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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
"Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher--for that world or ours." --
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident...
Author
Series
Codex Alera volume 1
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Ace mass market ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
In the realm of Alera, where people bond with the furies--elementals of earth, air, fire, water, wood, and metal--15-year-old Tavi struggles with his lack of furycrafting. As his homeland erupts in chaos--when rebels war with loyalists and furies clash with furies--Tavi's simple courage will turn the tides of war.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young boy named Kubo must locate a magical suit of armor worn by his father in order to defeat a vengeful spirit from the past.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
273 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Benji, one of the only black kids at an elite prep school in Manhattan, tries desperately to fit in, but every summer, he and his brother, Reggie, escape to the East End of Sag Harbor, where a small community of African American professionals has built a world of is own.
86) Meanwhile
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this choose-your-own adventure graphic novel, a boy stumbles on the laboratory of a mad scientist who asks him to choose between testing a mind-reading device, a time machine, and a doomsday machine.
87) The secret panel
Author
Series
Hardy boys mystery stories volume 25
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A chance meeting with a stranger on the road provides the Hardy brothers with a clue to a gang of local burglars.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
268 pages.; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The untold story of the "Black Boys," a rebellion on the American frontier in 1765 that sparked the American Revolution. In Frontier Rebels, historian Patrick Spero tells the story of the Black Boys, a band of rebels whose protests ignited the American Revolution. In 1765, as the Stamp Act riled eastern seaports, frontiersmen clashed with the British Empire over another issue: Indian relations. When British officials launched a risky diplomatic expedition...
89) Luca
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Set in a seaside town on the Italian Riviera, a young boy experiences an unforgettable summer. Luca shares his amazing adventures with his newfound friend Alberto, but their fun is threatened by a deeply held secret: they're sea monsters from another world just below the water's surface.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
"In Sterling, New Hampshire, 17-year-old high school student Peter Houghton has endured years of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of classmates. His best friend, Josie Cormier, succumbed to peer pressure and now hangs out with the popular crowd that often instigates the harassment. One final incident of bullying sends Peter over the edge and leads him to commit an act of violence that forever changes the lives of Sterling's residents. Even those...
91) Ice cream face
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"A little boy experiences a variety of different emotions while he waits in line for ice cream, his favorite food"--
92) Hidden depths
Author
Series
A Vera Stanhope mystery volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books, an imprint of St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Investigator Vera Stanhope searches for a young man's killer and uncovers a small town's secrets.
"On a hot summer on the Northumberland coast, Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son murdered. Luke has been strangled, laid out in a bath of water and covered with wild flowers. On a hot summer on the Northumberland coast, Julie Armstrong arrives home from a night out to find her son murdered. Luke has been strangled, laid out...
Author
Series
Dragons in a bag volume 3
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Now that he is Ma's apprentice Jax is finding himself mixed up with all sorts of magical doings, like taking care of a phoenix egg which is going to hatch soon, trying to bring back the creatures Sis stole, finding his grandfather, and convincing Sis, the guardian, to reunite the two realms--and hopefully living to see Brooklyn again.
Author
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
131 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, prose magician Michael Chabon conjured the golden age of comic books, interwining history, legend and story-telling verve. In The Final Solution, he has condensed his boundless vision to create a short, suspenseful tale of compassion and wit that re-imagines the classic 19th-century detective story.
In deep retirement in the English countryside, an 89-year old man, vaguely recollected by the locals...
96) Someone We Know
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a quiet, leafy suburb in upstate New York, a teenager has been sneaking into houses -- and into the owners' computers as well -- learning their secrets, and maybe sharing some of them, too. Who is he, and what might he have uncovered? After two anonymous letters are received, whispers start to circulate, and suspicion mounts. And when a woman down the street is found murdered, the tension reaches the breaking point. Who killed her? Who knows more...
Author
Series
Wallace the brave volume Book 3
Publisher
Andrews McMeel
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
170 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The world of Wallace The Brave is one of imagination, discovery, and wonder, as Wallace and his friends explore the coastal surroundings of Snug Harbor, Rhode Island, uncovering new mysteries, adventure, and mischief wherever they turn."--Provided by publisher.
98) Surfer dog
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this vibrantly illustrated picture book, a boy and a dog share a special friendship and a love of surfing."--
99) Punching the air
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. The story that I thought was my life didn't start on the day I was born. Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a...
100) The little gardener
Author
Publisher
Flying Eye Books
Language
English
Description
There was once a little gardener and his garden meant everything to him. He worked hard, very hard, but he was just too little (or at least he felt he was).