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1041) Lucky broken girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1960s New York, fifth-grader Ruthie, a Cuban-Jewish immigrant, must rely on books, art, her family, and friends in her multicultural neighborhood when an accident puts her in a body cast.
1042) Narwhalicorn and Jelly
Author
Series
Narwhal and Jelly book volume 7
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
72 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the help of Star, Narwhal, who is now a Narwhalicorn, and Jelly embark on an out-of-this-world adventure to a planet filled with unicorns, but when Jelly wishes he were back home, Narwhal must find a way to cheer him up.
1043) Promise not to tell
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Seattle gallery owner Virginia Troy has spent years battling the demons that stem from her childhood time in a cult and the night a fire burned through the compound, killing her mother. And now one of her artists has taken her own life, but not before sending Virginia a last picture: a painting that makes Virginia doubt everything about the so-called suicide-- and her own past. Like Virginia, private investigator Cabot Sutter was one of the children...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
209 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Isabel has been sheltered in a high-society world. All that changes, when she breaches an invisible barrier, and steps into a magical and dangerous city where war rages between the fairies of the Seelie and Unseelie Courts.
Author
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In WWII Denmark, Baron Henrik Ahlefeldt assumes the identity of a common shipyard worker, rowing messages to Sweden for the Resistance. His life depends on keeping his secret hidden-a task that proves challenging when he meets Else Jensen, an American physicist who seems to see right through him"--
Author
Series
Lumberjanes volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Five girls become instant best friends when they go to camp and discover there is a lot more to the summer than learning to how to paddle a canoe. Miss Qiunzella Thiskwin Penniquiqul Thistle Crumpet's Camp for Hardcore Lady Types is not your average summer camp and Jo, April, Mal, Molly, and Ripley are not your average campers. Between the river monsters, magic, and myths, this summer is only just beginning!
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mikki Brammer's The Collected Regrets of Clover is a big-hearted and life-affirming debut about a death doula who, in caring for others at the end of their life, has forgotten how to live her own, for readers of The Midnight Library. What's the point of giving someone a beautiful death if you can't give yourself a beautiful life? From the day she watched her kindergarten teacher drop dead during a dramatic telling of Peter Rabbit, Clover Brooks has...
1048) I Must Betray You
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.
1049) Inside out & back again
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Through a series of poems, a young girl chronicles the life-changing year of 1975, when she, her mother, and her brothers leave Vietnam and resettle in Alabama.
1050) Forest world
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
188 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sent to Cuba to visit the father he barely knows, Edver is surprised to meet a half-sister, Luza, whose plan to lure their cryptozoologist mother into coming there, too, turns dangerous.
1051) Holly: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
449 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Stephen King's HOLLY marks the triumphant return of beloved King character Holly Gibney. Readers have witnessed Holly's gradual transformation from a shy and reclusive (but also brave and ethical) homebody in Mr. Mercedes to Bill Hodges's partner in Finders Keepers and End of Watch to a full-fledged, smart and occasionally tough private detective on her own in The Outsider and If It Bleeds. In this new novel, Holly once again claims the spotlight,...
Author
Series
Cucumber quest volume 4
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
235 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In order to defeat the Nightmare Knight, legend dictates that the DreamSword must be autographed by seven princesses, but things get a bit complicated when our heroes discover that the flower kingdom has no royalty! Luckily, the "king" of fashion, Mr. R, is on the hunt for the new face of his style empire, and whoever catches his eye will be named "Princess R."
1053) Desert star
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
One year after leaving the force, LAPD detective Ren�ee Ballard returns to help Harry Bosch track down the killer who is responsible for the murder of his entire family.
1054) The first ladies
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune--an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian. The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Mary McLeod Bethune refuses to back down as white supremacists attempt to thwart her work. She marches on as an activist...
1055) The cursed coven
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It's finally summer vacation, but Buffy Summers isn't getting a break from vampire slaying...or from school. While Cleveland teens are going missing and Sarafina is growing closer with her older sister's witchy coven, Buffy is stuck splitting her time between classes during the day and patrolling for demons and dark creatures at night. Buffy feels crushed! Not only is she missing all the summer fun that she dreamed of, but her friendships are a hot...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Atria paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xiv, 324 pages : genealogical table ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The stars have shifted. The earth has turned. The time is here. I am dying. Come and collect your inheritance. The Montoyas are used to a life without explanations. They know better than to ask why the pantry never seems to run low or empty, or why their matriarch won't ever leave their home in Four Rivers--not for graduations, weddings, or baptisms. But when Orquídea Divina invites them to her funeral and to collect their inheritance, they hope...
Author
Publisher
Boom! Studios
Pub. Date
[2018].
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The second Sharg war has begun. As the alien invasion grows to a worldwide threat, the Mech Cadets answer the call alongside their robos to defend the planet. First year students, however, are grounded and forbidden from fighting on the front lines. But while training in secret, Stanford, Park, Olivetti, and Sanchez will discover that their enemy takes more shapes than they could have ever known.
1058) Girl on fire
Author
Publisher
Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
215 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author and 15-time GRAMMY® Award-winning artist Alicia Keys comes a new authentic and poignant coming-of-age young adult graphic novel, about finding the strength within when your whole world changes in an instant. Lolo Wright always thought she was just a regular fourteen-year-old dealing with regular family drama: her brother, James, is struggling with his studies; her dad's business constantly teeters on the edge...
1059) I will find you
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An innocent father serving life for the murder of his own son receives evidence that his child may still be alive, and must break out of prison to find out the truth"--
Author
Series
The Agnes Sharp mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
350 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"It has been an eventful morning for Agnes Sharp and the other inhabitants of Sunset Hall, a communal home for the old and unruly in the sleepy English countryside. Although they have had their share of issues (misplaced reading glasses, conflicting culinary tastes, mobility issues, and unruly grandsons), nothing prepares them for an unexpected visit from a police officer with some shocking news. The body of one of their neighbors was discovered earlier...