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"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
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2024.
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English
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"Set in a not-too-distant America, I Cheerfully Refuse is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs, and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate...
3) The insider
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Series
Kingdom keepers. Original series volume 7
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2024
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Deception and betrayal rock the Kingdom Keepers as the merciless group of Disney villains known as the Overtakers stage an unexpected comeback. But a discovery by the Keepers provides them with one hope of victory -- a lost icon.
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Chicken House/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Asha lives in the foothills of the Himalayas. Money is tight and she misses her papa, who works in the city. When he suddenly stops sending his wages, a ruthless moneylender ransacks their home, and her mother talks of leaving. From her den in the mango tree, Asha makes a pact with her best friend, Jeevan, to find her father and make things right. But the journey is dangerous: they must cross the world's highest mountains and face hunger, exhaustion,...
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Dragon masters volume 26
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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While trying to rescue their friend Griffith, Drake and Rori team up with a boy named Llew and try to gain the trust of a Crystal Dragon.
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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Help Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose solve mysteries from A to D in this starter boxed set of the first four A to Z Mysteries® books! Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose are just regular kids with a knack for solving mysteries. In their first four adventures, they find a missing person, catch a thief, save neighborhood pets, and uncover a haunted dungeon! What mystery will they solve next? Follow the clues from A to Z to find out!
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Richard Sharpe volume 23
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English
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"If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe... And the impossible is exactly what the formidable Major Sharpe is asked to do when he's dispatched on an undercover mission deep in the Spanish countryside. For a remote village is about to become the center of a battle for the future of Europe. Sitting high above the Almaraz bridge, it is the last link between two French armies, one in the north, the other to the south; if they meet, the British...
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Indiana Jones series volume 6
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
©1992
Language
English
Description
A mystery connects the moai statues of Easter Island to the eerie ghost ship of Chiloe Island. Indiana Jones begins a dangerous quest into a hidden interior world to solve the mystery.
9) Jaguar
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Series
Jacob Lansa volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While accompanying his father on an expedition up the Amazon River to a jaguar preserve in Brazil, fourteen-year-old Jacob must contend with dangerous animals and fortune hunters
10) Kindling
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
After the war is over, seven outlawed kindlings--elite, magic-wielding warriors whose devastating power comes at the cost of their own young lives--must confront their pasts, their trauma and their grim fates to reclaim who they once were and fight one last time.
11) Toll of honor
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Publisher
Baen Publishing Enterprises
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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""It is our duty to pay for our liberty with our own blood. The freedom that we shall win through our sacrifice and exertions, we shall be able to preserve with our own strength." -Subhas Chandra Bose. Lieutenant Brandy Bolgeo has come home from the Battle of Hancock station wounded in both body and spirit. She will need months to regenerate her lost leg, but how long will it take to heal her heart? She's come home to find that her wounds, her ship's...
12) Shooting iron
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Series
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From the greatest western writers of the 21st century, the thundering new adventure starring traveling gunslinger John Holt, a lawman-for-hire on a mission to serve justice across the untamed Colorado territories - one bullet at a time. One of the deadliest, crime-infested towns in Colorado Territory, Devil's Gulch needed more than a sheriff. They needed a gunslinger. So they pinned a badge on hardcase lawman John Holt. And the rest is history. ....
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Series
To gaze upon wicked gods volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Ruying, born with the power over death, must weigh if her family's life is worth betraying her country to strike a deal with an enemy prince. Heroes die, cowards live. Daughter of a conquered world, Ruying hates the invaders who descended from the heavens long before she was born and defeated the magic of her people with technologies unlike anything her world had ever seen. Blessed by Death, born with the ability to pull the life right out of mortal...
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Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 14
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When Nightshade kidnaps his best friend, teen spy Alex Rider must enter the world of virtual reality gaming where the lines between what's real and what's digital are deliberately being blurred by a ruthless enemy.
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Series
(Patricia J.),Pick your own quest volume 3
Publisher
[CreateSpace Publishing]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
You finally get back inside the Minecraft server. Now to get some answers. Except Minecraft is a scary place, and one wrong move could be your last. Should you trust Herobrine? Take the parkour challenge? You decide. Can you get your answers and find your way out of Minecraft?
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Congratulations! You have been chosen by the Dragon Stone! Here is your official Dragon Master guide. Inside you will find facts about the Dragon Masters and their powerful dragons, review secret notes from me and other wizards, study world maps, learn the history of the Dragon Masters, and more! - Griffith of the Green Fields, Royal Wizard to King Roland of Bracken." --
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Series
(Patricia J.),Pick your own quest volume 4
Publisher
Books in Myth
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
You mod your way back onto the Minecraft server. Now to get to the End to find the Creators. You need to travel to the Nether then fight the ender dragon on your way. One wrong move could kill you. One right move could give you ultimate control. Can you stay alive and make it to the End of Minecraft?
Author
Series
(Patricia J.),Pick your own quest volume 1
Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Crazy things are happening in Egypt! The gods are angry. The Nile River is drying up. Smoke appears on the horizon. Crocodiles attack! It's up to you to save the world. Make the right choice and you get to rule Egypt for the rest of your life. Make the wrong choice and it will be your last."--Amazon.com
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(Stacey Heather).Winston Chu volume 2
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When San Francisco adults forget who they are and mysterious exotic birds flock to the city, twelve-year-old Winston Chu and friends team up to investigate the strange occurrences and face off against Mr. Pang's older magpie-turned-human brother, Mr. Gu.
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