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Pub. Date
[2021]
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"'What is love?' a young boy asks. 'I can’t answer that,' his grandmother says, and so the boy goes out into the world to find out. But while each person he meets—the fisherman, the actor, and others—has an answer to his question, not one seems quite right. Could love really be a fish, or applause, or the night? Or could it actually be something much closer to home?" --publisher's website.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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"Baron Valdemar and his people have found a temporary haven, but it cannot hold all of them, or for long. Trouble could follow on their heels at any moment, and there are too many people for Crescent Lake to support. Those who are willing to make a further trek by barge on into the West will follow him into a wilderness depopulated by war and scarred by the terrible magics of a thousand years ago and the Mage Wars. But the wilderness is not as "empty"...
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"From the number one bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, a deeply suspenseful and heartrending novel about the unbreakable love between a mother and child in a society consumed by fear. Twelve-year-old Bird Gardner lives a quiet existence with his loving but broken father, a former linguist who now shelves books in Harvard University's library. Bird knows to not ask too many questions, stand out too much, or stray too far. For a decade,...
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Series
So B. it volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is. Living with her mentally disabled mother who only knows just over twenty words, young Heidi has learned to live in her special world until a new word is suddenly used and repeated by her mother; causing Heidi to think it might be a key to a secret past about which she knows so little....
5) Horizon
Author
Series
Above World volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Aluna and Hoku, Kampii from the City of Shifting Tides, and their friends, Equian Dash and winged Aviar Calli, are determined to stop a war. The maniacal ex-scientist Karl Strand is planning to conquer the world with his enormous army of tech-enhanced soldiers-- unless the four friends can get to Strand first. Aluna's plan is dangerous: pose as Upgraders and infiltrate the army. But the enemy isn't what they expected and the strategy begins to crumble....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 25
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An allegorical tale of survival about a band of wild rabbits who leave their ancestral home to build a more humane society chronicles their adventures as they search for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace
England's Downs were once an idyllic rural landscape, but plans for development are afoot. Facing the certain destruction of their homes, a band of very special creatures must plan a flight from the intrusion of...
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Pub. Date
2020, c2007.
Description
"On the outskirts of a northwestern European riverport city lives a powerful woman banker, a public figure admired and hated in equal measure, who has decided to turn from the worlds of high finance and modern life to embark on a quest. Having commissioned a famous writer to undertake her “authentic” biography, she journeys through the Spanish Sierra de Gredos and the region of La Mancha to meet him. As she travels by allterrain vehicle, bus,...
9) Ghost Hunter
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Series
Chronicles of ancient darkness volume 6
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In this final book of the "Chronicles of Ancient Darkness" series, Torak fulfills his destiny when he battles demons and tokoroths, and travels through the Gorge of the Hidden People to battle the evil Eagle Owl Mage on the Mountain of Ghosts. Meanwhile, Renn makes a life-changing decision and Wolf experiences unthinkable grief.
10) Key of valor
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Three woman. Three keys. Each has 28 days to find her way through a dangerous quest. Nora Roberts brings us a unique series with a twist-each novel is written in real time, and the novels will be published in consecutive months.
11) Torn: a novella
Pub. Date
2022
Description
In a world that is falling apart, four Tribes war with each other for leadership. The Elements, who are forced to fight, lose more courage everyday. Mortals flee their homes in lieu of natural disasters. The saving grace is a prophecy. The fate of the Tribes and the human race hangs in the balance of the sacred words being carried out.
Seventeen-year-old Remy Castillo had somewhat of a normal life, fighting for the Water Tribe in Northern Colorado....
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Elemental wars volume Book 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
Historical fiction. Fantasy fiction. A dying tree, a desperate quest, a love story, a last stand. Chonrad, Lord of Barle, comes to the fortified temple of Heartwood for the Congressus peace talks, which Heartwood's holy knights have called in an attempt to stave off war in Anguis. But the Arbor, Heartwood's holy tree, is failing, and because the land and its people are one, it is imperative the nations try to make peace. After the Veriditas, or annual...