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Pub. Date
2020.
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"Ba dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way, they encounter giant buffalo bones, tiger paw prints, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets, sibling rivalry, and...
Author
Series
Stepping on roses volume 2
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
When Sumi Kitamura's finanacial probelms become dire, wealthy Soichiro Ashida enters her life with a bizarre proposition: he'll provide her with the money she so desperatly needs is she agrees to marry him. But is it worth giving up everything for this sham of a marriage? Sumi becomes torn when Soichiro's childhood friend Nozumu expresses romantic interest in her. While she is drawn to Nozumu, she is committed to Soichiro as his wife. As Sumi fights...
2683) Wonder show
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step inside Mosco's Traveling Wonder Show, a menagerie of human curiosities and misfits guaranteed to astound and amaze! But perhaps the strangest act of Mosco's display is Portia Remini, a normal among the freaks, on the run from McGreavy's Home for Wayward Girls, where Mister watches and waits. He said he would always find Portia, that she could never leave. Free at last, Portia begins a new life on the bally,...
2684) Fruits basket: vol. 21
Author
Series
Fruits basket volume 21
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
After Kyo finishes telling Tohru about his role in the death of her mother, and the reasons why he had disappeared for so long and put so much blame onto Yuki, but is unaware of Tohru's true feelings for him.
2685) Jane Eyre
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Description
A graphic novel adaption of Charlotte Bronte's tale of Jane Eyre who has a miserable childhood. But when she gets a job as governess at Thornfield Hall she finds a secret that could destroy all her dreams of happiness. Includes information about the Brontë family.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, this is the story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father's good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival....
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Fifteen-year-old Yuna prefers staying home and obsessively playing her favorite VRMMO game to doing anything else, including going to school. When a strange new update gives her a one-of-a-kind bear outfit that comes with overpowered abilities, Yuna is torn: the outfit is unbearably cute, but too embarrassing to wear in-game. But then she suddenly finds herself transported into the world of the game, facing down monsters and magic for real, and the...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
When Yuna sees a group of starving orphans in the town square, she takes it upon herself to look into their situation. She discovers that their orphanage is severely underfunded after the local lord, Fochrosé, cruelly cut off support! Yuna decides she's going to help the orphans herself... and get revenge on Fochrosé while she's at it!
2689) Vinland saga. 3
Author
Series
Vinland saga volume 9
Pub. Date
2013-
Description
Set in medieval England during the Viking invasions, this saga follows the adventures of Thorfinn, a young Viking warrior driven by his twin desires to avenge his father's death and reach the free and peaceful land Leif Ericson called Vinland.
2690) Fruits basket: volume 3
Author
Series
Fruits basket volume 3
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Tohru Honda is an orphaned teenager who comes to live with the Sohma family in exchange for housekeeping duties, but she soon comes to know the family secret.
2691) Fruits Basket / Vol. 5
Author
Series
Fruits basket volume 1
Description
Tohru and company spend Golden Week at the Sohmas' vacation home, courtesy of Shigure. On the final day, Hatsuharu makes a surprise visit, but what other surprises has he brought along with him?
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
The three robbers: Three robbers terrify the countryside until they are subdued by the charm of a little orphan girl named Tiffany. Zelda's ogre: The giant appetite of the ogre could only be satisfied by the flesh of children until young Zeralda tamed his taste buds with her culinary art. Moon man: The man in the moon outwits the police in several escapades on Earth with the help of his waxing and waning powers and the friendship of a 300-year-old...
2693) Fruits basket: vol. 19
Author
Series
Fruits basket volume 19
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Tohru Honda is an orphaned teenager who comes to live with the Sohma family in exchange for housekeeping duties, but she soon comes to know the family secret. In this episode, Tohru realizes she will have to create a trigger to break Kyo's curse.
2695) Les Misérables
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
In a new graphic novel adaptation, escaped convict Jean Valjean risks his freedom to take care of a motherless young girl during a period of political unrest in Paris while Inspector Javert relentlessly pursues him for a minor crime.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
The growling bear mystery: The Aldens love exploring the many hiking trails around Yellowstone, especially Lost Cabin Trail. But suddenly, the trail is closed because of bear activity, and then the map disappears! Could someone be trying to keep the Aldens away from the trail? It's a mystery -- and the Boxcar Children are going to solve it!
The mystery of the lake monster: When the Aldens arrive at Lake Lucille, they're excited to explore the forests...
2697) Vinland saga: 2
Author
Series
Vinland saga volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Following the flight of King Ethelred, Askeladd's band takes part in the plunder of the English countryside, while the Danish king, Sweyn, must deal with a sensitive son who he worries will never be ready to take the throne.
Author
Series
Ancient magus' bride volume 9
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
A Deal with the Devil Elias hoped to break the deadly draconic curse that weighs upon Chise-but his methods have created a rift between them. Now Chise prepares to make a gamble of her own: What could she possibly hope to gain from a bargain with Cartaphilus? It is a time of curses cast and forks in the road. Will the paths of master and apprentice soon diverge ...?
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this graphic novel adaptation of Victor Hugo's classic, the ex-convict Jean Valjean strives to build a new life in nineteenth century Paris and protect his adopted daughter, Cosette, but he is pursued by the fanatical police inspector Javert who does not believe in redemption--until it is too late for both of them.
2700) Fruits basket: vol. 20
Author
Series
Fruits basket volume 20
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Tohru Honda is an orphaned teenager who comes to live with the Sohma family in exchange for housekeeping duties, but she soon comes to know the family secret. In this episode, Tohru realizes she will have to create a trigger to break Kyo's curse.