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33841) League of lasers
Author
Series
Star scouts volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
During a troop meeting, a robot messenger delivers Avani some exciting news: she has been invited to join a secret society of elite scouts known as the League of Lasers. She is eager to join their ranks, but first she has to survive her initiation challenge. Stranded on an uncharted planet, Avani must contend with the methane atmosphere, hostile frog-like inhabitants, and her dwindling supplies of food and water. But even worse: her arch nemesis,...
33842) The little blue kite
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
We all have fears, but if we can't face the small ones, how will we face the big ones? Kai is afraid to fly a little blue kite. But Kai is also very, very brave, and overcoming this small fear will lead him on a great adventure. Remember: all great adventures start with one little moment. It's like a gentle breeze whispering in your ear what you already know by heart: not even the sky is the limit. This book can be read in at least three different...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Years ago, Shoya met Shoko, a girl who can't hear. His youthful boredom bred cruelty, and he stole away what should have been her happy childhood years. Now, as a high schooler, his own despair has driven him to understand how wrong he was. When he meets Shoko once again, that despair turns to hope. But is it really possible to make up for the happiness he stole away?"
33844) Monkey High!: 1
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Haruna sees the students in her new school, with their cliques and power struggles, as acting like monkeys on a mountain. She wants to keep to herself, but because she's beautiful, the boys start vying for her attention and the girls are getting jealous.
33845) The Big trail
Pub. Date
1988, c1930
Description
Early talking western in which a band of hardy pioneers struggles along the Oregon Trail.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Appears on list
Description
"In the bestselling tradition of Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Helen MacDonald's H Is for Hawk, a stunning, inspirational memoir from an award-winning poet who ventures into the wilderness to seek answers to life's big questions and finds her way back after losing everything she thought she needed"--
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
In Betty Reid Soskins 96 years of living, she has been a witness to a grand sweep of American history. When she was born in 1921, the lynching of African-Americans was a national disgrace, minstrel shows were the most popular American form of entertainment, women were looked at suspiciously by many for exercising their right to vote, and most African-Americans in the Deep South could not vote at all. From her great-grandmother, who had been enslaved...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Description
After joining forces with the Sith to defeat the Galactic Alliance in the war to dominate the galaxy, the Empire is betrayed by Darth Krayt and his legion of followers. Now, in an Empire divided, stormtroopers battle stormtroopers, Sith assassins hunt the deposed Emperor Roan Fel, and spies with conflicting loyalities seek the mysterious heir to a legendary legacy, Cade Skywalker. Yet Cade seeks something far different-- refuge from his past at the...
Author
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Description
Jedi Kerra Holt prevented the destruction of the mining colony of Chelloa . . . but she also began a Sith-on-Sith war, and the colony is in the middle! Complete annihilation has not come to the planet of Chelloa by the hand of Sith Lord Odion, but a war between him and his rival brother, Lord Daiman, might not leave much of the planet for either of them to rule. It's up to Kerra to find the advantage in the rivalry between the two Sith.
33853) Star Wars: The last Jedi
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"The Resistance has found Luke Skywalker! But the First Order is hot on their tail...and they are out for blood. Can Rey coax Luke out of his self-imposed exile in time to save the fading spark of hope from being extinguished forever? Or will Kylo Ren and the First Order crush the Resistance once and for all? Join writer Gary Whitta (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) and artist Michael Walsh (STAR WARS ANNUAL, HAWKEYE, and THE VISION) as they take on...
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
"What would you do if you had a time machine? Bet on sporting events? Assassinate all the evildoers of history? Or maybe try to fix all the mistakes and regrets that have haunted you all these years? Join Jess as she travels back in time to share her wisdom with her naïve younger self, stand up to bullies who terrorized her child self, and teach her horny teenage self a thing or two. What begins as a raunchy adventure in teen wish fulfillment grows...
33855) Blueberries for Sal
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Little Sal and a bear cub lose their mothers while eating blueberries and each almost ends up with the other's mother.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"In this beginning reader graphic novel, the two show how much fun opposites can have together. They try to become superheroes, to travel back in time, to study turtles, and to become famous. Robot is the practical one while Monkey has the creative ideas. The two combine for a lot of zany humor and sweet friendship"--
33859) Mi casa is my home
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Bienvenidos a Lucía's home. Lucía lives in her casa with her big, loud, beautiful familia, and she's going to show you around, in this charming Spanglish celebration of family life!
33860) Kieli: 2
Author
Series
Kieli volume 1
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
"As the holidays wind down, Kieli continues her 'research trip' with her companions-- Harvey, a near-immortal soldier known as an Undying, and the Corporal, a soldier's spirit possessing an old radio. Their fates irrevocably intertwined by a bloody war waged eighty years ago, Harvey has promised to help the Corporal pass on by returning him to his final resting place, even with Kieli tagging along. But when saying their last good-byes to the Corporal...