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21) Giants beware
Author
Series
Chronicles of Claudette volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Claudette wants nothing more than to slay a giant but her little village is too safe and quiet.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Bera doesn't ask for much in life. She's a solitary, humble troll, tending her island pumpkin patch in cheerful isolation. She isn't looking for any trouble. But when trouble comes to find her, it comes in spades. A human baby has arrived in the realm of the trolls, and nobody knows where it came from, but Bera seems to be the only person who doesn't want it dead. There's nothing to it but to return the adorable little thing to its parents. Like it...
23) Secret coders
Author
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to Stately Academy, a school which is just crawling with mysteries to be solved! The founder of the school left many clues and puzzles to challenge his enterprising students. Using their wits and their growing prowess with coding, Hopper and her friend Eni are going to solve the mystery of Stately Academy no matter what it takes!" --
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Emily is flying with her parents to China to adopt and bring home a new baby sister. She's excited but nervous to travel across the world and very aware that this trip will change her entire life. And the cracks are already starting to show the moment they reach the hotel--her parents are all about the new baby, and have no interest in exploring. In the adoption trip group, Emily meets Katherine, a Chinese-American girl whose family...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day who tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures in an attempt to find her.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Relates the stories of twelve-year-old Ben, who loses his mother and his hearing in a short time frame and decides to leave his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he has never known in New York City; and Rose, who lives with her father but feels compelled to search for what is missing in her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
27) Book of the dead
Author
Series
Tombquest volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Nothing can save Alex Sennefer's life. That's what the doctors say, but his mom knows it's not true. She knows that the Lost Spells of the Egyptian Book of the Dead can pull her son back from the brink. The problem? When she uses the spells, five Death Walkers are also brought back to life. An ancient evil has been unleashed. Long-dead mummies are awakening. New York City is overrun by scorpions. And worst of all for Alex, his mom and the Lost Spells...
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Prez knows that the best way to keep track of things is to make a list. That's important when you have a grandfather who is constantly forgetting. And it's even more important when your grandfather can't care for you anymore and you have to go live with a foster family out in the country. Prez is still learning to fit in at his new home when he answers the door to meet Sputnik--a kid who is more than a little strange. First, he can hear what Prez...
Author
Series
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Whether he's fast-talking his way out of trouble or unleashing the contents of his locker on unsuspecting classmates, Nate does it with gusto. And every time he swings into action, the crowd goes wild"-- Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"What really happened to Charlie? It's the question that John can't seem to shake, along with the nightmares of Charlie's seeming death and miraculous reappearance. John just wants to forget the whole terrifying saga of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, but the past isn't so easily buried"--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Dragonwatch volume 3
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
As the evil Celebrant conquers more and more dragon sanctuaries, Kendra must raise an army of friends and allies on her own to fight him because her brother Seth and Bracken are missing.
Author
Series
An Amelia rules book volume 4
Publisher
Spotlight
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
At Christmas, Amelia and her friends in the G.A.S.P.--Gathering of Awesome Super Pals--are determined to discover the truth behind Santa Claus.
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Kevin is a hard worker, so when his income is cut off he begins a series of businesses, from poker games to selling snacks, earning money to take a girl to a dance, but his partners soon tire of his methods.
35) Stargazing
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Moon is everything Christine isn't. She's confident, impulsive, artistic ... and though they both grew up in the same Chinese-American suburb, Moon is somehow unlike anyone Christine has ever known. But after Moon moves in next door, these unlikely friends are soon best friends, sharing their favorite music videos and painting their toenails when Christine's strict parents aren't around. Moon even tells Christine her deepest secret: that she has...
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