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...
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Elly
- Jan 13, 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...
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Elly
- Dec 22, 2021
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...
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Elly
- Dec 8, 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...
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Elly
- Dec 4, 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...
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Elly
- Nov 24, 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...
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Elly
- Oct 30, 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...
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Elly
- Oct 19, 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...
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Collin
- 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...
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Elly
- Oct 18, 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...
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Collin
- Oct 16, 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...
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Elly
- Aug 2, 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...
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Elly
- Jun 14, 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...
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Elly
- Jun 7, 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...
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Elly
- Jun 1, 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...
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Elly
- May 3, 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...
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Elly
- Apr 19, 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,...
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Elly
- Apr 16, 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,...
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Collin
- 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...
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Elly
- Apr 5, 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,...
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