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Author
Series
Ranger's apprentice volume 1
Language
English
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Description
When fifteen-year-old Will is rejected by battleschool, he becomes the reluctant apprentice to the mysterious Ranger Halt, and winds up protecting the kingdom from danger.
Author
Series
Ranger's apprentice volume 6
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now a full-fledged Ranger, Will must rescue his friend Alyss from a rogue knight and uncover vital information needed to ward off a Scotti invasion.
Author
Series
Ranger's apprentice volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Ranger's apprentice Will battles Temujai warriors to rescue Evanlyn, Will's kingdom of Skandia joins forces with rival kingdom Araluen to defeat a common enemy.
Author
Series
Ranger's apprentice volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now a full-fledged Ranger responsible for a sleepy fief, Will finds a new adventure seeking the traitors who poisoned the king, investigating rumors of sorcery, and trying to rescue his friend Alyss, who is taken hostage.
7) Hothouse
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Teens D.J. and Russell, life-long friends and neighbors, had drifted apart but when their firefighter fathers are both killed, they try to help one another come to terms with the tragedy and its aftermath.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set in the beloved and bestselling world of Valdemar, this first book in a new trilogy returns to the tales of the majestic gryphons. On the border between Valdemar and the deadly Pelagirs Forest, the gryphon hero Kelvren returns from a near-fatal self-sacrifice that won him the approval of Valdemar's ground troops, but caused a diplomatic crisis. Frustrated by his lack of a hero's welcome, Kelvren is talked into helping with an expedition by his...
9) The fireman
Author
Language
English
Description
From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 and Heart-Shaped Box comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion that threatens to reduce civilization to ashes and a band of improbable heroes who battle to save it, led by one powerful and enigmatic man known as the Fireman. The Fireman is coming. Stay cool. No one knows exactly when it began or where it originated. A terrifying new plague is spreading...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking debut novel that folds the legends of Hawaiian gods into an engrossing family saga; a story of exile and the pursuit of salvation"--
In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water, everyone fears for the worst. But instead, Noa is gingerly delivered to his mother in the jaws of a shark, marking...
11) Veiled empire
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper Voyager Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
552 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Empire is Shrouded, not only by the barrier that covers the land, but by the lies and oppression of the mierothi regime. Magic is the privilege of the elite, and the people of this shadowed country have forgotten what it means to hope under their rule. But there are some who would resist, with plans put into motion millennia before. For returned to the Empire is a valynkar, servant of the god of light, and with him comes the strength and cunning...
12) How to be a hero
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
35 unnumbered pages : colour illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gideon is a little boy who wants to be a hero and get his picture in the paper--but first he has to figure out just what a hero is.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor, published by Tom Doherty Associates/Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiii, 365 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Yumi comes from a land of gardens, meditation, and spirits, while Painter lives in a world of darkness, technology, and nightmares. When their lives suddenly become intertwined in strange ways, can they put aside their differences and work together to uncover the mysteries of their situation and save each other's communities from certain disaster? "--
14) The book of Joan
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
266 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the near future, world wars have transformed the earth into a battleground. Fleeing the unending violence and the planet's now-radioactive surface, humans have regrouped to a mysterious platform known as CIEL, hovering over their erstwhile home. The changed world has turned evolution on its head: the surviving humans have become sexless, hairless, pale-white creatures floating in isolation, inscribing stories upon their skin. Out of the ranks...
15) The Unlikelies
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
323 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sadie Sullivan's pre-senior year summer changes for the better when she and four other teens band together to right local wrongs, but the Unlikelies and their heady new friendships soon face obstacles that could tear them apart"-- Provided by publisher.
16) Hero
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An accident at school brings quiet, imaginative Leo to the attention of the popular crowd but their expectations have him misbehaving and cause him to lose his best friend, George, so when a neighbor's dog is trapped by a meteor strike Leo becomes a real hero in hopes of setting things right.
Author
Publisher
Camcat Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Supergenius and quasi-villain Rex normally can't go a week without accidentally endangering Decimen City with her science shenanigans. It's been two weeks since her genetically engineered dinosaurs rampaged through town--a good streak for her--but the peace is broken when actual villain Last Dance sets his sights on Decimen. And he wants Rex's help. Before Rex can say "I didn't do it," superheroes who've dragged her to jail on her worst days are crowding...
Author
Series
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Cassandra Cain is the daughter of super-villains and a living weapon trained to be the ultimate assassin, but when her father threatens the world she has grown to love, she will have to overcome that voice inside her head telling her she can never be a hero.
Author
Series
Harry Hole volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
519 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A tale moving from the final months of World War II to the present, and from the Russian front to contemporary South Africa, follows the dual adventures of a freedom-seeking war martyr and an alcoholic police officer who is drawn into a mystery with past origins.