Kenneth Oppel
1) Silverwing
Author
Series
Silverwing saga volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this graphic novel edition of a best-selling story, young silverwing bat Shade is blown off course during his colony's migration to Hibernaculum, during which he meets other winged loners on his journey back to his family, but with a long and dangerous flight ahead, he must figure out who he can trust.
2) Inkling
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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.
3) Bloom
Author
Series
Overthrow volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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...
4) Hatch
Author
Series
Overthrow volume 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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....
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.
6) Ghostlight
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022
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...
7) Thrive
Author
Series
Overthrow volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
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.