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Series
Toilet-bound Hanako-kun volume 16
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In exchange for a life, the link between this world and the next has been severed. Even so, Nene and Kou continue looking for a way to reach the boundaries, a search that leads them to the cursed Red House. Inside, they find a boy who looks just like Hanako-kun and may have the answers they've been looking for-but they soon find the Red House is much easier to enter than to leave...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
The Bluebeard fairy tale retold. . . .When seventeen-year-old Sophia Petheram's beloved father dies, she receives an unexpected letter. An invitation-on fine ivory paper, in bold black handwriting-from the mysterious Monsieur Bernard de Cressac, her godfather. With no money and fewer options, Sophie accepts, leaving her humble childhood home for the astonishingly lavish Wyndriven Abbey, in the heart of Mississippi.Sophie has always longed for a comfortable...
Author
Series
Order of Black Hollow Lane volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Emmy investigates the connection between her father's disappearance and a secret society at her prestigious English boarding school.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Sixteen-year-old Cordelia and her family move into the house they just inherited in Pennsylvania, a former insane asylum the locals call Hysteria Hall--unfortunately the house does not want defiant girls like Delia, so it kills her, and as she wanders the house, meeting the other ghosts and learning the dark secrets of the Hall, she realizes that she has to find a way to save her sister, parents, and perhaps herself.
Author
Series
They all had a reason volume 4
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Jane thinks she understands the game, but she'll soon find out one of her opponents is a killer playing by a different set of rules. Plain Jane Flowers is a seventeen-year-old summer camp counselor. This is her second year at Camp Sunshine, only this time there won't be any campers. Jane will be competing with other counselors in a series of challenges that will test her physical strength, endurance, and mental acuity. If Jane wins, her entire life...
2327) Since last summer
Author
Series
Rules of summer volume 2
Pub. Date
©2014.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-olds Rory McShane and Isabel Rule are back for another summer in East Hampton, but their friendship is put to the test as each girl deals with boyfriends, summer jobs, and family issues.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Slum kid Astro gets the chance of a lifetime when he switches places with Prince Barrage, the boy in charge of bringing peace to a planet ravaged by war. At least he has a loyal knight and magical spear to help him out in this first part in the 2-vol. series.
2329) The Blue Castle
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
From L.M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green GablesCharming, witty, and moving, The Blue Castleclassic books for teensescapist fictionwholesome teen romance booksbeautiful writing and setting
2330) The Wee Free Men
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults * ALA Notable Children's Book * Horn Book Fanfare Book * Kirkus Reviews Editor’s Choice * SLJ Best Book of the Year , Lords and LadiesThe Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, winner of the Carnegie Medal!
2334) By your side
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Description
When Autumn finds herself locked in the library all weekend with Dax, a loner with a bad reputaton, she's surprised at the connection that develops between them.
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Presents an anthology of thirteen short stories by contemporary young adult authors, ranging from fantasy to the experience of Mexican Americans living in border cities. Each story is followed by an author's note, commentary by one of the editors on such topics as voice, imagery, and mood, and some, with story prompts.
Author
Series
Vango volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Fleeing dark forces and unfounded accusations across Europe in the years between World Wars, a young man named Vango has been in danger for as long as he can remember. He has spent his life running along rooftops, fleeing to isolated islands, and evading capture across Russia, Paris, New York, and Italy. In the shadow of a rapidly changing world, can Vango find those who have hunted him for so long and uncover his true identity?
2338) The chaos grid
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
When mankind's attempts to control nature backfire, Texas descends into a wasteland. Storms rage and ravenous beasts roam the Outer Grid. The only safe havens rest inside the tech-obsessed domed cities. But when her parents are murdered inside the Plex City dome, seventeen-year-old Juniper Conway wants revenge. Ties to her extended family threaten to pull her back as she runs from city to city. The Plex is endangering its citizens by legalizing a...
2339) The joys of love
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
After graduating from college in 1941, Elizabeth Jerrold pursues her dream of becoming a stage actress, landing a position as an apprentice in a summer theater company where she hones her acting skills and falls in love with an aspiring director.
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