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Author
Series
Life of a cactus volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
New friends and a mystery help Aven, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges.
2) The gift
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
An uplifting tale of hope and faith celebrates the joy of the holiday season and follows a theme of the redemptive power of love.
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
Michael, Taylor, Ostin, and the rest of the Electroclan have destroyed the largest of the Elgen Starxource plants, but now they're scattered across the Amazon jungle. The Elgen have joined forces with the Peruvian army to capture the Electroclan, and only Michael has managed to remain free. With his friends due to stand trial for terrorism -- a charge that may carry the death penalty -- Michael will need all his wits and his abilities if he's to save...
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 500L
Language
English
Description
To everyone at Meridian High School, fourteen-year-old Michael Vey is nothing special, just the kid who has Tourette's syndrome. But in truth, Michael is extremely special--he has electric powers. Michael thinks he is unique until he discovers that a cheerleader named Taylor has the same mysterious powers. With the help of Michael's friend, Ostin, the three of them set out to discover how Michael and Taylor ended up with their abilities, and their...
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
"Michael and the Electroclan embark on their deadliest mission yet. The head of the resistance, known only as the voice, believes that the best way to wipe out the Elgen is to steal their money. That means capturing the Joule, the Elgen boat that serves as a floating treasury. Michael and his friends have learned about a highly placed member of the Elite Global Guard named Welch who wants to defect. They also know that three of the Elgen electric...
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
"Michael, Taylor, Ostin, and the rest of the Electroclan go on their most dangerous mission yet. The resistance movement has been compromised. The Voice is in hiding. Their families are missing. Can the Electroclan pull together to defeat the Elgen once and for all?"--
9) The world's strongest librarian: a memoir of Tourette's, faith, strength, and the power of family
Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
An inspiring story of how a Mormon kid with Tourette's found salvation in books and weight-lifting.
10) List of ten
Author
Publisher
Sterling Teen
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
For Troy Hayes, a 16-year-old suffering from Tourette Syndrome and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, the number ten dictates his life, forcing him to do everything by its exacting rhythm. Fed up with the daily humiliation, loneliness, and physical pain he endures, Troy writes a list of ten things to do by the tenth anniversary of his diagnosis, culminating in suicide on the actual day. In the process of working his way through the list Troy becomes friends...
11) Icy sparks
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
At the age of ten, an Appalachian girl develops croaks, jerks and spasms, which leads to her explusion from school. After treatment--she has Tourette's syndrome--she learns to control herself, attends college and there is a happy ending.
Rural Kentucky in the 1950s is not an easy place to grow up in, and it's especially hard for 10-year-old Icy Sparks, an orphan who lives with her grandparents. Life becomes even more difficult for Icy when the violent...
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Language
English
Description
Michael was born with special electrical powers -- and he's not the only one. His friend Taylor has them too, and so do other kids around the world. With Michael's friend Ostin, a tecno-genius, they form the Electroclan, an alliance meant to protect them from a powerful group, the growing Order of Elgen, who are out to destroy them. The leader of the Elgen, Dr. Hatch, has kidnapped Michael's mother, and time is running out. After narrowly escaping...
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 4
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 530L
Language
English
Description
Michael, Taylor, Ostin, and the rest of the Electroclan head to Taiwan in search of nine-year-old child prodigy Lin Julung, or Jade Dragon, who the Elgen kidnapped for Hatch's army of electric children.
14) The final spark
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 7
Publisher
Simon Pulse/Mercury Ink, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
The Electroclan embarks on a daring rescue mission when Michael Vey goes missing in this final volume of the series.
15) The parasite
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 8
Publisher
Simon Pulse / Mercury Ink, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Michael and his friends learn that returning to a normal life is not only more difficult than they imagined, but that normal doesn't last. Like the mythical Hydra, cutting off the head of the global Elgen only created more enemies"--
16) The traitor
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 9
Publisher
Mercury Ink, Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
With Tara still in the clutches of the Elite Elgen Guard Unit the Chasqui and their malevolent leader, the Sovereign Amash, Michael Vey and the Electroclan have no choice but to continue the fierce battle that has been waging since their arrival in Peru. But saving one of their own means battling a onetime teammate, as Jack has turned traitor and joined forces with Amash and his men. At the same time, the clan must work with the Alpha Team to act...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Follows a family's long struggle with their son's mysterious medical disorder that from the age of five induced violent physical tics and prompted traumatic treatments, a situation that also pitted the family against a disheartening medical establishment.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A black comedy in New York's criminal underworld. The twitching hero--he suffers from Tourette's syndrome--is one of four misfits who were rescued from an orphanage by a man who gave them jobs in his detective agency. Now the man has been killed and the boys intend to get the killer.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Follows a family's long struggle with their son's mysterious medical disorder that induced violent physical tics and prompted traumatic treatments, a situation that pitted the family against a disheartening medical establishment.
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