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Author
Series
New Beginnings volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Having lived under her parents' thumb for 25 years, Beth Prudhomme is finally taking charge of her own life. She moves from Chicago to Portland to live near her favorite aunt, finding employment as a music teacher at a local high school and a fast friend in Nichole Nyquist (who readers will recognize from A Girl's Guide to Moving On). Everything is coming together, though her love life leaves something to be desired. Until Nichole introduces Beth...
Author
Series
Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Karou, a lovely, enigmatic art student in a Prague boarding school, carries a sketchbook of hideous, frightening monsters--the chimaerae who form the only family she has ever known.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Raised to be a warrior, seventeen-year-old Eelyn fights alongside her Aska clansmen in an ancient rivalry against the Riki clan, but when faced with her brother's betrayal, and driven by a growing love for her brother's friend Fiske, she attempts to unite the two clans.
Author
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling author brings us her most ambitious and provocative work yet—a searing and timely novel that explores the most volatile issue of our time—domestic violence.
At the break of dawn, Caroline Shelby rolls into Oysterville, Washington, a tiny hamlet at the edge of the raging Pacific.
She's come home.
Home to a place she thought she'd left forever, home of her heart and memories, but not
...Author
Series
Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"The otherworldly Karou struggles to come to terms with who and what she is, and how far she'll go to avenge her people"--
6) Shadow kiss
Author
Series
Vampire Academy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
While Rose is coping with the darker effects of being shadow-kissed, her relationship with Dimitri is finally taking off, and when he disappears during a Strigoi attack on St. Vladimir's Academy, she must make a terrible choice.
Author
Series
Daughter of smoke and bone trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
From the streets of Rome to the caves of the Kirin and beyond, humans, chimaera, and seraphim will fight, strive, love, and die in an epic theater that transcends good and evil, right and wrong, friend and enemy.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Emma Donoghue's explosive new novel, based on an unsolved murder in 1876 San Francisco. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice--if he...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mrs. Jeepers may — or may not — be a vampire in this funny and spooky series from Graphix Chapters.
Get drawn into reading with Graphix Chapters!
Graphix Chapters are ideal books for beginning and newly independent readers aged 6-8. With approachable page counts, easy-to-follow paneling, and artwork that supports text comprehension, these engaging stories with unforgettable characters help children become
...Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Now an Apple TV+ series starring Elisabeth Moss: the girl who wouldn't die hunts the killer who shouldn't exist in this "expertly chilling" twist on the serial killer novel from the award-winning author Lauren Beukes (San Francisco Chronicle).
Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future. Kirby is the last shining girl, one of the...
Harper Curtis is a killer who stepped out of the past. Kirby Mazrachi is the girl who was never meant to have a future. Kirby is the last shining girl, one of the...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Relationships are awful. They'll kill you, right up to the point where they start saving your life. Paul and Alice's half-sister Eloise is getting married! In London! There will be fancy hotels, dinners at "it" restaurants and a reception at a country estate complete with tea lights and embroidered cloth napkins. They couldn't hate it more. The People We Hate at the Wedding is the story of a less than perfect family. Donna, the clan's mother, is...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Khristine Hvam does a stellar narration of this young adult epistolary novel...Hvam's portrayal of Brynn is spot-on, breathing life into the character's personality. Even with the serious subject matter, Hvam delivers an engaging performance." — AudioFile Magazine
In Adrienne Kisner's Dear Rachel Maddow, a high school girl deals with school politics and life after her brother's death by drafting emails
Author
Language
English
Description
Anaya, a disillusioned thirty-five-year-old doctor, has been looking after Gregory, a retired watchmaker and resident of an aged care facility. On her last visit, he gifts her his final creation, an exquisitely crafted watch, knowing she will die tragically that very day. What he doesn't reveal is that it will turn back time, with one condition: she must choose the time and place to reset the clock and redo just one thing in her life.
Regrets, it...
15) Why We Broke Up
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
I'm telling you why we broke up, Ed. I'm writing it in this letter, the whole truth of why it happened. Min Green and Ed Slaterton are breaking up, so Min is writing Ed a letter and giving him a box. Inside the box is why they broke up. Two bottle caps, a movie ticket, a folded note, a box of matches, a protractor, books, a toy truck, a pair of ugly earrings, a comb from a motel room, and every other item collected over the course of a giddy, intimate,...
16) Astray
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Room comes a moving set of historical stories spanning centuries and continents.
The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They are gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross other borders too: those of race, law, sex, and...
The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They are gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross other borders too: those of race, law, sex, and...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The new director at Camp Lone Wolf seems like a nice guy. But when the kids learn the legend of a local boy who disappeared and the wolf that prowls the campgrounds howling in the night, they start to wonder if Camp Lone Wolf is more than just a name. Mr. Jenkins is covered in hair, eats his meat almost raw, and has an obsession with wolves. But could he really be a werewolf?
