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Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Meet Rickety Stitch ... a walking, talking, singing skeleton minstrel. He's the one skeleton in the dungeon who seems to have retained his soul, and he has no idea why. His only clue to his former identity is a song he hears snippets of in his dreams, an epic bard's tale about the Road to Epoli and the land of Eem.
Author
Series
The Jenna Fox chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Two-hundred-sixty years after a terrible accident destroyed their bodies, sixteen-year-old Locke and seventeen-year-old Kara have been brought back to life in newly bioengineered bodies, with many questions about the world they find themselves in and more than two centuries of horrible memories of being trapped in a digital netherworld wondering what would become of them.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A girl is discovered hiding in a secret room in the aftermath of a terrible crime. Half-starved and filthy, she won't tell anyone her name, or her age, or where she came from. Maybe she is twelve, maybe fifteen. She doesn't appear in any missing persons file, and her DNA can't be matched to an identity. Six years later, still unidentified, she is living in a secure children's home with a new name, Evie Cormac. When she initiates a court case demanding...
44) Light in shadow
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Interior designer Zoe Luce, a woman who has the psychic ability to feel past emotions embedded in the walls of a room, hires private detective Ethan Truax to help when she senses one of her clients has murdered his wife, but she had not counted on Truax discovering her own deeply held secrets, and she had not planned to lose her heart.
45) Thunder Boy Jr
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Thunder Boy Jr. wants a normal name, one that's all his own. Dad is known as Big Thunder, but Little Thunder doesn't want to share a name"--
46) First Chair
Author
Series
Publisher
Calico, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Flutist Hope James is under a lot of pressure from her mother to win first chair in the band, so when Sherman Frye enrolls at Benton Bluff Junior High she panics because he could steal it from her--so Hope and her friend Baylor come up with a plan to sabotage Sherman, not realizing that he is under pressure too.
47) Defy
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Alexa's parents were killed by a sorcerer during a raid, so she has disguised herself as a boy, joined Antion's army, and earned a place on Prince Damian's guard--but Antion is ruled by an evil king, and "Alex" must find a way to defeat him and protect her prince.
48) Divergent
Author
Series
Divergent volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomoly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Meet Rickety Stitch--a walking, talking, singing skeleton minstrel. He's the one skeleton in the dungeon who seems to have retained his soul, and he has no idea why. His only clue to his former identity is a song he hears snippets of in his dreams, an epic bard's tale about the Road to Epoli and the land of Eem. His sidekick and sole friend is the gelatinous Goo, who Rickety alone can understand. Together they set out in search of Rickety's past,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Spark takes a summer job working at a secluded house in England, organizing journals that span centuries and all written in the same hand, she discovers her true connection to the people who live there and the trait that makes them unique.
53) Why am I me?
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In a poetic, philosophical exchange, two children of different races ask themselves why they are who and what they are, and speculate on how they could be different.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Chloe Cho is a Korean American seventh-grader who would like to get in touch with many of the aspects of her heritage, but her parents are unwilling to talk about it--then when a class assignment forces Chloe to confront them directly, they finally tell her the truth about her family, which may just be too much for one girl to handle.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Red's factory-applied label clearly says that he's red, but despite the best efforts of his teacher, fellow crayons and art supplies, and family members, he can't seem to do anything right until a new friend offers a fresh perspective.
57) Another day
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Rhiannon is disappointed that her neglectful boyfriend Justin doesn't remember the one perfect day they shared, until a stranger tells her that the Justin she spent that day with, the one who made her feel like a real person... wasn't Justin at all"--
58) Escaping peril
Author
Series
Wings of fire volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Peril is possibly the most dangerous dragon in Pyrrhia, because she has firescales that can kill an opponent with a touch, but now she has a mission--find her former queen, Scarlet, who is threatening the Jade Mountain Academy, and then stop her, and she is not sure if the persistent SeaWing, Turtle, who is accompanying her, will be a help or a hindrance.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Imprisoned and drugged in a restricted island psychiatric facility for intelligence employees whose mental state poses a security risk to the government, former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler manages a daring escape and sets out to discover who he is, and why he was placed there.
60) The Rosie result
Author
Series
Don Tillman volume 3
Publisher
Text Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Don Tillman and Rosie Jarman are about to face their most important challenge. Their eleven-year-old son, Hudson, is struggling at school: he's socially awkward and not fitting in. Don's spent a lifetime trying to fit in--so who better to teach Hudson the skills he needs? The Hudson Project will require the help of friends old and new, force Don and Rosie to decide how much to guide Hudson, and raise some significant questions about Don's own identity."--...
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