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1) Odd Thomas
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Over the course of two days, Odd Thomas, his soulmate Stormy Llewellyn, and an assortment of allies make their way through a dark, terrifying world in which past and present, and life and death collide as they try to avert a cataclysm.
Author
Series
Rebel of the sands volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Amani is desperate to leave the dead-end town of Dustwalk, and she's counting on her sharpshooting skills to help her escape. But after she meets Jin, the mysterious rebel running from the Sultan's army, she unlocks the powerful truth about the desert nation of Miraji...and herself"--
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Language
English
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Description
One Saturday night in Las Vegas, twelve-year-old Newell Ewing goes out with a friend and doesn't come home. In the aftermath of his disappearance, his mother, Lorraine, makes daily pilgrimages to her son's room and tortures herself with memories. Equally distraught, the boy's father, Lincoln, finds himself wanting to comfort his wife even as he yearns for solace, a loving touch, any kind of intimacy. As the Ewings navigate the mystery of what's become...
5) Never
Author
Language
English
Description
"'Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed.' So says Pauline Green, president of the United States. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons: all these play roles in a relentlessly escalating crisis. Struggling to prevent the outbreak of a world war are a young woman intelligence officer; a spy working undercover...
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Language
English
Description
"Along the Rio Grande, a dozen bodies fester in the sun. Harlan Two-Trees discovers the massacre, but wants nothing to do with it. Mistrusted by the whites who run Caliche Bend and estranged from the Navajo, Harlan heads west to California -- to freedom. He will find the Rio Grande's bloody baptism does not wash off so easily. From his berth aboard the gleaming Santa Fe railway, Harlan brims with the promise of a new life in California. But when a...
7) Tiger queen
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In the isolated desert kingdom of Achra, sixteen-year-old Princess Kateri flees the palace and trains with the rebel Desert Boys to overthrow the cruel captain of the guard in this retelling of Frank Stockton's short story, "The Lady, or the Tiger?"
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Series
Language
English
Description
Police academy-trained former reporter Ali Reynolds is contacted to investigate the grisly murder of a gold-digging divorcee on behalf of a woman accused of the crime. Lynn Martinson is dating the dead woman's ex-husband, and she and her boyfriend Chip Ralston have been charged. Ali is simultaneously drawn to the case of A.J. Sanders, a frightened teen with secrets of his own. He's the first to find the body in the Camp Verde desert when he goes...
Author
Series
Dune novels. Heroes of Dune volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Set two years before Dune: Princess of Dune is the never-before-told story of two key women in the life of Paul Muad'Dib--Princess Irulan, his wife in name only, and Paul's true love, the Fremen Chani. Both women become central to Paul's galaxy-spanning Imperial reign. Raised in the Imperial court and born to be a political bargaining chip, Irulan was sent at an early age to be trained as a Bene Gesserit Sister. As Princess Royal, she also learned...
10) Finding Nouf
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Nouf goes missing and is found drowned in the desert outside Jeddah, Nayir--a desert guide hired by her prominent family to search for her--feels compelled to find out what really happened.
11) The blackbirder
Author
Publisher
Feminist Press at the City University of New York
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Julie Guilles has escaped to New York from Nazi-occupied France. But that doesn't mean she's safe. The German invasion put an end to her glamorous, sheltered life in Paris three years ago, and because she entered America illegally, she has to live in the shadows, a refugee without papers, never quite sure whom she can trust.
When an old acquaintance is gunned down in front of her apartment building, Julie worries she could be next. To evade the NYPD,...
13) Desert creatures
Author
Publisher
Erewhon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Nine-year-old Magdala and her father have been exiled from their home; they flee through the harsh landscape of the American West, searching for refuge. As violence pursues them, they join a handful of survivors on a pilgrimage to the holy city of Las Vegas, where it is said that vigilante saints reside, bright with neon power. Magdala, born with a clubfoot, is going to be healed. But when faced with the strange horrors of the Sonoran Desert, one...
14) Black unicorn
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
With her talent for mending things, sixteen-year-old Tanaquil reconstructs a unicorn which, brought to life, lures her away from her desert fortress home and her sorceress mother to find a city by the sea and the way to a perfect world.
15) Deadzone
Author
Series
Horizon (Scholastic) volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Seven of the eight survivors of the Aero Horizon crash have made it out of the deadly jungle, but the desert into which they have emerged has its own dangers, and they have very little food or water left and no sign of civilization anywhere--meanwhile, one of the survivors is changing, and that may be the greatest threat of all.
16) Deserts
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree
Pub. Date
c1978
Language
English
Description
Describes the appearance, location, inhabitants, and vegetation of deserts.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Frenenqer lives a controlled and restricted life in the desert, like everyone else there, but when she meets Sangris, a Free, winged shape-shifter, everything changes
Author
Series
Trailsman volume 396
Publisher
A Signet Book
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Skye Fargo has spent weeks with the U.S. Army Camel Corps, trying to create a supply train across the Mojave Desert. But after fighting Indians, bushwhackers, and nature itself, his deadliest foe appears: Pablo "the Scorpion" Ramirez, a savage killer.
20) Vessel
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When the goddess Bayla fails to take over Liyana's body, Liyana's people abandon her in the desert to find a more worthy vessel, but she soon meets Korbyn, who says the souls of seven deities have been stolen and he needs Liyana's help to find them
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