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Author
Series
The tapestry volume 1
Language
English
Description
After glimpsing a hint of his destiny in a mysterious tapestry, twelve-year-old Max McDaniels becomes a student at Rowan Academy, where he trains in "mystics and combat" in preparation for war with an ancient enemy that has been kidnapping children like him.
2) Dragonwings
Author
Series
Golden mountain chronicles volume 5
Language
English
Description
In the early twentieth century a young Chinese boy joins his father in San Francisco and helps him realize his dream of making a flying machine.
3) Solo
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Seventeen-year-old Blade endeavors to resolve painful issues from his past and navigate the challenges of his former rockstar father's addictions, scathing tabloid rumors, and a protected secret that threatens his own identity.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
As a teenage vampire, Vlad has spent the last four years trying to handle the pressures of school while sidestepping a slayer out for his blood. Now he's a senior, and Vlad must confront the secrets of the past, unravel the mystery of who he really is, make decisions about his future, and face his greatest enemy. It's a senior year that totally bites.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jeremy is not excited about the prospect of spending the summer with his dad and his uncle in a seaside cabin in Oregon. It's the first summer after his parents' divorce, and he hasn't exactly been seeking alone time with his dad. He doesn't have a choice, though, so he goes . . . and on his first day takes a walk on the beach and finds himself intrigued by a boy his age running by. Eventually, he and Runner Boy (Evan) meet--and what starts out as...
7) Wolf mark
Author
Publisher
Tu Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
377 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When Lucas King's covert-ops father is kidnapped and his best friend Meena is put in danger, Luke's only chance to save them--a skin that will let him walk as a wolf--is hidden away in an abandoned mansion guarded by monsters.
8) Crazy
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old loner Jason struggles to hide father's declining mental condition after his mother's death, but when his father disappears he must confide in the other members of a therapy group he has been forced to join at school.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
211 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
At Hellenweiler, a reformatory for second-offenders, fourteen-year-old Hal Mitchell will soon be free if he can avoid the gang violence of his fellow inmates, but the real enemy may lie elsewhere.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When his father starts a new job at Minerva Hall as gardener, twelve-year-old Jim discovers an ancient curse that needs to be unraveled before disaster happens.
Author
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fisher Brown, a sixteen-year-old over-achiever, is on the verge of academic burnout when he impulsively decides to stop cramming for the SATs for one weekend and accompany his ne'er-do-well neighbor to an out-of-town job repairing a roof.
12) The water seeker
Author
Language
English
Description
Traces the hard life, filled with losses, adversity, and adventure, of Amos, son of a trapper and dowser, from 1833 when his mother dies giving birth to him until 1859, when he has grown up and has a son of his own.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
New Jersey seventh grader and class clown Denny Murphy has just lost his mother, his father is uncommunicative, he is in trouble with his teachers, and to top it all off, his best friend has a scheme to get dates for the end-of-year school dance.
14) Slipping
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury U.S.A. Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Michael and an unlikely group of allies journey to the river of the dead to help Michael's grandfather release his hold on a ghostly life and, in the process, heal wounds that have kept Michael's father distant.
15) Homestretch
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
151 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Five months after losing his mother, seventeen-year-old Gas runs away from an abusive father and gets a job working at an Arkansas race track, surrounded by the illegal Mexican immigrants that he and his father blame for her death.
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
202 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When their friend Scooter dies of a rare disease, teenagers Nick Gardner and Jaycee Amato set out on a secret journey to find the father who abandoned "The Scoot" when he was an infant, and give him a signed first edition of "Of Mice and Men."
17) Dust City
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
299 pages, 1 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Henry Whelp, son of the Big Bad Wolf, investigates what happened to the fairies that used to protect humans and animalia, and what role the corporation that manufactures synthetic fairy dust played in his father's crime.
18) Muckers
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
274 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Felix O'Sullivan, standing in the shadow of his dead brother, an angry, distant father, and racial tension, must lead the last-ever Muckers high school football team to the state championship before a mine closing shuts down his entire town"--
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