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The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
Summary: Kate Sutton, lady-in-waiting to the Lady Elizabeth, thought her life had turned upside-down when her mistress was exiled to a...
Elly
Jan 31, 2022


Airborn by Kenneth Oppel
Summary: Matt Cruse was born to fly. As a cabin boy on the airship Aurora he is living his dream, spending nearly all of his time in the...
Elly
Jan 13, 2022


Acts of Courage: Laura Secord and the War of 1812 by Connie Brummel Crook
Summary: The true-life story of one of Canada's most notable female heroines, Laura Secord, is riddled with conflict. Born just prior to...
Elly
Dec 22, 2021


Peak by Roland Smith
Summary: The realization that he shouldn’t have scaled that skyscraper hit Peak Marcello a little too late. After being apprehended by...
Elly
Dec 8, 2021


Isabel: Taking Wing by Annie Dalton
Summary: London, England 1592. Twelve-year-old Isabel Campion will never be like her older sister Sabine, but no one seems to want to...
Elly
Dec 4, 2021


Making Bombs for Hitler by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Summary: Forced to labor in a German work camp alongside other Ukrainian prisoners, Lida often wonders if she will ever see her little...
Elly
Nov 24, 2021


Hard Gold by Avi
Summary: Early Whitcomb wants more than anything to head west to join the Colorado Gold Rush. With the family farm at stake if the...
Elly
Oct 30, 2021


The Mysterious Benedict Society series by Trenton Lee Stewart
Summary: The Mysterious Benedict Society, a series of four novels detailing the adventures of Reynie, Sticky, Kate, and Constance, four...
Elly
Oct 19, 2021


The Hypnotists Series, by Gordon Korman
Summary: Jackson Opus has always been persuasive, but he doesn't know that he's descended from the two most powerful hypnotist bloodlines...

Collin
Oct 19, 2021


Rescue by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Summary: It’s been two years since Meg last saw her father, on the day he left to join the Allied forces. When she receives news that he...
Elly
Oct 18, 2021


Fablehaven and Dragonwatch Series, by Brandon Mull
Summary: A wonderful fantasy story about two siblings, Seth and his sister Kendra and their adventures in the hidden world of storybook...

Collin
Oct 16, 2021


Kidnapped trilogy by Gordon Korman
Summary: After having been on the run for over a year, 12- and 15-year-old Meg and Aiden Falconer are finally ready for their lives to...
Elly
Aug 2, 2021


City Spies: Golden Gate by James Ponti
Summary: The City Spies are back on another crime-fighting adventure! Their latest mission? Protecting two high-ranking members of...
Elly
Jun 14, 2021


Rescue by Jessie Haas
Summary: Joni, a recent sixth-grade graduate is elated when a new girl moves in down the street from her family’s dairy farm. Finally, a...
Elly
Jun 7, 2021


Regina Silsby's Secret War by Thomas J. Brodeur
Summary: Regina Silsby’s been dead for years, but now she's back. Enter 16 year-old Rachel Winslow, the niece of eccentric, long-dead...
Elly
Jun 1, 2021


The Ascendance Trilogy by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Summary: Composed of three books, The False Prince, The Runaway King, and The Shadow Throne, the Ascendance trilogy follows the...
Elly
May 3, 2021


Princess Academy by Shannon Hale
Summary: Miri is a mountain girl who lives with her family on the rocky slopes of Mount Eskel. Her simple life changes forever though,...
Elly
Apr 19, 2021


Words on Fire by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Summary: Danger is never far from Audra's family farm in Lithuania. She spends her life avoiding the occupying Russian Cossack soldiers,...
Elly
Apr 16, 2021


Cinder, by Marissa Meyer
Summary: Cinder the first book in the Lunar Chronicles, loosely inspired by the story of Cinderella, is a futuristic novel about a...

Collin
Apr 16, 2021


A Night Divided by Jennifer A. Nielsen
Summary: Gerta's life fell apart the day the Berlin Wall was built. Her father and brother, having crossed the border the day before,...
Elly
Apr 5, 2021
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