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Author
Series
Last kids on Earth volume 2
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
The zombies are disappearing. This might seem like a good thing, since zombies eat your brains, but normal human kid Jack Sullivan is suspicious. He keeps hearing an eerie shrieking noise that seems to be almost summoning the zombiesbut to where, and for what (probably) foul purpose?
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 9
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Soren and Coryn read the ancient legends of Ga'Hoole in order to find a way to prevent the victory of evil in their present world.
The once-forgotten beginnings and ambitions of the Guardians --as well as some heartbreaks-- are finally uncovered through the inquiry and commentary of Otulissa, the tree's dutiful historian.
Author
Series
Shadow of the fox volume 1
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 20
Description
One thousand years ago, the great Kami Dragon was summoned to grant a single terrible wish--and the land of Iwagoto was plunged into an age of darkness and chaos. Now, for whoever holds the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers, a new wish will be granted. A new age is about to dawn. Raised by monks in the isolated Silent Winds temple, Yumeko has trained all her life to hide her yokai nature. Half kitsune, half human, her skill with illusion is matched only...
24) Lady of disguise
Author
Series
Dericott tale volume 6
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Description
"England, 1388: All her life, Louisa has dreamed of finding the rumored 'Giant’s Treasure,' a collection of ancient, lost riches said to be hidden on a mountaintop in Scotland, guarded by a fierce monster. It’s a story her father used to tell her, and when he dies and she and her younger sister have to go live with their shiftless, greedy uncle, Louisa is determined to find that treasure. It’s the hope that has kept her defying her uncle’s...
25) Birdie
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Monkey Beach meets Green Grass, Running Water meets The Beachcombers in this wise and funny novel by a debut Cree author Birdie is a darkly comic and moving first novel about the universal experience of recovering from wounds of the past, informed by the lore and knowledge of Cree traditions. Bernice Meetoos, a Cree woman, leaves her home in Northern Alberta following tragedy and travels to Gibsons, BC. She is on something of a vision quest, seeking...
Author
Series
Shadow of the fox volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
Formats
Description
One thousand years ago, a wish was made, and a sword of rage and lightning was forged. Kamigoroshi. The Godslayer. A weapon powerful enough to seal away the formidable demon Hakaimono. Now, he has broken free. Kitsune shapeshifter Yumeko has one task: to take her piece of the ancient and powerful Scroll of a Thousand Prayers to the Steel Feather temple in order to prevent the summoning of the Harbinger of Change, the great Kami Dragon who will grant...
Author
Series
Sworn soldier volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"The follow-up to T. Kingfisher's bestselling gothic novella, What Moves the Dead. Retired soldier, Alex Easton, returns in a horrifying new adventure. After their terrifying ordeal at the Usher manor, Alex Easton feels as if they just survived another war. All they crave is rest, routine, and sunshine, but instead, as a favor to Angus and Miss Potter, they find themself heading to their family hunting lodge, deep in the cold, damp forests of their...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Kira Fujikawa has never had it easy. She's bullied by the popular girls in school. Her parents ignore her. And she's also plagued with a secret: She can see yokai, the ghosts and demons that haunt the streets of Kyoto. But things accelerate from bad to worse when she learns that Shuten-doji, the demon king, will rise at the next blood moon to hunt down an ancient relic and bring the world to a catastrophic end. Not exactly skilled...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Rump, comes the true story behind another unlikely hero: a grumpy dwarf who gets tangled up in Snow White's feud with the wicked queen.
Ever since he was a dwarfling, Borlen (nicknamed "Grump") has dreamed of visiting The Surface, so when opportunity knocks, he leaves his cavern home behind.
At first, life aboveground is a dream come true. Queen Elfrieda...
Ever since he was a dwarfling, Borlen (nicknamed "Grump") has dreamed of visiting The Surface, so when opportunity knocks, he leaves his cavern home behind.
At first, life aboveground is a dream come true. Queen Elfrieda...
36) Gun island
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
It is in his hometown of Kolkata where Dr. Deen Datta meets, by chance, a distant relative who upends his world with the mention of a figure which has long haunted Deen's imagination: Bonduki Sadagar, the mysterious Gun Merchant of Bengali legend. A Brooklyn-based dealer in rare books, Deen, on the cusp of retirement, suddenly finds himself propelled into the depths of the snake-infested Sundarbans, in search of a shrine to the Merchant. Thus begins...
37) Folklorn
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
A genre-defying, continents-spanning saga of Korean myth, scientific discovery, and the abiding love that binds even the most broken of families. Elsa Park is a particle physicist at the top of her game, stationed at a neutrino observatory in the Antarctic, confident she's put enough distance between her ambitions and the family ghosts she's run from all her life. But it isn't long before her childhood imaginary friend-an achingly familiar, spectral...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Award-winning author Andrea Hairston weaves together African folktales and postcolonial literature into unforgettable fantasy in Master of Poisons. The world is changing. Poison desert eats good farmland. Once-sweet water turns foul. The wind blows sand and sadness across the Empire. To get caught in a storm is death. To live and do nothing is death. There is magic in the world, but good conjure is hard to find. Djola, righthand man and spymaster...
39) The wishing tree
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Ming's wishes at the tree on Lunar New Year with his grandmother always seemed to come true, but one year the tree does not help, and he alone must make peace with the loss of his grandmother and the spirit of the tree.