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Author
Series
Spy school volume 5
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley is assigned to protect the president from an assassination attempt in his first solo mission, but he may be in over his head.
Author
Series
Wings of fire (Graphic novels) volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The New York Times bestselling Wings of Fire series soars to new heights in this graphic novel adaptation!The lost heir to the SeaWing throne is going home at last.She can't believe it's finally happening. Tsunami and her fellow dragonets of destiny are journeying under the water to the great SeaWing Kingdom. Stolen as an egg from the royal hatchery, Tsunami is eager to meet her future subjects and reunite with her mother, Queen Coral.But...
Author
Series
Brotherband chronicles volume 5
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
451 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Princess Cassandra of Araluen has already survived one assassination attempt, but when a second attempt proves that the deadly Scorpion Cult is involved, Hal, his Heron Brotherband crew, and the Ranger Gilan are dispatched to ensure her safety by launching a preemptive strike against Scorpion Mountain and its cult of assassins.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mirage, triumphant in her coup of the Amber Empire, returns to the palais prepared to take her place as Empress. With support of her friends and a blossoming romance with Sunder, Mirage is on the cusp of taking hold of everything she has wanted. When the Empress Severine's body is recovered from the battle, she is not dead, but in a coma-- and she still represents a threat to Mirage's power. Worse, a distant cousin, Gavin d'Ars, Duc de Douane, appears...
Author
Series
First cat in space volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a world of villainous cowboys, high-speed chases, and falling pianos, can our iconic trio find their way back to one another and save the Moon Queen before it's too late? And who would want to poison her? With few she can trust in her own royal court, Moon Queen and First Cat will have to journey alone to find the antidote. If only LOZ 4000 were still with them... but our once-heroic toenail clipping robot is on the run, looking for a new purpose...
9) Conspiracy
Author
Series
Plot to kill Hitler volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Berlin, November 1943. The city is blanketed by explosions. Siblings Gerta and Max Hoffmann live a surprisingly carefree childhood amid the air raids. Berlin is a city going about its business, even as it's attacked almost nightly. But one night, the sirens wail, and the Hoffmanns' neighborhood is hit. A mortally wounded man comes to their door, begging to be let in. He asks for Karl, their father. Gerta and Max watch as Karl tries in vain to save...
Author
Series
A treasury of Victorian murder volume 7
Publisher
NBM ComicsLit
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
30 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the political career of Robert F. Kennedy, the turbulence of the United States in the 1960s, and the events that led to Kennedy's assassination in June 1968.
14) The king's arrow
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
208 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In England's New Forest on the second day of August, 1100, eighteen-year-old Simon Foldre, delighted to be allowed to participate in a royal hunt as squire to the Anglo-Norman nobleman Walter Tirel, finds his future irrevocably altered when, during the hunt, he witnesses the possible murder of King William II.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
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Description
This historical fiction picture book presents the story of nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, who in 1968 witnessed the Memphis sanitation strike--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand for justice before his assassination--when her father, a sanitation worker, participated in the protest.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 210 pages, 44 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1582 thirteen-year-old Emilia Bassano is a lute player and aspiring playwright who stumbles on a plot to kill Queen Elizabeth, and is recruited by Sir Francis Walsingham to go to the castle where Mary Queen of Scots is being held and discover who is responsible for the plot.
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