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Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 26
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to an African rainforest, where the siblings encounter gorillas and learn to communicate with them.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Grace Forcier and her friend Arthur, taken out of school and put to work in a Vermont textile mill in 1910, are championed by their teacher who urges them to write the National Child Labor Committee, an action only Grace seems to realize will have serious repercussions.
Author
Series
Midnighters volume 2
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Jessica Day, and her four friends, the "midnighters", are the only ones in Bixby, Oklahoma that know the world freezes at midnight, and as they battle evil creatures living in the hour hidden they learn about Bixby's shadowy past and uncover a deadly conspiracy that reaches beyond the secret hour.
24) The map of love
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2000, c1999
Language
English
Description
After the death of her husband, Anna Winterbourne travels to Egypt, where she falls in love with Sharif Pasha al-Baoudi, an Egyptian nationalist.
25) The Taking
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Formats
Description
Molly and Niel Sloan awake to see golden rain falling, In their remote California mountain town, they learn from their television of enormous waterspouts and blizzards around the globe; then, the television ceases, as does all other forms of communication with the outside world. The Sloans are left, together with their neighbors, in the midst of a purple fog, disturbed by a threat they cannot identify or understand. Together they discover that the...
26) October song
Author
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Contains a collection of short stories that revisit characters from other novels in the Lancaster County book series, including, "The Shunning," "The Postcard," and "Grasshopper Level."
27) Cage of stars
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Veronica Swan, a sixteen-year-old Mormon, attempts to avenge the deaths of her younger sisters, who were brutally killed four years before by a deranged man her parents have forgiven.
28) Mockingjay
Author
Series
Hunger Games volume 3
Language
English
Description
The Capitol is angry that Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice, stirring unrest by having defied the rules, and President Snow has made it clear that she, her family and friends, and the people of District 12 may all be held accountable.
29) The hidden oasis
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Freya Hannen arrives in Egypt to attend the funeral of her sister Alex, a Saharan explorer, and joins with English academic Flin Brodie to look into the circumstances of Alex's death, which leads them into a dangerous quest involving a lost oasis that is said to hold the fabled Benben, an iconic stone with extraordinary powers.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Three secret societies, the Travelers, the Harlequins, and the Tabula, head for a showdown when the mercenary Tabula who want to control the world, target Gabriel and Michael Corrigan who may have inherited their Traveler father's gifts as a prophet of wisdom, forcing Maya, a reluctant Harlequin, to take up her duties as sworn protector to the brothers.
31) Catching fire
Author
Series
Hunger Games trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Description
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
32) Scat
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nick and Marta are both suspicious when their biology teacher, the feared Mrs. Bunny Starch, disappears, and try to uncover the truth despite the police and headmaster's insistence that nothing is wrong.
Author
Series
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse, having survived the Fae War but upset over the loss of loved ones and still recovering from the torture she endured, realizes the doors to Faery were closed before some fae were able to leave the human world and they are holding her responsible, while her relationship with vampire Eric Northman is scrutinized by the vampire king and she is drawn into a dangerous debate through her connection to one particular...
34) Blue noon
Author
Series
Midnighters volume 3
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
The Midnighters are baffled when the blue time suddenly occurs in the middle of the day. They soon discover that the walls between the secret hour and real time are crumbling, and, unless they can stop it, the dark creatures will have a chance to feed after centuries of waiting.
Author
Series
Last apprentice volume 6
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Tom is reunited with his mother and must return to Greece to face a new and terrible threat from the dark forces, and a momentous decision must be made, causing a serious rift between Tom and the Spook that threatens to separate them forever.
36) Dead until dark
Author
Publisher
Ace Books
Pub. Date
2008, c2001
Language
English
Description
Louisiana cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse, cursed with the ability to read minds, thinks she has finally gotten lucky when tall, dark, handsome Bill, whose mind is totally blocked from her, comes into her life, but she soon learns that her dream man is a vampire with a bad reputation, and when a murder goes down, she begins to fear for her life.
Author
Publisher
Signet Book
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Art restorer and former spy Gabriel Allon is called upon by the head of Israeli intelligence to stop a Palestinian plot to kill Yasir Arafat, ending peace talks in the Middle East--a plot run by the man responsible for the deaths of Gabriel's wife and child.
38) The Summer King
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Laurel returns to her grandparents' home in Ireland, where she encounters "the roly-poly man," a cluricaun who sets Laurel on a quest to free her twin sister, thought to be dead, to live with her lover in the legendary world of Faerie.
39) Burn
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Janeal agrees to help Salazar Sanso recover a vast sum of money from her father in exchange for freedom from her father's Gypsy culture, but when the plan takes a violent turn and Sanso burns the camp to the ground, Janeal is forced to make a decision that will haunt her forever.
40) The Unvisibles
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2006, c2003
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old Oliver recites an ancient Indian magical spell and becomes invisible, he enlists the aid of his classmate, Nicky. The two of them join forces to undo the damage as well as to help their families and themselves.
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