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Girl at midnight volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Beneath the streets of New York City live the Avicen, an ancient race of people with feathers for hair and magic running through their veins. Age-old enchantments keep them hidden from humans. All but one. Echo is a runaway pickpocket who survives by selling stolen treasures on the black market, and the Avicen are the only family she's ever known. Echo is clever and daring, and at times she can be brash, but above all else she's fiercely loyal. So...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Told in alternating voices, Crest, a merperson, who grudgingly undergoes a mandatory sojourn to help a human within one moon cycle or risk staying on land forever, suddenly develops feelings for his beneficiary Sean, leaving them torn between two worlds.
Author
Publisher
Mountaineers Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"By age twenty-five Heather Anderson had hiked the Appalachian, Pacific Crest, and Continental Divide Trails -- a combined distance of nearly eight thousand miles with a vertical gain of more than one million feet. Then, feeling it was time to settle down, Heather retired from long-distance hiking, married, and started a career. But her urge for wilderness was too strong, and she realized nothing could replace the comfort she found while hiing. Her...
6) Ferrets
Author
Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Inside, find out how to choose a ferret, how to keep them well-fed and healthy, and even how to train them. -- back cover.
Author
Series
Quilt chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Barbour Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Juliana Sutton has just about everything a woman could want. Her husband is riding a crest of success in the bustling capital city of Lincoln, and Juliana leads various philanthropic endeavors. Once finished, their new home, a spectacular mansion on five acres, will be the envy of all. Then a devastating scandal erupts... Cass Gregory, the foreman overseeing the Sutton mansion construction, has spent recent years trying to untangle the disastrous...
Author
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed in the city jail in Washington, D.C. But that's where he spent three days in the summer of 2011, after leading the largest civil disobedience in thirty years to protest the Keystone XL pipeline. A few months later the protesters would see their efforts rewarded when President Obama agreed to put the project on hold. And yet McKibben realized that this small and temporary victory was at...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"The complete story of the victories and failures of millennial socialism, as told by the writer who witnessed it all firsthand. Amber A'Lee Frost came to New York City as a working class activist in a punk band, arriving just before the start of Occupy Wall Street-the first major event in decades for a socialist movement that was nearly extinct at the turn of the century. She's been at the vanguard of radical politics ever since, as a writer, veteran...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A fascinating history of the art form that has transformed the cultural landscape, by one of its influential practitioners, an award-winning poet, professor, and slam champion In 2009, when he was twenty years old, Joshua Bennett was invited to perform a spoken word poem for Barack and Michelle Obama, at the same White House "Poetry Jam" where Lin Manuel-Miranda declaimed the opening bars of a work-in-progress that would soon revolutionize American...
13) Falling hard
Author
Series
Saddlehill Academy volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Abby came clean and apologized to Selly for costing her a shot at team captain--but no good deed goes unpunished, especially with her highly competitive teammates. Now Abby has to be ready for the retaliation that Selly promised is coming and deal with the fact that her best friends Vivi and Thea seem extra distant lately. And with her new friend and crush Mila joining the Foxbury team, Abby is guarded. If her own BFFs are avoiding her, what could...
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