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Author
Series
Bright Empires volume 5
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"What do you do when you're faced with The End of Everything? The evidence is compelling; not only is The End of Everything approaching, it's approaching rapidly. Desperation sends the Questors to the four corners of the universe in search of answers...." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Erewhon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In Tokyo, seven students are hiding in their darkened bedrooms, unable to face their family and friends -- until the moment they find the mirrors in their bedrooms are shining. At a single touch, they are pulled from their lonely lives into to a wondrous castle straight out of a Grimm's fairy tale. As time passes, only those brave enough to share their stories will be saved. As they struggle to abide by the rules of the game, a moving story unfolds,...
Author
Series
Publisher
NorthSouth
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When an inventive mouse misses the biggest cheese festival the world has ever seen, he's determined to turn back the clock. But what is time, and can it be influenced? With the help of a mouse clockmaker, a lot of inventiveness, and the notes of a certain famous Swiss physicist he succeeds in traveling back in time. But when he misses his goal by eighty years, the only one who can help is an employee of the Swiss Patent Office, who turned our concept...
86) Calculated risks
Author
Series
InCryptid volume 10
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After being kidnapped and manipulated by her birth family, Sarah Zellaby, who has undergone a transformation called an instar that makes her more powerful and difficult to control, is stranded in a different dimension where numerous people want her dead.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having used their magic tree house to travel to India, where they must get a gift to help free the dog Teddy from a spell, Jack and Annie have adventures involving a tiger and other endangered jungle animals.
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"It's been fifty years since the crossroads caused the disappearance of Thomas Price and his wife, Alice, has been trying to find him and bring him home ever since, despite the increasing probability that he's no longer alive for her to find. Now that the crossroads have been destroyed, she's redoubling her efforts. It's time to bring him home, dead or alive."--
Author
Series
Frank Einstein volume 6
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Frank Einstein (kid-genius, scientist, and inventor) and his best friend, Watson, along with Klink (a self-assembled artificial-intelligence entity) and Klank (a mostly self-assembled and artificial almost intelligence entity), once again find themselves in competition with T. Edison, their classmate and archrival, this time studying the science and mysteries of the universe!"--
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Time seems commonplace, but it is perhaps the Universe's greatest mystery. At a basic level, the laws of physics say it should be able to flow either forward or backward. And yet we -- and it seems everything in the entire Universe -- experience it in only one direction. Most physicists think they have the answer. In The Janus Point, Julian Barbour argues that those physicists have it all wrong. The most common descriptions of time rely on the concept...
92) The shadow men
Author
Series
Novels of the hidden cities volume 4
Publisher
Spectra
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When his wife and daughter mysteriously disappear and leave behind a Boston in which they never existed, Jim, who is the only one who can remember them, must travel between fractured cities and find them before the cities reintegrate in a cataclysmic implosion.
93) The haunted key
Author
Series
Frightville volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Sofia buys a skeleton key from spooky store Frightville that promises to open any lock. There's a mystery trunk in the attic of the big, old house her dad is turning into a bed-and-breakfast. Sofia is dying to see what's inside. To her delight, the key works on the trunk! But her joy quickly turns to terror when it seems like something may have been released from the trunk. She hears odd noises in the middle of the night and sees strange things around...
Author
Series
Bright Empires volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When Kit Livingstone learns that Britain's "ley lines" are not legends but pathways to other worlds, he's determined to find a map tattooed on a piece of skin in order to travel to the dangerous realms. But are the intricate codes more than they seem--can they really begin a quest to regain paradise?
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Rydell is on his way back to San Francisco. A stint as a security man in a Los Angeles convenience store has convinced him his career is going nowhere, but his friend phoning from Tokyo says there's more interesting work for him in Northern California. And there is.
Author
Series
Time quintet volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace Murry and the unicorn Gaudior must travel through time and space in a battle against an evil dictator who would destroy the entire universe. Includes an interview with the author.
97) Sabotaged
Author
Series
The missing volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Time-travelers Jonah and Katherine are summoned to help another missing child from history, this time Virginia Dare from the Roanoke Colony, but their journey is sabotaged and goes dangerously awry, leaving them in the wrong time period. Includes author's note about the history of Roanoke Colony and Virginia Dare.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1970s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl series volume 6
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Artemis's mother has contracted a deadly disease -- and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years ago. Now he must enlist the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save them. Not only that, but he must face his deadliest foe yet...his younger self.
100) A broken darkness
Author
Series
Beneath the rising volume 2
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In the heartwrenching follow-up to last year's breakout Beneath the Rising, the war with the nameless things from Beyond opens a new front as the heroes' tattered friendship is finally torn apart. It's been a year and a half since the Anomaly, when They tried to force Their way into the world from the shapeless void. Nick Prasad is piecing his life together, and has joined the secretive Ssarati Society to help monitor threats to humanity -- including...
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