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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Aubry Tourvel is 9 when she and her sisters, Pauline and Sylvie, stumble across a strange well in a courtyard secreted between empty apartment buildings. The well is made of smooth gray stone, and its opening has been carved to resemble a face. The siblings assume it's a wishing well, and because the papers are full of terrible news, each resolves to sacrifice something precious for the greater good. Pauline drops in a gold chain to stop the socialists...
Author
Language
English
Description
"[This novel] follows Ivan Volkov, a Russian student in Beijing, who discovers an unsolved puzzle in the writings of the seventeenth-century astronomer Johannes Kepler. He takes the puzzle to a senior scientist in the Chinese space program and declares his intention to solve it. Volkov returns to Moscow and continues his secret work. The puzzle holds untold consequences for space warfare. The years pass, and they are not kind to Volkov. After the...
Author
Series
Lucky scramble volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Tyler Gooden's only goal is to make it to the speed cubing national championships in Las Vegas and finally silence his critics by coming home a winner. To win, Tyler has to outdo hundreds of speed cubers from around the country, so the competition is intense.
4) Puzzleheart
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When nonbinary twelve-year-old Perigee tries to reunite their dad with his estranged mother, they end up facing off against their grandmother's mysterious sentient "puzzle house," which has a dangerous agenda all its own.
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