Catalog Search Results
401) The winter people
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourteen-year-old Saxso, a member of the Abenaki tribe in Canada, embarks on a dangerous rescue mission when his mother and two younger sisters are taken hostage during an attack by the British on their unprotected village in 1759.
402) The King's Arrow
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media Teen & Tween
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The king is killed on a shadowy summer day-and his servant becomes an outlaw On an August day in 1100, King William II of England goes hunting. At the side of the notorious monarch is his loyal servant, Walter Tyrrell, who is ranked among the finest archers in the kingdom. Riding through the New Forest, the king is separated from his party. Tyrrell lets loose a shot at what he thinks is a passing stag, but his arrow buries itself in the king's chest...
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Heartbreakingly real ... a remarkable novel about the power of first love and the courage it takes to face your fears. -- Kami Garcia, #1 New York Times bestselling author From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout comes a riveting story about friendship, survival and finding your voice. Growing up, Mallory Dodge learned that the best way to survive was to say nothing. And even though it's been four years since her nightmare...
Author
Series
bA Gen M Novel volume 1
Publisher
Jambor
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"My name is Caitlin Feral, and I'm about to face my final Testing Day. My younger brother and mom hope I return: that I survive the tests (which is not a given) and that I am still a dreg. They want me to stay here with them to keep what's left of our family together. They want me to stay here, in the shadow of the Genetic Wars, with mutant animal attacks, protectors in faceless helms eager to catch us in the slightest infractions, and a menial work...
406) Beginner's luck
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old gambling whiz Hallie Palmer, kicked off the soccer team for ditching class, gets the education of her life when she quits school and takes up residence in an outbuilding on the grounds of the Stockton home where she works as a yard person for the very eccentric, very wealthy family.
407) Just roll with it
Author
Publisher
RH Graphic
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Maggie, who struggles with anxiety and OCD, gets through her first year of middle school by making friends, finding the best after-school clubs, and using her twenty-sided dice to help her make desicions.
408) Milk fed: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of existential control, by way of obsessive food rituals, while working as an underling at a Los Angeles talent management agency. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine. Rachel is content to carry on subsisting--until her therapist encourages her to take a ninety-day communication detox from her mother, who raised...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A new novel that gives voice to the diverse residents of a Palestinian American community in Baltimore--from young activists in conflict with their traditional parents to the poor who clean for the rich--shows lives which intersect across divides of class, generation and religion"--
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Marilyn Kleinman is caught making out with the rabbi's son in front of the whole congregation, her parents ship her off to her great-aunt Ada for the summer. If anyone can save their daughter's reputation, it's Philadelphia's strict premier matchmaker. Either that or Marilyn can kiss college goodbye. To Marilyn's surprise, Ada's not the humorless septuagenarian her mother described. Not with that platinum-blonde hair, Hermès scarf, and Cadillac...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Dulemba seamlessly melds a coming-of-age story to the reality of life in a single-industry town. This is a book that sings. - Betsy Bird, School Library Journal blog A Fuse #8 Production Living in Coppertown is like living on the moon. Everything is bare-there are no trees, no birds, no signs of nature at all. And while Jack loves his town, he hates the dangerous mines that have ruined the land with years of pollution. When the miners go...
412) Green dot: a novel
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"A darkly hilarious and deeply felt debut novel about a young Australian woman's unruly and indignant love affair with her older coworker"--
413) Burma sahib: a novel
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"An Eton graduate is conscripted as a servant of the British Empire to oversea local policemen in Burma, forcing him to navigate social , racial and class politics"--
414) My friends: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat. Obsessed by the power of those words--and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zawa--Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh. There, thrust into an open society that is light years away from the world he knew...
415) The book of goose
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agn̈s, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised--the place that Fabienne helped Agn̈s escape ten years ago. Now, Agn̈s is free to tell her story. As children in a war-ravaged, backwater town, they'd built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves--until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agn̈s on an epic...
416) No great mischief
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
Language
English
Description
Alexander MacDonald, one of the MacDonald clan that has lived in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia since 1779 when Calum MacDonald, his wife, twelve children, and dog landed in Canada, remains dedicated to the memory of Scotland and his grandmother's admonition to "always look after your blood."
417) Learned by heart
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A heartbreakingly gorgeous novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York, from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder. Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant,...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request