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I survived volume 22
Language
English
Description
The snow came down faster than train crews could clear the tracks, piling up in drifts 20 feet high. At the Wellington train depot in the Cascade Mountains, two trains sat stranded, blocked in by snow slides to the east and west. Some passengers braved the storm to hike off the mountain, but many had no choice but to wait out the storm. But the storm didn't stop. One day passed, then two, three...six days. The snow turned to rain. Then, just after...
22) The gardener
Author
Language
English
Description
A series of letters relates what happens when, after her father loses his job, Lydia Grace goes to live with her uncle in the city but takes her love of gardening with her.
23) Chosen
Author
Series
House of night volume 3
Language
English
Description
Dark forces are at work at the House of Night and fledging vampyre Zoey Redbird's adventures at the school take a mysterious turn. Those who appear to be friends are turning out to be enemies. And oddly enough, sworn enemies are also turning into friends. So begins the gripping third installment of this series in which Zoey's mettle will be tested like never before. Her best friend Stevie Rae, is undead and struggling to maintain a grip on her humanity....
24) Lucky strikes
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Set in Depression Era Virginia, this is the story of orphaned Amelia and her struggle to keep her siblings together"--
Author
Series
Heroes in training volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Language
English
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Description
When ten-year-old Zeus is kidnapped, he discovers he can defend himself with a magical thunderbolt.
27) The jungle
Author
Language
English
Description
A powerful view of turn-of-the-century poverty, graft, and corruption, this fiercely realistic American classic is still required reading in many history and literature classes. It will continue to haunt readers long after they've finished the last page. An ardent activist, champion of political reform, novelist, and progressive journalist, Upton Sinclair is perhaps best known today for The Jungle his devastating exposé of the meat-packing...
28) 96 miles
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Language
English
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During a massive blackout in rural Nevada, two brothers struggle to survive without their self-reliance-obsessed dad and without enough water cross the desert for help.
Author
Series
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
It is scary movie night at Moldylocks' house; the guests are Princess Pink and Moldy's cousin Jack, who has brought some nasty-tasting jelly beans for a snack--but when the beans sprout into a pillar of snacks the three friends climb up and find themselves sharing a tasty but dangerous adventure in Snackland.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim—until he runs into his science-loving friend Senku! Together they plan to restart civilization with the power of science!
Author
Language
English
Description
A revolutionary plot hinges on the secret identity of a prisoner in the conclusion to the epic adventures of d'Artagnan and the three Musketeers In the darkest depths of the Bastille, a man has been robbed of his freedom and identity, denied any knowledge of the nature of his crimes. Only a handful of people, including the corrupt King Louis XIV and his mother, Queen Anne, know who the prisoner is and why he has been locked away. But the secret of...
33) Meet the Bigfeet
Author
Series
Yeti files volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Blizz Richards is a great guy, a caring boss, and a loyal friend. Oh, yeah ... he's also a yeti! He's made it his life's mission to study cryptids like him, hidden animals who have taken a powerful oath to never be seen by the outside world. So when a photo of Cousin Brian becomes a media sensation, Brian can't handle the guilt and disappears. But it's time for the annual Bigfoot family reunion, and it won't be the same without him. Luckily, Blizz...
Author
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Socially anxious high school student Shoko Komi's greatest dream is to make some friends, but everyone at school mistakes her crippling social anxiety for cool reserve. Luckily she meets Tadano, a timid wallflower who decides to step out of his comfort zone in order to help her achieve her goal of making 100 friends. Komi and her classmates are in the Big Apple, and Manbagi sees it as a chance to make a Big Confession. But as much as she wants to...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Jack Kerouac wrote this manuscript when he was 22 years old and attending Columbia University. Originally intended as a three-part novel, only this first 20,000-word section was ever finished. Upon its completion, Kerouac promptly lost his only handwritten final draft in a New York taxicab, remaining unknown to the public until its appearance at Christie's about ten years ago. Kerouac's family has now decided to share this manuscript with the world....
36) Truth or dare
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Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Language
English
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Description
When Abby Miller confesses her crush on Jake during a game of Truth or Dare and then receives a text message warning her to stay away from him, she starts suspecting that her stalker is a ghost, and not a jealous classmate.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a space where lonely citizens can read one anothers personal diaries and connect with like-minded souls in "dialogues across the ether." But when their scribblings devolve into the ugliest confessions of the macabre, the Librarys users learn too late that a malicious force has consumed their privacy and their sanity. As the city of Turin suffers a twenty-day "phenomenon...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
As the civil rights struggle heats up in Texas, two families-one white, one black-find common ground. This semi-autobiographical tale is set in 1967 Texas, against the backdrop of the fight for civil rights. A white family from a notoriously racist neighborhood in the suburbs and a black family from its poorest ward cross Houston's color line, overcoming humiliation, degradation, and violence to win the freedom of five black college students unjustly...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Tove Ditlevsen's autobiographical trilogy about her troubled life in Copenhagen"--
Childhood tells the story of a misfit child's single-minded determination to become a poet. Youth describes her early experiences of sex, work, and independence. Dependency picks up the story as the narrator embarks on the first of her four marriages and goes on to describe her horrible descent into drug addiction, enabled by her sinister, gaslighting doctor-husband....
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