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61) Peaces
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark their new commitment - and to get them out of her house. Setting off with their pet mongoose, Otto and Xavier arrive at their sleepy local train station, but quickly deduce that The Lucky Day is no ordinary locomotive. Their trip on this former tea-smuggling train has been curated beyond their wildest imaginations, complete with mysterious and welcoming...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Connie Goodwin is an expert on America's fractured past with witchcraft. A young, tenure-track professor in Boston, she's earned career success by studying the history of magic in colonial America--especially women's home recipes and medicines--and by exposing society's threats against women fluent in those skills. But beyond her studies, Connie harbors a secret: She is the direct descendant of a woman tried as a witch in Salem, an ancestor whose...
Author
Series
Witches of Thistle Grove volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Opposites attract in this wickedly charming rom-com by Lana Harper, New York Times bestselling author of Payback's a Witch. Wild child Isidora Avramov is a thrill chaser, adept demon summoner, and-despite the whole sexy-evil-sorceress vibe-also a cuddly animal lover. When she's not designing costumes and new storylines for the Arcane Emporium's haunted house, Issa's nursing a secret, conflicted dream of ditching her family's witchy business to become...
Author
Series
Luma and the pet dragon volume 1
Publisher
Welbeck Flame, an imprint of Welbeck Children's Limited
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
179 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Luma Dewan wakes up on the morning of her seventh birthday, she knows that today will be special. But she has no idea just how wonderful and extraordinary it will be. For today is the day she will meet Timir, a real talking dragon. Or at least when Luma is around that's what he is. When anyone else is there, he becomes an ordinary grey puppy with a fluffy tail, who loves chasing squirrels and bouncing on trampolines. It's a big secret to keep...
65) Outside nowhere
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
244 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After setting off one too many pranks, Parker is sent to work on an unusual farm in the middle of nowhere where something extraordinary is growing underground.
Charming and funny, Parker Kelbrook can wriggle out of anything he doesn't want to do. So when he's forced to take a job at the local pool--a threat to his beach-filled summer plans--he comes up with the perfect prank to get himself fired. Once Parker's father catches wind of his latest scheme,...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
For reasons of her own, Hero Tojosoa accepts an invitation she was half expected to decline, and finds herself in Prague on a bachelorette weekend hosted by her estranged friend Sofie. Little does she know she's arrived in a city with a penchant for playing tricks on the unsuspecting. A book Hero has brought with her seems to be warping her mind: the text changes depending on when it's being read and who's doing the reading, revealing startling new...
67) Coyote queen
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twelve-year-old Fud feels trapped. She lives a precarious life in a cramped trailer with her mom and her mom's alcoholic ex-boxer boyfriend, Larry. Fud can see it's only a matter of time until Larry explodes again, even if her mom keeps on making excuses for his behavior. If only Fud could find a way to be as free as the coyotes roaming the Wyoming countryside: strong, smart, independent, and always willing to protect their own. When Larry comes...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Almost everyone in the small town of Splendor, Ohio, was affected when the local steel mil exploded. If you weren't a casualty of the accident yourself, chances are a loved one was. That's the case for seventeen-year-old Franny, who, five years after the explosion, still has to stand by and do nothing as her brother lies in a coma. In the wake of the tradgedy, Franny found solace in a group of friends whose experiences mirrored her own. The group...
69) The wonder state
Author
Publisher
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of Girl One comes a spellbinding tale full of mythmaking and magic, about friendship and the destructive power of secrets"--
Five friends arrive back in Eternal Springs, the small town they all fled after high school graduation. Each of them is drawn home by a cryptic, scrawled two-word letter that reads, You promised. It has been fifteen years since that life-changing summer, and they're anxious to find out why Brandi called them...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
391 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Hunter Yee has perfect aim with a bow and arrow, but all else in his life veers wrong. He's sick of being haunted by his family's past mistakes. The only things keeping him from running away are his little brother, a supernatural wind, and the bewitching girl at his new high school. Luna Chang dreads the future. Graduation looms ahead, and her parents' expectations are stifling. When she begins to break the rules, she finds her life upended by the...
71) The rat queen
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For Annie's tenth birthday, her papa gives her a pad of paper, some colored pencils, and the Klimas family secret. It's called the nuodeema burna, or eater of sins. Every time Annie misbehaves, she has to write down her transgression and stick the paper into a hidey-hole in the floor of their house. But Annie's inheritance has a dark side: with each paper fed to the burna, she feels less guilty about the mean things she says and does. As a plague...
Author
Series
Best wishes (Mlynowski) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Tired of being the middle sister, eleven-year-old Addie Asante uses a magical bracelet to switch places with her thirteen-year-old sister and discovers that being older is not necessarily easier--and worse, her baby sister is now living as Addie.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A TINY UPWARD SHOVE is a fictionalized account of real life Canadian serial killer Willie Pickton and his final victim. In the debut novel of award-winning essayist, Melissa Chadburn, we follow the life of Filipina foster youth Marina Salles and are submerged in the confluence of violence and empathy, fabulism and realism. A story of how both victim and monster emerge from the same world"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sent to stay with her aunt in Prague and witness the humble life of an artist, Ilana Lopez--a biracial Jewish girl--finds herself torn between her dream of becoming a violinist and her immigrant parents' desire for her to pursue a more stable career. When she discovers a forgotten Jewish cemetery behind her aunt's cottage, she meets the ghost of a kindhearted boy named Benjamin, who died over a century ago. As Ilana restores Benjamin's grave, he introduces...
Author
Series
Before the coffee gets cold volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a back alley in Tokyo, there is a café that has been serving carefully brewed coffee for more than one hundred years. Local legend says that this shop offers something else besides coffee--the chance to travel back in time. With faces both familiar and new, Tales from the Cafe follows the story of four patrons who visit to take advantage of café Funiculi Funicula's time-traveling offer and revisit moments with family, friends and lovers. Each...
76) Echo
Author
Publisher
Nightfire
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"After a terrible accident high in the Alps, travel journalist Nick Grevers wakes from a coma to find that his climbing buddy, Augustin, is missing and presumed dead. But Nick claims to not remember anything--even whatever horrible event that led to his maimed face and the plastic surgery that leaves him still in bandages and feeling like a B-movie monster. Sam, Nick's long-suffering boyfriend, wants to be glad that Nick is alive and coming home....
Author
Publisher
Melville House Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
390 pages : genealogical table ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a child living in his family's apple orchard, Ahmad Torkash-Vand treasures his great-great-great-great grandfather's every mesmerizing word. On the day of his father's death, Ahmad listens closely as the seemingly immortal elder tells him the tale of a centuries-old family curse . . . and the boy's own fated role in the story. Ahmad grows up to suspect that something unseen must be interfering with his family, as he struggles to hold them together...
78) Vagabonds!
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Nigeria, vagabonds are those whose existence is literally outlawed: the poor, the queer, the drivers and dancers, the abused and displaced and vulnerable. Blending unvarnished realism with myth and fantasy, Vagabonds! traces characters for whom life itself is a form of resistance: a driver for a debauched politician; a fashion designer who gives birth to a grown daughter; a lesbian couple; a wife and mother trying to escape from her violent husband....
79) A taste of magic
Author
Series
Park Row Magick Academy volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Kyana bakes up a plan to keep her inner-city magic school open after redistricting and gentrification threaten to close it down.
Twelve-year-old Kyana has just discovered she's a witch! This means classes every Saturday at Park Row Magic Academy, a learning center hidden in the back of the local beauty shop, and Kyana can't wait to learn spells to help out at home. The only downside is having to keep her magic a secret from her BFF,...
Author
Series
Heidi Heckelbeck volume 35
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Little Simon hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
119 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Heidi and her family take a trip to Castle Spell Cove, she befriends an unusual girl named Sunny who has a magical secret that will change Heidi's life forever.
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