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17341) Sworn to raise
Author
Series
Courtlight volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ciardis has grown up in poverty, a cleaner in a small vale on the outskirts of the empire. But beneath her empire's seemingly idyllic surface lies a hidden secret. Whispers of an inept crown Prince are growing ever louder--intensified by the five year anniversary of the soulbond initiations. But she must master those skills quickly. If the legends are true, only Ciardis can harness the power to raise a Prince in an Imperial Court...
17342) Thrust: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"From the visionary author of The Book of Joan and The Small Backs of Children, an epic novel tracing the conception and construction of a colossal statue-and the lives of two centuries of immigrants navigating its turbulent wake "Lidia Yuknavitch is a writer who, with each ever more triumphant book, creates a new language with which she writes the audacious stories only she can tell," Roxane Gay has written. Now, Yuknavitch bridges the nineteenth...
17343) Hocus Pocus
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
After accidentally bringing the Sanderson Sisters back from the dead, Max, Dani, and Allison race to stop their plans to torment Salem for all of eternity.
17344) Planetfall
Author
Series
Planetfall novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"From Emma Newman, the award-nominated author of Between Two Thorns, comes a novel of how one secret withheld to protect humanity's future might be its undoing... Renata Ghali believed in Lee Suh-Mi's vision of a world far beyond Earth, calling to humanity. A planet promising to reveal the truth about our place in the cosmos, untainted by overpopulation, pollution, and war. Ren believed in that vision enough to give up everything to follow Suh-Mi...
17345) Outpost
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
The first book in a thrilling new sci-fi action adventure, set on Donovan, a treacherous alien planet where corporate threats and dangerous creatures imperil the lives of the planet's inhabitants. A ghost ship, the Freelander, appears in orbit. Missing for two years, she arrives with a crew dead of old age, and reeks of a bizarre death-cult ritual that deters any ship from attempting a return journey. It may be worth the risk, for a brutal killer...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
A lyrical nonfiction picture book about the inspired life of C. S. Lewis, the beloved author of the Chronicles of Narnia--from Free as a Bird author-illustrator Lina Maslo. Perfect for fans of The Important Thing About Margaret Wise Brown and Some Writer!: The Story of E.B. White. This nonfiction picture book is an excellent choice to share during homeschooling, in particular for children ages 4 to 6. It's a fun way to learn to read and as a supplement...
17347) Daughter of the Bone Forest
Author
Series
Witch Hall volume 1
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Rosy is a bone familiar, gifted with the power to shift into animals marked with exposed bone. She spends most of her days in the magical Bone Forest, caring for her feral grandmother and hiding her powers to avoid conscription by the Witch King’s army. Until the day that Princess Shaw, a witch known as Death’s Heir, visits the Forest. When Rosy saves Shaw’s life, the princess offers her the chance to attend the prestigious school, Witch Hall,...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Description
From Last Call to On Stranger Tides to Declare to Three Days to Never, any book by the inimitable Tim Powers is a wonder. With Hide Me Among the Graves, it's possible that the uniquely ingenious Powers has surpassed even himself. A breathtaking historical thriller in which art and the supernatural collide, Hide Me Among the Graves transports readers back to mid-19th century London and features a reformed ex-prostitute, a veterinarian, and the vampire...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Cassie is drawn into the Secret Circle, a coven of young witches whose power has controlled New Salem for three hundred years, and when she falls hopelessly in love with the leader's boyfriend, she is tempted to use dark powers.
17350) Pirates of Underwhere
Author
Series
Underwhere volume 2
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Stephanie, Zeke, Hector, and their cats return to Underwhere to find the magic Brush of Wisdom.
17351) A home in the sky
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this modern version of Jack and the beanstalk, Jack trades his bike for some magic beans, and climbs the beanstalk to the apartment of Mr. Briareus, a large man with a magic chicken and a singing harp.
17352) Dead guy spy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When fifth-grader Nathan Abercrombie, a half-dead zombie whose body cannot heal itself, is approached by messengers from the Bureau of Useful Misadventures (B.U.M.) and offered the chance for a cure if he will become a spy, he doesn't realize that B.U.M. is not exactly trustworthy.
17353) Fire and flight
Author
Formats
Description
A graphic novel in which Cutter, leader of the Wolfriders, a tribe of forest-dwelling elves, seeks sanctuary from vengeful humans, treacherous trolls, and other threats to their way of life.
17354) Heart of stone
Author
Series
Gargoyles volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Awoken from his eternal sleep by Ella, a mere mortal, gargoyle Kees, one of a group of supernatural guardians created to protect the world from the seven demons of the Dark, discovers that she is the key to uncovering his new mission.
17355) Fairy lies
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Half-fairy Tamisin and her boyfriend, Jak, have been arguing over whether she should return to the land of the fey when Oberon, king of the fairies, kidnaps her and Jak must return to that place of fairies, goblins, and sphinxes to rescue her.
17356) Lola Fluffywhiskers pops up
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Join Lily and Jess on Magic Mountain, where all of Friendship Forest's special magic grows. But when the magic crystals start not working properly, the girls know wicked Grizelda is behind it. Can tiny chipmunk Lola Fluffywhiskers help, before magic is lost from Friendship Forest forever?" --back cover
17358) The darkest edge of dawn
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Description
"Deep beneath Underground, a cunning bid for power and revenge has begun--one that threatens to make Atlanta the new battleground in the ultimate confrontation between good and evil. The powers of hellish Charbydon have the upper hand after plunging the city into primordial night. And under the cover of darkness, a serial killer targets the most powerful Elysians in the city, the angelic Adonai. For Detective Charlie Madigan and her siren partner...
17359) Child of a rainless year
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Remembering her exotic Las Vegas, New Mexico childhood, the flamboyant mother who abandoned her, and the foster parents who agreed to change their identities in order to adopt her, Mira Fenn returns to the home of her past and discovers her own latent powers.
17360) Superhero squad
Author
Series
Lightning girl volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Ten-year-old Aurora Beam discovers that she's the latest in a long line of girl super heroes in her family and is able to shoot beams of light from her fingers, but she's finding this saving-the-world lark isn't all it's cracked up to be. World-famous overnight, Aurora is living in the full glare of the media's flash bulbs. When she attends a global gathering of superheroes, will she find support from new friends who know exactly what she's going...