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Series
Series of unfortunate events) volume 1
Lexile Measure
1010L
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Summary
After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune. Illustrations.
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Summary
"This book is all about Tiny, the terrific triceratops. Tiny loves singing, dancing, and telling jokes--she's always fun to be around! But her older brother, Trey, says that tiny needs to start being serious if she wants to pass her Triceratops Trial and fit in with the herd. Will Tiny figure out a way to put her own special twist on being a triceratops?" -- Page [4] cover.
43) Dragon ghosts
Author
Series
Unwanteds quests volume 3
Lexile Measure
750L
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Summary
"Devastated by loss and hampered by war, Fifer struggles to regroup and continue the search for her twin. Meanwhile Thisbe, pounded by images of Grimere's dark history, contemplates her abandonment and considers leaving Rohan behind in a risky move that could take her home ... or to her death--
44) Dust & Grim
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Summary
"Thirteen-year-old Molly doesn't know how she got the short end of the stick -- being raised by her neglectful father -- while Dustin, the older brother she's never met, got their mother and the keys to the family estate. But now the siblings are both orphaned, she's come home for her inheritance, and if Dustin won't welcome her into the family business, then she'll happily take her half in cash. There's just one problem: the family business is a...
46) Illegal
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
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Summary
To escape the violent cartel that is after them in Ciudad Juárez, siblings Sara and Emiliano flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States and hoping to bring their pursuers to justice, only to discover that an even greater danger awaits them.
47) Beauty queen
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 7
Lexile Measure
380L
Summary
Abby's first problem is that Jonah has lost all his memories of the magic mirror and their adventures, so when they get sucked through into Beauty and the Beast, he is unaware of the danger, and picks one of the Beast's roses--her second problem is locating Beauty and performing a match-making miracle in order to recover her brother, and still make it back to the real world before their parents miss them.
Author
Series
Scary stories for young foxes volume 2
Lexile Measure
700L
Summary
Cozy and her littermates are driven from their suburban den because something is killing the foxes in their area, and so they travel to a strange new world, the City, to confront a new set of dangers, where they meet 0-370, an injured fox who has escaped from a fur farm and who gives them a new mission--return to the farm, defeat the humans, and free the caged foxes.
50) Sand
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Summary
"The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes. Here in this land of howling wind and infernal sand, four siblings find themselves scattered and lost. Their father was a sand diver, one of the elite few who could travel deep beneath the desert floor and bring up the relics and scraps that keep their people alive. But their father is gone. And the world he left behind might be next. Welcome to the world of Sand, a novel...
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Twelve-year-old Quijana is a biracial girl, desperately trying to understand the changes that are going on in her life; her mother rarely gets home before bedtime, her father suddenly seems to be trying to get in touch with his Guatemalan roots (even though he never bothered to teach Quijana Spanish), she is about to start seventh grade in the Texas town where they live and she is worried about fitting in--and Quijana suspects that her parents are...
52) Second chance
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile Measure
760L
Summary
Brother and sister Chance and Pauline must risk it all to return to the magical realm that exists deep below the ground to warn its inhabitants about a miner threatening to destroy their world.
Author
Series
Wild survival volume 02
Pub. Date
[2021]
Summary
Arriving in Sri Lanka to find an extremely rare Pondicherry shark, 12-year-old Adrianna Villalobos and her family discover that it is the main attraction in a restaurant aquarium and must convince the restaurant's owners to release it back into the wild.
54) The devouring
Author
Series
Devouring volume 1
Summary
The existence of Vours, supernatural creatures who feast on fear and attack on the eve of the winter solstice, becomes a terrifying reality for fifteen-year-old Reggie when she begins to suspect that her timid younger brother might be one of their victims.
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Summary
"Where did Narnia come from" The answer will change everything. Megs Devonshire is brilliant with numbers and equations, on a scholarship at Oxford, and dreams of solving the greatest mysteries of physics. She prefers the dependability of facts--except for one: the younger brother she loves with all her heart doesn't have long to live. When George becomes captivated by a brand-new book called The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and begs her to find...
Author
Series
Arden High volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Summary
Vi came to Arden High for a fresh start and a chance to wear beanies and button-ups instead of uniform skirts. And though doing it without her twin feels like being split in half, Vi finds her stride when she stumbles (literally!) into broody and beautiful poet-slash-influencer, Orsino. Soon Vi gets roped into helping plan the school's Twelfth Grade Night dance, and she can't stop dreaming about slow dancing with Orsino under the fairy lights in the...
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Summary
"In 1978, Lizzie Morgan and Ritchie Schneider embark on a whirlwind romance on the bright beaches and glamorous yachts of Long Island. Over the years, their relationship has its share of ups and downs, including a nine-month hiatus that ends with a stunning eleven-carat ring--one that looks just like the diamond Richard Burton gifted Liz Taylor after their own separation. Like the famous couple, despite the drama that would unfold throughout the Schneiders...
Author
Series
Boxcar children great adventure volume 3
Lexile Measure
650L
Summary
After solving riddles from the secretive Reddimus Society to figure out their destination, the four Alden siblings fly to China, where they deliver an artifact at the Great Wall, but when they are next rushed to an elephant sanctuary in Thailand, the Aldens suspect they have been tricked and take extra precautions against their enemies.
59) The Callers
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile Measure
710L
Summary
In Elipsom the ability to call, or summon objects, is a coveted skill, and Quintus Octavius is from a family of powerful Callers, but Quin does not have the gift, and he is mortified when his mother and sister cheat for him at his test; but in a moment of frustration Quin makes something disappear and discovers that the all the objects that Callers summon are not conjured out of air, but come from a place called Evantra, which his people have been...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Summary
Aspiring screenwriter Altuna Rashad has big plans for the last summer before she leaves Ontario, California, for the college in Georgia, the most important of which is securing the loving attention of her crush, Tristan Dangerfield; however she also has to get out from the obsessive over-protectiveness of her older brother, Robby, who mocks their family's devotion to the old Caribbean traditions and superstitions, while grieving the loss of his life...