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Author
Publisher
Watermill Press
Pub. Date
[1983]
Language
English
Description
Tom Sawyer Detective is a novel by Mark Twain. It is a sequel to Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), and a prequel to Tom Sawyer Abroad (1894). Tom Sawyer attempts to solve a mysterious murder in this burlesque of the immensely popular detective novels of the time. Like Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn. In 1909, Danish schoolmaster Valdemar Thoresen claimed,...
2) Flight plan
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When all technology breaks down and he's far from home, thirteen-year-old Jamie learns he's stronger (and braver) than he thought he was in this dystopian adventure. Thirteen-year-old Jamie's plane is just taking off when something goes terribly wrong. The lights go out, communications halts and the engine stops. After a bumpy landing, Jamie realizes it's not just his flight. All the other planes have been grounded too. And every car on the road has...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes skating and singing, playing Bingo and Name That Tune, and reading mysteries and comics aloud to his teachers. He also likes avoiding people his own age . . . and the cruelty of mirrors . . . and food. Jake has read about kids like him in books—the weird one, the outsider—and would do anything not to be that kid, including shrink himself down to nothing. But the less...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Season two of Superman and Lois opens with the dust still settling in Smallville following the shocking outcome of last season's confrontation between Morgan Edge and Superman. With Smallville on the national map for the first time in the town's history, Lois Lane faces fresh challenges in her latest journalistic endeavors, while Jordan and Jonathan also find themselves dealing with change.
Author
Series
Keynan Masters volume 1
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Attending Peerless Academy, Keynan Masters discovers a corrupt magic, and, unlocking his freestyling powers, sets out to unravel the school's secrets with his crew of new friends while trying to save the world from massive storms stemming from mysterious forces."--
Series
Criterion collection volume 549
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Story of teenagers in a small Texas town just prior to the hero leaving for Korea and the closing of the town's movie theater.
Publisher
Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the first tale, the pups help a baby whale who's trapped in the ice. In the second one, Everest saves the day when Jake finds himself in trouble in the ice fields.
Author
Series
Pokémon world championship volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Continuing to battle their way up through the ranks of the World Coronation Series tournament, Ash and his Pokémon face a rematch against a powerful Gym Leader and must emerge victorious to forge ahead."--
15) Bros
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Celebrating boyhood and friendship, this upbeat picture book follows a group of young Black boys as they spend an adventure-filled day together living their best lives freely in their community.
16) What we lost
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Dale Peck Sr. grew up in a poverty-stricken home with an abusive mother and alcoholic father, but after finding love and contentment at his uncle's farm, his mother demands his return and makes him choose between his family and his future.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Aurora De La Torre, or Ora to her friends, knows moving back to Pagosa Springs, Colorado, a place that was once home and is now full of bittersweet memories of her late mother, isn’t going to be easy. Starting your whole life over probably isn’t supposed to be. But after breaking up with her longtime, famous musician boyfriend, hiding out in a small town in the mountains might be the perfect remedy for a broken heart. And checking out her landlord...
18) Heroes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Aboard the battleship the USS Utah with their Navy pilot fathers during WWII when the ship is attacked by the Japanese, Frank and Stanley find their friendship--and dreams--in jeopardy when Stanley is seen as the "enemy" because his mother is Japanese American.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"See what Straw Hat chef Sanji dishes up in his battle to win over the bellies and hearts of all he feeds, man or woman, friend or foe. This one-shot spinoff rolls all six original story chapters into one collection, concocted and served up to you by the creators of Food Wars!"--Amazon.
Author
Series
The summer Hikaru died volume 2
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2023-
Language
English
Description
Although it has Hikaru's face, his voice, and even his memories, whatever came down from the mountains six months ago isn't Yoshiki's best school friend.