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41) The Double Helix
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Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
The mystery deepens and the action intensifies for 12-year-old Cruz Coronado and friends in the exciting third book in the Explorer Academy series. The adventure continues for Cruz, Emmett, Sailor, and Bryndis as they continue their studies at sea and travel to exotic locations around the world. A mysterious person alerts Cruz to impending danger while he and a few trusted pals explore ancient ruins in Petra, Jordan, and search for another piece of...
42) Dream Magic
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Things are dire for the inhabitants of Castle Gloom and the surrounding villages. The undead are leaving their graves in droves, a troll army is on the march from the north, and people are mysteriously disappearing from their homes. The people of Gehenna are blaming their misfortunes on Lilith Shadow, their young queen. They believe she has cursed them by using magic, a practice forbidden to women. With her trusty executioner among the missing and...
43) Payback
Author
Series
Masterminds trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
Fighting for survival after being separated into pairs in the aftermath of a betrayal, the Project Osiris clones search for notorious mob boss Gus Alabaster while tracking down Eli's elusive DNA donor alongside a surprising new ally.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a vision of climate change unlike any ever imagined. Kim Stanley Robinson is one of contemporary science fiction's most acclaimed writers, and with this new novel, he once again turns his eye to themes of climate change, technology, politics, and the human behaviors that drive these forces. But his setting is not a desolate, post-apocalyptic world - rather, he imagines a more hopeful...
45) Acts of Violet
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"From Margarita Montimore, the author of GMA Book Club pick and national bestseller Oona Out of Order, Acts of Violet is a dazzling and twisty new novel about a famous magician who disappears, leaving her sister to figure out what really happened. Nearly a decade ago, iconic magician Violet Volk performed her greatest trick yet: vanishing mid-act. Though she hasn't been seen since, her hold on the public imagination is stronger than ever. While Violet...
Author
Series
Explorer Academy volume 6
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Adventure, danger, and a thrilling global mission await 12-year-old Cruz Coronado as he joins an elite school for explorers.
Cruz leaves his tranquil home in Hawaii to join 23 talented kids from around the globe to train at the Explorer Academy with the world's leading scientists to become the next generation of great explorers. But for Cruz, there's more at stake. No sooner has he arrived at the Academy than he discovers that his family has a mysterious...
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Experience the action-packed first book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson's laugh-out-loud middle-grade fantasy series like never before—now with all new covers! AN ANCIENT RIVALRY REAWAKENS. Everything I'd known about the world was a lie. On my thirteenth birthday, I, Alcatraz Smedry (yes, I got named after a prison, don't ask), received my inheritance: a bag of sand. And then I accidentally destroyed my foster parents'...
Author
Publisher
HighBridge
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noe Álvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who "slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mothers conditioned to believe this was all they could do with their lives." A university scholarship offered escape, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, Álvarez struggled to fit in.
At nineteen, he learned about a Native American/First Nations movement called the...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Eighteen kids, one year of poems, one school set to close. Two yellow bulldozers crouched outside, ready to eat the building in one greedy gulp. But look out, bulldozers. Ms. Hill's fifth-grade class has plans for you. They're going to speak up and work together to save their school. Laura Shovan's engaging novel is a time capsule of one class's poems during a transformative school year. The students grow up and move on in this big-hearted debut about...
50) Burning Magic
Author
Series
Shadow magic novels volume 3
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
In Book 3 of a three-book series, when Lily, aka the "witch queen" and bat-rider extraordinaire Thorn travel to Sultanate of Fire, things go terribly wrong. Instead of celebrating a reunion with their old friend K'leef, they are thrust into royal murder, an epic quest, and a deadly battle for the throne. While investigating the murder, Lily learns shocking truths about her life that could destroy all she has achieved. Yet, among the ruins of her old...
51) Shadow Magic
Author
Series
Shadow magic novels volume 1
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Thorn, a boy sold into slavery who must serve the royalty of Castle Gloom for a year and a day to earn his freedom, and Lilith Shadow, the 13-year-old ruler of Gehenna, who is forbidden to practice the magic that is her heritage, join forces to solve the murders taking place in Gehenna.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Now featuring all new covers, the Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians middle-grade series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson. SNEAKING INTO THE EVIL LIBRARIAN CULT HQ! So there I, Alcatraz Smedry, was, tied to an altar made from outdated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed—wait, you've heard that before? Oh yeah, I wrote it at the beginning of my first book. Well, this is the one where that actually happens, I promise. I...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Newbery Honor Book
"A captivating story about family's enduring bonds." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Another wondrous title from a remarkably talented author." —Booklist (starred review)
"A 10 out of 10. Anyone interested in science, sibling relationships, and friendships will enjoy reading We Dream of Space." —Time
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Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A thrilling account of the most daring American P.O.W. rescue mission of World War II.
Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, America entered World War II, and a new theater of battle opened up in the Pacific. But US troops, along with thousands of Filipino soldiers who fought alongside them, were overtaken in the Philippines by a fiercely determined Japanese navy, and many Americans and Filipino fighters were killed or captured.
These
...55) Hello, Universe
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Winner of the Newbery Medal
"A charming, intriguingly plotted novel." —Washington Post
Acclaimed and award-winning author Erin Entrada Kelly's Hello, Universe is a funny and poignant neighborhood story about unexpected friendships.
Told from four intertwining points of view—two boys and two girls—the novel celebrates bravery, being different, and finding your inner bayani (hero).
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