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(0)Melanie Crowder
Author
Publisher
Anthenum
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
181 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Referring to the I-Ching and a trio of good-luck pennies whenever she is bounced to a new foster home, Marin finds herself in a place that feels like a forever home while trying to find her birth mother, before receiving unwelcome news.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
960L
Physical Desc
150 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Along a lively river, in a village raised on stilts, lives a girl named Luna. All her life she has heard tales of the time before the dam appeared, when sprites danced in the currents and no one got the mysterious wasting illness from a mouthful of river water. These are just stories, though -- no sensible person would believe in such things. Luna prefers to take her pole boat out with her best friend, Benny, looking for adventure. Yet beneath the...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
840L
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After discovering that the lighthouse his family tends is a portal to strange and dangerous worlds, eleven-year-old Griffin must travel through it to save his father from a threat to all humanity.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Bolivia in 1999, when their father is unjustly arrested and their mother leaves, Francisco, seventeen, and his sister Pilar, eight, must move to the dirty, dehumanizing, and corrupt prison.
5) Audacity
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, An Imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
1120L
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A historical fiction novel in verse detailing the life of Clara Lemlich and her struggle for women's labor rights in the early 20th century in New York."--
6) Mazie
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Lexile measure
940L
Physical Desc
334 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Mazie Butterfield leaves her family and boyfriend behind in small-town Nebraska to find fame on 1950s Broadway, but when her big break comes it means going back to the Corn Belt and facing her past.
Nebraska, 1959. Mazie has dreamed of being on Broadway since she could walk. When her grandmother dies and leaves her a letter and enough money for a six-week stay in New York City, Mazie jumps at the chance to follow her dream. New...
7) Jumper
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Lexile measure
920L
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Blair Scott is in her second season as a wildland firefighter when the Forest Service puts out a call for an additional class of smokejumpers. She and her best friend Jason both apply, though neither expects to get in since they're only nineteen. But it's been a devastating fire season, and they are both accepted. But going to training camp is only the first step--everyone expects the teenage rookies will wash out in the first week. Blair has always...
8) Parched
Author
Publisher
New York
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
154 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told from three perspectives, Sarel, who just witnessed the brutal murder of her parents, Nandi, the leader of a pack of dogs who looks out for her pups and Sarel, and Musa, an escaped prisoner with the water song inside him, struggle to survive in a land without water.