Justina Ireland
1) Dread nation
Author
Series
Dread nation volume 1
Language
English
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TAB Top Picks in E-Books or E-Audio
Description
When families go missing in Baltimore County, Jane McKeene, who is studying to become an Attendant, finds herself in the middle of a conspiracy that has her fighting for her life against powerful enemies.
Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania-- derailing the War Between the States and changing the nation forever. Now laws like the Native and Negro Education Act require certain children...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Vernestra Rwoh is a new Jedi Knight at age sixteen, but her first real assignment feels an awful lot like babysitting. She’s been charged with supervising twelve-year old aspiring inventor Avon Starros on a cruiser headed to the dedication of a wondrous new space station called Starlight Beacon. But soon into their journey, bombs go off aboard the cruiser. While the adult Jedi try to save the ship, Vernestra, Avon, Avon’s droid J-6, a Jedi Padawan,...
Author
Publisher
Disney Lucasfilm Press
Language
English
Description
"Sylvestri Yarrow is drawn into a squabble between two of the Republic's most powerful families over a patch of space on the frontier. Tangled up in familial politics is the last place Syl wants to be, but the promise of a big payoff is enough to keep her interested ... Meanwhile, Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh and her Padawan Imri Cantaros arrive at the capital along with Jedi Master Cohmac Vitus and his Padawan, Reath Silas--and are asked to assist...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"It is 1937, and Laura Ann Langston lives in an America divided - between those who work the mystical arts and those who do not. Ever since the Great Rust, a catastrophic event that blighted the arcane force called the Dynamism and threw America into disarray, the country has been rebuilding for a better future. And everyone knows the future is industry and technology - otherwise known as Mechomancy - not the traditional mystical arts. Laura disagrees....
Author
Language
English
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2021-2022 Middle School TAB Nominations
2021-2022 Middle School TAB Nominations in E-Book and E-Audiobook
TAB 2022: Swanson
2021-2022 Middle School TAB Nominations in E-Book and E-Audiobook
TAB 2022: Swanson
Description
Ophelia Harrison used to live in a small house in the Georgia countryside. But that was before the night in November 1922, and the cruel act that took her home and her father from her. Which was the same night that Ophie learned she can see ghosts. Now Ophie and her mother are living in Pittsburgh with relatives they barely know. In the hopes of earning enough money to get their own place, Mama has gotten Ophie a job as a maid in the same old manor...
Author
Series
Dread nation volume 2
Language
English
Description
The sequel to the New York Times bestselling epic Dread Nation is an unforgettable journey of revenge and salvation across a divided America. After the fall of Summerland, Jane McKeene hoped her life would get simpler: Get out of town, stay alive, and head west to California to find her mother. But nothing is easy when you're a girl trained in putting down the restless dead, and a devastating loss on the road to a protected village called Nicodemus...
Author
Publisher
Disney Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
Star Wars: The High Republic, the New York Times best-selling series, continues. . . . For light and life!
One year after the fall of Starlight Beacon, the galaxy is in chaos. An anarchistic group known as the Nihil has taken over a section of space now known as the Occlusion Zone. Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh and scientist Avon Starros team up in an attempt to find a way through the Nihil Stormwall to save those on the other side.
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8) Lando's luck
Author
Publisher
Disney Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When Lando Calrissian gets caught smuggling on the planet Hynestia, the queen agrees to let him go if he delivers something called the Solstice Globe to the Empire on her behalf. Lando is relieved that his punishment is a simple delivery mission-but he soon discovers things are not as simple as they seem. The queen's daughter, Princess Rinetta, has stowed away on the Millennium Falcon and demands Lando and L3-37 take the globe back to its home planet,...
Author
Publisher
Disney · Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
BB-8 are finishing up a simple assignment to retrieve much-needed supplies for the struggling Resistance when they receive a distress call from the planet Minfar. Although they have orders to return to the Resistance immediately, Rey and the others decide they can't ignore someone in need -- especially someone who needs help against the First Order. When they arrive on Minfar, they are greeted by the Zixon, a peaceful, warm-hearted species who suffered...
Author
Publisher
Disney/Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Jedi think the dreaded Nihil marauders have been all but defeated. Their leader is on the run and their numbers have dwindled. Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh hopes this means she will finally have time to really train her Padawan, Imri Cantaros--but reports of a Nihil attack on Port Haileap soon dash those hopes. For not only have the Nihil attacked the peaceful outpost, they have abducted Vernestra and Imri's friend, Avon Starros. The two Jedi set...
11) The boo hag flex
Author
Series
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The last thing Tasha Washington wants is to move from her home in Savannah to a trailer park in Middle-of-Nowhere, Georgia. But when her mother dies and Tasha is taken in by her father--a man she's never met, who abandoned her mom when Tasha was just a baby--she doesn't have much of a choice. At least, she thinks, she won't have to spend much time with him--something that becomes clear when he dumps Tasha with her grandmother and disappears to be...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
As a human/god offspring, Zephyr Mourning is destined for a life of servitude but when she uses a forbidden dark power to kill the minor god who murdered her sister she is sent to Tartarus, where she discovers that she may be the Nyx, a dark goddess prophesied to change the balance of power.
13) Scream site
Author
Publisher
Capstone Editions
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Future investigative reporter Sabrina, fourteen, researches a popular website where people post horror videos, hoping to prove they are not as real as they seem until her sister, a big fan of the site, disappears.
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Sana Starros stars in her first-ever series! Fresh off of a string of disappointments, Sana returns to her family’s ancestral home for some downtime. But family time is far from relaxing for a scoundrel and her family of ne’er-do-wells, especially when Stormtroopers attack during dinner! The Starros clan is on the collision course of a lifetime – and Sana must take on her brother, Phel, or all is lost! But what mysteries from her past are coming...
15) Path of Deceit
Author
Publisher
Disney Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
The #1 New York Times best-selling series continues...for life and light! A provocative and thrilling young adult adventure set in the world of the High Republic, 150 years before the storytelling of Phase I. Meet mysterious cult members, daring explorers, Jedi peacekeepers and more! Don't miss these other YA adventures of Star Wars: The High Republic! Into the Dark by Claudia Gray Out of the Shadows by Justina Ireland Midnight Horizon by Daniel José...
16) Path of deceit
Author
Publisher
Disney Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Outer Rim planet Dalna has become the focus of a Jedi investigation into a stolen Force artifact, and Zallah Macri and her Padawan, Kevmo Zink, arrive on the pastoral world to follow up on a possible connection to a Dalnan missionary group called the Path of the Open Hand. Members of the Path believe that the Force must be free and should not be used by anyone, not even the Jedi. One such believer is Marda Ro, a young woman who dreams of leaving...
17) Chaos & flame
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Darling Seabreak's family were murdered by the ruthless House Dragon, she swore she'd get revenge. And as a deadly assassin, there's no one she'd rather take out than their bloodthirsty war general, Talon Goldhoard. Talon Goldhoard has no problem defending his lands from threats - even ones he hates, like the whispers of madness that surround his brother, the High Prince. So when he battles a ferocious girl who looks exactly like the one Caspian...
18) Blood & fury
Author
Series
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Darling Seabreak grapples with her destiny to reunite fractured houses and bring peace, while Talon Goldhoard, still in love with Darling, navigates a war instigated by his family, as they both face the challenge of saving the kingdom amidst dark forces and ancient magic"--
19) Defy the storm
Author
Publisher
Disney Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The Galactic Republic is in chaos following the Nihil's shocking destruction of the gleaming space station Starlight Beacon. Capitalizing on their victory, the Nihil have erected a barrier called the Stormwall around a section of Republic space and claimed it for themselves. Within this Occlusion Zone, people live at the mercy of the Nihil-and the Nihil are not known for mercy.
Series
Publisher
Titan Magazines
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"This volume features original fiction chronicling the day of the High Republic centuries prior to the fall and purge of the Jedi Order. The stories feature heroic new Jedi and a new central setting, the Starlight Beacon, a space station located on the galactic frontier, as we meet the personnel and visitors in tales that are both epic and personal. Additionally, story architects Claudia Gray, Justina Ireland, Daniel Jos�e Older, Cavan Scott, and...
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