Kenneth Oppel
1) Airborn
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Matt, a young cabin boy aboard an airship, and Kate, a wealthy young girl traveling with her chaperone, team up to search for the existence of mysterious winged creatures reportedly living hundreds of feet above the Earth's surface.
2) Darkwing
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Dusk, the world's first bat, must lead his colony to safety in a time of changing species.
3) Silverwing
Author
Series
Silverwing trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
When a newborn bat named Shade but sometimes called "Runt" becomes separated from his colony during migration, he grows in ways that prepare him for even greater journeys.
4) Skybreaker
Author
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Matt Cruse, a student at the Airship Academy, and Kate de Vries, a young heiress, team up with a gypsy and a daring captain, to find a long-lost airship, rumored to carry a treasure beyond imagination.
5) Sunwing
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Continues the adventures of Shade, a young bat, as he searches for his father and struggles to prevent the evil jungle bat Goth from wiping out the sun.
6) Inkling
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
When an inkblot, who can write, listen, learn, and draw, jumps out of Mr. Rylance's sketchbook, Ethan believes he may be the answer to their problems and names him Inkling.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
When his grieving father orders the destruction of the Dark Library, Victor retrieves a book in which he finds the promise of not just communicating with the dead, but entering their realm, and soon he, Elizabeth, and Henry are in the spirit world of Chateau Frankenstein, creating and growing a body.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Peg, a big strapping seven-year-old lass who has caught everything else in the sea, joins the crew of the whaling ship Viper and sets out to catch herself a whale.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Aboard "The Boundless," the greatest train ever built, on its maiden voyage across Canada, teenaged Will enlists the aid of a traveling circus to save the train from villains.
11) Ghostlight
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
"Rebecca Strand was just sixteen when she and her father fell to their deaths from the top of the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse in 1839. Just how they fell--or were they pushed?--remains a mystery. And their ghosts haunt the lighthouse to this day. . . Gabe tells this story every day when he gives the ghost tour on Toronto Island. He tries to make it scary enough to satisfy the tourists, but he doesn't actually believe in ghosts--until he finds himself...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Language
English
Description
In the late nineteenth century, a budding romance develops between Rachel and Samuel, two teenagers from rival families of fossil hunters heading out to the badlands in seach of a rare dinosaur skeleton.
13) Bloom
Author
Series
Overthrow volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
The first book in a can't-put-it-down, can't-read-it-fast-enough action-thriller trilogy that's part Hatchet, part Little Shop of Horrors! The invasion begins--but not as you'd expect. It begins with rain. Rain that carries seeds. Seeds that sprout--overnight, everywhere. These new plants take over crop fields, twine up houses, burrow below streets. They bloom--and release toxic pollens. They bloom--and form venus-fly-trap like pods that swallow animals...
14) Thrive
Author
Series
Overthrow volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
After the aliens begin their invasion of Earth, a rebel faction contacts Anaya and proposes a plan that would allow humans, hybrids, and cryptogens to coexist peacefully, though it is unclear if all hybrids will agree.
15) Half brother
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
In 1973, when a renowned Canadian behavioral psychologist pursues his latest research project--an experiment to determine whether chimpanzees can acquire advanced language skills--he brings home a baby chimp named Zan and asks his thirteen-year-old son to treat Zan like a little brother.
16) Hatch
Author
Series
Overthrow volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Fans left desperate for more at the end of Bloom will dive into this second book of the Overthrow trilogy--where the danger mounts and alien creatures begin to hatch. First the rain brought seeds. Seeds that grew into alien plants that burrowed and strangled and fed. Seth, Anaya, and Petra are strangely immune to the plants' toxins and found a way to combat them. But just as they have their first success, the rain begins again. This rain brings eggs....
17) The nest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
"For some kids summer is a sun-soaked season of fun. But for Steve, it's just another season of worries. Worries about his sick newborn baby brother who is fighting to survive, worries about his parents who are struggling to cope, even worries about the wasp's nest looming ominously from the eaves. So when a mysterious wasp queen invades his dreams, offering to "fix" the baby, Steve thinks his prayers have been answered. All he has to do is say "Yes."...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
When his twin brother falls ill in the family's chateau in the independent republic of Geneva in the eighteenth century, sixteen-year-old Victor Frankenstein embarks on a dangerous and uncertain quest to create the forbidden Elixir of Life described in an ancient text in the family's secret Biblioteka Obscura.
19) Starclimber
Author
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
As members of the first crew of astralnauts, Matt Cruse and Kate De Vries journey into outer space on the Starclimber and face a series of catastrophes that threaten the survival of all on board.
20) Firewing
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Griffin, a young bat, is sucked into the "Underworld, " and his father follows to rescue him.