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2) Less is lost
Author
Series
Arthur Less volume 2
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
For Arthur Less, life is going surprisingly well: he is a moderately accomplished novelist in a steady relationship with his partner, Freddy Pelu. But nothing lasts: the death of an old lover and a sudden financial crisis has Less running away from his problems yet again as he accepts a series of literary gigs that send him on a zigzagging adventure across the US.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
Receiving an invitation to his ex-boyfriend's wedding, Arthur, a failed novelist on the eve of his fiftieth birthday, embarks on an international journey that finds him falling in love, risking his life, reinventing himself, and making connections with the past.
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Set against the turbulent backdrop of the 1960s, Noah Bly's evocative debut explores prejudice, loss, and redeeming courage through the prism of an unlikely friendship.
When fifty-four-year-old Julianna Dapper slips out of a mental hospital in Bangor, Maine, on a June day in 1962, it's with one purpose in mind. Julianna knows she must go back to the tiny farming community in northern Missouri where she was born and raised. It's the place where she...
6) Cured
Author
Series
Stung novel volume 2
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Now cured, Fiona Tarsis and her twin, Jonah, set out to find their mother with the help of Bowen and former neighbor Jacqui, planning to spread the cure along the way, but raiders will do anything to stop them and new ally Kevin may have ties to those raiders.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call...
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Despite their best efforts, Carter and Sade Kane can't seem to keep Apophis, the chaos snake, down. Their only hope: find an ancient spell that might turn the serpent's own shadow into a weapon.
9) Graceling
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Gabriel, with the help of the young raven Paladin, which whom he has a magical bond, travels to the foreboding land of Aviopolis, where he must face challenges and unanswerable riddles to rescue his long-missing father.
12) Teacup
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A boy travels across the sea in a rowboat in search of a new home, making a journey that is long and difficult--but also filled with beauty and hope"--
13) Royal icing
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Juliette invites the cupcake club girls to London to cater her boyfriend's West End acting debut, and while there Lady and Lord Wakefield ask them to build a cupcake London Bridge for their daughter's birthday.
Author
Series
Chronicles of Kazam volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange faces the impossible when the mighty Shandar emerges from his preserved state and presents her with a task that sends her and her companions on a journey from which they may never return.
15) The way back
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A historical fantasy that follows Eastern European teens Yehuda and Bluma on a journey through the Far Country, the Jewish land of the dead.
16) Friends
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When his friend moves away, a boy sets out on a journey to find her.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Healing from the loss that has long plagued him grows harder for Seattle advertising executive Alan Christoffersen as a new crisis calls on friends old and new to help see him through yet another troubled time as he comes to the end of his journey and prepares to make a crucial choice.
19) Spirit walker
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When a deadly illness begins to afflict the clans, twelve-year-old Torak, with help from Renn and Wolf, embarks on a journey to find a cure.
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