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21) Savvy
Author
Series
Savvy (Ingrid Law) volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"--a magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is injured in a terrible accident.
Author
Series
Rise of the Empress volume 2
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Following a changeable map and clues from folktales, Princess Jade embarks on a quest to summon the Dragon Lords, defeat her evil stepmother Empress Xifeng, and bring peace to the kingdoms of Feng Lu.
23) True sisters
Author
Language
English
Description
Joining the ranks of emigrants responding to Brigham Young's edict to move to Salt Lake City with two-wheeled handcarts as their only mode of travel, four women share a grueling journey of survival that tests the bonds of their friendship and faith.
24) Sea of poppies
Author
Series
Ibis trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st American ed.
Language
English
Description
Preparing to fight China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, a motley assortment of sailors and passengers, including a bankrupt rajah, a widowed tribeswoman, and a free-spirited French orphan, comes to experience family-like ties that eventually span continents, races, and generations.
Author
Series
Pigsticks and Harold volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
A last member of a line of explorers, unfailingly optimistic Pigsticks hires a hapless delivery hamster named Harold to be his companion for a quest that wends through jungles, deserts, and mountains in search of the Ends of the Earth.
26) Pug's road trip
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When their friend Jack cannot join them, Bub the pug and his human, Bella, vow to bring him souvenirs from their road trip, and despite some bumps along the way, Bub calls their trip a big success.
Author
Language
English
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Description
In the summer of 1932, on the banks of Minnesota's Gilead River, the Lincoln Indian Training School is a pitiless place where Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to Odie O'Banion, a lively orphan boy whose exploits constantly earn him the superintendent's wrath. Odie and his brother, Albert, are the only white faces among the hundreds of Native American children at the school. After...
Author
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"One spring morning, Cam was playing by his house. He watched a trickle of water running through the pine trees. The water splashed and sang in the voice of snow, Come with me. Come with me. I will take you to the sea." --back cover
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Gallery Books hardcover ed.
Language
English
Description
Following the migrating monarchs across the United States to Mexico, Luz Avila arrives in San Antonio to find her aunt and meets her mother, who she had always believed dead. Now Luz must face her mother's reappearance in her life and get her grandmother's ashes to Mexico for the Day of the Dead.
30) Another
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A young girl and her cat take an imaginative journey into another world"--
31) Miss Rumphius
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"...An auto-didact who prefers the education of travel to college, Elsie uses an inheritance to support her as she travels to Paris and Sri Lanka, hoping to accumulate experiences, create connections, and discover a new way to live. Along the way, she meets men and women who challenge and provoke her towards the change she genuinely hopes to find. But in the end, she must still come face-to-face with herself..."--Amazon.com.
36) Haints stay
Author
Publisher
Two Dollar Radio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Brooke and Sugar are killers. Bird is the boy who mysteriously woke beside them while between towns. For miles, there is only desert and wilderness, and along the fringes, people. The story follows the middling bounty hunters after they've been chased from town, and Bird, each in pursuit of their own sense of belonging and justice. It features gunfights, cannibalism, barroom piano, a transgender birth, a wagon train, a stampede, and the tenuous rise...
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First American edition 2020.
Language
English
Description
Twins Arthur and Maudie Brightstorm undertake a perilous journey to uncover the truth about the death of their famous explorer father and his supposed sabotage of a competitor's expedition.
38) The road
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.
Author
Series
Kane chronicles volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carter Kane and his sister must prevent the chaos snake Apophis from breaking free in a few days' time or the world will come to an end. To have any chance of battling these Forces of Chaos, the Kanes must revive the sun god Ra.
40) River of smoke
Author
Series
Ibis trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st American ed.
Language
English
Description
Amid a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, three vessels, and the diverse occupants within, converge on Canton's Fanqui-Town, or Foreign Enclave, which is a powder keg awaiting a spark to ignite the Opium Wars.
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