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42) Peter's chair
Author
Series
Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 3
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1967]
Fountas & Pinnell
J
Physical Desc
[33] p. col. illus. 21 x 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Peter discovers his blue furniture is being painted pink for a new baby sister, he rescues the last unpainted item, a chair, and runs away.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Tandy Angel is, along with her brothers, a suspect in their parents' murder but having grown up under Malcolm and Maud Angel's perfectionist demands, Tandy decides she must clear the family name no matter what.
44) Warlight
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of fourteen-year-old Nathaniel, and his older sister, Rachel. In 1945, just after World War II, they stay behind in London when their parents move to Singapore, leaving them in the care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. They suspect he might be a criminal, and they grow both more convinced and less concerned as they come to know his eccentric crew of friends: men and women joined by a shared history of unspecified service during the...
45) Outcast
Author
Series
Warriors (Erin Hunter). Power of three volume 3
Warriors power of three volume 3
Warriors. Power of three volume 3
Warriors power of three volume 3
Warriors. Power of three volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
317 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jaypaw, one of Firestar's three grandchildren, is captivated by the power promised in a secret prophecy, and heads to the mountains in search of answers, followed by Lionpaw and Hollypaw who have their own reasons for making the journey.
46) Jake and Lily
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Jake and Lily are twins and have always felt the same--like two halves of one person--but the year they turn eleven and Jake begins hanging out with Bump Stubbins, everything changes"--
47) The Willoughbys
Author
Series
Willoughbys volume 1
Language
English
Description
A tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, in which the four Willoughby children set out to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.
48) O pioneers!
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first of Cather's renowned prairie novels--a story that expresses Cather's conviction that "the history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman". When Alexandra Bergson takes over the family farm after her father's death, she falls under the spell of the rich, forbidding Nebraska prairie.
49) The reptile room
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Dear Reader, if you have picked up this book with the hope of finding a simple and cheery tale, I'm afraid you have picked up the wrong book altogether. The story may seem cheery at first, when the Baudelaire children spend time in the company of some interesting reptiles and a giddy uncle, but don't be fooled. If you know anything at all about the unlucky Baudelaire children, you already know that even pleasant events lead down the same road to misery....
50) The gift
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After escaping imprisonment by the totalitarian regime known as the New Order, siblings Wisty and Whit Allgood, who possess magical powers, establish themselves as leaders of the Resistance, a hidden community of teenagers like themselves, hunted by the state and determined to defy its ban on the arts, magic, and all other forms of creativity.
51) The end
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Lost at sea, the Baudelaire orphans, along with the evil Count Olaf, wash up on the shore of an island populated by an oddly placid group of inhabitants, and they try to decide whether or not they are truly safe.
52) The sorceress
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
While armies of the Shadowrealms gather and Machiavelli goes to Alcatraz to kill Perenelle Flamel, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman accompany the Alchemist to England to find someone who can teach them Water Magic.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 289 p. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Carolyn Mackenzie is driven to solve the mystery of her older brother's disappearance ten years ago, hoping that she and her mother will achieve closure. Her pursuit of truth plunges her into a world of danger and unanswered questions. Do the police believe that Mack is a serial killer? Was Mack guilty of the murder of his drama teacher and the theft of his taped sessions with her?
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When their picture-perfect Cotswold village family life with a perpetually young father and hippy mother is shattered by a tragic Easter weekend, four siblings pursue separate adult lives before a reunion reveals astonishing truths.
55) My sister Rosa
Author
Language
English
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Description
When his father's business takes the family to New York City, a seventeen-year-old Australian boy must balance his desire to protect his ten-year-old sister, a diagnosable psychopath, from the world with the desperate need to protect the world from her.
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 9
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
286 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
On the run as suspected murderers, the unlucky Baudelaire orphans find themselves trapped in the Caligari Carnival, where they must masquerade as freaks in order to hide from the evil Count Olaf.
57) Obsession
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
340 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Katharine Lawrence recovered consciousness on her kitchen floor. Or, was it her kitchen? Staring into a mirror following the attempt on her life, the 29-year-old special assistant to the head of the National Security Agency knows she's lucky to be alive, but doesn't know who she is. CIA Agent Nick Huston, investigating Katharine's boss, has been assigned to keep an eye on Jenna Hill, the Katharine look-alike being used while the real Katharine Lawrence...
59) Sadie and Ratz
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hannah and her hands, named Sadie and Ratz, regularly get into trouble, especially when younger brother Baby Boy is around.
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