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Author
Series
Goldie Vance novels volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Prepare to be amazed by Goldie's second middle-grade adventure! The Crossed Palms is hosting the first ever League of Magical Arts Convention, bringing the world's most renowned and emerging magicians to the resort, including an overeager part-time magician and detective named Derek Von Thurston. When some of the magic starts to go awry, Goldie -- and Derek -- are on the case! Can Goldie uncover the saboteur before the final act goes live?
142) The long ride
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In New York in 1971, Jamila and Josie are bused across Queens where they try to fit in at a new, integrated junior high school while their best friend, Francesca, tests the limits at a private school.--
143) All Together Now
Author
Series
Eagle Rock volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When her band's drummer and fellow guitarist start dating, life gets awkward for eighth-grader Bina, a talented musician and songwriter, whose discomfort only multiplies when her best friend Austin develops a crush on her."--Provided by publisher.
144) A secret princess
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Best friends Mary Lennox, Sara Crewe, and Cedric Erroll flee their repressive boarding school, intending to start over in the theaters of Paris, but they instead find themselves at Cedric's estate in Yorkshire, where a hidden garden helps them realize their destiny.
145) The dragon warrior
Author
Series
Dragon warrior volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jade Society member Faryn Liu may be destined to command the Jade Emperor's army of demon-fighting dragons, but first she must complete a daring quest across San Francisco's Chinatown before the Lunar New Year.
146) The breakup vacation
Author
Series
Beach House volume 1
Publisher
MTV Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"If Grace is being honest, she knows her choices skate past questionable and probably into destructive. But her heart is broken and the guy who broke it—her ex Josh—keeps hinting at a reunion. So when her best friends, Tiff and Camille, suggest they take a girls trip to help her get over her heartache, Grace doesn’t hesitate to recommend Cancún. She just doesn’t mention that Josh also happens to be there. But juggling...
147) Gravity
Author
Publisher
Make Me a World
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gravity Delgado has been breaking records and competitors since she started boxing with a legendary coach at age twelve, and now will reach the Olympics if her home life and romance do not distract her.
Brooklyn. Since Gravity "Doomsday" Delgado started working with Coach Thomas, she been breaking records, breaking her competitors, and breaking the walls inside her. Boxiing is taking her places. She makes friends with other boxers:...
148) Sugar Town queens
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"A biracial girl living in post-apartheid South Africa is determined to unveil the mystery of her white mother's hidden past"--
When Amandla wakes up on her fifteenth birthday, she knows it's going to be one of her mother's difficult days. Her mother has had another vision. This one involves Amandla wearing a bedsheet loosely stitched as a dress. An outfit, her mother says, is certain to bring Amandla's father back home, as if he were the prince...
149) Cold falling white
Author
Series
Nahx invasions volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Canada
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Xander Liu survived the alien invasion--just barely. For more than a year, he has outsmarted, hidden from, and otherwise avoided the ruthless intruders, the Nahx, dodging the deadly darts that have claimed so many. When the murder of his friend Raven leaves him in the protective company of August, a rebellious Nahx soldier, Xander is finally able to make his way back to human controlled territory and relative safety. But safety among the humans is...
150) The grey bastards
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Call them outcasts, call them savages--they've been called worse, by their own mothers--but Jackal is proud to be a Grey Bastard. He and his fellow half-orcs patrol the barren wastes of the Lot Lands, spilling their own damned blood to keep civilized folk safe. A rabble of hard-talking, hog-riding, whore-mongering brawlers they may be, but the Bastards are Jackal's sworn brothers, fighting at his side in a land where there's no room for softness....
151) Betty
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A stunning, lyrical coming-of-age novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians in which a young girl, with only the compass of her father's imagination, must navigate racism, sexism, and the dark secrets that will haunt her for the rest of her life. "A girl comes of age against the knife." So begins the story of Betty Carpenter. Born in a bathtub in Arkansas in 1954 to a Cherokee father and white mother, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings....
152) The stolen slippers
Author
Series
Never after volume 2
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Filomena Jefferson-Cho and her friends, Jack Stalker, Alistair, and Gretel are once again in Never After, to help Gretel fulfill a promise to her father to recover the glass slipper he made for her cousin, Hortense, which was stolen by the cunning and manipulative Cinderella, who is determined to become Princess of Eastphalia--to do that the friends will have to infiltrate the castle, and, of course, avoid being eaten by monsters.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Maple Mehta-Cohen has been keeping a secret: she can't read all that well. She has an impressive vocabulary and loves dictating stories into her recorder--especially the adventures of a daring sleuth who's half Indian and half Jewish like Maple herself--but words on the page just don't seem to make sense to her. Despite all Maple's clever tricks to hide her troubles with reading, her teacher is on to her, and now Maple has to repeat fifth grade....
154) That hair
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
""The story of my curly hair," says Mila, the narrator of Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida's autobiographically inspired tragicomedy, "intersects with the story of at least two countries and, by extension, the indirect story of the relations among several continents: a geopolitics." Mila is the Luanda-born daughter of a black Angolan mother and a white Portuguese father. She arrives in Lisbon at the tender age of three, and feels like an outsider from...
Author
Series
Blood gift duology volume 1
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
It's all about blood.The blood spilled between the Republic of Mareen and the armies of the Blood Emperor long ago. The blood gifts of Mareen's deadliest enemies. The blood that runs through the elite War Houses of Mareen, the rulers of the Tribunal dedicated to keeping the republic alive. The blood of the former Legatus, Verne Amari, murdered. For his granddaughter, Ikenna, the only thing steady in her life was the man who had saved Mareen. The man...
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