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5401) Milo Imagines the World
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
While Milo and his sister travel to a detention center to visit their incarcerated mother, he observes strangers on the subway and draws what he imagines their lives to be.
5402) Disappearing act
Author
Series
Kensy and Max volume 2
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Kensy and Max are now agents-in-training at Pharos, a covert international spy network. Christmas break sees the twins back at Alexandria for training and a celebration like no other, but where are their parents and why can't they come home? Thankfully, a school trip to Rome provides a welcome distraction. Amid the history and culture of Italy's capital, they discover a runaway boy and whisperings of Mafia involvement. It looks like Kensy and Max's...
5403) Undercover
Author
Series
Kensy and Max volume 3
Publisher
Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Kensy and Max are back in London for no time at all before things begin to heat up - quite literally. As a result, Granny Cordelia ships them off to Australia on an undercover mission. The twins find themselves planted in a posh Sydney school where first appearances prove to be deceiving. What seems like a straightforward assignment turns into something so much bigger. Kensy and Max must employ all their spy skills - the fate of their parents, and...
5404) The last full measure
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In 1863 Pennsylvania, fourteen-year-old Tacy faces the horrors of the Battle of Gettysburg while trying to stay out of the way of her brother David, who is in charge while their father serves as a doctor in the Union army, and to keep her friend Marvelous, a free Black, safe from rebel soldiers.
5405) Ender's game
Publisher
Summit Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A hostile alien race attacked Earth, and if not for the legendary heroics of Fleet Commander Mazer Rackham, all would have been lost. In preparation for the next attack, Colonel Hyrum Graff is training only the best young children. Ender Wiggin, a shy, but brilliant boy, is soon ordained by Graff as the military's next great hope. Once at Command School, he's trained by Mazer Rackham, himself, to lead them into an epic battle that will determine the...
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Peppa and her friends are using their imagination to decide what to be when they grow up. They explore helping others when learning about the police, doctors, and the fire engine. Later, the playgroup gets excited for a bit of show time! Then it's time to shake, rattle and bang while learning to play instruments for an oinktastic performance! Watch all twelve Peppa-sodes for lots of giggles with Peppa, her little brother George, Mummy Pig, Daddy Pig,...
5408) Three against the tide
Author
Publisher
Dell Yearling
Pub. Date
2000, ©1998
Language
English
Description
After her father is called away from their plantation near Charleston, South Carolina, during the Civil War, twelve-year-old Susanna must lead her brothers on a difficult journey in hopes of being reunited with him.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Reverend Eric Camden and his wife Annie are hit with troubling news when their son Simon is in a serious car accident, but after his recovery leaves home to start college. Meanwhile, Ruthie discovers the trials of having a boyfriend, all while helping Annie care for the twins. Lucy and her husband celebrate their first year anniversary. Eric and Annie become grandparents for the first time.
5410) Dear Mr. Washington
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In April, 1796, young Charlotte Stuart writes a series of letters to George Washington, whose portrait's being painted by her father, reporting on her efforts and those of her brothers to follow the rules of good behavior in the book Mr. Washington gave them. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When Will Mystery calls, the Thea Sisters answer the call because there is trouble in one of the fairy kingdoms: a dragon has been turning all the fairies' precious gems into stone, and wrecking havoc throughout the Crystal Kingdom--and it is up to the sisters to find out why the dragon is destroying this Kingdom and stop him before it is too late.
Author
Series
Lock and key (Ridley Pearson) volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Moira Moriarty calls upon the clever Sherlock Holmes, her brother James's roommate at school, to help solve the mystery of her father's death, leading them to a secret sect, a rare jewel, and a friendship torn asunder.
Author
Series
Dory Fantasmagory volume 5
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Dory's sure that her big sister's friendship troubles have to do with pirates, but she'll have to navigate those rocky waters without her imaginary first mate Mary, who's found an exciting new pal of her own"--
Author
Series
Barbie sisters mystery club volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2016
Language
English
Description
"Four bottles wash up on the beach-- and each one has a strange note inside! Will Barbie and her sisters [Skipper, Stacie, and Chelsea] be able to follow the clues and solve the mystery of the secret messages?"--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This collection features three pulse-pounding suspense novels in one by the #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author James Patterson: The Family Lawyer (with Robert Rotstein), Night Sniper (with Christopher Charles), and The Good Sister (with Rachel Howzell Hall).
Author
Series
Dark matter trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Charlesbridge Teen
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Believing that she is a carrier of the deadly disease they are calling the "Aberdeen flu," Shay has surrendered herself to the authorities and along with other survivors becomes an unwilling test subject in the effort to find a cure; but when the lab is attacked, she and a few of the others with the strongest supernatural abilities escape, and her boyfriend Kai is determined to find her, while ghostly Callie, the true carrier, will atone for her...
5419) Go, Jade, go!
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When Jade does well in a track meet, her entire family is excited except Justin, who later confesses to their older brother Jordan that he wishes he were good at something for which people would cheer.