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101) The rain heron
Author
Publisher
FSG Originals, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Ren lives alone on the remote frontier of a country devastated by a coup. High on the forested slopes, she survives by hunting and trading - and forgetting. But when a young soldier comes to the mountains in search of a legendary creature, Ren is inexorably drawn into an impossible mission. As their lives entwine, unravel and erupt - as myth merges with reality - both Ren and the soldier are forced to confront what they regret, what they love, and...
Author
Series
Secrets of the ancient gods volume 3
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
One day in the distant future, Thor, the Norse god of thunder, is destined to battle the giant snake that threatens to devour the world. Until then, mortals of Middle Earth look to Thor and his magic hammer for protection from evil. In this third volume of the Secrets of the Ancient Gods series, Thor takes time from his duties to lead readers through the mythological Norse realms, those mysterious worlds that are home to gods, giants, elves, and monsters....
Author
Series
Shadow bruja volume 1
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When fourteen-year-old godborn and shadow bruja, Renata, embarks on a quest to stop five rogue demigods from awakening the nine Aztec Lords of Night and overpowering the Maya gods, she confronts questions about her family, her magic, and her destiny.
Author
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A mysterious penitent confesses to murder and then flees the confessional before Father John can identify him. Two months later, Vicky discovers rancher Dennis Carey shot dead in his truck along Blue Sky Highway. With the tragic news comes the exposure of an astonishing secret: the most sacred creature in Native American mythology, a white buffalo calf, was recently born on Careys ranch. Making national headlines, the miraculous animal draws a flood...
108) Goddess of yesterday
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In ancient Sparta, young Anaxandra must assume a false identity to ensure her safety. She guards against the jealousy and suspicion of Helen, the beautiful wife of King Meneleus, whose actions will trigger a tragic war with Troy.
109) The removed: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Cherokee family takes in a remarkable foster child on the eve of the Cherokee National Holiday and anniversary of a loved one’s death. By the National Book Award-winning author of Where the Dead Sit Talking.
110) Goddess of filth
Author
Publisher
Creature Publishing
Pub. Date
c2021.
Language
English
Description
"One hot summer night, best friends Lourdes, Fernanda, Ana, Perla, and Pauline hold a séance. It's all fun and games at first, but their tipsy laughter turns to terror when the flames burn straight through their prayer candles and Fernanda starts crawling toward her friends and chanting in Nahuatl, the language of their Aztec ancestors. Over the next few weeks, shy, modest Fernanda starts acting strangely - smearing herself in black makeup, shredding...
111) Musicians of the sun
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this retelling of an Aztec myth, Lord of the Night sends Wind to free the four musicians that the Sun is holding prisoner so they can bring joy to the world.
112) While gods sleep
Author
Series
Perilous gods volume Book 1
Publisher
Tam Lin Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Greece, 1958. More than twenty years after his near-death experiences and the visions of terrifying gods that came with them, Ty leads a quiet life working as a locksmith. When a client persuades him to play in an ancient game of throwing bones his peaceful existence is shattered and Ty quickly finds himself deeply in debt, his life hanging in the balance once more. Forced to descend to the eerie mid-world of Erebus to repay his debt, his fate is...
113) The sun and the star
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
As the son of Hades, Nico di Angelo has been through so much, from the premature deaths of his mother and sister, to being outed against his will, to losing his friend Jason during the trials of Apollo. But there is a ray of sunshine in his life-literally: his boyfriend, Will Solace, the son of Apollo. Together the two demigods can overcome any obstacle or foe. At least, that's been the case so far... Now Nico is being plagued by a voice calling out...
Author
Series
Cameron Battle volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Cameron and his best friends are magically transported through the pages of an ancestral book to the fabled West African country Chidani, they find a kingdom in extreme danger and have to find a way to save the Igbo people.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the goddess Artemis disappears while hunting a rare, ancient monster, a group of her followers joins Percy and his friends in an attempt to find and rescue her before the winter solstice, when her influence is needed to sway the Olympian Council regarding the war with the Titans.
Author
Series
Gilded wolves volume 2
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"Returning to the dark and glamorous world of her New York Times instant bestseller, The Gilded Wolves, Roshani Chokshi dazzles us with another riveting tale as full of mystery and danger as ever. Séverin and his team members might have successfully thwarted the Fallen House, but victory came at a terrible cost - one that still haunts all of them. Desperate to make amends, Séverin pursues a dangerous lead to find a long lost artifact rumored to...
119) Snow crash
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
"Hiro lives in a Los Angeles where franchises line the freeway as far as the eye can see. The only relief from the sea of logos is within the autonomous city-states, where law-abiding citizens don't dare leave their mansions. Hiro delivers pizza to the mansions for a living, defending his pies from marauders when necessary with a matched set of samurai swords. His home is a shared 20 X 30 U-Stor-It. He spends most of his time goggled in to the Metaverse,...