Daniel José Older
Author
Publisher
Disney Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
Star Wars: The High Republic, the New York Times best-selling series, continues. . . . For light and life!
Journey to the embattled Occlusion Zone in this action-packed adventure set hundreds of years before the Skywalker saga! It's a dark and dangerous time for the galaxy in which communication has been rendered nearly impossible in Nihil-controlled space as the nefarious pirates continue to threaten the Republic's
Author
Series
Outlaw Saints novel volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
When sixteen-year-old Mateo and Chela discover each other and their powers during a political battle between neighborhood factions, they set aside their differences to unravel the mystery behind their sunken homeland and to stop a dangerous political operative who is trying to harness their gifts to unleash terror on the world.
3) Freedom fire
Author
Series
Dactyl Hill Squad volume 2
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Magdalys Roca and her friends from the Colored Orphan Asylum are heading southwest on the back of Stella, the giant pteranodon, to find Montez, her brother, wounded during the siege of Vicksburg; now they are heading into the heart of the fighting, depending on Magdalys' ability to communicate telepathically with dinosaurs--but one of the companions is not quite what she seems, and Magdalys's talent could make her a target for both sides.
Author
Series
Dactyl Hill Squad volume 1
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
It is the summer of 1863, and as the Civil War rages between dinosaur-mounted armies down south, and a tense New York City seems on the brink of exploding into riots, Magdalys Roca and the other children at the Colored Orphan Asylum are trying to survive; but when she receives a letter telling her that her brother Montez was wounded, Magdalys knows that somehow she must reach him--and just possibly her ability to communicate telepathically with dinosaurs...
Author
Series
Shadowshaper cypher volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A war is brewing among the different Houses, some of Sierra's shadowshapers are still in jail, and the House of Shadow and Light has been getting threatening messages from whisper wraiths, and even though one spy was exposed Sierra is not quite sure who she can trust--but the deal with Death made by one of her ancestors has given her power, and she will need to control it and confront her family's past if she has any hope of saving the future.
6) Thunder run
Author
Series
Dactyl Hill Squad volume 03
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Now that she has found her brother Montez, Magdalys and her squad have embarked on a secret mission for General Grant, taking them deep into the Louisiana swamplands, to New Orleans, and eventually to the Mexican border where Imperial troops are forming an alliance with the Confederates in pursuit of spreading slavery--and once more Magdalys will have to use her telepathic link to the dinosaurs to save herself, her squad, and the union she believes...
Author
Series
Outlaw saints volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Simultaneous battles rage in the Caribbean and Brooklyn as sixteen-year-olds Mateo and Chela, two gods-turned-teenagers, try to get to the bottom of what is keeping them apart.
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Confronting the anarchistic marauders known as the Nihil, the Jedi Knights and their Padawans are put to the test, but soon discover that nothing is what it seems.
After a series of losses, the Republic seems to have the villainous Nihil marauders on the run. Jedi Masters Cohmac Vitus and Kantam Sy are sent to the world of Corellia, in the Galactic Core, to investigate a suspected Nihil attack. There, Padawans Reath Silas and Ram Jomaram encounter...
Author
Series
Publisher
A Roc book
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Carlos Delacruz straddles the line between the living and the not-so alive. As anagent for the Council of the Dead, he eliminates New Yorks ghostlier problems. This time its a string of gruesome paranormal accidents in Brooklyns Von King Park that has already taken the lives of several localsand is bound to take more.
10) Flood City
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Flood City is the only habitable place left on the drowned Earth, but it is also a battleground between the Star Guard who have controlled the city for decades and the Chemical Barons in their spaceships who once ruled the planet, want it back, and are now preparing to destroy it; the future will depend on Max, his sister Yala of Flood City, and Ato, a young Chemical Baron who just wants to keep his twin brother alive and not hurt anyone--and somehow...
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
THEN: It's one of the galaxy's most dangerous secrets: a mysterious transmitter with unknown power and a reward for its discovery that most could only dream of claiming. But those who fly the Millennium Falcon throughout its infamous history aren't your average scoundrels. Not once, but twice, the crew of the Falcon tries to claim the elusive prize--first, Lando Calrissian and the droid L3-37 at the dawn of an ambitious career, and later, a young...
12) Shadowshaper
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When the murals painted on the walls of her Brooklyn neighborhood start to change and fade in front of her, Sierra Santiago realizes that something strange is going on--then she discovers her Puerto Rican family are shadowshapers and finds herself in a battle with an evil anthropologist for the lives of her family and friends.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"One hundred and fifty years before Starlight Beacon shone its light into the Outer Rim, the galaxy was filled with new threats and nameless unknowns. The distant planet Banchii is still unexplored when the young Wookiee Jedi Arkoff journeys to Dalna to aid his fellow Jedi in the fight against the secretive faction the Path of the Open Hand. Along with his former Master Ravna and her droid ZZ, Arkoff joins the fight at the Battle of Dalna, and during...
14) La formasombras
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Description
Cuando sus planes de verano son interrumpidos por fenómenos sobrenaturales, Sierra se encuentra en una batalla con el asesino que apunta a su familia de sombreadores de sombras que cree que está ocultando su mayor secreto.
When her summer plans are interrupted by supernatural phenomena, Sierra finds herself in a battle with the killer targeting her family of shadowshapers who believes she is hiding their greatest secret.
15) Escape from Valo
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney, Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In the embattled Occlusion Zone where evil pirates continue to threaten the Republic's very existence, Jedi Padawans plot their escape from enemy territory, in this action-packed Star Wars adventure.
Author
Publisher
Disney Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Centuries before the events of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, in the era of the glorious High Republic, the Jedi are the guardians of peace and justice in the galaxy! After a series of staggering losses, the Republic seems to finally have the villainous Nihil marauders on the run, and it looks like there's light at the end of the tunnel. Until word comes of a suspected Nihil attack on the industrial cosmopolitan world of Corellia, right in the Galactic...
Series
Feminist folktales volume 3
Publisher
Feminist Press, at the City University of New York
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The feminist folktales collected in Sea Girl upend any notion that women are doomed to be sentimental, meek, or submissive. In these classic tales, heroines unflinchingly wade monstrous rivers, escape ogres' nests, and outsmart desperate sharks and hungry tigers. And while defending their families and villages, they always determine their own fate. Ethel Johnston Phelps (1914-1984) held a master's degree in medieval literature, coedited a Ricardian...
19) Terrifying tales
Series
Guys read volume 6
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015].
Language
English
Description
Eleven masters of suspense—Kelly Barnhill, Michael Buckley, Adam Gidwitz, Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown, Claire Legrand, Nikki Loftin, Daniel José Older, Dav Pilkey, R.L. Stine, and Rita Williams-Garcia—have come together to bring you a bone-chilling collection of original ghost stories with illustrations by Gris Grimly, perfect for sharing around the campfire, reading under the covers with a flashlight, and scaring your friends' pants off.
Series
Guys read volume 6th
Publisher
Harper Audio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A latest collection of horror stories features such supernatural elements as mysteriously appearing tattoos and ghostly encounters in dark hallways, and includes contributions by Kelly Barnhill, Michael Buckley, Adam Gidwitz, Adele Griffin and Lisa Brown, Claire Legrand, Nikki Loftin, Daniel José Older, Dav Pilkey, R.L. Stine, and Rita Williams-Garcia.