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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
New York high school student Elizabeth gets an after-school job as a page at the "New-York Circulating Material Repository, " and when she gains coveted access to its Grimm Collection of magical objects, she and the other pages are drawn into a series of frightening adventures involving mythical creatures and stolen goods.
Author
Publisher
Published by Michael di Capua Books/Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
A new Grimm tale, part of a letter written by Wilhelm to a little girl in 1816, came to light in 1983. A mother sends her daughter into the forest to save her from a terrible war. There she finds refuge with St. Joseph.
Author
Series
Olympus bound volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"A high quality contemporary fantasy novel that will appeal to a wide range of readers from American Gods to the kids who grew up reading Percy Jackson. The Relentless One, the Bearer of the Bow, the Untamed.....those are only a few of the names Selene DiSilva's answered to over the years. But these days she's content to work in secret, defending the women of Manhattan from the evils of men. She's reclusive, stubborn, and deeply unfriendly to everyone...
9) The relic
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Days before a massive exhibition at the New York Museum of Natural History, visitors are being murdered. Autopsies indicate that the killer cannot be human. The museum's directors decide to go ahead with the bash in spite of the murders. Now museum researcher Margo Green must find out who or what is doing the killing. Does she have time to stop a massacre?
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In New York City in 1872, fourteen-year-old Horace, a photographer's apprentice, becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs, but when Horace accidentally frees the real ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge, his life takes a frightening turn.
11) How to be eaten
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In present-day New York City, five women meet in a basement support group to process their traumas. Bernice grapples with the fallout of dating a psychopathic, blue-bearded billionaire. Ruby, once devoured by a wolf, now wears him as a coat. Gretel questions her memory of being held captive in a house made of candy. Ashlee, the winner of a Bachelor-esque dating show, wonders if she really got her promised fairy-tale ending. And Raina's love story...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Connelly Sternin feels like Rapunzel, locked away in her Upper East Side high-rise apartment studying for the SAT exams, until she develops an unlikely friendship with her high school's Prince Charming and begins to question some of the things that have always defined her life.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
" How do you get people to appreciate what is right in front of them? In The Tale of the Mandarin Duck, it takes a mysterious, beautiful duck and a clear-eyed kid to point out the obvious! Bette Midler's voice joins photos of the real duck by Michiko Kakutani and charming black-and-white drawings by Joana Avillez. This book will have readers of all ages coming back to visit the fantastical interpretation of New York City and its odd ducks--both feathered...
Author
Series
Fables (Bill Willingham) volume 1
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
©2002
Language
English
Formats
Description
The "Fables" [i.e. various characters from fairy tales and folklore] have been forced out of their Homelands by "The Adversary" who has conquered the realm. The Fables traveled to the "real world" and form a clandestine community in New York City known as Fabletown. Fables who are unable to blend in with human society (such as monsters and anthropomorphic animals) live at "the Farm" in upstate New York.
Author
Series
Mortal instruments volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Darkness has descended on the Shadowhunter world. Chaos and destruction overwhelm the Nephilim as Clary, Jace, Simon, and their friends band together to fight the greatest evil they have ever faced: Clary's own brother. Nothing in this world can defeat Sebastian, but if they journey to the realm of demons, they just might have a chance." --
16) Killing It
Author
Publisher
Polis Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Since the late 1980's, The Square had been one of the most important clubs in New York for the alt-comedy scene. But before that it was something much darker and is now a place where evil lingers, waiting for a chance to spill blood. After a night of killing on stage, four comics find themselves in a desperate situation as the spirits of the past come out to play, and a fight for laughs becomes a fight for survival in the most unlikely of places.
Author
Series
Blue bloods volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Schuyler Van Alen, growing comfortable with her newfound vampire powers, seeks her grandfather in Italy, while back in New York plans are being completed for the fabulous Four Hundred Ball, to be followed by an elite, teens-only event at which masks hide a terrible secret.
18) Beastly
Author
Series
Kendra chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.
Author
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Reporter Lizzie Vaughan doesn✹t realize it, but she has 2,000 years of royal Vampiric blood coursing through her veins. Neither she nor Tucker, her cowboy lover, has any idea that Julius, the leader of the undead, has a diabolical plan to reign over darkness for all eternity✹with Lizzie at his side. Lizzie battles for her life✹and her soul✹as she and Tucker find themselves caught up in a vampire war, pursued by hordes of Julius✹ maniacal,...
Author
Series
Mortal instruments volume 5
Publisher
Audioworks
Pub. Date
p2012
Language
English
Description
What price is too high to pay, even for love? Plunge into fifth installment in the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series and "prepare to be hooked" (Entertainment Weekly)—now with a gorgeous new cover, a map, a new foreword, and exclusive bonus content! City of Lost Souls is a Shadowhunters novel.
When Jace and Clary meet again, Clary is horrified to discover that the demon Lilith's magic has bound her...
When Jace and Clary meet again, Clary is horrified to discover that the demon Lilith's magic has bound her...