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81) Black sun
Author
Series
Between earth and sky volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
A god will return When the earth and sky converge Under the black sun In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the world. Meanwhile, a ship launches from a distant city bound for Tova and set to arrive on the solstice. The captain of the ship, Xiala, is a disgraced Teek whose...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An abridged version of the voyages of an eighteenth-century Englishman that carry him to such strange places as Lilliput, where people are six inches tall, and Brobdingnag, a land peopled by giants.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Preparing to host a tea for the Queen, Ellie and her stuffed elephant, Langley, race around the globe for the best food and drink, and also collect an assortment of guests.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
©2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ariel, Merida, Sleeping Beauty, and all the Disney princesses embark on royal journeys in this Step 2 reader. Girls ages 4 to 6 will love reading about the princesses' travels on vacations and trips of their own.
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The Dragon Warrior and the Furious Five aren't getting along! Master Shifu know what to stop their bickering. Can a kung fu road trip bring the gang closer together?"--Dust jacket.
90) Runaway twin
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sunny, accompanied by a stray dog, takes advantage of a windfall to travel from her Nebraska foster home to Enumclaw, Washington, to find the twin sister from whom she was separated at age three.
91) Witch child
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1659, fourteen-year-old Mary Newbury keeps a journal of her voyage from England to the New World and her experiences living as a witch in a community of Puritans near Salem, Massachusetts.
92) Grace
Author
Series
Girl of the year. 2015: Grace volume 1
Girl of the year. 2015 Grace volume 1
Girl of the year. Grace volume 1
Girl of the year. 2015 Grace volume 1
Girl of the year. Grace volume 1
Publisher
American Girl Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Grace likes having a plan but she must find a way to be flexible and open to new ideas. When she goes to Paris with her mother, she has trouble getting along with her cousin. While at home, her friends start the business she proposed without her.
93) Line 135
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
A young girl on a train enroute to her grandmother's house in the country, reflects on traveling through the world and life.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relates the incredible adventures of Professor William Waterman Sherman who in 1883 sets off in a balloon across the Pacific, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually picked up in the Atlantic.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Too busy with school, soccer, and other activities, a young boy who wants to cheer up the sad, lonely moon presents the reader with a step-by-step plan for becoming the the first human to bicycle to the moon.
97) Detour
Author
Series
Publisher
Riptide Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ethan Domani had planned the perfect graduation trip before tragedy put his life on hold. Smothered by survivor's guilt and his close-knit family, he makes a break for the open road. He doesn't know what he's looking for, but he's got the whole summer to figure out who he misses more: his boyfriend, or the person he thought he was. It's just him and his memories . . . until he almost runs over a hitchhiker. Nick Hamilton made some mistakes after...
Author
Publisher
TOR Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Quintus Shu'al, the world's only navigating fox, is in disgrace after guiding an expedition to its doom, leaving no survivors. One year later, Quintus is offered the chance to redeem himself: he will need to lead a motley, fractious team--both human and animal--all the way to the gates of Hell" --
Author
Series
Grand tour novels volume 3
Publisher
David C Cook
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
For Cora Kensington, the Grand Tour was to be the trip of a lifetime. She discovered the family she never knew she had and may have even found the love she longs for in Will.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The bestselling author of the groundbreaking novels Under Heaven and River of Stars, Guy Gavriel Kay is back with a new novel, Children of Earth and Sky, set in a world inspired by the conflicts and dramas of Renaissance Europe. Against this tumultuous backdrop the lives of men and women unfold on the borderlands--where empires and faiths collide. From the small coastal town of Senjan, notorious for its pirates, a young woman sets out to find vengeance...
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