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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The Water Dancer meets The Prophets in this spare, gripping, and beautifully rendered novel exploring love and friendship among a group of enslaved Black strivers in the mid-nineteenth century"--
They call themselves the Stolen. Their owners call them captives. They are taught their captors' tongues and their beliefs but they have a language and rituals all their own. In a world that would be allegorical if it weren't saturated in harsh truths,...
2) Yonder
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Danny Timmons has looked up to Jack Bailey ever since Jack saved two small children from drowning during the Great Flood of 1940. Now, with his father away fighting in World War II and his mother about to have a new baby, Danny relies on Jack's friendship and guidance more than ever. So when Jack goes missing without a trace from their small Appalachian town, Danny is determined to find him. He wonders if Jack's abusive father could be behind his...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
King Yonderfel, once renowned and beloved for his generous hospitality, has been lonely since an ogre caused all of his guests to leave, but when a flood brings them all paddling back, the king happily goes back to turning no one away.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Dark forces older than time itself are on the attack, hell-bent on stopping the dawn of a wondrous new green age. More shocking, Bender's in love with a married fembot and Leela's on the run from the Zapp Brannigan's law. Fry is the last hope of the universe and has been recruited for an ultra-top-secret mission.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The only story collection from the beloved Jenny Diski--darkly funny, subversive, sexy, and eccentric tales from one of the most original and intelligent voices of our time--with a new preface by Heidi Julavits, author of The Folded Clock"--
9) Out there
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
A collection of seventeen short stories from young adult authors, includes a story in which an alien helps a girl decide if she should tell her best friend how she feels.
In this collection of short stories, fantastic queer YA authors explore new and familiar worlds. Worlds in which two teens get stuck in a time loop at a space station... In which only a nonbinary person can translate the binary code of a machine that predicts the future... In which...
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