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Series
Last kids on Earth volume 1
Language
English
Description
It's been forty-two days since the monster apocalypse hit town and pretty much everyone ran away or got zombified. Average thirteen-year-old Jack Sullivan is holed up in his tree house, which he's armed to the teeth with catapults and a moat, not to mention video games and an endless supply of Oreos and Mountain Dew scavenged from abandoned stores. But Jack alone is no match for the hordes of Dozers and Winged Wretches and Zombies, and especially...
62) Redwoods
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
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A young city boy, riding the subway, finds an abandoned book about redwoods. He finds himself in the very forest described in the book. After finishing the book, he leaves it for someone else to read. The text contains facts about the redwoods, while the illustrations tell the boy's story.
Author
Series
Montague siblings volume 1
Language
English
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Henry "Monty" Montague was bred to be a gentleman. His passions for gambling halls, late nights spent with a bottle of spirits, or waking up in the arms of women or men, have earned the disapproval of his father. His quest for pleasures and vices have led to one last hedonistic hurrah as Monty, his best friend and crush Percy, and Monty's sister Felicity begin a Grand Tour of Europe. When a reckless decision turns their trip abroad into a harrowing...
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
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Description
He's a boy called Jew. Gypsy. Stopthief. Runt. Happy. Fast. Filthy son of Abraham -- He's a boy who lives in the streets of Warsaw. He's a boy who steals food for himself and the other orphans. He's a boy who believes in bread, and mothers, and angels He's a boy who wants to be a Nazi some day, with tall shiny jackboots and a gleaming Eagle hat of his own. Until the day that suddenly makes him change his mind. When the trains come to empty the Jews...
Author
Series
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Meet Ira Crumb. He's the new kid in town. He knows what that means: when the new school year starts, he'll play alone at recess, eat alone at lunch, and walk home alone at the end of the day. So Ira launches a whole-hearted campaign to befriend neighborhood kids before the first day. But his best-laid plans -- A sandwich stand! A dance-off! -- fall flat, and playing it cool doesn't seem to work either. Just as Ira decides school will be HORRIBLE,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A short novella based on the beloved characters from Alice Oseman's acclaimed debut novel Solitaire and graphic novel series Heartstopper. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, right? CHARLIE: "I have been going out with Nick Nelson for two years. He likes rugby, Formula 1, dogs, the Marvel universe, the sound felt-tips make on paper, rain and drawing on shoes. He also likes me." NICK: "Things me and Charlie Spring do together include: Watch films....
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: Prez knows that the best way to keep track of things is to make a list. That's important when you have a grandfather who is constantly forgetting. And it's even more important when your grandfather can't care for you anymore and you have to go live with a foster family. Prez is still learning to fit in at his new home when he answers the door to meet Sputnik?a kid who is more than a little strange. First, he can hear what Prez...
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 1
Language
English
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Description
After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there.
69) Cardboard
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
283 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After Cam's down-and-out father gives him a cardboard box for his birthday, they fashion it into a man that magically comes to life, but things spin wildly out of control when the neighborhood bully steals a scrap of the cardboard to create creatures that promptly disobey his orders and multiply into an unruly army.
Author
Publisher
Page Street Publising Co
Pub. Date
2023
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A year ago, Gage survived a car accident that killed his best friend, Hunter. Without the person who always brought out the best in him, Gage doesn't know who he is. He likes working as a fry cook and loves his small-town friends and family, but they weren't in the wreck and he can't tell them how much he's still hurting. He just wants to forget all his pain and move on. So when his stepdad shows him a dream job opening in one of his idol's restaurants,...
Author
Series
The explorers (Adrienne Kress) volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
A shy boy's life is sent spiraling into adventure after a fateful day when he discovers a pig in a small hat and returns it to its home at the mysterious Explorers Club.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes skating and singing, playing Bingo and Name That Tune, and reading mysteries and comics aloud to his teachers. He also likes avoiding people his own age . . . and the cruelty of mirrors . . . and food. Jake has read about kids like him in books--the weird one, the outsider--and would do anything not to be that kid, including shrink himself down to nothing. But the less he...
74) Slider
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
Publisher Annotation: David can eat an entire sixteen-inch pepperoni pizza in four minutes and thirty-six seconds. Not bad. But he knows he can do better. In fact, he?ll have to do better: he?s going to compete in the Super Pigorino Bowl, the world?s greatest pizza-eating contest, and he has to win it, because he borrowed his mom?s credit card and accidentally spent $2,000 on it. So he really needs that prize money. Like, yesterday. As if training...
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
70 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Trollhunter Jim Lake, Jr. grapples with his new responsibilities, as the Trolls and his best friend Toby try to help by looking back at previous Trollhunters in similar times of crisis.
Author
Series
Mister Max volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Max's parents leave the country without him, he must rely on his wits to get by, and before long he is running his own--rather unusual--business"--
77) Brisingr
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The further adventures of Eragon and his dragon Saphira as they continue to aid the Varden in the struggle against the evil king, Galbatorix.
78) Manatee summer
Author
Language
English
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"Peter and his best friend, Tommy, have a goal for their last summer before middle school: finish their Discovery Journal, a catalog of the wildlife around their Florida town. When they spot a manatee in a canal, Peter knows they've found something special--and when the manatee is injured by a boat, something to protect! As Peter joins the fight to save Florida manatees, he also finds himself taking care of his ailing grandfather and facing an unwelcome...
79) Russian roulette
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 10
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presented with an unexpected assignment, Alex Rider's greatest nemesis, Yassen Gregoravich, recalls his life and the path that led him to become an assassin while his one-time friend, Alex's uncle, became a spy.
Author
Series
Fountas & Pinnell
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Language
English
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Billy isn't one to back down from a bet. But this one is gross: If he eats fifteen worms in fifteen days, Alan will pay him fifty dollars. Billy takes the bet and tries worms smothered in ketchup, drowned in mustard, even breaded and fried. Worm by worm, Billy gets closer to victory. But Alan won't let him win that easily...
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