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Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lizette Henry, possessing unusual detection skills but struggling with a memory disorder, accepts help from the mysterious and seductive Xavier--a stranger who triggers disturbing images of an unspeakable crime of which Lizette may or may not be the perpetrator.
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
In June of 1870, seventy-five Chinese laborers arrived in North Adams, Massachusetts, to work for Calvin Sampson, one of the biggest industrialists in that busy factory town. Except for the foreman, the Chinese didn’t speak English. They didn’t know they were strikebreakers. The eldest of them was twenty-two.
Combining historical and fictional elements, The Celestials beautifully reimagines the story of Sampson’s Chinese...
Combining historical and fictional elements, The Celestials beautifully reimagines the story of Sampson’s Chinese...
3) Evil genius
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Child prodigy Cadel Piggot, an antisocial computer hacker, discovers his true identity when he enrolls as a first-year student at an advanced crime academy.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
The great scholar, W. E. B. Du Bois, once wrote about what he called "Double Consciousness," a sensitivity that every African American possesses in order to survive. From an early age, Ailey fights a battle for belonging that's made all the more difficult by a hovering trauma. To come to terms with her own identity, Ailey embarks on a journey through her family's past. In doing so Ailey must learn to embrace her full heritage, a legacy of oppression...
9) Airhead
Author
Series
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Emerson Watts, an advanced placement student with a disdain for fashion, is the recipient of a "whole body transplant" and finds herself transformed into one of the world's most famous teen supermodels.
10) Playing dead
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
“A compelling family mystery that kept me turning the pages. Highly recommended.”—Margaret Maron, New York Times bestselling author of Three Day Town
“Dear Tommie: Have you ever wondered about who you are?”
The letter that turns Tommie McCloud’s world upside down arrives from a stranger only days after her father’s
12) Born to rock
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
High school senior Leo Caraway, a conservative Republican, learns that his biological father is a punk rock legend.
13) Fever Crumb
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Foundling Fever Crumb has been raised as an engineer although females in the future London, England, are not believed capable of rational thought, but at age fourteen she leaves her sheltered world and begins to learn startling truths about her past while facing danger in the present.
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Every day Christine wakes up not knowing where she is. Her memories disappear every time she falls asleep. Her husband, Ben, is a stranger to her, and he's obligated to explain their life together on a daily basis--all the result of a mysterious accident that made Christine an amnesiac.
15) The rules
Author
Series
Project paper doll volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c 2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
At sixteen, Ariane Tucker has been careful to elude those seeking her since her escape from a genetics lab ten years earlier, but the attention of classmate Zane, both frightening and intoxicating, tempts her to risk violating at least one of her adoptive father's five simple rules.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Keeper of Stories meets The Lost Apothecary in this evocative and charming novel full of mystery and secrets. "The thing about books,’ she said ‘is that they help you to imagine a life bigger and better than you could ever dream of." On a quiet street in Dublin, a lost bookshop is waiting to be found... For too long, Opaline, Martha and Henry have been the side characters in their own lives. But when a vanishing bookshop casts its...
17) Blood vines
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When Alexandra Owens travels to Sonoma, California, to unearth her mysterious past, she finds herself racing to discover the connection between her terrifying visions and a string of ritualistic murders.
18) The wolf gift
Author
Series
Wolf gift chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young reporter on assignment is attacked and bitten by an unknown beast in rural Northern California and begins a terrifying but seductive transformation into a being with a dual nature, both man and wolf.
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Giovanna's pretty face is changing, turning ugly, at least so her father thinks. Giovanna, he says, looks more like her Aunt Vittoria every day. But can it be true? Is she really changing? Is she turning into her Aunt Vittoria, a woman she hardly knows but whom her mother and father clearly despise? Surely there is a mirror somewhere in which she can see herself as she truly is. Giovanna is searching for her reflection in two kindred cities that...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
After fleeing the Philippines, Hero De Vera arrives at her uncles where she is given a fresh start. He asks no questions about her disturbing political past, but his daughter, the first American-born family member, is unable to resist her curiosity especially about her cousin's damaged hands.