Catalog Search Results
81) Infinity
Author
Series
Chronicles of Nick volume 1
Formats
Description
Streetwise, tough, and savvy, Nick and his quick sarcasm are the stuff of legend--until the night when his best friends try to kill him. Saved by a mysterious warrior, Nick is sucked into the realm of the Dark-Hunters: immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity. With his fellow students turning into flesh-eating zombies, how can he stop them--without getting grounded by his mom?
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
265 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
Two novellas provide insight into the human condition as a sixty-year-old art history academic embarks on an unexpected journey of discovery and a young farm boy is drawn to the water of Lake Michigan as an escape.
84) Colter's journey
Author
Series
Tim Colter novels volume 1
Formats
Description
1845, in the untamed Oregon Territory. Tim Colder escapes when his family is ambushed by a gang of cutthroats; his parents butchered, his sisters missing. Luckily he finds a friend in Jed Reno, a one-eyed trapper who's lived in the Rockies since the 20's-- and is looking for the same gang that attacked Tim's family. Colter has no choice but to grow up fast, face his fears, and fight back with everything he's got.
85) Dandelion wine
Author
Series
Formats
Description
"The summer of '28 was a vintage season for a growing boy. A summer of green apple trees, mowed lawns, and new sneakers. Of half-burnt firecrackers, of gathering dandelions, of Grandma's belly-busting dinner. It was a summer of sorrows and marvels and gold-fuzzed bees. A magical, timeless summer in the life of a twelve-year-old boy named Douglas Spaulding?remembered forever by the incomparable Ray Bradbury."--Amazon.com.
Author
Formats
Description
In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County--to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto--pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. A tale that...
87) Super weird!
Author
Series
WeirDo volume 4
Formats
Description
Dad's training to become a firefighter, while Weir's busy with Pet Day. Will Fido and Blockhead freeze-up or find fame? It won't be easy - but it will be funny!
Author
Publisher
Rocky Pond Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
When Lawrence and Sophia meet and become friends, they find ways to enjoy each other's company without leaving their own safe spots, but when a storm comes, they both venture out of their comfort zones to see if the other is ok.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
68 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Description
"Tom and Jamie can't believe their luck when they find a secret entrance to a prehistoric world filled with dinosaurs! The first dinosaur they meet is a friendly Wannanosaurus. It eats the fruit from super-stinky ginkgo trees. But soon, Tom and Jamie meet a much less friendly dino: a Tyrannosaurus Rex that would like to eat them!"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
241 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
In post-war North Carolina, a member of a car-theft ring picks up an innocent nineteen-year-old Bible saleman and recognizes the young man as just the associate he needs--one who will believe he is working as an F.B.I. spy, one who will drive the cars he steals.
Author
Formats
Description
In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys—best friends—are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills the other boy's mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn't believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is extraordinary.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Formats
Description
In the 1950s, ex-boxer Norman Alonso is a determined and humble Jamaican who has immigrated to Britain with his wife and children to secure a brighter future. Blighted with unexpected illness and racism, Norman and his family are resilient, but are all too aware that their family will need more than just hope to survive in their new country. At the turn of the millennium, Jesse seeks a fresh start in London, escaping a broken immediate family, a...
95) Mr. Mac and me
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Description
1914. In the village of Dunwich on the Suffolk coast young Thomas Maggs befriends mysterious Scotsman and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh whom the locals call Mac. Just as Thomas and Mac's friendship begins to bloom, war with Germany is declared and as the war weighs increasingly heavily on the community, the villagers on the home front become increasingly suspicious of Mac and his curious behavior.
96) Heroes
Author
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Aboard the battleship the USS Utah with their Navy pilot fathers during WWII when the ship is attacked by the Japanese, Frank and Stanley find their friendship--and dreams--in jeopardy when Stanley is seen as the "enemy" because his mother is Japanese American.
Author
Series
Young Spencer novels volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
169 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Spenser reflects back to when he was fourteen-years-old and how he helped his best friend Jeannie when she was abducted by her abusive father.
Author
Series
Alexander (Judith Viorst) volume 4
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (some color) ; 20 x 27 cm
Description
After eating an entire box of doughnuts leads to consequences Alexander does not like, he decides to be the best boy ever for the rest of his life.
Author
Publisher
Scribner Paperback Fiction
Pub. Date
1984.
Physical Desc
184 pages ; 21 cm
Description
Two years after I killed Blyth I murdered my young brother Paul, for quite different and more fundamental reasons than I'd disposed of Blyth, and then a year after that I did for my young cousin Esmerelda, more or less on a whim. That's my score to date. Three. I haven't killed anybody for years, and don't intend to ever again. It was just a stage I was going through.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Let us know! Suggest a Title