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Valor wings

Subity, Sam.


Iris has raised the dragon Galahad, and now she needs him and his fellow dragons to save her brother at Dunkirk from the advancing German troops, as well as a Belgian schoolboy Max she has befriended.
Date Published:2024

The trouble with heroes

Messner, Kate,


"Finn Connelly is nothing like his dad, a star athlete and firefighter hero who always ran toward danger until he died two years ago. Finn is about to fail seventh grade and has never made headlines ... until now. Caught on camera vandalizing a cemetery, he's in big trouble for knocking down some dead old lady's headstone. Turns out that grave belongs to a legendary local mountain climber, and her daughter makes Finn an unusual offer : she'll drop all the charges if he agrees to climb all forty-six A dirondack High Peaks in a single summer. And there's just one more thing -- he has to bring along the dead woman's dog. In a wild three months of misadventures, mountain mud, and unexpected mentors, Finn begins to find his way on the trails. At the top of each peak, he can see for miles and slowly begins to understand more about himself and his dad. But the mountains don't care about any of that, and as the clock ticks down to September, they have more surprises in store. Finn's final summit challenge may be more than even a hero can face"--
Date Published:2025

"Finn Connelly is nothing like his dad, a star athlete and firefighter hero who always ran toward danger until he died two years ago. Finn is about to fail seventh grade and has never made headlines ... until now. Caught on camera vandalizing a cemetery, he's in big trouble for knocking down some dead old lady's headstone. Turns out that grave belongs to a legendary local mountain climber, and her daughter makes Finn an unusual offer : she'll drop all the charges if he agrees to climb all forty-six A dirondack High Peaks in a single summer. And there's just one more thing -- he has to bring along the dead woman's dog. In a wild three months of misadventures, mountain mud, and unexpected mentors, Finn begins to find his way on the trails. At the top of each peak, he can see for miles and slowly begins to understand more about himself and his dad. But the mountains don't care about any of that, and as the clock ticks down to September, they have more surprises in store. Finn's final summit challenge may be more than even a hero can face"--

Date Published:2025

Secrets of the broken house

Souders, Taryn, 1977-,


ALA Booklist. Kirkus Reviews. When thirteen-year-old Tucker finds Miss Geraldine dead at the bottom of her stairs, he suspects foul play and works together with his friends to solve a small town murder.
Date Published:2026

Plain Jane and the Mermaid

Brosgol, Vera,


Publisher Annotation: Jane is incredibly plain. Everyone says so: her parents, the villagers, and her horrible cousin who kicks her out of her own house. Determined to get some semblance of independence, Jane prepares to propose to the princely Peter, who might just say yes to get away from his father. It's a good plan! Or it would've been, if he wasn't kidnapped by a mermaid.
Date Published:2024

The no-brainer's guide to decomposition

Cuevas, Adrianna.


"Ages 8-12"--Dust jacket. Booklist, September 2024. Horn Book, December 2024. Kirkus Review, August 2024. "Frani must fight to stop the undead from rising in her father's body-farm laboratory--that is, if she can embrace the true nature of her brain and its ADHD"--OCLC.
Date Published:2024

Medusa

Marsh, Katherine,


Publishers Weekly. School Library Journal. "A descendant of Medusa, Ava is sent to the Accademia del Forte in Venice after an altercation with a classmate, where she must learn to control her emotions, especially when she unearths a terrible secret that could change the world forever"--
Date Published:2025

I.R.L

Goebel, Jenny,


"Not every kid would be thrilled to move to rural Alaska, but sixth grader Lucy is eager to leave her bullies behind and start over. However, it turns out that Lucy's new school does remote learning from October to April, when the roads become too icy to navigate safely. Being the new kid is hard enough--how is she going to make friends when she can't meet anyone in person? Luckily, the sixth grade class at White Pine Secondary School is tiny (just thirteen students) and they're all super nice and really welcoming. ... As the ice starts to thaw, Lucy grows increasingly excited about meeting her new friends in person. But when she enters the school's address on her phone's GPS, it leads her to a crumbling, clearly abandoned building with a rotted wood sign in front --a sign that reads White Pine Secondary School"--
Date Published:2025

"Not every kid would be thrilled to move to rural Alaska, but sixth grader Lucy is eager to leave her bullies behind and start over. However, it turns out that Lucy's new school does remote learning from October to April, when the roads become too icy to navigate safely. Being the new kid is hard enough--how is she going to make friends when she can't meet anyone in person? Luckily, the sixth grade class at White Pine Secondary School is tiny (just thirteen students) and they're all super nice and really welcoming. ... As the ice starts to thaw, Lucy grows increasingly excited about meeting her new friends in person. But when she enters the school's address on her phone's GPS, it leads her to a crumbling, clearly abandoned building with a rotted wood sign in front --a sign that reads White Pine Secondary School"--

Date Published:2025

Girl, stolen

Henry, April.


"Christy Ottaviano Books." Wilson's Senior High School, October 2011. Wilson's Junior High School, September 2011. School Library Journal, October 2010. Publisher's Weekly, September 2010. Booklist, September 2010. Horn Book, May 2011. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), December 2010. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), August 2010. Teacher Librarian, December 2010. Kirkus Review, August 2010. When an impulsive carjacking turns into a kidnapping, Griffin, a high school dropout, finds himself more in sympathy with his wealthy, blind victim, sixteen-year-old Cheyenne, than with his greedy father.
Date Published:2010

"Christy Ottaviano Books." Wilson's Senior High School, October 2011. Wilson's Junior High School, September 2011. School Library Journal, October 2010. Publisher's Weekly, September 2010. Booklist, September 2010. Horn Book, May 2011. Bulletin (Center for Children's Books), December 2010. Voice of Youth Advocates (V.O.Y.A.), August 2010. Teacher Librarian, December 2010. Kirkus Review, August 2010. When an impulsive carjacking turns into a kidnapping, Griffin, a high school dropout, finds himself more in sympathy with his wealthy, blind victim, sixteen-year-old Cheyenne, than with his greedy father.

Date Published:2010

Violet and Daisy : the story of Vaudeville's famous conjoined twins /

Miller, Sarah, 1979-,


Part one -- Part two. "From the author of The Miracle & Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets and The Borden Murders comes the absorbing and compulsively readable story of Violet and Daisy Hilton, conjoined twins who were the sensation of the US sideshow circuits in the 1920s and 1930s."-- Violet and Daisy were as alike as two flower buds on a single stem. They were also joined, back-to-back, at the base of their spine. In 1908 they were called freaks, monsters. Their mother abandoned Violet and Daisy to the care of her midwife, who immediately put the babies on exhibition in the back room of her pub, embarking on a course of blatant exploitation. They eventually became the most phenomenal success in vaudeville's history. Miller shows that Violet and Daisy were more than just an exhibit: they were two distinct individuals with remarkably harmonious personalities. Above all, they were sisters, whose bonds were so sacred that nothing-- not even death-- would break them. -- adapted from jacket.
Date Published:2021

Part one -- Part two. "From the author of The Miracle & Tragedy of the Dionne Quintuplets and The Borden Murders comes the absorbing and compulsively readable story of Violet and Daisy Hilton, conjoined twins who were the sensation of the US sideshow circuits in the 1920s and 1930s."-- Violet and Daisy were as alike as two flower buds on a single stem. They were also joined, back-to-back, at the base of their spine. In 1908 they were called freaks, monsters. Their mother abandoned Violet and Daisy to the care of her midwife, who immediately put the babies on exhibition in the back room of her pub, embarking on a course of blatant exploitation. They eventually became the most phenomenal success in vaudeville's history. Miller shows that Violet and Daisy were more than just an exhibit: they were two distinct individuals with remarkably harmonious personalities. Above all, they were sisters, whose bonds were so sacred that nothing-- not even death-- would break them. -- adapted from jacket.

Date Published:2021

The Hobbit

Tolkien, J. R. R.


Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.
Date Published:1966

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.

Twain, Mark



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The Count of Monte Cristo

Dumas, Alexandre.


Edmund Dantes, unjustly convicted of aiding the exiled Napoleon, escapes after fourteen years of imprisonment and seeks revenge in Paris.
Date Published:2003

The miracle worker.

Gibson, William


A text of the television play, intended for reading, of Anne Sullivan Macy's attempts to teach her pupil, Helen Keller, to communicate.
Date Published:1975

Song of the trees

Taylor, Mildred D.


Wilson's Children, November 1996. Wilson's Junior High School, April 2001. Elem. School Library Collection, June 2000. School Library Journal. Library Journal. Booklist. Horn Book. Bulletin (Center for Children's books). Kirkus Review. During the Depression, a rural African-American family deeply attached to the forest on their land tries to save it from being cut down by an unscrupulous white man.
Date Published:1996

Wilson's Children, November 1996. Wilson's Junior High School, April 2001. Elem. School Library Collection, June 2000. School Library Journal. Library Journal. Booklist. Horn Book. Bulletin (Center for Children's books). Kirkus Review. During the Depression, a rural African-American family deeply attached to the forest on their land tries to save it from being cut down by an unscrupulous white man.

Date Published:1996

Wayward creatures

Lorentz, Dayna.


School Library Journal, January 2022. Kirkus Starred, November 2021. Booklist, January 2022. "Gabe doesn't know where he belongs anymore. His family is caught up in their own lives and his friends barely have time for him. In a desperate move for attention Gabe sets off fireworks in the woods near his house and causes a small forest fire. In the chaos of the destruction, a coyote named Rill . . . finds herself far from home. Gabe and Rill's paths irrevocably cross when Gabe is tasked with cleaning up the forest. The damage to the land and both their lives is beyond what the two can imagine. But together, they discover that sometimes it only takes one friend to find the place where you belong"--Provided by publisher.
Date Published:2021

School Library Journal, January 2022. Kirkus Starred, November 2021. Booklist, January 2022. "Gabe doesn't know where he belongs anymore. His family is caught up in their own lives and his friends barely have time for him. In a desperate move for attention Gabe sets off fireworks in the woods near his house and causes a small forest fire. In the chaos of the destruction, a coyote named Rill . . . finds herself far from home. Gabe and Rill's paths irrevocably cross when Gabe is tasked with cleaning up the forest. The damage to the land and both their lives is beyond what the two can imagine. But together, they discover that sometimes it only takes one friend to find the place where you belong"--Provided by publisher.

Date Published:2021