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1141) Party of two
Author
Series
Wedding date volume 05
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A chance meeting with a handsome stranger turns into a whirlwind affair that gets everyone talking. Dating is the last thing on Olivia Monroe's mind when she moves to LA to start her own law firm. But when she meets a gorgeous man at a hotel bar and they spend the entire night flirting, she discovers too late that he is none other than hotshot junior senator Max Powell. Olivia has zero interest in dating a politician, but when a cake arrives at her...
1142) Bird
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Bird, an artistic young African American boy, expresses himself through drawing as he struggles to understand his older brother's drug addiction and death, while a family friend, Uncle Son, provides guidance and understanding.
1143) Double life
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A successful real estate agent by day and drug queenpin by night, Alexis Fox’s worlds collide when her right-hand man, Hedrick, is murdered and she must take a more hands-on role in her illicit side hustle.
1144) A motive for murder
Author
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Convinced that the American partner of an Albanian mafia organization has murdered her friend, Shy enlists the aid of another friend, Ryder, to maintain the fragile peace while she delves further into her investigation.
1146) The bubble gum blob
Author
Series
Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol volume 15
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Desmond and Andres find themselves in a sticky situation when a new type of bubble gum starts to consume Kersville--literally!
1147) A troll lot of trouble
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 17
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
While working on a school science project in the forest, Andres and Desmond discover a bridge guarded by a lonely, riddle-loving troll.
1148) Time to clown around
Author
Series
Desmond Cole Ghost Patrol volume 20
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Desmond and best friend Andres attend the town's birthday celebration with a petting farm, bumper cars, cotton candy machines, and ghosts, but mostly this Kersville Town Clown Extravaganza is full of creepy clowns of all kinds.
1149) Southwest sunrise
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Jayden expects to see nothing but brown his first morning in New Mexico, but after being surprised by colorful rocks, flowers, birds, and animals, he wonders if this place could become home.
1150) My rainy day rocket ship
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Told in rhyming text, a young African American boy, stuck inside on a rainy day, uses his imagination to create a rocket ship out of a rocking chair and takes off on an trip to a distant planet.
1151) Cute toot
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Everyone knows attics are the best place to play hide and seek on a rainy day. That is, unless your stomach is rumbling with a bubbly gas that you absolutely cannot keep in. When Baby sister lets one sneaky fart slip out, she betrays her hiding spot and begins the most phenomenal fart fest this attic has ever seen...
1152) Lacrosse laser
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, an imprint of Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Now that he has new glasses, fourteen-year-old Jaylin is anxious to put his speed and accurate shot to use on offense, but his lacrosse team has always relied on his stellar defense, and without it too many goals are ending up in their net--so the team needs to come up with a strategy to balance both halves of his game.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In 1854 in Eastern Maryland twelve-year-old Ann is a slave, grateful that her family is still all together; but when their master, in need of money, decides to sell Ann and her younger brother, their parents decide to take the dangerous step of running away north to freedom--a journey filled with danger, especially since they are not sure how to find the first station on the Underground Railroad.
1154) Who wants I scream?
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 14
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
Summer in Kersville is like summer in a lot of other places. The sun is bright and hot. School is closed, and the pool is open. And kids know to run away as fast as they can when they hear the familiar song of the ice-cream truck. Because that means the I scream man is here for dessert!
1155) Where was goodbye?
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Karmen is about to start her last year of high school, but it's only been six weeks since her brother, Julian, died by suicide. How is she supposed to focus on school when huge questions Why is Julian gone? How could she have missed seeing his pain? Could she have helped him? When a blowup at school gets Karmen sent home for a few weeks, life gets more things between her parents are tenser than ever, her best friend's acting like a stranger, and...
1156) I am extraordinary
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
It's the first day of school for Zoe, a young girl with hearing loss who dreams of playing on her school's soccer team. But, self-conscious of her hearing aids, Zoe is too nervous to try out. With the help of and perspectives from new friends, what begins as a bumpy, anxiety-filled start for Zoe, soon transitions into an eye-opening experience about what it means to be different--and what it means to be extraordinary. I Am Extraordinary teaches kids...