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1) On the road
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Language
English
Description
Presents a thinly fictionalized autobiography of Jack Kerouac's cross-country adventure across North America on a quest for self-knowledge as experienced by his alter-ego, Sal Paradise and Sal's friend Dean Moriarty (Kerouac's real life friend Neal Cassady).
Author
Publisher
Focus on the Family
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
An inspiring fiction story from the bestselling author of War RoomGrayson Hayes doesn't remember things as well as he used to, but he's sure his time is running out. Diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's, he realizes he has a small window of time left to right a terrible injustice-he just can't remember what it is.Convinced of the importance of his mission, he embarks on a journey to the small West Virginia town of his childhood hoping he can put...
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion, an imprint of Buena Vista Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First Edition,
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
305 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Simon O'Keefe tells a lot of stories: like how his family was driven out of Omaha by alpacas. And how his church-deacon dad accidentally gave a squirrel a holy sacrament. And how his undertaker mom occasionally has to wrangle emus.
But the story Simon doesn't tell is the one he'd do anything to forget: Simon is the only survivor of a school shooting. That story has followed him everywhere--everywhere except his new home in the National Quiet Zone,...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
297 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Vanessa discovers the abandoned museum, she starts filling it with her own projects and art and memories. She organizes them and labels them. Maybe, if she can put them all together in just the right way, she can finally understand what went wrong.
Item #5: Fragment of a friendship bracelet.
Item #19: Two-headed monster Halloween costume.
Item #20: Hospital bracelet.
She needs to know why she can't quit her bad habit. Why her dad lives on...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First Edition ;
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
206 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ziggy has anxiety. Partly this is because of the way his mind works and how overwhelmed he can get when other people (especially his classmate Alice) are in the room. And partly it's because his mother disappeared when he was very young, making her one of many Native women who've gone mysteriously missing. Ziggy and his sister, Moon, want answers, but nobody around can give them.
Once Ziggy gets it in his head that clues to his mother's disappearance...
Author
Publisher
Random House, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition,
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
245 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nothing has gone right for Lawrence since his Pop went away, but after getting expelled from school for fighting, he discovers the world of chess and things begin to change.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
396 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Finley Walsh and her best friend, Sophie, were adventurers, like the ones they grew up reading about in 100 of the World's Greatest Female Adventurer's--that is, until Sophie found new friends. Between losing her best friend and feeling overlooked by her mother and older brother, Finley is determined to prove herself by becoming a great adventurer like the ones in her book.
The perfect opportunity comes when she and her brothers stay with an estranged...
Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Maddie and Chloe have always been best friends--until last year, when Chloe's popularity and budding fame as an actor left Maddie in the dust one too many times. Their friendship is over, and they're both ready to move on. But when the girls arrive at theater camp, they discover that the universe isn't ready to let go of this friendship just yet: they're cabinmates, and each of them has to spend the summer with her ex-best friend. Is it time to try...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
237 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Maia's parents say she's lucky she noticed something as early as she did. Lucky to have smelled the smoke, lucky to have pulled her sister, Amelia, out of their burning house. But is it really "lucky" when Maia knows it was her candle, left unattended, that started the fire in the first place?
When she's sent to spend the summer with her grandparents in northern Minnesota while her sister recovers in the hospital, Maia discovers that...
10) Generation ship
Author
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
608 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2108, Colony Ship Voyager departed Earth for the planet of Promissa with 18,000 of the world’s best and brightest on board. 250 years and 27 light years later, an arrival is imminent. But all is not well. The probes that they’ve sent ahead to gather the data needed to establish any kind of settlement aren’t responding, and the information they have received has presented more questions than answers. It’s a time when the entire crew should...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Vivan Lantz is cursed. Every year, terrible things happen on her first day of school--and her first day of eighth grade makes the rest of them look like child's play. Her family's house floods in a rainstorm. She ruins her perfect outfit before she even walks through the school doors. She almost kills her teacher's fish. And if all of that weren't upsetting enough, she gets her first period in the middle of the school cafeteria. Vivian can't wait...
Author
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Idlewild is a tiny, artsy Quaker high school in lower Manhattan. Students call their teachers by their first names, there are no grades, and every day begins with 20 minutes of contemplative silence in the Meetinghouse. It is during one of those meetings that an airplane hits the Twin Towers. For two Idlewild outcasts, 9/11 serves as the first day of an intense, 18-month friendship. Fay is prickly, aloof, and obsessed with gay men; Nell is shy, sensitive,...
13) Unexpecting
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
294 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A poignant and emotional story about found family, what it means to be a parent, and falling in love.
Benjamin Morrison is about to start his junior year of high school. While his family is challenging, he is pretty content with his life, with his two best friends, and with his role in the robotics club. Until an experiment at science camp has completely unexpected consequences.
Ben is going to be a father, something his mother was not expecting...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When a thunderstorm grounds all flights following a huge Muslim convention, four unlikely kids are thrown together.
Feek is stuck babysitting his younger sister, but he'd rather be writing a poem that's good enough for his dad, a famous poet and rapper.
Hanna is intent on finding a lost cat in the airport--and also on avoiding conversation with her dad about him possibly remarrying.
Sami is struggling with his anxiety and worried that he'll miss...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Sweet Magnolias is coming soon to Netflix (May 19th, 2020)!
From #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Sherryl Woods
When Elliott Cruz first courted struggling single mom Karen Ames, it was a romance worthy of any Sweet Magnolia fantasy. The sexy personal trainer made it his mission to restore Karen's strength-physical and emotional-and to charm her children.
Now, a few years into the marriage, colliding dreams threaten to tear them apart. Elliott's...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
6 audio discs (7 hrs) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Victoria Reeves is all set for her "First Magnificent Summer with Dad" even though it's been more than two years since she last saw him--at least until he shows up for the long road trip with his new family, The Replacements, in tow.
But that's not the only unpleasant surprise in store for Victoria. There's being forced to eat bologna even though it's her least favorite food in the world. And then there's having to sleep in a tent...
17) The scent keeper
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Emmeline lives an enchanted childhood on a remote island with her father, who teaches her about the natural world through her senses. What he won't explain are the mysterious scents stored in the drawers that line the walls of their cabin, or the origin of the machine that creates them. As Emmeline grows, however, so too does her curiosity, until one day the unforeseen happens, and Emmeline is vaulted out into the real world--a place of love, betrayal,...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Avenue
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
528 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"An epic love story that explores the American Dream between the monolith of Jim Crow, the inflexible world of the original Black upper class, and the violence of 1920s Chicago"--
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
432 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"1942: As the Vichy government hunts for Jews across France, Claudette Pelletier, a young and talented seamstress and lover of romance novels, falls in love with a Jewish man who seeks shelter at the château where she works. Their whirlwind and desperate romance before he must flee leaves her pregnant and terrified. When the Nazis invade the Free Zone shortly after the birth of her child, the disabled Claudette is forced to make a heartbreaking choice...
20) Dust
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
What will I do with all these breaths I may not have had?
After Avalyn nearly died from an asthma attack, her parents moved her to the fresh, dry air of Clear Canyon City, Arizona. And for the last ten years, she's been able to breathe. That is, until Adam shows up.
Quiet and disheveled, Adam is an instant target for the bullies who have plagued Avalyn and her friends. As Avalyn gets to know him, she begins to suspect that the sudden, strange increase...