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Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Legendary Green Rider Karigan G'ladheon--one of the magical messengers of the king--defends her king and fellow riders from an insurrection led by dark magicians threatening to break the boundaries of ancient, evil Blackveil Forest--releasing powerful dark magics that have been shut away for a millennium.
Author
Series
Goddess girls. Main series volume 14
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
After Iris creates rainbow slides that allow her to get to Earth from Mount Olympus quickly, she becomes a courier in high demand.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Legendary Green Rider Karigan G'ladheon--one of the magical messengers of the king--defends her king and fellow riders from an insurrection led by dark magicians threatening to break the boundaries of ancient, evil Blackveil Forest--releasing powerful dark magics that have been shut away for a millennium.
Author
Series
Chronicles of Faerie volume 3
Pub. Date
2007.
Description
In exchange for the granting of her heart's desire, twelve-year-old Dana agrees to make an arduous journey to Lugnaquillia through the land of Faerie in order to warn King Lugh, second in command to the High King, that an evil destroyer has entered the Mountain Kingdom.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
Hailey Cain has a history of testing the limits of her fate: as a fearless bike messenger on the streets of San Francisco; as a young female cadet at West Point. When an old friend from her former life in Los Angeles calls in a favor, Hailey doesn't have to think long before she accepts the mission. From the dustiest Mexican roads to the meanest streets of East L.A., Hailey finds herself ensnared in a war more deviant and ugly than any she trained...
Author
Series
Chronicles of Faerie volume 3
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
In exchange for the granting of her heart's desire, twelve-year-old Dana agrees to make an arduous journey to Lugnaquillia through the land of Faerie in order to warn King Lugh, second in command to the High King, that an evil destroyer has entered the Mountain Kingdom.
Author
Series
Barnaby Grimes volume 1
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Soon after Victorian messenger Barnaby Grimes is attacked by a huge beast while crossing London's rooftops, he becomes entangled in a mystery involving patent medicine, impoverished patients, and very expensive furs.
Author
Series
Barnaby Grimes volume 3
Pub. Date
[2010], c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Messenger Barnaby Grimes is delivering packages when a local gang "encourages" him to attend a funeral where he begins to face his deadliest challenges.
29) Burning city
Author
Pub. Date
[2005], c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Sixteen-year-old Heller Highland, who is living with his grandparents while his parents are away, burns rubber across Manhattan delivering bad news by bicycle, and as a summer heat wave melts the city, he is struck by first love.
30) Premium rush
Pub. Date
2012
Description
In Manhattan, a bike messenger picks up an envelope that attracts the interest of a dirty cop, who pursues the cyclist throughout the city.
Pub. Date
[2003], c2000-2001
Description
Set in post-apocalyptic Seattle in the year 2019. Max Guevara is a young genetically created woman and part of a top-secret government elite military squad, who is living life as a bicycle messenger/fugitive in the ruins of Seattle. She is hiding from her former commanding officer, Lydecker who is looking to bring her back to his fold. Max meets and turns to Logan Cale, a crippled computer specialist/left-wing rebel who runs a pirated TV system, who...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Description
"Amberground is locked in darkness. A man-made star casts only a dim light over the land. The pitch-black wilderness is infested with Gaichuu--colossal insects with metal exoskeletons. The Gaichuu make travel between the cities of Amberground extremely dangerous. But thankfully the Letter Bees, a brave corps of messengers, risk their lives in order to keep the hearts of Amberground connected"--P. [4] of cover, v. 1.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
Set in post-apocalyptic Seattle in the year 2019. Max Guevara is a young genetically created woman and part of a top-secret government elite military squad, who is living life as a bicycle messenger/fugitive in the ruins of Seattle. She is hiding from her former commanding officer, Lydecker who is looking to bring her back to his fold. Max meets and turns to Logan Cale, a crippled computer specialist/left-wing rebel who runs a pirated TV system, who...
34) The Lamp
Pub. Date
2011
Description
In what seems to be the final days of their already stained marriage, Stanley and Lisa Walters are presented with a strange gift - an old lamp. Along with the lamp come a mysterious messenger and a statement that will cause them to search the depths of their hearts to find its truth.
35) Tracers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Bicycle messenger Cam is in heavy debt to a violent organized-crime gang. Hoping to get out of debt, he joins a crew that uses parkour to pull off heists. As the stakes get higher, and the heists more dangerous, the payouts get bigger. With mob enforcers breathing down his neck, Cam must use every ounce of his skill to stay alive.
36) Quicksilver
Pub. Date
2002
Description
As Jack casey darts through traffic as a bicycle messenger, he uncovers a sinister web of murder and intrigue. When he falls for Terri, a fellow bicycle messenger who has become a pawn of a drug dealer, it's up to Jack to act quickly.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
♭2006.
Description
"In a land of perpetual night, your heart is your light. The Letter to Jiggy Pepper: Lag is close to becoming a Letter Bee! On the way to his final interview at the National Postal Service, he found a dingo: Niche, a feral young girl with shocking strength and hair made of golden swords. Now, as they approach the bridge to the middle-caste district, they stop to rest in Kyrie, a desperado town. They meet Nelli, a friendly young man who shows them...
38) Ithaca
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his four-year-old brother, Ulysses. And so it is that as Spring turns to Summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain, and death, to the good people of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will grapple with one...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"It's 1876 and Cheyenne--long a haven for thugs and thieves--has taken on an air of civility. Until Wild Bill Hickock comes to town and humiliates a local gunman's mentally-challenged brother to the point of suicide. Ira Drang promptly vows to hunt Wild Bill and kill him. Broke, Ira takes work as a shotgun messenger on the notorious Cheyenne to Deadwood stage--to make it across the Black Hills after Wild Bill. It's a sporadic route through rough country...