Jesse Vilinsky
101) Lucky girl
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"58,642,129. That's how many dollars seventeen-year-old-Fortuna Jane Belleweather just won in the lotto jackpot. It's also about how many reasons she has for not coming forward to claim her prize. Problem #1: Jane is still a minor, and if anyone discovers she bought the ticket underage, she'll either have to forfeit the ticket, or worse... Problem #2: Let her hoarder mother cash it. The last thing Jane's mom needs is millions of dollars to buy more...
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Description
"Nature abhors a straight line. The natural world is a place of curves and softened edges, of gentle mists and welcoming spirals. Nature remembers deviation; nature does not forgive... For Harlowe Upton-Jones, life has never been a straight line. Shipped off to live with her paternal grandparents after a mysterious cult killed her mother and father, she has grown up chasing the question behind the curve, becoming part of a tight-knit teen detective...
103) Finding Grace
Author
Pub. Date
20220412
Description
California: Twelve-year-old Melanie has been in foster care her whole life, moving from home to home--unloved and unwanted. She has found a kind of happiness with her recent foster family, Delilah and Ray. But Melanie has a secret, one she knows she can never share. Someone talks to Melanie, a presence no-one else can see or hear. Melanie calls her Penny and Penny has a message for her: something very bad is about to happen. New York: Louise has spent...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Rome, 1943: University student Marina Tozzi is on her way home when she finds out that her father has been killed for harboring a Jewish artist in their home. Fearful of the consequences, Marina flees to Villa I Tatti, the Florence villa of her father's American friend Bernard Berenson and his partner Belle da Costa Greene, the famed librarian who once curated J.P. Morgan's library. Florence is a hotbed of activity as partisans and Germans fight...
105) Cape
Author
Series
League of Secret Heroes volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Soon after being recruited by the mysterious Mrs. Boudica to join a secret military intelligence operation, Josie, Mae, and Akiko discover their superhero abilities and use them to thwart a Nazi plot to steal the ENIAC computer.
106) Always never yours
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Between rehearsals for the school play and managing her divided family, seventeen-year-old Megan meets aspiring playwright Owen Okita, who agrees to help her attract the attention of a cute stagehand in exchange for help writing his new script.
Author
Series
Gustav Gloom volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When Gustav convinces Fernie's safety-conscious father to enter the Gloom Mansion with Fernie and Perlie to help rescue Gustav's father from the Dark Country, there is a prison break from the Hall of Shadow Criminals, endangering them all.
Author
Series
Gustav Gloom volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Fernie What, an adventurous young horror fan, moves into the house across the street from the dark mansion of a mysterious boy whose residence is haunted by evil shadows.
109) Your blood, my bones
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"Wyatt Westlock has one plan for the farmhouse she's just inherited — to burn it to the ground. But during her final walkthrough of her childhood home, she makes a shocking discovery in the basement — Peter, the boy she once considered her best friend, strung up in chains and left for dead. Unbeknownst to Wyatt, Peter has suffered hundreds of ritualistic deaths on her family's property. Semi-immortal, Peter never remains dead for long, but he...
Author
Series
Gustav Gloom volume 4
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
While searching for their missing families, Gustav and Fernie discover a magical carousel that transports them to strange places.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
After arriving on a remote island to star in a reality television show, ten teen influencers find themselves caught in a deadly game, and as they receive threatening messages from a mysterious Sponsor, the influencers must figure out who is trying to "cancel" them before it is too late.
