Small as an Elephant

by Jennifer Richard Jacobson
Lexile:  790
Genre:  Realistic Fiction

Eleven year old Jack Martel is excited to be on an end of the summer camping trip in Maine with his mother.  They have all kinds of things planned until Jack wakes up one morning and discovers that his mom is gone.  Jack doesn't panic because this isn't the first time his mom as disappeared.  Jack has had to take care of his mom off and on over the years and knows that if he wants to be able to continue to live with her, he needs to find her, before she gets in trouble for leaving him behind.  But looking for his mom in Maine, isn't the same as looking for her in their Boston neighborhood.  Jack has no money, only determination.  Will he find his mom before someone figures out he's all alone?

33 Minutes

by Todd Hasak-Lowy
Lexile:  970
Genre:  Realistic Fiction

Sam Lewis has 33 minutes before he gets his butt kicked by his ex-best friend Morgan Sturtz.  Sam isn't quite sure how things got to this point in less than a year.  Morgan and Sam used to hang out all the time, until the new kid, Chris, moved in down the street.  Now all Morgan cares about is football and making mistakes in school.  Sam is probably one of the smartest kids in the school, but when it comes to this friendship, he just can't figure out what went wrong.

The Rise of Nine

by Pittacus Lore
Lexile:  750
Genre:  Science Fiction

This is the third book in the I am Number Four series.  First there was Four, who found number Six, who went searching for Seven and found a bonus - number Ten.  Now Four has found Nine.  Will they all be able to gather in one place, refine and strengthen their Legacy powers and defeat the Mogadorians once and for all?  If they want to save the Lorien race, they have no other option left.