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82) Stepsister
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Isabelle is one of Cinderella's ugly stepsisters, who cut off their toes in an attempt to fit into the glass slipper; but there is more to her story than a maimed foot, for the Marquis de la Chance is about to offer her a choice and the opportunity to change her fate--there will be blood and danger, but also the possibility of redemption and triumph, and most of all the chance to find her true self." --
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Trojan princess Cassandra is cursed by Apollo with the gift of prophecy, and must try to find her place in a world that she knows to be perilous; years later, will her friendship with a young Amazon princess named Rin help her to avert a disastrous end to their war?"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mason and Ty were once the very best of friends, like two nerdy sides of the same coin . . . until seventh grade, when Ava Petrakis came along. Now Mason can trace everything bad in his life to that terrible fight they had over the new girl. The one thing he'd give anything for is a do-over. But that can't happen in real life--can it? As a science kid, Mason knows do-overs are impossible, so he can't believe it when he wakes up from a freak accident...
85) Your name: 03
Author
Series
Your name volume 3
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"They should have never met... The comet's arrival is imminent, and Taki puts his plan into action to save Mitsuha and the people he has come to care for during his time in her body. Convincing a whole town of skeptics that the sky is falling will take some doing--and a little delinquency--but if Taki wants any hope of a future with Mitsuha, they will have to save the town in the here and now...!"--Page [4] of cover
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"See here four more strange and sad stories of the critically lauded horror-adjacent anthology series, ICE CREAM MAN. See here a tetrad of tales featuring people for whom the world spins unevenly. See here nougat, licorice, nonpareils, and other oddly named confections. See here, see here!"--Provided by publisher
87) Lotería
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Oaxaca City, Mexico, ancient friends Life and Death discuss free will while engaged in a game of chance, with eleven-year-old Clara as the protagonist of their theories and a pawn in their game, moving inevitably towards her ultimate fate. Includes author's notes and reader's guide
Author
Series
Your name volume 1
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Mitsuha, a high school girl living in a rural town deep in the mountains, has a dream that she is a boy living an unfamiliar life in Tokyo. Taki, a high school boy living in Tokyo, dreams that he is a girl living in the mountains. As they realize they are changing places, their encounter sets the cogs of fate into motion."--Back cover
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"The wheels on this sorry ice cream truck continue to spin round and round! Presented here, four more chilling chapters that chafe and chew at the human mind: a bifurcated tale of woe/whimsy; a small story about two unlucky tramps; a bestiary of some very necessary monsters; and a look into the big ol' belly of a whale. Please do enjoy your continued trip down this never-ending well! We'll hit the bottom eventually..."--Back cover
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"Open wide for four more scoops of the bestselling, critically acclaimed, psycho-horror comic ICE CREAM MAN. Here, bound with medium-grade paper glue, are four tales of objective subjectivity: a man's last wishes are carried out; a controlled experiment loses all control; a cosmic scale is balanced (in verse!); Doug tries his darndest to get clean. It's another assemblage of anguish and ennui for the anthologically-inclined art appreciator. Lickety...
93) After the rain
Author
Publisher
MEGASCOPE, an imprint of Abrams ComicArts, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The drama takes place in a small Nigerian town during a violent and unexpected storm. A Nigerian-American woman named Chioma answers a knock at her door and is horrified to see a boy with a severe head wound standing at her doorstep. He reaches for her, and his touch burns like fire. Something is very wrong. Haunted and hunted, Chioma must embrace her heritage in order to survive. John Jennings and David Brame's graphic novel collaboration uses bold...
94) Fell
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Transylvania during the Middle Ages, Fell, a lone wolf with unusual abilities, learns that his destiny is entwined with that of one human, fifteen-year-old Alina, whose mysterious origins have villagers believing she is a changeling
Author
Series
Blood and Ash volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A great primal power has risen. The Queen of Flesh and Fire has become the Primal of Blood and Bone--the true Primal of Life and Death. And the battle Casteel, Poppy, and their allies have been fighting has only just begun. Gods are awakening across Iliseeum and the mortal realm, readying for the war to come. But when Poppy falls into stasis, Cas faces the very real possibility that the dire, unexpected consequences of what she is becoming could...
Author
Series
Amira and Hamza volume 1
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
A genie informs twelve-year-old Amira and her younger brother Hamza that they are the chosen ones who must defeat a monstrous demon of Islamic folklore to save the Earth and a parallel dimension
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Here comes the Ice Cream Man for another helping of bitter sweets: four more cavity-inducing stories of suffering and surviving - with unlimited sundae toppings. Just try not to rot your teeth on these sickly sequential morsels, which, if you're not careful, could lodge themselves under the gums, deep into the roots, far beyond the reach of even the best dentist. Now open wide..." - back cover
98) The immortal boy
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Two intertwining stories of Bogotá. One, a family of five children, left to live on their own. The other, a girl in an orphanage who will do anything to befriend the mysterious Immortal Boy"--
"Este libro narra dos historias de Bogotá. La de cinco hermanos colombianos que enfrentan la orfandad y la miseria con valentía. Y la de una niña huérfana que hará cualquier cosa para conocer al misterioso chico inmortal. El momento en que sus vidas...
99) Garden State
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Andrew Largeman returns from self-imposed exile in Los Angeles to his hometown in New Jersey for his mother's funeral. Andrew has spent years cut off from his darker feelings with the aid of pharmaceuticals prescribed by his father, Gideon, a coldly formal psychiatrist. Afterward, he takes to tooling around on his antique motorcycle, finding old friends and making new ones. When he meets and begins to fall for Sam, he finds himself slowly awaking...
100) HEADS YOU WIN
Author
Language
English
Description
Alexander Karpenko is no ordinary child, and from an early age, it is clear he is destined to lead his countrymen. But when his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, he and his mother will have to escape from Russia if they hope to survive. At the docks, they are confronted with an irreversible choice: should they board a container ship bound for America, or Great Britain? Alexander leaves that choice to the toss of a coin. In a...
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