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541) The grace year
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
No one speaks of the grace year. It's forbidden. In Garner County, girls are told they have the power to lure grown men from their beds, to drive women mad with jealousy. They believe their very skin emits a powerful aphrodisiac, the potent essence of youth, of a girl on the edge of womanhood. That's why they're banished for their sixteenth year, to release their magic into the wild so they can return purified and ready for marriage. But not all of...
542) Beyond me
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In the aftermath of a major earthquake, eleven-year-old Maya overcomes her own fear to help others at home and in northeast Japan, where a tsunami caused great damage. Includes author's note about the facts behind the story.
543) Thirteen
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Targeted by a dangerous cult, thirteen-year-old Adam must save himself--and the rest of London--before the New Year begins.
544) A whale of the wild
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"For Vega and her family, salmon is life. And Vega is learning to be a salmon finder, preparing for the day when she will be her family's matriarch. But then she and her brother Deneb are separated from their pod when a devastating earthquake and tsunami render the seascape unrecognizable. Vega must use every skill she has to lead her brother back to their family. The young orcas face a shark attack, hunger, the deep ocean, and polluted waters on...
545) The eleventh plague
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after the start of the war that caused the Collapse, fifteen-year-old Stephen, his father, and grandfather travel post-Collapse America scavenging, but when his grandfather dies and his father decides to risk everything to save the lives of two strangers, Stephen's life is turned upside down.
546) No safety in numbers
Author
Series
No safety in numbers trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Teens Shay, Marco, Lexi, and Ryan, quarantined in a shopping mall when a biological bomb igoes off in an air duct, learn that in an emergency people change, and not always for the better, as many become sick and supplies run low.
547) The rising
Author
Series
Darkness rising volume 3
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"The race for survival comes to a thrilling conclusion when Maya and her friends--who all have supernatural powers--find help against the Cabals from unexpected places"--
548) The prey
Author
Series
Prey trilogy volume 1
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
Description
"After the apocalyptic Omega, a group of orphaned teen boys learn of their dark fate and escape, joining forces with twin girls who have been imprisoned for the 'good of the republic.' In their plight for freedom, these young heroes must find the best in themselves to fight against the worst in their enemies"--
549) Playing with fire
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When a fire engulfs an Oregon forest, a group of trapped hikers must find another way out"--
550) Blue mountain
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
"Tuk, a bighorn sheep of the Canadian Rockies, leads his herd beyond the snares of man and the wiles of predators to the freedom of the blue mountain"--
551) The lost year
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, thirteen-year-old Matthew discovers a shocking secret about his great-grandmother's past as he learns about her life during the Holodomor famine in Soviet Ukraine.
552) Boy X
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Ash McCarthy wakes up after his father's funeral, he finds that he has been kidnapped to an island off the coast of Costa Rica, caught in the middle of a secret and deadly project named Kronos in which his mother is somehow involved, and he must find a way to save them both--and the only person he is sure he can trust is a Spanish girl his own age named Isabel.
553) Mouselets in danger
Author
Series
Thea Stilton. Mouseford Academy volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
While attending a two-day outdoor survival skills course, the Thea sisters and the Ruby Crew are caught in a terrible storm.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1764, after Kaya and her sister are kidnapped from their Nez Percé village by enemy horse raiders, she tries to find a way to escape back home. Includes historical notes on education and learning among the Nez Percé Indians.
555) Skyward
Author
Series
Skyward (Brandon Sanderson) volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When a long-term attack against her world by the alien Krell escalates, Spensa's dream of becoming a pilot may come true, despite her deceased father being labeled a deserter.
Spensa's world has been under attack for hundreds of years. An alien race called the Krell leads onslaught after onslaught from the sky in a never-ending campaign to destroy humankind. Pilots are the heroes of what's left of the human race. She dreams of becoming a pilot, but...
Author
Series
Jane Anonymous volume 2
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When no one believes her story of abduction and escape, Terra turns to an online community of trauma victims for advice and solace, befriending a girl whose story parallels Terra's and who might be able to help Terra uncover the truth she seeks.
557) Prized
Author
Series
Birthmarked trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old midwife Gaia Stone is in the wasteland with nothing but her baby sister, a handful of supplies, and a rumor to guide her when she is captured by the people of Sylum, a dystopian society where she must follow a strict social code or never see her sister again.
Author
Series
Gameknight999. Herobrine reborn volume 3
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
c2016.
Language
English
Description
With the destruction of the infected Ender Dragon, the monster kings were forced to retreat. Herobrine's poisonous XP has been captured in an obsidian box and sealed tightly. Gameknight999 and his friends know that the obsidian box will have to be destroyed to eliminate the evil virus once and for all. But how? And who will be brave enough to do it? Gameknight and his friends decide to take the infected ender chest far from their village, to a place...
559) Hunt
Author
Series
Piggy volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Three months after his adventures in Doveport, Ben and his friends have been sweeping the island of Lucella for the Infected, administering the newly created cure and reuniting families. However, the only real cure to their problems will be finding out how this infection started, and putting a stop to it. The search for answers will bring our heroes face-to-face with their deepest secrets and darkest fears--and pull them into a battle for the island...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The people of fourteenth-century Florence, Italy, starving after years of bad weather and natural disasters, now face the Black Plague but twelve-year-old Maria is determined to survive. Includes historical note, glossary, and discussion questions.
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