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Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"From the living legend and award-winning author of Hatchet comes a laugh-out-loud middle-grade romp about a boy, his free-thinking dad, and the puppy-training pamphlet that turns their summer upside down"--
Author
Series
Carrion City duology volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Julie is a coked-up, burnt-out thirty-year-old whose only retirement plan is dying early. She's been trying to establish herself in the NYC magic scene, and she'll work the most gruesome gigs, exorcize the nastiest demons, and make deals with the cruelest gods to claw her way to the top. But nothing can prepare her for the toughest job yet: when her best friend, Sarah, shows up at her door in need of help. Keeping Sarah safe becomes top priority....
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2024 Carnegie Medal for Fiction - Shortlist
2024 Nebula Awards—Best Novel
New Releases—August 22, 2023
2024 Nebula Awards—Best Novel
New Releases—August 22, 2023
Description
"Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training the Emperor's soldiers in sword and truncheon, battle axe and spear, lance and crossbow. Unlike bolder friends who flirt with challenging the unequal hierarchies and values of Imperial society, she believes in keeping her head down and doing her job. Until a powerful man with a vendetta rips that carefully-built life away. Disgraced, tattooed as a criminal, and on the run from an Imperial Marshall...
Author
Series
Spy school volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"In the eleventh book in the New York Times bestselling Spy School series, Ben Ripley goes on a rescue mission when one of his own is abducted from a remote Alaskan training facility. Ben Ripley and his friends are training in Alaska when Cyrus Hale is kidnapped by his old Russian nemesis. Ben, Erica, and the others mount a rescue mission, but events quickly spiral out of control in a plot involving the secret history of US-Russian relations, a young...
Author
Series
Trials of Apollo volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Leaving the relative safety of the demigod training ground with his companions, a disgraced Apollo embarks on a quest across North America to find a dangerous ancient-world Oracle while navigating the challenges of the evil Triumvirate.
Author
Series
Spy school volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
With SPYDER apparently defeated, thirteen-year-old Benjamin Ripley is hoping for some peace at spy school, but when the CIA conference room next to where Ben and Alexander are trying to explain everything to Ben's parents (no easy task) is blown up, suspicion falls on fellow trainee (and secret crush) Erica.
7) The Jewel
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Violet, a poor girl from the outer city, finds forbidden romance and uncovers brutal secrets when, after three years of training, she is purchased by a royal family as a surrogate mother for royal children.
8) Glitch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Regan Fitz and Elliot Mason have been enemies since they started training to become Glitchers--people who travel through time to preserve important historical events. But everything changes when they find a letter from Regan's future self, warning them about an impending disaster that threatens them and everyone they know. Will they be able to set aside their past in order to save the future?--Amazon.com
9) Rebel rising
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of Jyn Erso as she trains under Saw Gerrera and learns how to become a proper rebel, preparations that come in handy when she is asked by the Rebellion to find out about the weapon that her father is helping the Empire construct.
10) Dog diaries
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When the evil Mrs. Stricker threatens to send Junior, Rafe Khatchadorian's dog, back to the pound, Junior and Rafe go to obedience school to learn how to follow the rules.
Author
Series
Train to impossible places volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Suzy Smith joins the troll-operated Impossible Postal Express, but she botches her first delivery by stealing a cursed snow globe containing a boy who claims there is a plot to take control of the Union of Impossible Places.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"In response to an awful camp orientation video created by the god Apollo, Percy Jackson and other residents of Camp Half-Blood answer campers' questions such as "What is this place?" and "Do I get to keep the T-shirt?""--
13) Assassin's heart
Author
Series
Assassin's heart volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Lea Saldana, a trained assassin, falls in love with Val Da Via, a boy from a rival clan, until tragedy intervenes and sets her on a course of revenge against the Da Vias family.
14) The bone witch
Author
Series
Bone witch volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Tea's gift for death magic means that she is a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and ostracized by her community, but when an older bone witch trains her to become an asha--one who can wield elemental magic--Tea will have to overcome her obstacles and make a powerful choice in the face of danger as dark forces approach.
Author
Series
Ravenspire volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In this retelling of Rumpelstiltskin, follows the adventures of Ari, an illegitimate princess who in an effort to escape her twin brother's fate, trains to be a fighter so that she can defeat an evil wish granter.
16) The Marvellers
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Ella Durand is the first Conjuror to attend the Arcanum Training Institute, a magic school in the clouds where Marvellers from around the world practice their cultural arts. Despite her excitement, Ella discovers that being the first isn't easy--some Marvellers mistrust her magic. Eventually, she finds friends in elixirs teacher, Masterji Thakur, and fellow misfits Brigit and Jason. When a dangerous criminal escapes prison, supposedly...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Harrison Beck is reluctantly joining his travel-writer Uncle Nat for the last journey of the royal train, The Highland Falcon. But as the train makes its way to Scotland, a priceless brooch goes missing, and things suddenly get a lot more interesting. As suspicions and accusations run high among the passengers, Harrison begins to investigate and uncovers a few surprises along the way. Can he solve the mystery of the jewel thief and catch the culprit...
18) Fireborne
Author
Series
Aurelian cycle volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"Two dragonriders must go head-to-head for the top position in the Callipolan fleet, and protect the new regime from those who lost power"--
Annie and Lee were just children when a brutal revolution changed their world. Now they are both rising stars in the new regime. Annie's lowborn family was executed by dragonfire, while Lee's aristocratic family was murdered by revolutionaries. Growing up in the same orphanage forged their friendship, and seven...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Melody Bird is fascinated by the walled off "plague" house she discovered near the the graveyard, but she is even more fascinated by the mysterious boy, Hal, she finds living there in secret; he tells her he is a spy-in-training, a story that Melody's friends Matthew and Jake do not believe, and they set out to find out more--and uncover a riddle even more confusing than Hal's spy story.
20) The horse dancer
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When Sarah's grandfather gives her a beautiful horse named Boo--hoping that one day she'll follow in his footsteps to join an elite French riding school, away from their gritty London neighborhood--she quietly trains in city's parks and alleys. But then her grandfather falls ill, and Sarah must juggle horsemanship with school and hospital visits. Natasha, a young lawyer, is reeling after her failed marriage: her professional judgment is being questioned,...
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