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Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When a mysterious little free library (guarded by a large orange cat) appears overnight in the small town of Martinville, eleven-year-old Evan plucks two weathered books from its shelves, never suspecting that his life is about to change. Evan and his best friend Rafe quickly discover a link between one of the old books and a long-ago event that none of the grown-ups want to talk about. The two boys start asking questions whose answers will transform...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Description
"Pip is about to head to college, but she is still haunted by the way her last investigation ended. She's used to online death threats in the wake of her viral true-crime podcast, but she can't help noticing an anonymous person who keeps asking her: Who will look for you when you're the one who disappears? Soon the threats escalate and Pip realizes that someone is following her in real life. When she starts to find connections between her stalker...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegan Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A lifetime of hard work has put Lydia Chass on track to attend a prestigious journalism program and leave Henley behind--until a school error leaves her a credit short of graduating. Bristal Jamison has a bad reputation and a foul mouth, but she also needs one more credit to graduate. An unexpected partnership forms as the two remake Lydia's town history podcast to investigate the Long Stretch of Bad Days--a week when Henley was hit by a tornado,...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
For Sophie, small-town life has never felt small. With her four best friends, she can weather any storm. But when Sophie's beloved Acadia High School marching band is selected to march in the upcoming Rose Parade, it's her job to get them all the way to LA. Her plan? To persuade country singer Megan Pleasant, their Midwestern town's only claim to fame, to come back to Acadia to headline a fundraising festival. The only problem is that Megan has very...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jake is just starting to enjoy life as his school's first openly gay kid. While his family and friends are accepting and supportive, the same can't be said about everyone in their small town of Barton Springs, Ohio. When Jake's dad hangs a comically large pride flag in their front yard in an overblown show of love, the mayor begins to receive complaints. A few people are even concerned the flag will lead to something truly outlandish: a pride parade....
Author
Series
Frights from Feral volume 1
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
232 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In five spooky stories, an intrepid young resident invites readers to look a little closer at this scenic rural town's secrets, mysteries, and unexplained disappearances"--
Author
Series
Publisher
NubeOcho
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Everyone in Scaryville lives in fear, because that is the hometown of the ghost with the smelly old underwear!" -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In her remarkable second novel following her Governor General's Award-winning debut, The Summer of Bitter and Sweet, Jen Ferguson writes about the hurt of a life stuck in past tense, the hum of connections that cannot be severed, and one week in a small, snowy town that changes everything.
Over-achievement isn't a bad word--for Berlin, it's the goal. She's securing excellent grades, planning her future, and working a part-time job at Pink Mountain...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Lexile measure
AD 710L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
In the town of Heartbeat Falls, where skies are crystal clear, the magic of Christmas is celebrated in many different ways: from picking the perfect tree to decorating it with glittering ornaments; from ice skating to eating yummy gingerbread cookies; from hanging handmade stockings to sharing a homecooked meal. Here, the residents know the beauty of a small town doesn't come from its size, but from the love shared by its people, shining brightly...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Zeus would rather be anywhere than here--Buffalo Falls, the tiny town his family moved to at the end of the school year. Having left all his friends back in Chicago, and with nothing to look forward to except helping out at his mother's cafe and biking around town with his weird little brother, Zeus is pretty sure this is destined to be the worst summer of his life. But then he meets Rose--funny, beautiful, smart, and an incredible musician.
13) Almost, Maine
Author
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Almost, Maine, a town that's so far north, it's almost not in the United States--it's almost in Canada. And it almost doesn't exist, because its residents never got around to getting organized. So it's just...Almost. One cold, clear Friday night in the middle of winter, while the northern lights hover in the sky above, Almost's residents find themselves falling in and out of love in the strangest ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken....
Author
Series
Publisher
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
vi, 353 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Three years after a spaceship landed in Sorrow Falls, Massachusetts, a government operative comes to investigate and finds that Annie Collins, sixteen, might have the answers he seeks.
Author
Series
Kanaranzi Creek volume 2
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
345 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
950L
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Stax Stonecutter has lived a peaceful--if unremarkable--life in his small town in the Overworld. He prefers leisure to work, choosing to tend to his gardens and play with his cats all day rather than expand his family's mining business. But when a mysterious stranger arrives, he takes everything from Stax, stranding him in the middle of nowhere and with nothing to his name. Now, Stax must learn not only how to survive, but how to live" -- Provided...
17) Hamlet's ghost
Author
Series
Kanaranzi Creek volume 1
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 570L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In Bobville, everyone is named Bob and everything is exactly the same--until one day when one Bob decides to be a Bruce.
19) The ride home
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Second edition.
Lexile measure
HL 490L
Physical Desc
101 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In this high-interest novel for middle readers, thirteen-year-old Mark adjusts to long rides on the school bus after moving to a small town to live with his grandmother."--
Author
Series
Kat Dylan mysteries volume 1
Publisher
The Smart Aleck Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Moving from Los Angeles to tiny Crabtree, Michigan, is the last thing thirteen-year-old Kat Dylan wants to do. Crabtree's seen better days and isn't what you call welcoming. Worse, the move means living with her gruff Grandpa Nick, the town's police chief, and having to look after her little brother, Alec. And that's before Kat and Alec find themselves in the middle of a bank holdup by the Monster Gang--four robbers in monster masks. Before the heist...