The Schwa Was Here
A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 51
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
Everlost
After Nick and Allie are killed in a car crash they end up in Everlost, a limbo between life and death.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 94
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 860
subjects: traffic accidents, death, future life, spirit possession, adventure stories, fantasy, ghost stories, fantasy fiction
Unwind
In a future world where those between the ages of thirteen and eighteen can have their lives "unwound" and their body parts harvested for use by others, three teens go to extreme lengths to uphold their beliefs--and, perhaps, save their own lives.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 424
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: fugitives from justice, survival skills, revolutionaries, survival, science fiction, identity (philosophical concept), transplantation of organs, tissues, etc, runaway children, dystopian fiction
Antsy Does Time
Fourteen-year-old Anthony "Antsy" Bonano learns about life, death, and a lot more when he tries to help a friend with a terminal illness feel hopeful about the future.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 43
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 890
subjects: death, interpersonal relations, family, high schools, schools, brooklyn (new york, n.y.), family problems
Neal Shusterman's Darkness Creeping
A collection of scary stories for young readers in which nightmares escape their boundaries, skulls arrive in the mail, and a game of tag means certain death.
FIC
year: 1993
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
Darkness Creeping
A collection of twenty horror stories by Neal Shusterman, telling of nightmares, deadly dentists, ghosts, and boat tours on the river Styx.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 23
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
The Dark Side Of Nowhere
Fourteen-year-old Jason faces an identity crisis after discovering that he is the son of aliens who stayed on earth following a botched invasion mission.
FIC
year: 1997
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: extraterrestrial beings, identity, science fiction, individuality, extreme read-different worlds
Everwild
Nick, known as the dreaded "chocolate ogre," is trying to find all the children in Everlost and release them from the limbo they are in, while Mikey and Allie have joined a band of skinjackers and are putting themselves in danger by visiting the world of the living.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 67
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 870
Bruiser
Inexplicable events start to occur when sixteen-year-old twins Tennyson and Bront?? befriend a troubled and misunderstood outcast, aptly nicknamed Bruiser, and his little brother, Cody.
FIC
year: 2011
copies: 78
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820
subjects: child abuse, supernatural, twins, brothers and sisters, dysfunctional families, siblings, family problems
Scorpion Shards
Six teenagers, each tormented by what seems to be an exaggerated adolescent affliction, come together to try to stop the "beasts" that threaten to destroy them and the world.
FIC
year: 2013
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
Everfound
In the limbo that is Everlost, Mary, Nick, Allie, and others face the decisions that will determine whether that place and the Earth itself will continue to exist, as well as where their own futures lie.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 52
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 910
subjects: future life, dead, death, spirit possession, ghosts, spirits, ghost stories, fantasy fiction
The Shadow Club
A high school boy and his friends decide to form a club of "second bests" and play anonymous tricks on each other's arch rivals.
FIC
year: 2002
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
The Dark Side Of Nowhere
Las Vegas...it's not. For Jason Miller, Billington is the definition of dull.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 12
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 850
subjects: extraterrestrial beings, identity, science fiction, individuality, identity (psychology), cyber weaponry - fiction, ala award, identity (philosophical concept), juvenile fiction / fantasy & magic, juvenile fiction / action & adventure / general, juvenile fiction / social issues / friendship, science fiction
Dread Locks
Accustomed to a carefree existence, fourteen-year-old Parker Baer meets the girl next door and finds his life taking a menacing turn as he begins to absorb some of her terrible powers.
FIC
year: 2006
copies: 29
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: fear, friendship, family life, supernatural, schools, family, school stories, paranormal fiction, families
Downsiders
When fourteen-year-old Lindsay meets Talon and discovers the Downsiders world which had evolved from the subway built in New York in 1867 by Alfred Ely Beach, she and her new friend experience the clash of their two cultures.
FIC
year: 2001
copies: 27
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1110