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1) James
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Superspy middle schoolers Ben and Erica must embark on mission to rescue Erica's grandfather, who was abducted from a remote Alaskan training facility.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
When Eden Smith moves into the bizarre old mansion housing her grandfather, Vulcan Smith, she discovers a strange society of metalworkers whose mastery verges on the magical, and when her grandfather is punished for rebelling against the guild, Eden must complete a series of deadly feats to save him.
4) The madstone
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Texas hill country, 1868. As nineteen-year-old Benjamin Shreve tends to business in his workshop, he witnesses a stagecoach strand a passenger. When the man, a treasure hunter, persuades Benjamin to help track down the vanished coach--and a mysterious fortune left aboard--Benjamin is drawn into a drama whose scope he could never have imagined, for they discover on reaching the coach that its passengers include Nell, a pregnant young woman, and her...
5) Kindling
Author
Language
English
Description
After the war is over, seven outlawed kindlings--elite, magic-wielding warriors whose devastating power comes at the cost of their own young lives--must confront their pasts, their trauma and their grim fates to reclaim who they once were and fight one last time.
Author
Series
Inheritance volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Return to the World of Eragon withmaster storyteller Christopher Paolini in this stunning illustrated edition packed with full-color paintings! Celebrate 20 years of the worldwide fantasy phenomenon Eragon, the first book in the Inheritance Cycle, which has sold more than 40 million copies across the series! Prepare for the flight of a lifetime with Eragon as you've never seen him before in this dazzling oversized edition with brand-new full-color...
7) Argylle
Author
Language
English
Description
"A luxury train speeding towards Moscow and a date with destiny. A CIA plane downed in the jungles of the Golden Triangle. A Nazi hoard entombed in the remote mountains of South-West Poland. A missing treasure, the eighth wonder of the world, lost for seven decades. One Russian magnate's dream of restoring a nation to greatness has set in motion a chain of events which will take the world to the brink of chaos. Only Frances Coffey, the CIA's most...
Author
Series
Shattered kingdom volume 1
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Gandrett Brayton must rely on her fighting skills and wits to navigate the courts of the shattered kingdom of Sives and earn the right to see her family again.
9) Powerless
Author
Series
Powerless trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Red Queen meets The Hunger Games in this epic and sizzling fantasy romance not to be missed. Only the extraordinary belong in the kingdom of Ilya . . . The exceptional. The Elites. The Elites have possessed powers for decades, gifted to them by the Plague, while those born Ordinary are just that, banished from the kingdom and shunned from society. No one knows this better than Paedyn Gray, an Ordinary posing as an Elite. When she unsuspectingly saves...
Author
Series
Something wickedly weird volume 5
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Stanley has trouble discerning between friend and foe when retired pirate MacDowell, claiming to be a friend of Stanley's great-uncle Bart, assists Stanley on a treasure hunt which leads them to the basement of the Darkling family home.
11) Storm siren
Author
Series
(Mary Christine)Storm siren trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"My hair slips down my back and shoulders and around my face like fresh snow falling on the forest floor. Pure white. I raise my chin as the buyers stare. Yes. Look. You don't want me. Because, eventually, accidentally, I will destroy you. It's what I do; Seventeen-year-old slave girl, Nym, should not exist. In a world where Elementals are only born male, and always killed at birth, she is an anomaly at best. At worst, people around her die. When...
Author
Series
Adventure volume 4
Publisher
Macmillan Children's
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
On a trip to the desolate Northern Isles off the coast of Scotland, Bill is kidnapped, and Philip, Dinah, Lucy-Ann, and Jack have to play a dangerous game of hide-and-seek with an unknown enemy.
13) Unseelie
Author
Series
Unseelie duology volume 1
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Iselia "Seelie" Graygrove looks just like her twin, Isolde...but as an autistic changeling left in the human world by the fae as an infant, she has always known she is different. Seelie's unpredictable magic makes it hard for her to fit in---and draws her and Isolde into the hunt for a fabled treasure. In a heist gone wrong, the sisters make some unexpected allies and find themselves unraveling a mystery that has its roots in the history of humans...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In Juniper Lane's world, everyone knows Santa doesn't do Christmas anymore. Juniper is still eager to celebrate Cedar Park's Santa Vigil in honor of her late father, who never stopped believing in Santa Claus. But then her mother goes missing and the park's bureaucratic director declares the vigil is canceled. On the advice of her friend Duchess, Juniper seeks the help of a mysterious and grumpy woodsman, who seems an awful lot like Santa Claus,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Inkwell Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Follow Taylor and Drew as they discover all that Minnesota has to offer from over 10,000 lakes, Vikings, lumberjacks and glaciers. Throw in jumping across the Mississippi river, fishing on the Lake of the Woods, some wonderful candies and a true hometown experience and another adventure is complete."--Back cover.
16) Camp hero
Author
Series
Camp hero volume 1
Publisher
Todd Gray
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"It was supposed to be a relaxing summer vacation filled with hanging out and playing video games for the three Larson children. That was until Kate, Nate, and Tate discover a mysterious mom-velope, sitting on the kitchen table, announcing they are being sent to a previously off-limits sleepaway camp in the middle of the Rocky Mountains. An incredible adventure begins when the siblings discover they have been sent to a top-secret camp to train children...
17) Treasure Island
Author
Series
Publisher
Farshore, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Jim Hawkins spends his life helping out at his mum's boring old inn by the sea, wishing he could sail away and have adventures. But when an old sea captain turns up with a secret, it's the start of a bigger adventure than Jim could ever have imagined. Soon he's on a ship on the trail of buried treasure, accompanied by a suspicious sailor named Long John Silver ... Will Jim escape the pirates? Or will he walk the plank?
Author
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Just when Sam thinks life has returned to normal he's bundled into a black van by agents of the Apocalypse Intelligence Agency who send him off the remote jungle island of Fin del Mundo to appear on a celebrity reality TV game show. One of Sam's rival 'celebrity' contestants is none other than evil music mogul Nigel Cruul, who the A.I.A. suspect is planning to bring back the Horsewomen of the Apocalypse. Luckily his best friend Milo and kick-ass sister...
Author
Series
Paper dragons volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
An outsider in her village above the cloud sea, 12-year-old orphan Yeung Zhi Ging's only hope of escape is to win the single invitation to train as a Silhouette: an apprentice to the immortals. After her ill-fated attempt to impress the Silhouette scout leads to a dragon attack on the jade mountain, Zhi Ging is sure that her chances, and her life, are over. But the scout spots her potential and offers her protection and a second chance. She's in.