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1) Olivetti
Author
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Being a typewriter is not as easy as it looks. Surrounded by books (notorious attention hogs) and recently replaced by a computer, Olivetti has been forgotten by the Brindle family-the family he's lived with for years. The Brindles are busy humans, apart from 12-year-old Ernest, who would rather be left alone with his collection of Oxford English Dictionaries. The least they could do was remember Olivetti once in a while, since he remembers every...
Author
Publisher
North Star Editions
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Batavia, Dutch East Indies, 1942.
Emmy has the voice of an angel but hasn’t sung a note since a family tragedy. With war looming, her father plans to ship her off to a singing school in England for safety. But all Emmy wants to do is stay in Batavia with her best friend, Bakti, even if it means putting up with her snooty classmate, Violet. Then the Japanese army invades―and as war erupts in the Dutch East Indies, Emmy’s world falls apart.
When...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
Archie's life--and the whole world--is turned upside down by Covid-19. Suddenly there are no more Friday night dinners out, no more going to school, no more hanging out with friends . . . no leaving the house at all. Even though he's inside with his family all day every day, Archie can't help but feel more alone than ever before. While everyone else seems to be adapting to their new normal just fine, it's like Archie is permanently on mute, unable...
5) Uprising
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Lidia's life is forever changed by the Nazi occupation of Poland, leading her to join the resistance movement to fight against the Nazis and aid Jewish people in the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.
7) Gut reaction
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tess Medina is dealing with the loss of her beloved father, a new school, and the troubling fact that the thing she enjoys most in life, baking, seems to be making her increasingly ill--something she is trying to hide from everybody.
Author
Series
Emily Windsnap volume 6
Publisher
Tantor Media, Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Ghost ships, lost world of Atlantis and trying to save the ships passengers puts Emily in danger of being lost to her own world.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Eden, on a visit to her late mother's birthplace of Safina Island, Georgia, discovers a creepy sketchbook that leads her to Everdark--a spirit world ruled by an evil witch who Eden must defeat in order to make it back home.
Author
Series
Teddies saga volume 2
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Forced to watch one of their own being destroyed, the remaining teddies, who are thrust back into a world that doesn't want them, decide to return to the place they were created to finally learn why they were thrown away.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2024
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Isaiah "Ice" Abernathy has always worshiped his older brother, Seth. For years they've been not just brothers but best friends--and as Seth starts his senior year, Ice is eager to spend as much time with his brother as he can, making memories before Seth goes to college. But when Seth announces he's leaving much earlier than expected, and then he misses an important event--one he'd promised to attend--it causes a major fight. Filled with regret,...
13) Sunbeam's shine
Author
Series
Unicorn princesses volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
109 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A human girl visits the Rainbow Realm, an enchanted land ruled by a circle of unicorn princesses, to help Princess Sunbeam regain her magical powers.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Daring readers not to have fun, this unique and uproarious picture book has everything -- comedy, drama, action, heart -- and what's even better, it has homework, a trip to the dentist, and raisins -- nature's candy!
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"There once was a very sleepy penguin, who was best friends with a not-so-sleepy lion... A pitch-perfect comedy for anyone who has ever craved sleep -- and anyone too full of energy to settle down." --
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Devastated when her parents are killed in a car accident, sixteen-year old Jackie moves from New York City to Colorado to live with her mother's best friend, who has twelve children, including two boys who start to show an interest in Jackie that goes beyond brotherly.
17) Prism's paint
Author
Series
Unicorn princesses volume 4
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
111 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
After one of Ernest the wizard-lizard's spells goes awry, draining color from Princess Prism and her domain, the unicorn princesses call on the human girl Cressida to help Prism locate the Valley of Light's missing rainbow so she regain her magic and repaint the land and creatures.
18) Bloom's ball
Author
Series
Unicorn princesses volume 3
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
116 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Unicorn Princess Bloom asks the human girl Cressida to help with final preparations for her birthday party, but when they discover quails destroying the party decorations and realize that the invitation to Princess Bloom's best friend has gone astray, they fear the celebration will be ruined.
19) Flash's dash
Author
Series
Unicorn princesses volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cressida is thrilled to be the first human to participate in the annual Thunder Games, but angry boulders and an inept wizard-lizard threaten to ruin the competition.
20) Firefly's glow
Author
Series
Unicorn princesses volume 7
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
111 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cressida returns to the Rainbow Realm, where she helps Princess Firefly, the orange unicorn, with the opening of a new library.
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