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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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As he spends hours studying his father's world map, a young boy escapes the hunger and misery of refugee life. Based on the author's childhood in Kazakhstan, where he lived as a Polish refugee during World War II
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1542, nine-year-old Lady Elizabeth lives on an estate near London, striving to get back into the good graces of her father, King Henry VIII, and as the years pass she faces his death and those of other close relatives until she finds herself next in line to ascend the throne of England in 1558
23) Bitter
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English
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"After a childhood in foster care, Bitter is thrilled to have been chosen to attend Eucalyptus, a special school where she can focus on her painting surrounded by other creative teens. But outside this haven, the streets are filled with protests against the deep injustices that grip the city of Lucille. Bitter's instinct is to stay safe within the walls of Eucalyptus but her friends aren't willing to settle for a world that's so far away from what...
25) Ghost wood song
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Shady Grove inherited her father's ability to call ghosts from the grave with his fiddle, but she also knows the fiddle's tunes bring nothing but trouble and darkness. But when her brother is accused of murder, she can't let the dead keep their secrets. In order to clear his name, she's going to have to make those ghosts sing
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Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old trans boy Miles Jacobson's New Year resolutions include winning back his ex-boyfriend and winning the Midwest's biggest classical piano competition, but when a new, proudly queer boy moves to town, Miles reconsiders who he was and who he is now
Author
Publisher
Picador
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"In That Night, New York Times bestselling author Alice McDermott "has taken a suburban teenage romance and pregnancy and infused it with the power, the ominousness, and the star-crossed romanticism of a contemporary Romeo and Juliet" (Chicago Tribune)"--
29) The pledge
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Sam is in danger once again when a copycat masked killer starts targeting fraternity brothers, forcing Sam to figure out who the killer is before he loses his second chance or the lives of any more of his friends
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Series
This dark descent volume 1
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English
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Mikira, a seventeen-year-old daughter of a famous horse breeder, takes part in a magical horse race to save her family, and enlists the help of Arielle, a talented, black-market enchanter, and Damien, a young lord involved in a succession battle, who both have their own motives for helping her
31) Farmer boy
Author
Series
Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In the nineteenth century, nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State where he raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt
Author
Series
Spells we cast volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Sparks fly when eighteen-year-old Nigel meets Ori during the Culling, a competition that determines whether a magician is stripped of their powers or joins the magical society known as the Guild, but they soon realize the connection growing between them threatens their future, the Guild, and all of humanity
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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"Jay Gardener can't seem to stay out of trouble. Even after a fresh start in a new neighborhood, he keeps finding himself in bad situations. But it's not his fault! Jay wants to be a good kid, he really does, it's just these strange things keep happening to him. What kind of place did his family move to? And why does every house have so many lawn gnomes in their yard? Jay better learn quickly that there are things a lot more scary than his parents..."--P....
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English
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"In 1866 as Tom and his guardian, Eliza Bethune, struggle to adjust to their fashionable apartment in the city in the aftermath of riots that had driven them away a few years before. But soon a stranger arrives from the mysterious island of Edgemere, inhabited solely by African settlers and black refugees from the war and riots, who intends to reunite Tom with his now-liberated mother."--Page [4] of cover
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A masterful novel exploring the early life of young Elizabeth Tudor, who would become England’s most intriguing and powerful queen, from acclaimed historian Alison Weir
“Engrossing . . . Weir marries conjecture with what is known about the life of Elizabeth I from childhood to coronation, and it makes for ripping good reading.”—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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“Engrossing . . . Weir marries conjecture with what is known about the life of Elizabeth I from childhood to coronation, and it makes for ripping good reading.”—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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English
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1980, New York City. Burned by her traumatic past, Angel is new to the drag world, new to ball culture, and has a yearning inside of her to help create family for those without. When she falls in love with Hector, a beautiful young man who dreams of becoming a professional dancer, the two decide to form the House of Xtravaganza, the first-ever all-Latino house in the Harlem ball circuit. But when Hector dies of AIDS-related complications, Angel must...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"When Aggi Frank and Max Granger finally admitted their feelings for each other last December, it felt like love was beautiful and endless . . . until it wasn't. A fatal car accident involving their older siblings throws their lives into sudden chaos. And with a restraining order now in place between the two bitter households, Aggi and Max's love runs cold. Being together again seems like a distant fantasy, even though they share the same driveway....
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Sasaki and Miyano volume 4
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"What is Sasaki to Miyano? The question rings through Miyano's mind as he struggles to come to a decision. After all, Miyano likes girls and doesn't really like guys...does he? Meanwhile, surprise reunions with old crushes and Miyano's first drag beauty pageant push Sasaki's self-restraint to the limit..."--
Author
Series
Sasaki and Miyano volume 9
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"They promised each other forever, but between Sasaki's new start at college and the general whirlwind of Miyano's third year, will they gradually drift apart or continue to seek each other out...?"--
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