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521) Unsettled ground
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"At fifty-one years old, twins Jeanie and Julius still live with their mother, Dot, in rural isolation in the English countryside. The cottage they have shared their entire lives is their only protection against the modernizing world around them. Inside its walls, they make music, and in its garden, they grow everything they need to survive. To an outsider, it looks like poverty; to them, it is home. But when Dot dies unexpectedly, the world they've...
522) Day one
Author
Series
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"In the sequel to Day Zero, stepsisters Jinx and MacKenna must put aside their enmity and work together to rescue their little brother...and possibly save the world. A nonstop whirlwind of a read for fans of Marie Lu, Rick Yancey and Alexandra Bracken. RULE ONE: THOSE WHO PANIC DON'T SURVIVE IT'S AS TRUE NOW AS IT WAS THE DAY OUR WORLD EXPLODED INTO CHAOS Jinx Three months ago, all I wanted was to stay up late playing video games and pretending things...
Author
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"It's Hanukkah, and Max and Rachel are excited to light the menorah in their family's new apartment. But, unfortunately, their Hanukkah box is missing. So now they have no menorah, candles, dreidels, or, well, anything! Luckily, their neighbors are happy to help, offering thoughtful and often humorous stand-in items each night. And then, just as Hanukkah is about to end, Max and Rachel, inspired by the shamash ("helper") candle, have a brilliant idea:...
Author
Series
Publisher
Rocabolsillo
Pub. Date
2012
Language
Español
Description
After fleeing Ojai, Nicholas, Sophie, Josh, and Scatty emerge in Paris, the City of Lights. Home for Nicholas Flamel. Only this homecoming is anything but sweet. Perenell is still locked up back in Alcatraz and Paris is teeming with enemies. Nicollo Machiavelli, immortal author and celebrated art collector, is working for Dee. He's after them, and time is running out for Nicholas and Perenell. For every day spent without the Book of Abraham the Mage,...
Author
Series
Kane chronicles (Graphic novels) volume 1
Publisher
Disney Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane accidentally unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes the doctor to oblivion and forces his two children to embark on a dangerous journey, bringing them closer to the truth about their family and its links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.
526) Flight or fright
Author
Series
Waffles and Pancake volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
Waffles, Pancake, and Mom-Cat go to visit Gramps and Grammers, but this is the kittens' first time flying on an airplane, and Waffles is a little nervous.
528) Shadow of the shark
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 25
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As a thank-you from Merlin and Morgan, Jack and Annie are sent on what should be a vacation at a luxurious resort in Cozumel, Mexico, but is, by mistake, an adventure with ancient Mayans, instead.
529) Black cake: a novel
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with...
Author
Series
Baxter family series. Standalone novels volume Prequel
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A terrible storm builds in the morning sky over Bloomington, Indiana, as Elizabeth Baxter prepares to celebrate her daughter Kari's wedding to Tim Jacobs. Elizabeth can't shake a growing sense that something bad is about to happen. In the midst of the family, Kari Baxter is starting to panic. Is marrying Tim a mistake? Her brother Luke is angry and resentful of their sister Ashley, who has recently returned from Paris, a single mom with a son she...
531) Girl in ice
Author
Publisher
Scout Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From the author of The River at Night and Into the Jungle comes a harrowing new thriller as a linguist, broken-hearted after the apparent suicide of her glaciologist brother, ventures hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle to try to communicate with a young girl who has thawed from the ice alive"--
Valerie “Val” Chesterfield is a linguist trained in the most esoteric of disciplines: dead Nordic languages. Despite her successful career,...
532) Jabari tries
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jabari is making a flying machine all by himself, but when it doesn't work the way he imagined, he learns about perseverance and problem-solving.
533) La selva
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
A Edver no le hace ninguna gracia que lo envíen a Cuba a ver al padre que apenas conoce. Sin embargo, ahora que las leyes de viaje han cambiado y es mucho más fácil reunir a las familias divididas, su mamá piensa que es hora de que padre e hijo pasen tiempo juntos. Edver no se imagina lo que le depara el verano, ¡pero definitivamente no espera conocer a la hermana que ni siquiera sabía que existía! Luza es un año mayor y está muy entusiasmada...
534) The shark club
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
"On a summer day on the Gulf of Mexico in 1988, two extraordinary things happen to twelve-year-old Maeve Donnelly. First, she is kissed by Daniel, the boy of her dreams. Then, she is attacked by a blacktip shark. Eighteen years later, Maeve is a world-traveling marine biologist studying and swimming with the very animals that once threatened her life. Known among her peers as the 'shark whisperer,' Maeve is fearless in the water. On land, however,...
535) Algún día volaremos
Author
Publisher
Libros de Seda
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
La vida de Charlie solía ser tranquila. Tenía la habitación limpia, los libros de ornitología ordenados cuidadosamente, materiales para hacer manualidades, comía lo que le gustaba y seguía unas rutinas que le resultaban cómodas. Pero todo se ha ido complicando desde que a su padre, reportero de guerra, le hirieron en Afganistán. Y cuando lo mandan de California a Virginia para recibir tratamiento médico, Charlie se ve obligado a cruzar todo...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Cadence 'Cady' Archer arrives on Harvard's campus searching for answers about her brother, a schizophrenic genius who leapt from his dorm room window the year before. Eric's brilliance overshadowed Cady growing up, but she worshipped and adored him--even as he became more unstable, retreating deeper into his secretive work on multidimensional spacetime and isolating himself from everyone around him. Losing Eric has left a black hole in Cady's life,...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's bad enough Ian Barker has to spend his twelfth birthday with his sister and their two annoying cousins. The four of them can't ever hang out without getting into trouble. Vinnie and Jonny always want to play with Ian's stuff. They take extra turns and break everything they touch. Even Ian's new birthday presents are up for grabs. But when Ian gets a Slappy dummy from his dad, things go from bad to worse. When Slappy's in charge, you don't fight...
538) Attack of the Jack!
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Slappyworld volume 2
The Goosebumps SlappyWorld volume Book 2
Goosebumps Slappyworld volume 2
The Goosebumps SlappyWorld volume Book 2
Goosebumps Slappyworld volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Visiting their uncle's seaside home for the summer, a brother and sister open a mysterious trunk in a back room and discover a sinister-looking pirate puppet that comes to life and takes them captive.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Every year, I stay in the same cabin at the beach with my family, and every year Chicken Smith's here too, with his Dad and his dog, Jelly. But this year, something's different." As we hang on the words of the narrator, we learn of the legendary Chicken Smith and the beachside town that has been the backdrop to their school-holiday adventures for years. But will Chicken Smith turn up this year? Or will a friendship of a different kind blossom. A...
Author
Series
School Ship Tobermory volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old twins Ben and Fee MacTavish, along with their schoolmates, head to a small island in the Caribbean aboard the School Ship Tobermory, they learn extraordinary details about their captain's past and come face to face with modern-day pirates.
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