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1) Less
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A struggling novelist travels the world to avoid an awkward wedding in this hilarious Pulitzer Prize-winning novel full of "arresting lyricism and beauty" (The New York Times Book Review).WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE
National Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017
A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2017
A San Francisco Chronicle...
National Bestseller
A New York Times Notable Book of 2017
A Washington Post Top Ten Book of 2017
A San Francisco Chronicle...
2) The walk
Author
Series
Walk volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Formats
Description
What would you do if you lost everything--your job, your home, and the love of your life--all at the same time? When it happens to Seattle ad executive Alan Christoffersen, he's tempted by his darkest thoughts but then decides to take a walk, heading for the farthest point on his map: Key West, Florida. The people he encounters along the way, and the lessons they share with him, will save his life.
Author
Series
Middle School volume 9
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The trip to Australia Rafe has won starts badly, but after connecting with a group of misfits he finds a way to do what he does best--create mayhem.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eleven-year-old George Washington Black - or Wash - a field slave on a Barbados sugar plantation, is intially terrified when he is chosen to be the manservant of his master's brother. To his surprise, however, the eccentric Christopher Wilde turns out to be a naturalist, explorer, inventor, and abolitionist. Soon Wash is intiated into a world where two people, separated by an impossible divide, can begin to see each other as human. But when a man...
6) Friends
Author
Language
English
Description
When his friend moves away, a boy sets out on a journey to find her.
Author
Series
Leven Thumps volume 4
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
As Leven, Geth, and Winter continue their quest to save Foo from the invading armies of rants, a new threat arrives, the Dearth.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lonely Planet Global Limited
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In this adventure, kids set off from London and choose their route and transportation, from sleds to steamboats to hot-air balloons. They'll visit famous cities and exotic, far-flung places and learn amazing facts along the way.
11) Savvy
Author
Publisher
Puffing Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Description
Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"--a magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is injured in a terrible accident.
12) The Red Pyramid
Author
Series
Kane Chronicles volume 1
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane accidentally unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes the doctor to oblivion and forces his two children to embark on a dangerous journey, bringing them closer to the truth about their family and its links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.
13) A warm welcome
Author
Series
Anna and Elsa volume 3
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Olaf has news for Elsa! He has heard of a summer queen from a summer land with summer magic--someone with similar powers as Elsa's, who can control fire and heat. He says her land is trapped in an eternal summer. Olaf thinks it sounds great, but Elsa and Anna think she might be in trouble. Either way, a journey is in order!.
14) Amigos
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
When his friend moves away, a boy sets out on a journey to find her.
15) Love & luck
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Addie is visiting Ireland for her aunt's over-the-top destination wedding, and hoping she can stop thinking about the one horrible thing she did that left her miserable and heartbroken--and threatens her future. But her brother, Ian, isn't about to let her forget, and his constant needling leads to arguments and even a fistfight between the two once inseparable siblings. Miserable, Addie can't wait to visit her friend in Italy and leave her brother--and...
Author
Series
Delilah Dirk volume 2
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When globe trotting troublemaker Delilah Dirk and her friend Selim are accused of espionage against the British crown, they must clear their names, even if it means returning to respectability.
Author
Series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume 2
Publisher
Miramax Books/Hyperion Paperbacks for Children
Pub. Date
2007.
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Percy Jackson has recently discovered that he is the son of Poseidon, making him half human and half god, and along with his a demigod and a satyr friend, must save his beloved Camp Half-Blood from evil forces determined to destroy it.
18) Dawn
Author
Series
Warriors The New Prophecy volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The third book in this second series, Warriors: The New Prophecy #3: Dawn, brings more adventure, intrigue, and thrilling battles to the epic world of the warrior Clans. The young cats who set off on a quest many moons ago have returned with a chilling message: the Clans must move to a new home or risk extermination. But the dangers waiting for them beyond their borders are impossible to predict, and the cats have no idea where to go. What they need...
19) Walking on water
Author
Series
The Walk volume 5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In this fifth New York Times bestseller in the Walk series, Richard Paul Evans’s hero Alan Christoffersen must say some painful goodbyes and learn some important lessons as he comes to the end of his cross-country walk to Key West.
After the death of his beloved wife, after the loss of his advertising business to his once-trusted partner, after bankruptcy forced him from his home, Alan Christoffersen’s daring cross-country journey—a walk across...
20) A Tangled web
Author
Series
Star wars the last of the Jedi volume 5
Publisher
Fitzgerald Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Emperor Palpatine wants to incorporate Ferus Olin within his circle of power.
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