Catalog Search Results
1001) The Persian gamble
Author
Series
Marcus Ryker novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Kremlin Conspiracy comes this latest international thriller about a terrifying nuclear alliance among three world powers--Russia, Iran, and North Korea--and the man who must halt their deadly strategy. Shot out of the air in enemy territory in the middle of the greatest international crisis since the end of the Cold War, former U.S. Secret Service agent Marcus Ryker finds himself facing an impossible...
1002) The boys: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When introverted Ethan Fawcett marries Barb, he has every reason to believe he will be delivered from a lifetime of solitude. She fills his world with a sense of adventure, expanding his horizons beyond his comfortable routine. Because Ethan fears becoming a father, one day Barb brings home two young brothers, Tommy and Sam, for them to foster, and Ethan immediately falls in love with the two boys. When the pandemic hits, he becomes obsessed with...
1003) Lightning men: a novel
Author
Series
Darktown novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
""Reads like the best of James Ellroy."--Publishers Weekly (starred review, on Darktown) "Mullen is a wonderful architect of intersecting plotlines and unexpected answers."--The Washington Post, on Darktown From the acclaimed author of The Last Town on Earth comes the gripping follow-up to Darktown. Officer Denny Rakestraw and "Negro Officers" Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith have their hands full in a rapidly changing Atlanta. It's 1950 and racial tensions...
Author
Series
Nicci chronicles volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The formidable sorceress Nicci and her companions-the newly powerless Nathan and the youthful Bannon-set out on another quest after driving ruthless Norukai slavers out of Renda Bay. Their mission: restore Nathan's magic and, for Nicci, save the world. Guided by the witch-woman Red''s mysterious prophecy, the trio makes their way south of Kol Adair towards a wondrous city shrouded behind time, Ildakar. But the grotesque omens on their path to Nathan's...
1005) Desperation in death
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"New York, 2061. The place called the Pleasure Academy is a living nightmare where abducted girls are trapped, trained for a life of abject service. Dorian, a thirteen-year-old runaway who'd been imprisoned there, might never have made it out if not for her fellow inmate Mina. Unfortunately, they didn't get away fast enough. Now Dorian is injured and Mina lies dead while Lt. Eve Dallas looks over the scene. Mina's elegant clothes and beauty products...
1006) Locomotive
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: Caldecott Medal for Quality Illustrations
Children's Awards: Sibert Honor for Nonfiction
Children's Awards: Sibert Honor for Nonfiction
Description
Learn what it was like to travel on the transcontinental railroad in the 1860s.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grandma Mazur is a widow...again. This time her marriage lasted a whole 45 minutes. The unlucky groom was one Jimmy Rosolli, local gangster, lothario (senior division) and heart attack waiting to happen...well, the waiting's over. It's a sad day, but if she can't have Jimmy at least Grandma can have all the attention she wants as the dutiful widow. But some kinds of attention are not welcomed, particularly when Jimmy's former "business partners" are...
1008) Save me a seat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Book Battles: 5th Grade
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: School Related Middle Grade Chapter Books
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: School Related Middle Grade Chapter Books
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Formats
Description
Ravi has just moved to the United States from India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe has lived in the same town his whole life and has learning problems--but when their lives intersect in the first week of fifth grade they are brought together by a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and the need to take control of their lives.
1009) The wizards of once
Author
Series
Wizards of once volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Read Alikes: Keeper of the Lost Cities
Children's Read Alikes: Wings of Fire
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade
Children's Read Alikes: Keeper of the Lost Cities
Children's Read Alikes: Wings of Fire
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade
Formats
Description
Young wizard prince Xar, who has no magic, and warrior princess Wish, an outcast, team up on an adventure that brings them to witches long believed to be extinct.
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Jonah Hancock's ship has been sold for what appears to be a mermaid. As gossip spreads, everyone wants to see Mr Hancock's marvel. Its arrival spins him out of his ordinary existence and through the doors of high society. At an opulent party, he makes the acquaintance of Angelica Neal, the most desirable woman he has ever laid eyes on, and a courtesan of great accomplishment. This meeting will steer both their lives onto a dangerous new course, on...
1011) Dragonwings
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Formats
Description
This is the story of the Young family from Three Willows Village, Kwangtung province, China, and their lives in the Land of the Golden Mountain, America. In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco, California and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.
1012) The last cuentista
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on these lists
AUSD Book Battles 2024: 8th Grade
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Awards: Pura Belpre Medal for Latino Literature
More Lists...
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Awards: Pura Belpre Medal for Latino Literature
More Lists...
Description
"A girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person...
1013) Never grow up
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A candid, thrilling memoir from one of the most recognizable, influential, and beloved cinematic personalities in the world. Everyone knows Jackie Chan. Whether it's from Rush Hour, Shanghai Noon, The Karate Kid, or Kung Fu Panda, Jackie is admired by generations of moviegoers for his acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, and mind-bending stunts. In 2016--after fifty-six years in the industry, over 200 films, and many broken bones--he received...
Author
Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The next in New York Times top 5 bestseller Steve Berry's Cotton Malone series involves the Knights of Malta, papal conclave, and lost documents that could change history. A deadly race for the Vatican's oldest secret fuels New York Times bestseller Steve Berry's latest international Cotton Malone thriller. The pope is dead. A conclave to select his replacement is about to begin. Cardinals are beginning to arrive at the Vatican, but one has fled...
1015) Untouchable
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A man's quest to find answers for those who are haunted by the past leads him deeper into the shadows in this electrifying novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Promise Not to Tell. Quinton Zane is back. Jack Lancaster, consultant to the FBI, has always been drawn to the coldest of cold cases, the kind that law enforcement either considers unsolvable or else has chalked up to accidents or suicides. As a survivor of a fire, he finds...
1016) The island
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they're deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom. When they discover remote Dutch Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry, taking...
1017) Allies
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is about to begin, and get their help in freeing her mother--this...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Read Alikes: Harry Potter
Children's Read Alikes: Series of Unfortunate Events
Children's Read Alikes: Harry Potter
Children's Read Alikes: Series of Unfortunate Events
Formats
Description
When timid Milton and his older, scofflaw sister Marlo die in a marshmallow bear explosion at Grizzly Mall, they are sent to Heck, an otherworldly reform school from which they are determined to escape.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Classics: Abridged
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile 900 to 999
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile 900 to 999
Description
This is Mark Twain's first novel about Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, and it has become one of the world's best-loved books. It is a fond reminiscence of life in Hannibal, Missouri, an evocation of Mark Twain's own boyhood along the banks of the Mississippi during the 1840s. "Most of the adventures recorded in this book really occurred," he tells us. This is a book one never forgets: Tom whitewashing Aunt Polly's fence, Tom and Huck's dreadful oath, their...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Anna Hart is a seasoned missing persons detective in San Francisco with far too much knowledge of the darkest side of human nature. When unspeakable tragedy strikes her personal life, Anna, desperate and numb, flees to the Northern California village of Mendocino. She spent summers there as a child with her beloved grandparents, and now she believes it might be the only place left for her to heal. Yet the day she arrives, she learns a local teenage...
Interlibrary Loans
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Arcadia Public Library can be requested from other libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request