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2) White Fang
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
White Fang is a novel by American author Jack London (1876–1916) — and the name of the book's eponymous character, a wild wolf dog. First serialized in Outing magazine, it was published in 1906. The story takes place in Yukon Territory, Canada, during the 1890s Klondike Gold Rush and details White Fang's journey to domestication. It is a companion novel (and a thematic mirror) to London's best-known work, The Call of the Wild, which is about a...
Author
Series
(Sam Smith)Green ember (Series) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Heather and Picket are extraordinary rabbits with ordinary lives until calamitous events overtake them, spilling them into a cauldron of misadventures. They discover that their own story is bound up in the tumult threatening to overwhelm the wider world. Kings fall and kingdoms totter. Tyrants ascend and terrors threaten. Betrayal beckons, and loyalty is a broken road with peril around every bend.
4) Meg's story
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
81 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Meg receives an invitation to a friend's picnic but Jo does not, Meg must decide whether to decline in loyalty to her sister or to follow her heart and attend.
Author
Series
Remnant chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
473 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Held captive in the barbarian kingdom of Venda, Princess Lia must make powerful choices that will affect her country, her people, and her own destiny.
Author
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In a post-Second Civil War lawless West, sharpshooter Serendipity "Pity" Jones stars in, and lives at, the Theater Vespertine, but there is a dark cost to her freedom that Pity may not be willing to pay.
Author
Series
Testing volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The United Commonwealth wants to eliminate the rebel alliance fighting to destroy The Testing for good.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First North American edition.
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Respectable facades fall to the wayside when a secret between two young friends raises the suspicions of an increasingly obsessed teacher and a mother who has discovered sinister truths about her husband's nature.
9) Embassytown
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
345 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Green Ember archer volume 1
Publisher
Story Warren Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"A Green Ember story set during Heather and Picket's arrival at Cloud Mountain, The Last Archer follows the journey of Jo Shanks. Jo is a gifted archer with a burden on his back and a fire within. Eager to see the Longtreaders receive justice, he travels from his Halfwind Citadel home to a Cloud Mountain poised on the brink of war. What he finds there will confront his convictions and test his resolve as the war begins and King Jupiter's heir is revealed....
12) The novice
Author
Series
Summoner volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When blacksmith apprentice Fletcher discovers that he has the ability to summon demons from another world, he travels to Adept Military Academy where must decide where his loyalties lie. The fate of an empire is in his hands.
13) The kiss
Author
Series
Witch and wizard volume 4
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having helped her brother defeat the ruthless dictator who overshadowed their world, powerful witch Wisty Allgood falls in love with the mysterious, magic-wielding Heath and makes an excruciating choice when a merciless Wizard King threatens the land with war.
14) 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?
15) Tiger honor
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
247 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old nonbinary tiger spirit Sebin must decide where their loyalties lie when their traitorous uncle hijacks the battle cruiser that happens to be Sebin's first assignment in the Cadet Program.
16) Blowback
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"No one should be above the law-not even the president-in Blowback, "The perfect beach read for political junkies"(Kirkus). US President Keegan Barrett has swept into office on his success as Director of the CIA. Six months into his first term, he devises a clandestine power grab with deadly consequences. Barrett personally orders CIA agents Liam Grey and Noa Himel to execute his plan, but their loyalties are divided. The CIA serves at the pleasure...
18) Squire
Author
Language
English
Description
Born a second-class citizen, Aiza has always dreamt of becoming a Knight. It's the highest military honor in the once-great Bayt-Sajji Empire and, as a member of the recently colonized Ornu people, it's her only way to full citizenship. Now, ravaged by famine and mounting tensions between the different provinces, Bayt-Sajji finds itself on the brink of war again, and Aiza can finally enlist in the competitive Squire training program.
It's not how...
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2006 Julia Lerner is living in Moscow, a recent university graduate in computer science, when she's recruited by Russia's largest intelligence agency. By 2018 she's in Silicon Valley as COO of Tangerine, one of America's most famous technology companies. In between her executive management (make offers to promising startups, crush them and copy their features if they refuse); self promotion (check out her latest op-ed in the WSJ, on Work/Life...
20) Allegiant
Author
Series
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 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?