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41) Defiant
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
Spensa needs all the knowledge she gathered in the Nowhere to end the Superiority's quest for galactic dominance, but first she must determine how far she's willing to go for victory.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A cargo plane on a routine flight suddenly hits a high-turbulence storm, forcing a crash landing hundreds of miles off course in the barren Gobi desert. Among the survivors, one eccentric passenger leads the crew to build a new plane - against all odds, against all hope, and sometimes - against each other.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Description
"In 1924, four-year-old Cecily Larson's mother reluctantly drops her off at an orphanage in Chicago, promising to be back once she's made enough money to support both Cecily and herself. But she never returns, and shortly after high-spirited Cecily turns seven, she's sold to a traveling circus to perform as the 'little sister' to glamorous bareback rider Isabelle DuMonde. With Isabelle and the rest of the circus, Cecily finally feels she's found the...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
Like everyone else, twelve-year-old Cleo and her parents are sealed in an apartment without windows or doors. They never leave. They never get visitors. Their food is dropped off by drones. So they're safe. Safe from the disease that nearly wiped humans from the earth. Safe from everything. The trade-off? They're alone. Thus, when they receive a package clearly meant for someone else--a package containing a substance critical for a stranger's survival--Cleo...
Author
Series
Last kids on Earth volume 3
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jack teams up with the evil King Wretch in order to convince his friends to stay with him instead of going in search of others who may have survived the monster apocalypse"--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Traveling along the path of the Underground Railroad from Virginia to Michigan, from the Indigenous nations around the Great Lakes, to the Black refugee communities of Canada, In the Upper Country weaves together unlikely stories of love, survival, and familial upheaval that map the interconnected history of the peoples of North America in an entirely new and resonant way"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"[This novel] follows a group of children and their families on summer vacation at a lakeside mansion. The teenage narrator Eve and the other children are contemptuous of their parents, who spend the days and nights in drunken stupor. This tension heightens when a great storm arrives and throws the house and its residents into chaos. Named for a picture Bible given to Eve's little brother Jack, A Children's Bible is loosely structured around events...
48) The last 8
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an alien attack devastates the Earth, pilot and future astronaut Clover Martinez bands with seven other teens in a struggle to survive.
Author
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Three ordinary people risk everything for a chance at redemption in this audacious, utterly gripping novel of catastrophe and survival at the end of the world, from the acclaimed author of The Chalk Man. Hannah awakens to carnage, all mangled metal and shattered glass. Evacuated from a secluded boarding school during a snowstorm, her coach careered off the road, trapping her with a handful of survivors. They'll need to work together to escape - with...
Author
Series
I survived volume 20
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
Traces the story of a boy who moves across the country to rural northern California, where his efforts to adjust are challenged by a fast-moving firestorm that places family homes and lives at risk.
Author
Series
Publisher
Lectorum Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
2008
Language
Español
Description
The magic tree house transports Jack and Annie to the deck of the Titanic to find the mysterious gift that will free a small dog from a magic spell.
"Annie y Jack se embarcan en una aventura emocionante, terrible y triste cuando la casa del árbol los lleva a la cubierta del Titanic. ¿Habrá also que puedan hacer para ayudar en el trágico desenlace de la historia? ¿Serán capaces de salvar la vida de alguien? ¿Y la de ellos mismos?" --Back cover....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When the electricity goes out, twelve-year-old Eddie and his friends set out to investigate what is going on when they make the startling discovery that they are the only ones left in their neighborhood--and perhaps the only people left anywhere.
53) Girl in pieces
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At seventeen she's already lost more than most people lose in a lifetime. But she's learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don't have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you. Every new scar hardens Charlie's heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts...
54) Storm of dogs
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lucky and the dogs of the Wild Pack must fight tooth and claw to survive the storm of dogs--the terrifying battle that has been haunting Lucky's dreams"--
Author
Series
Minecraft volume 3
Publisher
Random House Worlds
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The final book in Max Brooks's official Minecraft trilogy, details the story of two stranded heroes whose block-breaking expedition lands them squarely in the middle of a conflict that only they can resolve"--
Journeying into the unknown is a scary prospect, but together Guy and Summer can navigate any challenge. The two castaways strike out in this curious, blocky world, searching for a way home. As they cross the Overworld--traversing frozen wastelands...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Life at Grace Field House is good for Emma and her fellow orphans. While the daily studying and exams they have to take are tough, their loving caretaker provides them with delicious food and plenty of playtime. But perhaps not everything is as it seems."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
It is June first and twelve-year-old Mary does not really understand what is happening: she does not understand the hatred and greed of the white men who are forcing her Cherokee family out of their home in New Echota, Georgia, capital of the Cherokee Nation, and trying to steal what few things they are allowed to take with them, she does not understand why a soldier killed her grandfather--and she certainly does not understand how she, her sister,...
59) Sky's end
Author
Series
Above the black volume 1
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Exiled to live as a Low, sixteen-year-old Conrad refuses to become heir to his murderous uncle. But Meritocracy is a harsh and unforgiving rule on the floating island of Holmstead, and when his ailing mother is killed by monstrous gorgantauns, Conrad cuts a deal to save the only family he has left. To rescue his sister from his uncle's clutches, Conrad must enter the Selection of the Twelve Trades. Hunter, the deadliest of all the Trades, gains a...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sara Blum lives an idyllic life with her adoring parents in Vichy France. But her world comes crashing down when the Nazi occupation separates the family and forces the young Jewish girl into hiding. Her classmate Julien and his family will risk everything to ensure her survival, and, together, Sara and Julien manage to find beauty in a secret world of their creation."--Provided by publisher.