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1) Elsewhere
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since his wife left them, Jeffy Coltrane has worked to maintain a normal life for himself and his eleven-year-old daughter, Amity, but when a local eccentric entrusts Jeffy with hiding a strange device that allows people to jump between parallel planes, he and his daughter must outwit a man determined to obtain the device and use its grand potential for profound evil or the place that they call home may never be safe again.
Author
Series
Bright Empires volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
385 p.
Language
English
Author
Series
The Peri Reed Chronicles volume . 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
422 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Set in a futuristic Detroit, drafter Peri Reed discovers her name on a list of corrupt operatives and her only hope to learn the truth is to team up with a rogue soldier.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Avenue of Mysteries, Juan Diego--a fourteen-year-old boy, who was born and grew up in Mexico--has a thirteen-year-old sister. Her name is Lupe, and she thinks she sees what's coming--specifically, her own future and her brother's. Lupe is a mind reader; she doesn't know what everyone is thinking, but she knows what most people are thinking. Regarding what has happened, as opposed to what will, Lupe is usually right about the past; without your...
Author
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2017
Physical Desc
8 sound discs (10 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
You Are the Universe guides the listener into a realm in which each of us has the power to transform our personal existence, while at the same time fashioning a bold hew story about how time, space, matter, and energy came into existence.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of perhaps the most bestselling and beloved literary fiction of our time comes a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring novel about children on the cusp of adulthood in a broken world, who find resilience, hope, and story. The heroes of Cloud Cuckoo Land are children trying to figure out the world around them, and to survive. In the besieged city of Constantinople in 1453, in a public library in Lakeport,...
7) The operator
Author
Series
Peri Reed chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Gallery Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
468 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Peri Reed's job eats her mind, but for a special task agent in hiding, forgetting the past can be a blessing. Betrayed by the man she thought she loved and the agency who turned her into the very thing she fought against, Peri abandoned the wealth and privilege of Opti for anonymity riddled with memory gaps and self-doubt. But when a highly addictive drug promises to end her dependency on those who'd use her as a tool for their own success, she must...
Author
Language
English
Description
"The essential universe, from our most celebrated and beloved astrophysicist. What is the nature of space and time? How do we fit within the universe? How does the universe fit within us? There's no better guide through these mind-expanding questions than acclaimed astrophysicist and best-selling author Neil deGrasse Tyson. But today, few of us have time to contemplate the cosmos. So Tyson brings the universe down to Earth succinctly and clearly,...
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
192 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Annie, Edward, and their young daughter, Rose, live in a cramped apartment. One night, without warning, they find a beautiful terrace hidden in their closet. It wasn't there before, and it seems to only appear when their friend Stephanie visits. A city dweller's dream come true! But every extra bit of space has a hidden cost, and the terrace sets off a seismic chain of events, forever changing the shape of their tiny home, and the shape of the world"--...
10) The spirit well
Author
Series
Bright Empires volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson, Inc
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
377 p.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
210 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The summer after senior year, Annie, wishing she could have lived a hundred years ago in a more romantic time, finds herself in the 1890s and it is indeed romantic--and very painful.
12) The Becoming
Author
Series
The dragon heart legacy volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A new epic of love and war among gods and humans, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Awakening. The world of magick and the world of man have long been estranged from one another. But some can walk between the two-including Breen Siobhan Kelly. She has just returned to Talamh, with her friend, Marco, who's dazzled and disoriented by this realm-a place filled with dragons and faeries and mermaids (but no WiFi, to his chagrin). In...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
As eighteen-year-old Marguerite struggles to get to the heart of the corrupt company that almost killed her father, she tries to save the boy she loves, whose soul is scattered in various dimensions.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Gottie Oppenheimer, a seventeen-year-old physics prodigy, navigates grief, love, and disruptions in the space-time continuum in one very eventful summer.
16) The Time Fetch
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When the Time Fetch's foragers gobble up too much time, causing the fabric of the universe to unravel and blur the boundaries between worlds and dimensions, eighth-grade loner Edward and his classmates must band together to save the day.
17) Lord Sunday
Author
Series
Keys to the kingdom volume 7
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
320 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Arthur Penhaligon seeks to find the seventh key, complete his quest to save the kingdom to which he is heir, and learn his true identity, he discovers that he has a greater purpose than he could have imagined.
18) Island of glass
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The final Guardians Trilogy novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Bay of Sighs and Stars of Fortune. As the hunt for the Star of Ice leads the six guardians to Ireland, Doyle, the immortal, must face his tragic past. Three centuries ago, he closed off his heart, yet his warrior spirit is still drawn to the wild. And there's no one more familiar with the wild than Riley--and the wolf within her... An archaeologist, Riley is no stranger...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1977
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
ix, 269 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the Welsh hills Will Stanton, youngest of the immortal Old Ones, joins forces with Merriman, Bran, and the mortal Drew children in a quest through space and time against the powers of evil known as the Dark.
20) Switch
Author
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
225 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Set in a parallel version of America where time has stopped, the novel tells the story of one teenage girl trying to untangle her toxic family's secrets--and maybe restart the world's clocks in the process"--