LLC Playaway Products
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Legendary art restorer and spy Gabriel Allon joins forces with a brilliant and beautiful master-thief to track down the world's most valuable missing painting but soon finds himself in a desperate race to prevent an unthinkable conflict between Russia and the West"--
2) Zero days
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Hired by companies to break into buildings and hack security systems, Jack and her husband, Gabe, are the best penetration specialists in the business. But after a routine assignment goes horribly wrong, Jack arrives home to find her husband dead. To add to her horror, the police are closing in on their suspect--her. Suddenly on the run and quickly running out of options, Jack must decide who she can trust as she circles closer to the real killer...
3) Wonder
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
4) Thirst
Author
Series
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"A heroic girl in Mumbai fights for her belief that water should be for everyone"--
5) Tumble
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Large Print edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
1 audio-enhanced book (467 pages) : 23 cm ; 1 attached digital audio player.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Adela “Addie” Ramírez has a big decision to make when her stepfather proposes adoption. Addie loves Alex, the only father figure she’s ever known, but with a new half brother due in a few months and a big school theater performance on her mind, everything suddenly feels like it’s moving too fast. She has a million questions, and the first is about the young man in the photo she found hidden away in her mother’s things.
Addie’s...
Author
Publisher
Nightfire, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
""A joyful, furious romp through dark places, Tingle proves he's as good at fear as he is at love." --T. Kingfisher, bestselling author of What Moves the Dead. From beloved internet icon Chuck Tingle, Camp Damascus is a searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community face in America, the price of keeping secrets, and finding the courage to burn it all down. Welcome to Neverton, Montana: home to a God-fearing community with a...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sadie Montogmery has had good breaks and bad breaks in her life, but as a struggling artist, all she needs is one lucky break. Things seem to be going her way when she lands one of the coveted finalist spots in a portrait competition. It happens to coincide with a surgery she needs to have. Minor, they say. Less than a week in the hospital they say. Nothing about you will change, they say. Upon recovery, it begins to dawn on Sadie that she can see...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home. In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce to health, he uncovers her dangerous secret, one that imperils...
Author
Series
Publisher
Neon Squid (St. Martin's Press)
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 audio-enhanced book (32 pages) : color illustrations ; 23 cm ; 1 attached digital audio player.
Language
English
Description
You might know that baby koalas spend time in their mother’s pouches, but there’s so much more to learn about these Australian marsupials! Turn the pages to discover why they spend 15 hours a day asleep, and how scientists use drones to monitor koala populations. Filled with simple science and plenty of animal facts, this book also explains why koalas love to munch eucalyptus leaves, and why they are most certainly not bears! It also looks at...
10) Odder
Author
Series
Publisher
Listening Library, a trademark of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (2.5 hours) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she’s known. She’s a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself―and about the humans who hope to save her.
Inspired by the true story of a Monterey...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
1 audio-enhanced book (102 pages) : illustrations ; 20 cm ; 1 attached digital audio player.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Mary and her Cherokee family are forced out of their home in Georgia by U.S. soldiers in May 1838. From the beginning of the forced move, Mary and her family are separated from her father. Facing horrors such as internment, violence, disease, and harsh weather, Mary perseveres and helps keep her family and friends together until they can reach the new Cherokee nation in Indian Territory. Featuring nonfiction support material, a glossary,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Herc Beal knows who he's named after--a mythical hero--but he's no superhero. He's the smallest kid in his class. So when his homeroom teacher at his new middle school gives him the assignment of duplicating the mythical Hercules's amazing feats in real life, he's skeptical. After all, there are no Nemean Lions on Cape Cod--and not a single Hydra in sight.
Missing his parents terribly and wishing his older brother wasn't working all the time, Herc...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from--there were no trains or tracks, only "conductors" who helped escaping slaves to freedom. Including real stories about "passengers" on the "Railroad," this book chronicles slaves' close calls with bounty hunters, exhausting struggles on the road, and what they sacrificed for freedom. With 80 black-and-white illustrations throughout and a sixteen-page black-and-white photo insert, the Underground...
14) Amara's farm
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
There are many plants on Amara's farm. Today is the day she looks for her pumpkins.
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
313 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
While attending a month-long writing retreat at the estate of a feminist horror writer who issues a life-changing challenge, Alex, determined to win this seemingly impossible contest, ignores the strange happenings around her until the disappearance of a fellow writer leads her on a desperate search for the truth.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Trapped in a trunk, five puppets--a king, a wolf, a girl, a boy, and an owl--bicker, boast, and comfort one another in the dark. Individually, they dream of song and light, freedom and flight, purpose and glory, but they all agree that they are part of a larger story, bound to one another by chance and bonded by the heart's mysteries. When at last their shared fate arrives, landing them on a mantel in a blue room in the home of two little girls, the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Playaway Products, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First US edition ;
Physical Desc
1 audio-enhanced book (123 pages) : color illustrations ; 24 cm ; 1 attached digital audio player.
Language
English
Description
The twenty fables and folktales in this illustrated storybook have taken a long journey. Many have roots that stretch across Europe, Asia, and Africa, but when award-winning writer and gatherer of tales Rodaan Al Galidi learned them in his homeland of Iraq, it was as Arabic folktales and as part of the Arabic storytelling tradition. When he migrated to the Netherlands, he shaped twenty of those tales into his debut book for children, which was translated...
20) Runaway Ralph
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ralph, a victim of the generation gap, rides his cycle away from his unsympathetic family only to be imprisoned in a summer camp.