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1) The dark sun
Author
Series
Bamboo kingdom volume 4
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Bamboo Kingdom is once again safely led by guidance of a real Dragon Speaker-three Dragon Speakers, in fact! But a troubling vision from the Great Dragon warns of a "Dark Sun" coming soon. And while Rain, Leaf, and Ghost argue amongst themselves about what it means, the monkeys are hatching a plan to use this moment of uncertainty to their best advantage... Unless the pandas learn to trust each other, their biggest challenges may still lurk on...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Audio
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
Gathering at their lush winery estate for a joint birthday celebration, the Van Ness siblings, heirs to a copper fortune, find old tensions ignited as they are pushed to the edge during this tradition that turns into a weekend to die for.
3) Waverider
Author
Series
Amulet volume 9
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
239 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
This electrifying conclusion to the #1 New York times best-selling series follows Emily as she travels to Typhon to confront the fraud who has seized power in the absence of a king and must rely on new friends and old enemies to survive the threat of darkness.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2024
Physical Desc
224 pages : 400 color illus. ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
Twins have captivated the imagination for centuries, occupying a unique place in our cultural and scientific history. Twinkind looks at twins in myth and legend; anatomy, sociology, and genetics; and as sources of spectacle, entertainment, and community. Drawing on hundreds of striking and sometimes haunting illustrations, William Viney examines depictions of twins as protagonists in creation stories ranging from Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca in Aztec...
Author
Series
The Wingfeather saga volume 3
Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
xiii, 333 pages : illustrations, map, genealogical table ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The three Igiby siblings, heirs to a legendary kingdom across the sea, find refuge from the Fangs of Dang in the Green Hollows, but Kalmar's monstrous appearance raises suspicion.
6) Alebrijes
Author
Series
Publisher
Levine Querido, distributed by Chronicle Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
404 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
For over 400 years, the world has been a barren wasteland. The few humans that survive scrape together an existence in the cruel city of Pocatel--or go it alone in the wilderness beyond, filled with wandering spirits and wyrms. They don't last long.
13 year-old pickpocket Leandro and his sister Gabi do what they can to forge a life in Pocatel. The city does not take kindly to Cascabeles like them--the descendants of those who worked the San Joaquin...
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
©2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
118 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a sister and brother agree to help a talking spider find her missing child, they don't realize that it will take them on a journey across the globe! Along the way they'll meet spiders who live in every environment imaginable, from their own backyard to the Australian Outback. Although they seem scary at first, once you learn why spiders have gotten such a bad reputation you'll see that they are actually here to help!"--
Author
Series
Sort of super volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Aladdin edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven year-old superhero Wyatt Flynn and his little sister Adeline go to Camp Igneous, where they secretly explore a mysterious volcano which may be a key piece in the puzzle of what happened to their missing mother.
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nothing about Kess Pedrock's life is normal. Not her home (she lives in her family's Unnatural History Museum), not her interests (hunting for megafauna fossils and skeletons), and not her best friend (a talking demon's head in a jar named Shrunken Jim). But things get even stranger than usual when Kess meets Lilou Starling, the new girl in town. Lilou comes to Kess for help breaking a mysterious curse--and the only clue she has leads straight into...
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books, an imprint of Tundra Book Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
The books they write are tiny, but the worlds inside them are huge...
Many years ago, the four motherless children of the Bronte family--Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne--lived in a windswept house at the edge of the moors with their father.
Hungry for stories, the Brontes devoured poetry and fables, history and novels.
And with the gift of a set of toy soldiers, they were inspired to make tiny books and write stories of their own... a passion...
12) Parachute Kids
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Feng-Li can't wait to discover America with her family! But after an action-packed vacation, her parents deliver shocking news: they are returning to Taiwan and leaving Feng-Li and her older siblings in California on their own.
Suddenly, the three kids must fend for themselves in a strange new world--and get along. Starting a new school, learning a new language, and trying to make new friends while managing a household is hard enough, but Bro and...
13) Into the light
Author
Publisher
Tor Publishing Group, Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
442 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old queer adoptee Manny, now homeless, sets out to find his sister Elena, who is still enmeshed in Christ's Dominion, the community that abandoned him, but the journey is fraught with danger, as he is forced to confront the religious trauma from his past.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree Teen, an imprint of Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition ;
Physical Desc
227 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
1836, Wisconsin.
Catalina lives with her pa and brother in a ramshackle cabin on the edge of the wilderness. Mama died years ago, and the harsh winters have brought the family to the brink of starvation. Catalina has replaced her poet's soul with an unyielding determination to keep Pa and her brother alive, period.
When Pa takes suddenly ill, Catalina tries everything to revive him. But as soon as the illness claims him, a strange man appears--a...
Author
Series
Amulet volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After her confrontation with Ikol, Emily finally understands the stone's power and what she must do to defend Alledia from the shadows. As she travels to Typhon to help her mom and Navin, Prince Trellis returns to the Kingdom of the Elves to save his countrymen -- and confront the fraud who has seized power in the absence of a king. The threat of darkness follows all Stonekeepers closely, and it will take the strength of both new friends and old foes...
Author
Series
Cat Kid Comic Club volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"The Cat Kid Comic Club is in crisis! After learning that one of their comics will be published, the baby frogs are filled with anxiety and doubt. How will they get their creative groove back? Will Naomi or Melvin emerge as a leader? Will Flippy convince them to finally straighten up and fly right?"--
17) It found us
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Hazel, a twelve-year-old aspiring detective, must decode a series of ominous clues tied to a century-old tragedy to find a missing teenager before it is too late.
18) Hunger winter
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
253 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When his older sister Els, a Resistance fighter, is arrested by the Gestapo, thirteen-year-old Dirk takes his little sister, Anna, across the war-torn Netherlands seeking their father, who is also in the Dutch Resistance. Includes an interview with the author, discussion questions, and timeline.
Author
Series
Mr. Pants volume 3
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
127 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
As Halloween approaches Mr. Pants, his mom and sisters, share a series of adventures as they choose costumes and get stuck at the airport when they miss their flight.
20) The collected
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
September 2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Josie plays with dolls ... and the dolls play back. A girl's inheritance from her grandmother includes a book of magic and a lurking enemy.