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141) Heap house
Author
Series
Iremonger volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Young Clod is an Iremonger. He lives in at Heap House, his family's mansion at the center of the Heaps, a vast sea of lost and discarded items whose ever-shifting masses have been known to swallow people alive. The Iremongers are an odd old family, each the owner of a Birth Object they must keep with them at all times. Clod is perhaps the oddest of all--his gift and his curse is that he can hear all of the objects of Heap House whispering. Yes, a...
142) Compass and blade
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"On the remote isle of Rosevear, Mira, like her mother before her, is a wrecker, one of the seven on the rope who swim out to shipwrecks to plunder them. Mira's job is to rescue survivors, if there are any. After all, she never feels the cold of the frigid ocean waters and the waves seem to sing to her soul. But the people of Rosevear never admit the truth: that they set the beacons themselves to lure ships into the rocks. When the Council watch lays...
143) Valley of the rats
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Book nerd Krish hates the outdoors, and camping. But especially germs. When Krish and his father, Kabir, take a camping trip to Ladakh, he convinces himself that they will bond, despite their differences. When they're lost in a bamboo forest, teeming with black rats and germs, Krish is at an all-time low. His GF (gut feel) and a couple of rats lead them to a hidden village, Imdura, unmarked on any map. Krish and his father are allowed to stay, only...
144) Destiny, rewritten
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Emily Elizabeth Davis has been told for her entire life that her destiny is to become a poet, just like her famous namesake, Emily Dickinson. But Emily doesn't even really like poetry, and she has a secret career ambition that she suspects her English-professor mother will frown on. Then, just after discovering that it contains an important family secret, she loses the special volume of Emily Dickinson's poetry that was given to her...
145) The gravity of lies
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"What if your whole life was based on lies. In the city of dreams. Trying to make it in Hollywood isn't all it's cracked up to be for sixteen-year-old Skye Perry. The acting role's she books barely keep her and her mother from starving. And she can never be sure where they'll be sleeping for the night. Skye knows that finding her father is the saving grace that will rescue her from abject poverty and her mother's dysfunction. There's just one problem:...
146) The skeleton tree
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Description
Surviving a shipwreck along the Alaskan coast, twelve-year-old Chris struggles to find food and shelter alongside a prickly boy and a friendly raven as the salmon migration ends and dangerous cold weather sets in.
147) August Isle
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"For years, Miranda has stared at postcards of August Isle, Florida. The town where her mother spent her summers as a girl. The town that Miranda has always ached to visit. She just never wanted it to happen this way. When she arrives on the Isle, alone and uncertain, to stay the summer with an old friend of her mother's, Miranda discovers a place even more perfect than she imagined. And she finds a new friend in Sammy, "Aunt" Clare's daughter. But...
148) The queen's rising
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When her seventeenth summer solstice arrives, Brienna desires only two things: to master her passion and to be chosen by a patron. Growing up in the southern kingdom of Valenia at the renowned Magnalia House should have prepared her. While some are born with a talent for one of the five passions - art, music, dramatics, wit, and knowledge - Brienna struggled to find hers until she chose knowledge. However, despite all her preparations, Brienna's...
149) Missing
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
"Thea and her dad are always on the move, from one small Cariboo town to another, trying to leave the past behind. They never stay long enough in one place for Thea to make friends, but when her dad gets work renovating a guest ranch on Gumboot Lake, she dares to hope that their wandering days are over. At the ranch she makes friends with Van, a local boy, and works hard to build the trust of an abused horse. When Thea unearths a decades-old mystery,...
150) West of the sea
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When her mom disappears from their small Texas town, paleontology-loving Haven is determined to find her. But as she uncovers truths about her mom's identity, Haven also uncovers a monstrous family secret. Her mom can take the shape of a human and, in the right environment, also turn into an amphibious creature known as a kitskara. And now that she's growing up, Haven is discovering she has this ability, too. This newfound identity is her only clue...
Author
Series
Archibald Finch volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Exploring his Grandma's manor, an adventure is not what [Archibald Finch] was looking for--only his Christmas present. Instead, it's a family secret he stumbles upon. Key to that mystery: an ancient terrestrial globe, populated by the most fantastic beasts. When he unlocks the storm trapped inside, Archibald is thrust into the unknown--a dark land where a battle started in the Middle Ages is still unfolding. Befriended by a band of young witches...
154) I'll keep you close
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Jeska's grandmother accidentally calls her by a stranger's name, she seizes her first clue to uncovering her family's past, and hopefully to all that's gone unsaid. With the help of an old family photo album, her father's encyclopedia collection, and the unquestioning friendship of a stray cat, the silence begins to melt into frightening clarity: Jeska's family survived a terror that they've worked hard to keep secret all her life"--Provided...
155) Miguel's music
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Miguel loves music, but his family says it is not allowed. Will he ever change their minds?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"After a harrowing summer camp, Arlo Finch is back in Pine Mountain, Colorado, preparing to face a new school, new threats, and two new Rangers in Blue Patrol. Arlo is about to undertake his most dangerous journey yet: all the way to China to try to bring his father home. But when the mysterious Eldritch reveal their true agenda, Arlo must make an impossible choice: save his friends and family, or save the Long Woods. Both worlds will never be the...
157) Against the tide
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"When her sister Mala is kidnapped but leaves behind a clue, 15-year-old Ariel and her sisters delve into forbidden waters before the Coral Moon in order to rescue Mala and end up uncovering secrets about their family, their kingdom--and what really happened to their mother"--
158) Golden boys
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Rex and Tabby Jenson and their sons, Colt and Bastian, arrive in Freya Kiley's Australian neighborhood with little fanfare, but their presence sends fissures throughout their modest community.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
One day, it starts to rain in Pauline and Louis's house. The whole family looks for the source of the storm, but nothing can be found. Dad tries to mop up the puddles that form on the floor, Mom holds an umbrella over her head to read, and Pauline and Louis wear their raincoats. Everyone tries to pretend that nothing is wrong. Pauline and Louis are embarrassed and try to keep their rainy house a secret from the other kids at school, expecting to be...
Author
Series
(Rebecca J.).Queen's rising volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Brienna is a mistress of knowledge and is beginning to settle into her role as the daughter of the once disgraced lord, Davin MacQuinn. Though she'd just survived a revolution that will return a queen to the throne, she faces yet another challenge: acceptance by the MacQuinns. But as Queen Isolde Kavanagh's closest confidant, she'll have to balance serving her father's House as well as her country. Then there's Aodhan Morgan, formerly known as Cartier...
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