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1) Slayer
Author
Series
Slayer volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Nina and her twin sister, Artemis, are far from normal. It's hard to be when you grow up at the Watchers Academy, which is a bit different from your average boarding school. Here teens are trained as guides for Slayers--girls gifted with supernatural strength to fight the forces of darkness. But while Nina's mother is a prominent member of the Watchers Council, Nina has never embraced the violent Watcher lifestyle. Instead, she follows her instincts...
2) Just Lizzie
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Lizzie knows what she's not. She's not at home in her new house on the other side of town, after an incident with a neighbor forced her family to move. She's not ready to say goodbye to the wild apple tree in her old backyard, or to her older brother, who just left home for his first semester of college. She's definitely not happy to be taking women's self-defense with her sworn-enemy PE teacher. And unlike her best friend--and seemingly...
3) Class mom
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Laurie Gelman's clever debut novel about a year in the life of a kindergarten class mom--a brilliant send-up of the petty and surprisingly cutthroat terrain of parent politics. Jen Dixon is not your typical Kansas City kindergarten class mom--or mom in general. Jen already has two college-age daughters by two different (probably) musicians, and it's her second time around the class mom block with five-year-old Max--this time with a husband and father...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
418 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Regent Academy has a long and storied history in the small town of Winslow, Vermont. But so does the vast forest that surrounds its campus. While the school is known for molding teens into world leaders, its past is far more nefarious--and even more entangled with the forest--than anyone would suspect.
Seventeen-year-old Douglas wants nothing to do with Regent's king-making; he's just trying to forget his previous life and survive his present. But...
5) Duel
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lucy is a sixth grader who loves fantasy novels and is brand-new to middle school. GiGi is the undisputed queen bee of eighth grade (as well as everything else she does). They've only got one thing in common: fencing. Oh, and they're sisters--but they don't exactly get along. Ever since their dad died, it seems like they're always at each other's throats.
When GiGi humiliates Lucy in the cafeteria on the first day of school, Lucy snaps and challenges...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition,
Physical Desc
257 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
All Elle Campbell wants to do is meet their personal hero, nonbinary icon Nuri Grena. Well, okay, they'd like a bit more than that--they'd like to learn how to do cat eye makeup, for queen bee Casey to stop critiquing her outfits, and for the finale of Elle's favorite show to have been less terrible. But meeting Nuri means the most of all.
When Elle learns that Nuri is coming to town for a book signing on Saturday, Elle is thrilled. They've never...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023
Physical Desc
284 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Al Schneider is used to holding things in.
She lives right across the hall from her best friend, Leo, and even he doesn't know anything about her crushes on girls or her sneaking suspicion that she poops more than anyone else on the planet. So when Al is diagnosed with Crohn's disease, she figures it's just one more thing to keep to herself. After all, who want to talk about what you do in the bathroom?
The problem is, the more Al...
Author
Publisher
Labyrinth Road, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixth grade takes a turn for the weird when Hector Griggs discovers he has the ability to turn invisible. Sure, ever since Hector's former best friend, Blake, started bullying him, he's felt like he just wants to disappear... but he never thought he actually would. Then Hector meets another invisible boy, Orson Wellington, who has an ominous warning: "I'm stuck here. Stuck like this. It's been years. The gelim's hunting me, and it'll get you, too."
It...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
246 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
If Mari Feijoo could, she would turn her family's Peak Cubanity down a notch, just enough so that her snooping neighbor and classmate Mykenzye wouldn't have anything to tease her about. That's why this year, there's no way that Mari's joining in on one of the biggest Feijoo family traditions--burning the New Year's Eve effigy her abuela makes.
Only Mari never suspects that failing to toss her effigy in the fire would bring something much worse than...
10) Good Different
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Selah knows her rules for being normal. And she always, always sticks to them. This means keeping her feelings locked tightly inside, despite the way they build up inside her as each school day goes on, so that she has to tear off her normal person mask the second she gets home from school and listen to her favorite pop song on repeat, trying to recharge. Selah feels like a dragon stuck in a world of humans, but she knows how to hide it.
Until the...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The hilarious, irreverent Jen Dixon is class mom--again--for her son's fifth grade year, and a class bully, spin-teacher training, and her irresistible granddaughter keep her on her toes and perpetually in yoga pants"--
Jen Dixon of Overland Park, Kansas is a fearless mother of a fifth-grade boy and two thirty-something daughters. She's used to juggling a lot, from her mission to become a spin instructor, to stepping in as the most acerbic class...
12) School trip
Author
Series
New kid volume 3
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jordan, Drew, Liam, and the rest of their friends from Riverdale Academy Day School are finally heading out on their long-awaited school trip to Paris. As an aspiring artist himself, Jordan can't wait to see all the amazing art in the famous city of lights.
When their trusted faculty guides are replaced at the last minute, the school trip takes an unexpected--and hilarious--turn. But trying to find their way around a foreign city ends up being almost...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
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
Jujutsu Kaisen volume 4
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
197 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a world where cursed spirits feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments of the legendary and feared demon Ryomen Sukuna have been lost and scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna's body parts, the power they gain could destroy the world as we know it. Fortunately, there exists a mysterious school of jujutsu sorcerers who exist to protect the precarious existence of the living from the supernatural!
While investigating a strange set of mysterious...
Author
Series
Jujutsu Kaisen volume 3
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
182 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a world where cursed spirits feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments of the legendary and feared demon Ryomen Sukuna have been lost and scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna's body parts, the power they gain could destroy the world as we know it. Fortunately, there exists a mysterious school of jujutsu sorcerers who exist to protect the precarious existence of the living from the supernatural!
Tensions are high as the Goodwill Event between...
Author
Series
Jujutsu Kaisen volume 2
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
190 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a world where cursed spirits feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments of the legendary and feared demon Ryomen Sukuna have been lost and scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna's body parts, the power they gain could destroy the world as we know it. Fortunately, there exists a mysterious school of jujutsu sorcerers who exist to protect the precarious existence of the living from the supernatural!
When a cursed womb appears at a detention...
Author
Series
Jujutsu Kaisen volume 5
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
197 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a world where cursed spirits feed on unsuspecting humans, fragments of the legendary and feared demon Ryomen Sukuna have been lost and scattered about. Should any demon consume Sukuna's body parts, the power they gain could destroy the world as we know it. Fortunately, there exists a mysterious school of jujutsu sorcerers who exist to protect the precarious existence of the living from the supernatural!
Everyone's surprised (and not necessarily...
18) Alterations
Author
Publisher
Union Square Kids
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
237 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kevin Lee is having a really bad week. Although he lives in a crowded Toronto apartment above the family’s alterations and dry-cleaning store, he mostly goes unnoticed. School isn’t exactly an oasis either—being one of the few Asian kids makes for some unwelcome attention. But when Kevin’s class plans a trip to Thrill Planet, a spectacular theme park, will he finally have a chance to turn his life around, or will it just be another day for...
19) Hogwarts Legacy
Author
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Games
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 disc : clear plastic case ; 3 cm.
Language
English
Description
EXPLORE AN OPEN WORLD. The wizarding world awaits you. Freely roam Hogwarts, Hogsmeade, the Forbidden Forest, and the surrounding Overland area.
BE THE WITCH OR WIZARD YOU WANT TO BE. Learn spells, brew potions, grow plants, and tend to magical beasts along your journey. Get sorted into your house, forge relationships, and master skills to become the witch or wizard you want to be.
EXPERIENCE A NEW WIZARDING WORLD ADVENTURE. Experience the wizarding...
Author
Series
Misfits volume 1
Publisher
Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
276 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Olive Cobin-Zang has... issues. And they mostly aren't her fault (no, really!). Though she often slips under the radar, problems have a knack for finding her. So imagine her doubts when she's suddenly dropped off at the strangest boarding school ever: a former castle turned prison that's now a "reforming arts school"!
But nothing could've prepared Olive for RASCH (not "rash"). There, she's lumped with a team of misfits and discovers that the academy...