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Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"South Africa, 1884. A young and naive English doctor by the name of William Abbey witnesses the lynching of a local boy by the white colonists. As the child dies, his mother curses William. William begins to understand what the curse means when the shadow of the dead boy starts following him across the world. It never stops, never rests. It can cross oceans and mountains. And if it catches him, the person he loves most in the world will die."--Amazon....
22) Ignite the sun
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A young woman who lives in a kingdom shrouded in magical shadow by its evil queen goes on a quest to find the last vestiges of the sun --
23) To kill a shadow
Author
Publisher
Entagled Teen
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Jude Maddox knows nothing of love or even light. He knows only his grim duty as the Hand of Death, to lead the Knights of the Eternal Star into a land filled with nightmares and certain demise. It's only when he sees her--a young woman with wild, amber eyes who's as fierce, defiant, and swift as the shadow beasts themselves--that he feels the warmth of life in his blood. The other Knights may fear their lethal commander, with his hard, merciless...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Suee and the Zero Detective Club are back and ready to unravel some mysteries! However, other than a bunch of missing cat cases, there really isn't too much to solve. . .That is, until Smartie--Suee's nemesis from her old school--goes missing, leaving only one clue: Newtown. Nemesis or not, it's up to Suee to find Smartie. But Smartie's disappearance isn't the only weird thing going on in this part of town. There's an army of workers in white uniforms...
25) Cast no shadow
Author
Publisher
First Second Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Greg has lived in Lancaster his whole life. The town's always had its quirks, and being born without a shadow means he's counted among them. When Greg discovers an old mansion in the woods just outside of town, he didn't expect to meet a smart, beautiful, funny, and...very dead teenaged girl named Eleanor. Yeah. He's in love with a ghost. And before he knows what's happening, Greg finds himself at the wrong end of a history lesson when the town's...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books, an imprint of ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Meet Suee: twelve years old, wears her hair to the left in a point, favors a black dress, has no friends, and she likes it that way! When Suee transfers to the dull and ordinary Outskirts Elementary, she doesn't expect to hear a strange voice speaking to her from the darkness of the school's exhibit room, and she certainly doesn't expect to see her shadow come to life. Then things start to get really weird: one by one, her classmates at school turn...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Dragon Masters discover that a Shadow Dragon named Chaya and his Dragon Master Aruna are responsible for a huge shadow stretching across the sky, but how do they have so much power and why are other wizards around the world losing theirs?
29) Groundhog Day
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An incident on Groundhog Day reveals the true relationship between Phil the groundhog and his shadow.
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