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1) Air awakens
Author
Series
Air awakens volume 1
Publisher
Silver Wing Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A library apprentice unknowingly saves the life of a member of the magic secret society "Tower of Sorcerers" and discovers her own magical powers. Now, Vhalla Yarl must choose to stay in her quiet, reclusive life of books or join the forces of the sorcery elite.
2) You couldn't ignore me if you tried: the Brat Pack, John Hughes, and their impact on a generation
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
You can quote lines from Sixteen Candles ("Last night at the dance my little brother paid a buck to see your underwear"), your iPod playlist includes more than one song by the Psychedelic Furs and Simple Minds, you watch The Breakfast Club every time it comes on cable, and you still wish that Andie had ended up with Duckie in Pretty in Pink. You're a bonafide Brat Pack devotee-and you're not alone.
The films of the Brat Pack-from Sixteen Candles...
Author
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Katy Upperman's How the Light Gets In is a haunting YA audiobook about a teen coping with the loss of her sibling.
Since her sister's tragic death, seventeen-year-old Callie Ryan has basically given up. Her grades have plummeted, she's quit her swim team, and she barely recognizes the people her parents once were.
When she returns to her aunt's run-down coastal Victorian one year after Chloe's death, Callie resigns herself to a summer of guilt...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
We have a glut of text and trade books on American history. But what we don't have is a compact, inexpensive, authoritative, and compulsively readable book that will offer to American readers a clear, informative, and inspiring narrative account of their own country. Such an account can shape and deepen their sense of the land they inhabit and, by making them understand that land's roots, and share in its memories, will equip them for the privileges...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
I Capture the Castle tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cassandra and her family, who live in not-so-genteel poverty in a ramshackle old English castle. Here she strives, over six turbulent months, to hone her writing skills. She fills three notebooks with sharply funny yet poignant entries. Her journals candidly chronicle the great changes that take place within the castle's walls, and her own first descent into love. By the time she pens her...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Giovanna's pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into her Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly despise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is. Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that fear...
7) Cinder
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Cinder, a gifted mechanic and a cyborg with a mysterious past, is blamed by her stepmother for her stepsister's illness while a deadly plague decimates the population of New Beijing, but when Cinder's life gets intertwined with Prince Kai's, she finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle.
Author
Series
Prairie Legacy volume 2
Language
English
Description
The Yearning Deep Inside Her--to Go Somewhere, Discover Something, Be a Part of the World About Her in a New Way--Would Not Go Away. But What Would Satisfy It? In The Tender Years, Virginia Simpson managed to struggle through adolescence and was looking forward to stepping into adulthood. When her graduation day arrives, she walks to the podium as the class valedictorian to the proud grins of her grandparents, Marty and Clark Davis. College beckoned,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
With their town sliding underwater and everyone being ordered to leave, Keeley and her friends gather to make the most of every minute they have left together, prompting Keeley to take a final chance at winning over a longtime crush.
Author
Series
Blue Lock volume 10
Publisher
Kodansha USA Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
The rematch against the Top Three requires all the players to use their 'weapons' to the fullest. Isagi has made it his goal to defeat Rin Itoshi and steal back Bachira, but he once again finds himself outclassed by Rin in every area. Can Isagi find a way to devour Rin? And what does Bachira's 'monster' have to say about all this?--
Author
Series
Daughter of the pirate king volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"When her father, the ruthless pirate king, discovers that a legendary treasure map can be found on an enemy ship, his daughter Alosa knows that there's only one pirate for the job herself. Leaving behind her beloved ship and crew, Alosa deliberately facilitates her own kidnapping to ensure her welcome on the ship"--
Author
Series
Summerhill secrets volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Merry befriends Elton, an artistically talentedboy whom some of her eighth grade classmates call retarded, she must find a way to prove that he is notresponsible for the damage at the farm of her Amish friend, Rachel.
14) Ethan Frome
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Upon encountering the limping Ethan Frome, a visitor becomes curious about the striking man's back story. Using extended flashbacks, author Edith Wharton paints a picture of a man who continually sacrifices his aspirations in order to care for the needy people in his life. After abandoning his goal of higher education to assist his ailing parents on their farm, Ethan's return to Starkfield results in a loveless marriage of service to Zeena, an older...
15) 27 hours
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Series
Language
English
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Description
During one twenty-seven-hour night, four youths from very different backgrounds must stop the war between the colonies and an army of monsters while handling their own worst fears and secret desires.
16) Howards End
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 25
Language
English
Description
The disregard of a dying woman's bequest, a girl's attempt to help an impoverished clerk, and the marriage of an idealist and a materialist intersect at an estate called Howards End. There, the lives of three families become entangled. The Wilcoxes, who own the estate, are a wealthy family who made their fortune in the American colonies. The Schlegel siblings-Margaret, Helen, and Tibby-are lively socialites whose spirited and active lifestyles are...
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Lo Denham wants to expose the Unity Project as a cult and reconnect with her indoctrinated sister, but as she immerses herself in the group with no signs of Bea, Lo begins to question everything she thought was true.
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a radiant world of endless summer, the Intercept keeps the peace. Violet Crowley, the sixteen-year-old daughter of New Earth's Founding Father, has spent her life in comfort and safety. Her days are easy thanks to the Intercept, a crime-prevention device that monitors emotion. But when her long-time crush, Danny Mayhew, gets into a dangerous altercation on Old Earth, Violet launches a secret investigation to find out what he's hiding. An investigation...
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Language
English
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Description
The Mahoney brothers are the gold boys of Rutherford Institute. Theo is popular and beloved. But he's hiding something. Jasper is studious and focused. But he isn't as impenetrable as he seems. Collins Pruitt is going to expose them for who they really are. She will earn their trust-and then she'll ruin them. Unless she gets what she wants. Even if that means her own secrets may be exposed. But as she's pulled further into Theo's and Jasper's orbit,...
20) Fever, 1793
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1793 Philadelphia, 16-year-old Matilda Cook, separated from her sick mother, learns about perseverance and self-reliance when she is forced to cope with the horrors of a yellow fever epidemic.
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