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Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Book Awards: 2024 Winners and Honors
Children's New Books: February 2024 Chapter Books
Children's Book Awards: 2024 Winners and Honors
Children's New Books: February 2024 Chapter Books
Description
"This is the tale of an exciting journey along the Silk Road with a young Monk and his newfound guardian, Samir, a larger than life character and the so-called "Seller of Dreams." The man is a scammer; his biggest skill being the ability to talk his way into getting what he wants. While that talking did save Monkey's life, it has left a lot of people furious with Samir--furious enough to hire assassins. Monkey decides to try and save Samir from the...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"From Percival Everett-a recipient of the NBCC Lifetime Achievement Award and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Booker Prize, and numerous PEN awards-comes James, a retelling of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"On the remote isle of Rosevear, Mira, like her mother before her, is a wrecker, one of the seven on the rope who swim out to shipwrecks to plunder them. Mira's job is to rescue survivors, if there are any. After all, she never feels the cold of the frigid ocean waters and the waves seem to sing to her soul. But the people of Rosevear never admit the truth: that they set the beacons themselves to lure ships into the rocks. When the Council watch lays...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic / Branches
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Boris lives in Hogg Bay, in an old bus that used to travel all over the world, but now just sits there--until one day when his parents take him on an adventure.
Author
Series
Diary of an 8-bit warrior volume 1
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Everyone's favorite villager-turned-warrior, Runt and his friends have had loads of adventures already. They have worked hard (at least some of them) as students, undergone intensive training in Villagetown, battled monsters sent by Herobrine, and even successfully completed their very first quest at Owl's Reach! But their greatest adventure begins now: making their way to the capital Aetheria City! What will Runt and his friends face at the Greater...
Author
Series
Minecraft : Stonesword saga volume 5
Minecraft stonesword saga volume 5
Minecraft Stonesword saga volume 5
Minecraft stonesword saga volume 5
Minecraft Stonesword saga volume 5
Publisher
Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
Despite being a great Minecraft player, Morgan feels his leadership of the team slipping away as the next splinter of the Evoker King takes the form of a golem and challenges each member of the team to run a dangerous obstacle course. Normally they would work together, but this time they are each forced to face the challenge alone--with no second chances and a river of hot lava waiting for them if they fail!
Author
Series
Minecraft stonesword saga volume 6
Publisher
Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"Morgan, Harper and their friends return to a Minecraft Overworld in total chaos as a growing rift threatens to engulf everything in its path and have one chance to save Minecraft and their friend the Evoker King"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Artificial intelligence leads to shockingly real danger for the Gray Man in this latest entry in the #1 New York Times bestselling series. A car accident in Japan. A drowning in Seoul. A home invasion in Boston. Someone is killing the world's leading experts on robotics and artificial intelligence. Is it a tech company trying to eliminate the competition or is it something even more sinister? After all, artificial intelligence may be the deadliest...
Author
Publisher
Thistledown Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning author Kate A. Boorman comes her first middle grade historical novel, set in France in the Middle Ages at a time of great religious upheaval. The Heathens and the Dragon: A 13th-Century Adventure stars twelve-year-old Elodie, a resourceful guardian to her little brother Bertran and his often willful pet chicken Codet. Together with Joie, a young troubadour, they perform for their very survival."--
10) The sunlit man
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Landing on a new planet where he's instantly caught up in the struggle between a tyrant and the rebels, Nomad, in a world under constant threat of a sunrise whose heat will melt the very stones, must gain enough power to leap offworld before he pays the ultimate price.
11) Kindling
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
After the war is over, seven outlawed kindlings--elite, magic-wielding warriors whose devastating power comes at the cost of their own young lives--must confront their pasts, their trauma and their grim fates to reclaim who they once were and fight one last time.
Author
Series
Bravelands curse of the sandtongue volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Grandmother's attacks on the creatures of Bravelands come to a head"--
13) Heroes by a hair
Author
Series
Link and Hud volume 1
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Brothers Lincoln and Hudson Dupré go on imaginary adventures that often wreak havoc in the real world and conspire to undermine their newest babysitter.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"As the water buffalo prepare for their yearly migration, a terrible accident leaves their leader unable to go on--and in his place, young Echo is chosen by the Great Spirit to lead his herd. But the older buffalo can't believe such a young animal has been chosen--and refuse to follow his lead, threatening the migration that is necessary for the Great Spirit to bring the rains to the land. Meanwhile, Stride the cheetah is keeping secrets from his...
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's New Books: April 2024 Chapter Books
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors for Middle Schoolers
Description
"Discovering an orphaned wolf pup she believes is related to the five sacred beasts of Devia, which a Hunter has been killing one by one, Sona embarks on an epic adventure during which she realizes that the fate of the sacred beasts, and the future of Devia, is in her hands"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney / Hyperion, an imprint of Buena Vista Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's New Books: April 2024 Chapter Books
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors for Middle Schoolers
Description
When San Francisco adults forget who they are and mysterious exotic birds flock to the city, twelve-year-old Winston Chu and friends team up to investigate the strange occurrences and face off against Mr. Pang's older magpie-turned-human brother, Mr. Gu.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
"The mold takes all. Twelve-year-old fairy Canary Mossheart knows this better than most. A few years ago, the mold took her papa, and even her famous, former-chosen-one Gran never found a cure. So when Ary's beloved mama falls ill, Ary decides it's taken enough. Armed with only a bucket and a prayer, she sneaks out to find a magical, underground lake whose healing waters are straight out of Gran's adventures. But when Ary gets there, the lake's bone...
Author
Series
Daughters of the lamp volume 1
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Sahara prefers logic and science over magic, but when she travels to Cairo for a family wedding, her resistance to magic fades when she discovers that she is next in a line of women tasked with guarding Ali Baba's treasure.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"Lucy, a spirited French-Ojibwe orphan, is sent to the stormy waters of Lake Superior to live with a mysterious family of lighthouse keepers -- and, she hopes, to find the legendary necklace her father spent his life seeking"--
Author
Series
Nic Blake and the Remarkables volume 1
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
"It's not easy being a Remarkable in the Unremarkable world. Some things are cool--like getting a pet hellhound for your twelfth birthday. Others, not so much--like not being trusted to learn magic because you might use it to take revenge on an annoying neighbor. All Nic Blake wants is to be a powerful Manifestor like her dad. But before she has a chance to convince him to teach her the gift, a series of shocking revelations and terrifying events...
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