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61) Alebrijes
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"For 400 years, Earth has been a barren wasteland. The few humans that survive scrape together an existence in the cruel city of Pocatel - or go it alone in the wilderness beyond, filled with wandering spirits and wyrms. They don't last long. 13 year-old pickpocket Leandro and his sister Gabi do what they can to forge a life in Pocatel. The city does not take kindly to Cascabel like them - the descendants of those who worked the San Joaquin Valley...
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"An extraordinary story of friendship and love across class lines, this rich, evocative novel traces the history of modern Italy, from 1975 to 2013, through the fate of one couple. Valerio and Olivia grow up together in the Morganti family's opulent villa in Bologna, inseparable friends even though they come from vastly different worlds: Olivia, the Morgantis' daughter, is the heir to a large industrial fortune, while Valerio is the son of their gardener...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of four pre-Divergent stories plus three additional scenes from Divergent, all told from Tobias's point of view, that follow Tobias's transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, his Dauntless initiation, the first clues that a foul plan is brewing in the leadership of two factions, and the weeks after he meets Tris Prior.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
1950s. In the border town of La Frontera, young love blooms at first sight between Fulgencio Ramirez, the son of impoverished immigrants, and Carolina Mendelssohn, the local pharmacist's daughter. Their bonds will be undone by a force more powerful than they could have known. Thirty years later Fulgencio Ramirez, RPh, is conducting his daily ritual of reading the local obituaries in his pharmacy office. After nearly a quarter of a century of waiting,...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sparks fly when sixteen-year-old Lucy Patterson and seventeen-year-old Owen Buckley meet on an elevator rendered useless by a New York City blackout. Soon after, the two teenagers leave the city, but as they travel farther away from each other geographically, they stay connected emotionally, in this story set over the course of one year"--
67) 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.
68) The returning
Author
Series
Seer novels (Rachelle Dekker) volume 3
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
As the Seers send warriors to rescue Elise and bring restoration to the Authority City, ultimate victory in this battle against the powerful forces of evil rests with the strangely powerful girl who has felt forgotten but was never abandoned.
Author
Publisher
Dundurn
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Celebrating the resilience of women as they navigate and transform what remains a man's world. In the city of Enugu in the 1970s, young Nwabulu dreams of becoming a typist as she endures her employers' endless chores. Although a housemaid since the age of ten, she is tall and beautiful and in love with a rich man's son. Educated and privileged, Julie is a modern woman. Living on her own, she is happy to collect the gold jewellery love-struck Eugene...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Astrid is Princess Renya's surrogate, and bears any physical punishment if Renya steps out of line. There is a way out of this life: competing in the deadly Race of Oblivion. To enter the race, an Outsider is administered the drug Oblivion, which wipes their memory clear of their past as they enter a new world with nothing to help them but a slip of paper bearing their name and the first clue. For a majority of the contestants, the race ends in death....
71) Shadow kiss
Author
Series
Vampire Academy volume 3
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
While Rose is coping with the darker effects of being shadow-kissed, her relationship with Dimitri is finally taking off, and when he disappears during a Strigoi attack on St. Vladimir's Academy, she must make a terrible choice.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
When they both start working for billionaire Cecil Stone and his wife in Palm Beach, New York transplants Rebecca and Mickey become fixtures in the Forbes-list family until Rebecca uncovers a shocking secret that forces her to make a difficult decision.
73) The awakening
Author
Series
Nubia volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"For Zuberi, Uzochi, and Lencho, Nubia is a mystery. Before they were born, a massive storm destroyed their ancestral homeland, forcing their families to flee across the ocean to New York City. Nubia, a utopic island nation off the coast of West Africa, was no more, and their parents’ sorrow was too deep for them to share much of their history beyond the folklore. But New York, ravaged by climate change and class division, is far from a safe haven...
74) Someone to care
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Once the Countess of Riverdale, Viola Kingsley throws all caution to the wind when adventure calls in the form of a handsome aristocrat. Two years after the death of the Earl of Riverdale, his family has overcome the shame of being stripped of their titles and fortune-except for his onetime countess, Viola. With her children grown and herself no longer part of the social whirl of the ton, she is uncertain where to look for happiness-until quite by...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A dazzling collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling author of Prep, American Wife, and Eligible Curtis Sittenfeld has established a reputation as a sharp chronicler of the modern age who humanizes her subjects even as she skewers them. Now, with this first collection of short fiction, her "astonishing gift for creating characters that take up residence in readers' heads" ( The Washington Post ) is showcased like never before....
76) The kaya girl
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Fourteen-year-olds Abena and Faiza, girls from vastly different worlds, cross paths in chaotic Makola Market in Accra, Ghana, and forge a beautiful bond that changes the path of each of their lives"--
77) The reckoning
Author
Series
Nubia volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
As Zuberi, Uzochi, and Lencho learn to control their supernatural abilities, an ancient force is on the hunt for power, and it will not stop until all of Tri-State East is under its control.
Zuberi, Uzochi, and Lencho were among the first of a new generation of Nubians to awaken to extraordinary powers-gifts their parents lost when they fled their island home decades ago. Now that Uzochi has been declared a Nubian catalyst, everyone expects him to...
78) Frostfire
Author
Series
Kanin chronicles volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Tracker Bryn Aven's goal of becoming a member of the elite King's Guard is threatened when she is sent to stop Konstantin, a fallen hero who she once secretly loved, who appears to be kidnapping changelings.
Author
Language
English
Description
This novel provides an examination of contemporary America through the prism of a family tragedy: when a powerful parent dies, each of his adult children reacts in startling and unexpected ways, and his grieving widow in the most surprising way of all. Stark and penetrating, it's an exploration of psychological trauma, class warfare, grief, and eventual healing.
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