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Language
English
Description
To her adoring fans, Emmy Jackson, aka @the_mamabare, is the honest "Instamum" who always tells it like it is. To her skeptical husband, a washed-up novelist who knows just how creative Emmy can be with the truth, she is a breadwinning powerhouse chillingly brilliant at monetizing the intimate details of their family life. To one of Emmy's obsessive followers, she's the woman that has everything but deserves none of it. As Emmy's moral compass veers...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
A delightfully strange and hilarious debut about an outcast boy and his quirky companion who must solve the puzzle of the mysterious earthquake that hit their town, forging a friendship and uncovering truths along the way.
At the age of eleven Frederik Sandwich awakens to an earthquake that couldn't possibly be. His town is nowhere near a fault line and no earthquake has ever been recorded there. But when he questions what
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Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lost in the Great Smoky Mountains, rising high school senior Ashley Hawkins must fight for survival without any tools, growing in awareness that the world is not tame, and neither are people.
The world is not tame. Ashley knows this truth deep in her bones, more at home with trees overhead than a roof. So when she goes hiking in the Smokies with her friends for a night of partying, the falling dark and creaking trees are second nature to her. But...
64) Baseball great
Author
Series
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
All twelve-year-old Josh wants to do is play baseball but when his father, a minor league pitcher, signs him up for a youth championship team, Josh finds himself embroiled in a situation with potentially illegal consequences.
65) The husbands
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Nora Spangler is a successful attorney but when it comes to domestic life, she packs the lunches, schedules the doctor appointments, knows where the extra paper towel rolls are, and designs and orders the holiday cards. Her husband works hard, too...but why does it seem like she is always working so much harder? When the Spanglers go house hunting in Dynasty Ranch, an exclusive suburban neighborhood, Nora meets a group of high-powered women--a tech...
66) Last day on Mars
Author
Series
Chronicle of the dark star volume 1
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
While waiting to leave Mars before it burns up just like the Earth before it, Liam and his friend Phoebe discover some facts about time and space and realize that the human race is just one of the races trying to survive in space.
67) Infamous
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Series
Language
English
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"Once the reigning beauty of her social set, Celia--whom the newspapers dubbed Lady Infamous--has fallen on hard times and is practically destitute, her reputation in shreds. When Celia is forced to attend a society wedding as a companion to an elderly guest, she must confront the clique she once commanded; the gentleman she'd once hoped to marry--who is now wed to a girl Celia relentlessly taunted; and the powerful man who ruined her life a decade...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
266 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Fern helps to take care of her impoverished family by foraging for food in the forest, but when a fracking company rolls into town, she realizes that her peaceful woods and her family's livelihood could be threatened"--
Author
Series
School for Good and Evil volume 0.5
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
360 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two brothers who rule the School for Good and Evil in exchange for power and immortality find their loyalty corrupted, bringing them to the brink of war and a shocking conclusion that will change the course of the school forever.
70) Speak up
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
AD 610L
Physical Desc
34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read, rhyming text encourage the reader to speak up about everything from their own name being mispronounced to someone bringing a weapon to school. Includes author's note about real people who have found their voices, when to speak up, and how to express oneself without speaking.
71) Say something!
Author
Lexile measure
AD 510L
Language
English
Description
"The world needs your voice. If you have a brilliant idea...say something! If you see an injustice...say something! In this empowering new picture book, beloved author Peter H. Reynolds explores the many ways that a single voice can make a difference. Each of us, each and every day, have the chance to say something: with our actions, our words, and our voices. Perfect for kid activists everywhere, this timely story reminds readers of the undeniable...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
AD 620L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
No-nonsense Captain Swashby is used to the sea meeting all of his needs and when, after his retirement, new neighbors disturb his solitary life, the sea helps in just the right way.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
AD 530L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Princess Pinecone would like a real war horse for her birthday, instead of which she gets a plump, cute pony--but sometimes cuteness can be a kind of weapon, especially in a fight with dodgeballs and spitballs and hairballs and squareballs.
74) A single shard
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Lexile measure
920L
Physical Desc
152 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.
75) #MurderTrending
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the near future, citizens can enjoy watching the executions of society's most infamous convicted felons, streaming live on The Postman app from the prison island Alcatraz 2.0. Dee Guerrera wakes up in a haze, lying on the ground of a dimly lit warehouse, about to be the next victim of the app, found guilty of murdering her stepsister. But Dee refuses to roll over and die for a heinous crime she didn't commit. Her newly formed posse, the Death Row...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
373 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Young wizard prince Xar, who has no magic, and warrior princess Wish, an outcast, team up on an adventure that brings them to witches long believed to be extinct.
Author
Series
Imaginary veterinary volume 3
Pub. Date
2014
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
"Ten-year-olds Ben and Pearl continue their apprenticeships at Dr. Woo's Worm Hospital, where they meet a dragon named Metalmouth and get a chance to travel to the Imaginary World"--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Maggies been waiting for her best friend Abby to get home from Camp Cantaloupe for six. Whole. Weeks. But now that Abbys finally home, shes&different. All New Abby wants to do is talk about camp things and plan campy activitiesshe even has the nerve to call Maggies massive, award-worthy pillow fort a 'cabin.' But hey, at least shes willing to build a 'cabin' of her own. And when Maggie discovers that a pillow in the back of her fort mysteriously...
Author
Series
Running out of time volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Zola thinks she has the perfect life. She thinks everyone does, now that it's 2193, and humanity has solved all its problems. Insta-Closets deliver new clothes every morning, Insta-Ovens deliver gourmet meals on demand, and virtual reality goggles let her have any adventure she wants, with friends from all over the world. Then one day Zola finds a handwritten note in her If you want to see things as they really are, come find me. ...