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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Jack loves his childhood toy, Dur Pig. DP has always been there for him, through good and bad. Until one Christmas Eve something terrible happens--DP is lost. But Christmas Eve is a night for miracles and lost causes, a night when all things can come to life, even toys. And Jack’s newest toy--the Christmas Pig (DP’s replacement)--has a daring plan: Together they’ll embark on a magical journey to seek something lost, and to save the best friend...
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"Winslow and Rosie are collectors who can find nearly anything. Their impressive collection of natural wonders is almost complete -- it's just missing one final piece. So the girls pack their gear and set off on a quest through the forest to find something extraordinary. Their journey takes them further than they have ever explored, all the way to a mysterious cave. Surely, a mysterious cave must hold something extraordinary ... "--
3) Forty loads
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the beautiful McGaffney twins hire Faro Wells to escort them to New Mexico to claim their inheritance, Faro thinks his luck has finally turned. But a world of trouble stands between him and the supposed fortune: a raging war, hostile Indians, and every raider on the wild frontier. Not to mention the South's most famous villain, the Black Knight, is hard on Faro's trail. And the twins may be the worst trouble of all.
Author
Series
Publisher
CM Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
After surviving the bloodiest war in U.S. history, will it be peacetime that finally kills him?
Henry Remington awakes from a six-month coma with a Medal of Honor pinned to his pillow, but no recollection of how he got there. When three fellow soldiers insist he saved them and want to repay the favor, Hank accepts their offer of a partnership on a Texas ranch and embarks on a ship bound for Galveston.
Fates seems determined to put him in an early...
Author
Series
Geodyssey volume 5
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
©2010.
Language
English
Description
In this latest novel of Geodyssey, Anthony introduces a new cast of characters, including the Keeper, who knows the way of nature; Rebel, a headstrong girl; Craft, a cunning inventor; and Crenelle, who uses her seductive charms to defend her people.
The saga begins in the mists of time, more than a hundred thousand years ago in the Rift Valley of Africa, the birthplace of mankind. Sparse rain and dry winds have driven those few earliest humans out...
6) Desert god
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the gleaming banks of the Nile, the brilliant Taita--a freed slave and advisor to the Pharaoh--devises a plant to destroy Egypt's most feared enemy, the mighty Hyksos. His quest will take him on an epic journey up the ancient river, through Arabia and the magical city of Babylon and across the open seas--all in the company of the Pharaoh's exquisite sisters. With the future of the kingdom itself on his shoulders, Taita plunges into a world where...
7) Willow
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Willow Ufgood leaves his village to carry a special baby to safety. Aided by a swashbuckling warrior, Willow's quest is plagued by danger as the Powers of Darkness scheme to destroy the child--a child destined to bring everlasting peace and freedom to the land.
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Language
English
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Description
"An alliance embarks on a dangerous journey to uncover the secrets of the distant past and save their world in this captivating, deeply visionary adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling thriller-master James Rollins. A gifted student foretells an apocalypse. Her reward is a sentence of death. Fleeing into the unknown she is drawn into a team of outcasts: A broken soldier, who once again takes up the weapons he's forbidden to wield and carves...