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Author
Series
The walk volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
Continues the walking journey of Alan Christoffersen and recounts more of the experiences of betrayal and tragic loss that motivated his travels.
2) The walk
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After advertising executive Alan Christoffersen loses everything he holds dear, he embarks on a walk across America, a journey where he will meet people, form relationships, and learn important lessons as he walks to a new life.
Author
Language
English
Description
From her silver Mercedes to her designer kitchen, Molly's life is gleaming and beautiful, at least on the surface. Married to Tanner, a top cosmetic dentist, she has a wonderful daughter finishing high school and twin stepsons from Tanner's first marriage. No one in her exclusive neighborhood in Goldenhills, Massachusetts, knows what living with the demanding Tanner is really like. They know even less about the life she left behind in Florida almost...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The #1 internationally bestselling author returns with a new novel in the vein of her New York Times bestsellers Pretty Girls and The Good Daughter--a story even more electrifying, provocative, and suspenseful than anything she's written before. What if the person you thought you knew best turns out to be someone you never knew at all? Andrea knows everything about her mother, Laura. She knows she's spent her whole life in the small beachside town...
5) Pew
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
207 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A human-like creature emerges in a small town and sends the citizens into a frenzy"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Some days Nora Nolan thinks that she and her husband, Charlie, lead a charmed life--except when there's a crisis at work, a leak in the roof at home, or a problem with their twins at college. And why not? New York City was once Nora's dream destination, and her clannish dead-end block has become a safe harbor, a tranquil village amid the urban craziness. Then one morning she returns from her run to discover that a terrible incident has shaken the...
7) Insurgent
Author
Series
Divergent volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"As war surges in the dystopian society around her, sixteen-year-old Divergent Tris Prior must continue trying to save those she loves--and herself--while grappling with haunting questions of grief and forgiveness, identity and loyalty, politics and love"--
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by the tragic first-century massacre of hundreds of Jewish people at Masada presents the stories of a hated daughter, a baker's wife, a girl disguised as a warrior, and a medicine woman who keep doves and secrets while Roman soldiers draw near.
9) Criss cross
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
Author
Series
Books of Umber volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A boy awakens, blindfolded, with no memory of even his name, but soon meets Lord Umber, an adventurer and inventor, who calls him Happenstance and tells him that he has a very important destiny--and a powerful enemy.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Joy Candellaro used to love Christmas more than any other time of the year. Now, recently divorced and estranged from her sister, she can't summon the old enthusiasm for celebrating. So without telling anyone, she buys a ticket and boards a plane bound for the rural Northwest. Yet Joy's best-laid plans go terribly awry. The plane crashes deep in the darkness of a forest. Amid the towering trees, Joy makes a bold and desperate decision to leave her...
12) Irises
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
288 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kate and Mary must make some adult decisions about the course their lives should take when their father dies suddenly, leaving them with their mother, who has been in a vegetative state since an accident four years earlier.
13) Nothing
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Left behind by the family in whose attic he has been staying, a thing who has forgotten his name tries to find out who he is.
14) Friends for life
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Francis Meredith's interest in fashion makes him a target at school, but his life changes when he becomes friends with Andi, whose family is in the fashion business, and Jessica, a ghost who has no idea how she died.
15) Divergent
Author
Series
Divergent volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
16) Why am I me?
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
In a poetic, philosophical exchange, two children of different races ask themselves why they are who and what they are, and speculate on how they could be different.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After attending a powerful protest, Shayla starts wearing an armband to school to support the Black Lives Matter movement, but when the school gives her an ultimatum, she is forced to choose between her education and her identity.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
300 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
During World War II, eleven-year-old Felicity is sent from London to Bottlebay, Maine, to live with her grandmother, aunt, uncle, and a reclusive boy who helps her decode mysterious letters that contain the truth about her missing parents.
20) Allegiant
Author
Series
Divergent volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered--fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. But will she be prepared to face impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice and love?