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61) Academ's fury
Author
Series
Codex Alera volume 2
Language
English
Description
Tavi must thwart assassination attempts and court treachery in order to save Alera Imperia, the capital of the realm, from a mysterious attack from across the sea.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this delightful, funny, and moving first novel, a librarian and a young boy obsessed with reading take to the road.
Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten- year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly...
Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten- year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly...
63) A boy no more
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
1st Aladdin paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After his father is killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Adam, his mother, and sister are evacuated from Hawaii to California, where he must deal with his feelings about the war, Japanese internment camps, his father, and his own identity.
64) The crossing
Author
Series
Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The second volume of the award-winning Border Trilogy—From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road—fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
When Julian's parents send him and his two brothers to Miami to escape the Cuban revolution, the boys are thrust into a new world where bullies run rampant, and it is not always clear how best to protect themselves.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lincoln Jones is always working on the latest story he's got going in his notebook. Those stories are his refuge. A place where the hero always prevails and the bad guy goes to jail. Real life is messy and complicated, so Lincoln sticks to fiction and keeps to himself. Which works fine until a nosy girl at his new school starts prying into his private business. She wants to know what he's writing, where he disappears to after school, and why he never...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her daughter accidentally hits and kills another high school girl with the family's car, Leigh, a troubled mother, is forced to confront her relationship with her daughter, her resentment toward her husband (who understands the daughter better) and her long-buried feelings towards her own neglectful mother.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From UK bestselling author Gillian McAllister comes an astonishing, compulsively twisty psychological thriller about a mother who witnesses her teenage son stab a man and then seizes on an unconventional way to try to save him. Can you stop a murder after it's already happened? Late October. After midnight. You're waiting up for your seventeen-year-old son. He's late. As you watch from the window, he emerges, and you realize he isn't alone: he's...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"In the spirit of The Bartender's Tale, a lively and poignant coming-of-age story about a boy and his great-uncle on a cross-country odyssey. Donal Cameron is being raised by his grandmother, the cook at the legendary Double W ranch in Doig's beloved Two Medicine Country of the Montana Rockies, a landscape that gives full rein to an eleven-year-old's imagination. But when Gram has to have surgery for "female trouble" in the summer of 1951, all she...
Author
Publisher
Clavis
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"James struggles with reading and misses recess to practice. To cheer himself up, he visits the cat rescue shelter and befriends Ghost, the cat in the box. But Ghost isn't quite ready to make friends! As his reading improves, James learns that kindness and perseverance can have unexpected rewards and that having a furry friend is the best gift of all"--
71) Dog days
Author
Publisher
Darby Creek Publishing
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Larry is enjoying the summer, playing baseball and taking care of the stray dogs he's brought home. Then his brother Paul finds another stray in an alley under mysterious circumstances, but the dog won't come home with them. When the price of dog food rises and the price paid for scrap falls, Larry has to find a new way to feed his dogs and try to help the dog from the alley.
72) Huckleberry Finn
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventures of a young boy travelling down the Mississippi River with an escaped slave.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Undone by the calamity of his parents' robbery and arrest, Dell struggles under the vast prairie sky to remake himself and define the adults he thought he knew. But his search for grace and peace only moves him nearer to a harrowing and murderous collision with Remlinger, an elemental force of darkness.
74) The kid: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Kid brings us deep into the interior life of Abdul Jones, son of Sapphire’s unforgettable heroine, Precious. A story of body and spirit, rooted in the hungers of flesh and of the soul, The Kid is a story of survival and awakening, and of one young man’s remarkable strength.
We meet Abdul at age nine, on the day of his mother’s funeral. Left alone to navigate in a world where love and hate sometimes hideously masquerade,...
We meet Abdul at age nine, on the day of his mother’s funeral. Left alone to navigate in a world where love and hate sometimes hideously masquerade,...
77) The long walk
Author
Publisher
Signet
Pub. Date
[1999], c1996
Language
English
Description
Maine native Ray Garraty is one of one hundred teenage boys selected to compete in an annual national challenge of endurance for which the winner is the only survivor--a walk accompanied by soldiers who shoot to kill any participant who stops for any reason.
78) Eddie Fantastic
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eddie and his friends go on an incredible adventure through time and space, reality and quantum physics, until at last Eddie discoveres an ultimate wisdom and understanding about the Creator of our universe -- container.
79) Keep quiet
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jake Whitmore is enjoying a rare bonding moment with his sixteen-year-old son, Kurt, when disaster strikes. They get in a terrible car accident that threatens to derail not only Kurt's chances at college, but his entire future. Jake makes a split-seconddecision that saves his son from formal punishment, but plunges them both into a world of guilt, lies, and secrecy. Just when Jake thinks he has everything under control, a malevolent outsider comes...
80) Cimarron rose
Author
Series
Billy Bob Holland novels volume 1
Publisher
Orion
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
James Lee Burke, best-selling author of the Louisiana-based Dave Robicheaux crime fiction series, now begins a new series with a new landscape. In Cimarron Rose, Burke brings his talent for lyrical writing and hard-edged suspense to the American West. Billy Bob Holland is a lawyer for the people of sunbaked Deaf Smith, in southern Texas. Although occasionally he is haunted by memories of a violent past, his life is serene-until a local guitarist,...
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