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Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A 50th-anniversary edition of the haunting novel about the disappearance of three boarding school girls that inspired the acclaimed film--featuring a foreword by Maile Meloy, author of Do Not Become Alarmed It was a cloudless summer day in the year 1900. Everyone at Appleyard College for Young Ladies agreed it was just right for a picnic at Hanging Rock. After lunch, a group of three girls climbed into the blaze of the afternoon sun, pressing on...
Publisher
Gaiam Americas
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Benji off the leash: Benji is joined by fourteen-year-old Colby in trying to save his mom from a backyard puppy mill run by Colby's abusive father, while at the same time managing to avoid a pair of bumbling dogcatchers.
Castle rock: A rebellious teenage girl and a young man wanted by the law must resolve their differences if they want to survive the sweltering Arizona desert.
Miracle dogs too: A young boy finds a pair of lost dogs who seem to have...
203) Rebel bicycle club
Author
Series
Knights and bikes volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this second book in the Knights and Bikes series, best friends Demelza and Nessa are always up for adventure. After all, what else is there to do on the sleepy island of Penfurzy? The two girls have discovered a magic world of myth and legend in a submerged castle just off the island, and now, accompanied by their pet goose Captain Honkers, are on a quest to help a headless knight (or rather, a knight who is JUST a head) find treasure. They set...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A poor girl and a princess who look exactly alike decide to trade places; music-loving best friends rescue a girl trapped in a mirror; Blair is chosen to attend Princess Charm School, but when one of the teachers notices Blair looks like the missing Princess Isabella, she does everything she can to stop her from claiming the throne; when a princess named Alexa discovers a secret door into a magical kingdom, she meets a mermaid and a fairy and attempts...
206) Torrent
Author
Series
River of Time series volume 3
Publisher
David C. Cook
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Gabriella and Evangelia Betarrini are just two normal American teenagers. Normal except for the fact that they time travel to fourteenth-century Italy, where they've lived in castles they've seen as crumbling ruins, become swept up in historic battles, and fallen in love with handsome knights willing to do anything to keep them alive. They've returned to the present to save their father, just short of his tragic death, and now all four return to the...
Author
Series
Malazan book of the fallen volume 11
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A new novella from New York Times bestselling author Steven Erikson, set in the world of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, The Wurms of Blearmouth. Tyranny comes in many guises, and tyrants thrive in palaces and one-room hovels, in back alleys and playgrounds. Tyrants abound on the verges of civilization, where disorder frays the rule of civil conduct and propriety surrenders to brutal imposition. Millions are made to kneel and yet more millions die...
Author
Publisher
Delphinium Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Set in Iowa and Minnesota in the 60s and 70s, Little Miseries is a Midwestern Gothic where sometimes the misery is just that--little--and sometimes it is epic and yawning, capable of swallowing every childhood memory. There are the miseries the Castles will talk about--old family lore about a great, great, great uncle who was split in two while connecting railroad cars--and the misery none of them will face. There are days at the lake, placid except...
209) Planet pit
Author
Language
English
Description
Hip-hop artist and rapper Pitbull's fifth album features the single Hey Baby (Drop It to the Floor), which has pulsating rhythms and electronic beats perfect for the dance floor. This CD is in both English and Spanish. Deluxe edition includes four additional audio tracks.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Two decades after his debut collection Here We Are in Paradise heralded Tony Earley as one of the most accomplished writers of his generation, the rueful, bittersweet, and riotous stories of Mr. Tall reestablish him as a mythmaker and tale spinner of the first rank. These stories introduce us not only to ordinary people seeking to live extraordinary lives, but also to the skunk ape (a southern variant of Bigfoot), the ghost of Jesse James, and a...
Author
Series
Girl genius novels volume 1
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In a time when the Industrial Revolution has become all-out war, Mad Science rules the world... with mixed success. At Transylvania Polygnostic University, Agatha Clay was a student with trouble concentrating and rotten luck. Dedicated to her studies but unable to build anything that actually worked, she seemed destined for a lackluster career as a minor lab assistant. But then the University was overthrown, and Agatha was taken aboard the giant airship...
216) The hero within
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Olaf's friend at the orphanage in Arendelle village is a spunky girl named Hedda with a big imagination and dreams of adventure. When Kristoff passes through the village and witnesses two kids bullying Hedda, he is drawn to help. He recalls his own experience with bullying during his childhood and assures her that there is hope on the horizon. Things start to look up when Hedda is invited to dinner at Arendelle Castle! Ecstatic, Hedda shares the...
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
From Pinocchio to Stitch, everyone's favorite classic Disney characters are featured in this storybook! With twelve delightful stories, a padded cover, and fun illustrations on every page, this collection is a great read for boys and girls. Plus, each story can be enjoyed in just five minutes, making it perfect for bedtime, story time, or anytime!
Author
Series
Publisher
Bearport Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The glowing moon peeks from behind a massive stone house. The front door slowly creaks open. A feeling of gloom swells from inside the home. There's an ear-splitting shriek! What horror has overtaken this ghastly gothic mansion? In the 11 gothic mansions in this book, you will explore a mansion lit up by phantom fires, the stately site of a brutal double murder, a cliff-side castle where the ghost of a girl lingers, a house filled with human remains,...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Castle and The Girls of Atomic City comes the fascinating story of America's national day of thanks and of the tenacious and inspiring Sarah Josepha Hale, a nineteenth-century woman who made establishing this holiday her life's mission-one brought to fruition by the wise support of Abraham Lincoln"--
From Ancient Rome through 21st-century America, bestselling author Denise Kiernan brings us...