles, Otto and Sheed must embark on their most dangerous journey yet, bringing a fugitive to justice in a world that mirrors their own but has its own rules to play by.
Unlike the majority of Logan County's residents, Missus Nedraw of the Rorrim Mirror Emporium remembers the time freeze from The Last Last-Day-of-Summer—and
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"Hysterical. I couldn't put it down.' (Nic Stone) "I laughed, I gasped, I church grunted through every chapter." (Tiffany D. Jackson) "Heartfelt and hilarious on every page!" (Justin A. Reynolds)4 starred reviews! * An Indie Next List Pick!Two-time Edgar Award finalist Lamar Giles spotlights the consequences of societal pressure, confronts toxic masculinity, and explores the complexity of what it means to be a 'real man.'Del has had a crush on Kiera...
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From Edgar Award nominee and WNDB cofounder Lamar Giles, this middle grade adventure stars the Epic Ellison twins as they race to solve the mystery of Cosmos Camp for young geniuses in a stand-alone companion to the Legendary Alston Boys series.
School's out, and Wiki and Leen Ellison are facing a new challenge… their first summer apart! Genius inventor Leen has been accepted to Petey Thunkle's world-famous summer training program for STEM prodigies...
9) Spin
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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When rising star Paris Secord (aka DJ ParSec) is found dead on her turntables, it sends the local music scene reeling. No one is feeling that grief more than her shunned pre-fame best friend, Kya, and ParSec's chief groupie, Fuse -- two sworn enemies who happened to be the ones who discovered her body.
The police have few leads, and when the trail quickly turns cold, the authorities don't seem to be pushing too hard to investigate further. But...
10) Endangered
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Endangered is a thrilling page-turner perfect for fans of Barry Lyga's I Hunt Killers, from acclaimed author Lamar Giles, author of the Edgar Award–nominated Fake ID. The one secret she cares about keeping-her identity-is about to be exposed. That is, unless Lauren "Panda" Daniels-an anonymous photo blogger who specializes in busting classmates and teachers in compromising positions-plays along with her blackmailer's little game of Dare or . . ....
11) Overturned
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Nikki Tate is infamous, even by Las Vegas standards. Her dad is sitting on death row, convicted of killing his best friend in a gambling dispute turned ugly. And for five years, he's maintained his innocence. But Nikki wants no part of that. She's been working on Operation Escape Vegas: playing in illegal card games so she can save up enough money to get out come graduation day.
Then her dad's murder conviction is overturned. The new evidence seems...
12) Fake ID
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Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"An African-American teen in the Witness Protection Program moves to a new town and finds himself trying to solve a murder mystery when his first friend is found dead"--
14) Spin
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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When DJ ParSec (Paris Secord), rising star of the local music scene, is found dead over her turntables, the two girls who found her, Kya (her pre-fame best friend) and Fuse (her current chief groupie) are torn between grief for Paris and hatred for each other--but when the lack of obvious suspects stalls the investigation, and the police seem to lose interest, despite pressure from social media and ParSec's loyal fans, the two girls unite, determined...
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Series
Legendary Alston Boys adventure volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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"Otto and Sheed Alston are local sleuths in their zany Virginia town, masters of unraveling mischief using their unmatched powers of deduction. As summer winds down and the first day of school looms, the boys are craving just a little more time for fun, eve as they bicker over what kind of fun they want to have. That is, until a mysterious man named Mr. Flux appears with a camera that literally freezes time. Now, with the help of some very strange...
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Legendary Alston Boys adventure volume 2
Publisher
Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Otto and Sheed, The Legendary Alston Boys of Logan County, are ordered by Missus Nedraw to bring a fugitive to justice in a world that mirrors their own but has its own rules
17) Fresh ink
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Crown
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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"An anthology featuring award-winning diverse authors about diverse characters. Short stories, a graphic novel, and a one-act play explore such topics as gentrification, acceptance, untimely death, coming out, and poverty, and range in genre from contemporary realistic fiction to adventure and romance"--
18) Black boy joy
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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From seventeen acclaimed Black male and non-binary authors comes a vibrant collection of stories, comics, and poems about the power of joy and the wonders of Black boyhood
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Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Celebrate the lasting impact of Return of the Jedi with this exciting reimagining of the timeless Star Wars film featuring new perspectives from forty contributors. On May 25, 1983, Star Wars cemented its legacy as the greatest movie franchise of all time with the release of Return of the Jedi. In honor of its fortieth anniversary, forty storytellers re-create an iconic scene from Return of the Jedi through the eyes of a supporting character, from...