April Genevieve Tucholke
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Merry, a small owl, yearns to go on a big adventure like the other birds in the forest and gets her wish when Hark, a Norway spruce, is picked to be the Rockefeller Christmas tree and both Merry and Hark are whisked away from their home. Based on the real-life tale of the tiny owl found in the 2020 Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Violet is in love with River, a mysterious seventeen-year-old stranger renting the guest house behind the rotting seaside mansion where Violet lives, but when eerie, grim events begin to happen, Violet recalls her grandmother's frequent warnings about the devil and wonders if River is evil.
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 830L
Physical Desc
330 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
On the heels of a devastating plague, Torvi's sister, Morgunn is stolen from the family farm by Uther, a flame-loving Fremish wolf-priest who leads a pack of ragged, starving girls. Torvi leaves the only home she's ever known and joins a shaven-skulled druid and a band of roaming Elsh artists known as the Butcher Bards. They set out on a quest to rescue Torvi's sister and find a mythical sword. On their travels, Torvi and her companions will encounter...
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 770L
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Four female mercenaries known as Boneless Mercies, weary of roaming Vorseland, ignored and forgotten until they are needed for mercy killings, decide to seek glory by going after a legendary monster in this reimagining of Beowulf.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Beatrice likes the dark but her sister Roo likes the light, and while neither sister understands the other's preference, they both love each other.
Beatrice likes the dark. She likes black clothes, graveyard picnics, and a sky full of stars. Her sister, Roo, likes the light. She likes bright clothes, picking strawberries, and hot, sunny days. Beatrice and Roo are nothing alike and don't understand each other. Can Beatrice help Roo love the dark as...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Violet is looking for the boy she fell in love with last summer, the charismatic liar River West Redding, but as she scours the country for him, she begins to wonder who she's really chasing--and who she really loves"--
Author
Publisher
Workman Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xi, 292 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A spellbinding tour, filled with stories and photographs, of some of the world's most fascinating architectural mysteries. This wondrous guide for the curious and the intrepid takes readers on a lushly photographed and lyrically written tour of eighteen of the world's most captivating architectural mysteries. Delve into both the secretive places themselves and the eccentric and obsessive minds that created them. Visit a chamber of skulls high in the...