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Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Two kids from different worlds form an unexpected friendship. Cody's home life is a messy, terrifying story of neglect and abuse. Autumn is from a wealthy, loving Indigenous family, who is "in" with the popular crowd at school, even though it is hard for her to want to keep up.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Mistaken for one another when they are sent to the grand English country estate of Starkers on the brink of World War II, Hannah, a distant relative hoping to be welcomed by the family, and Anna, sent to spy for the Nazis, both unexpectedly fall in love.
Author
Series
Girl who dared to think volume 2
Publisher
Nightlight Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In this second installation, Liana Castell makes a shocking discovery, after stumbling upon an ancient, dusty office sealed away from the rest of the Tower. Her first instinct is to flee - until she realizes all is not what it seems. The room has been hidden for a reason. It holds secrets about the Tower's past, and answers that could be key to her people's future. But with this knowledge comes grave danger, as Liana will quickly discover..
204) Lucy
Author
Series
Daughters of the sea volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Lucy's father, a minister, gets a prestigious summer position in Bar Harbor, Maine, her mother determines to find a rich husband for her daughter but Lucy is fascinated by the sea and a handsome ship-builder.
205) Gifted
Author
Language
English
Description
In Orpheus Chanson's world, the human brain has been mapped and patented, and geniuses like him are no longer born or honed through hard work. Instead, only the most priviliged sect of society can purchase and use ASAs, or Acquired Savant Abilities. However, Zimri Robinson, a natural musical prodigy, is a lowly worker at a warehouse. For her, making music is illegal, although she finds time to, even with her grueling schedule and grandmother's illness....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
In 1899, a fifteen-year-old orphan named Hannah obtains employment as a servant in the home of one of Boston's wealthiest families, where she meets a noted portrait painter who seems to know things about her that even she is not aware of, and when she accompanies the family to their summer home in Maine, she feels an undeniable pull to the sea.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
No one is better equipped in the struggle for wealth and worldly success than the alluring and ruthless Becky Sharp, who defies her impoverished background to clamber up the class ladder. Her sentimental companion Amelia, however, longs only for caddish soldier George. As the two heroines make their way through the tawdry glamour of Regency society, battles—military and domestic—are fought, fortunes made and lost. The one steadfast and honourable...
208) People like them
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2021].
Language
English
Description
"Everyone in the sleepy French Alpine village of Carmac knows one another, and most of its residents look alike - until Bakary and Sylvia Langlois arrive with their three children. Wealthy and flashy, with an impressive chalet and three expensive cars, the family of five are outsiders in the small town, . Despite their differences, the Langlois form an uneasy friendship with their next-door neighbors, Anna and Constant Guillot. But when both families...
210) The lady of Launay
Author
Series
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[1987].
Language
English
Description
"Young Bessie falls in love with a man 'above her station' and, although the love is returned, the social implications lead to many trials and tribulations before true love conquers all" -- from the publisher.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
As a nearly full-fledged member of the Agency, the all-female detective unit based in Miss Scrimshaw's Academy for Girls, Mary Quinn, disguised as a poor apprentice builder, must brave the sinister underworld of Victorian London in order to unmask a murderer.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In Tarreton, where the rich have all the magic they wish and the poor can barely afford a spell to heat their homes, twelve-year-old Isaveth's father is accused of murdering an influential citizen and Isaveth, aided by eccentric street boy Quiz, tries to solve the magical murder mystery before her father is executed.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In Renaissance Venice, orphaned Cassandra Caravello is one of the elite but feels trapped in the city of water until she stumbles upon a murdered woman and is drawn into a dangerous world of courtesans, grave robbers, and secret societies, guided by Falco, a mysterious and alluring artist.
214) Legacy of love
Author
Series
Publisher
Love inspired
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"She dreamed of digging through ancient ruins--but the only exploring Anna Simmons gets to do is in the expensive houses she cleans in Pearlman, Michigan. When Brandon Landers hires her, she's unsure whether to be furious or thrilled. He evicted Anna and her ailing mother, but she's heard rumors of hidden treasure on his land. Treasure Anna decides to find. Not just for herself, but for new employer whose unexpected kindness has softened her heart....
215) SP4RX
Author
Series
Publisher
Nobrow
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"SP4RX, a young hacker who lives off grid, hacks into corporations and sells stolen data to wealthy buyers on the black market--just your average thief. Mega corporation Structus Industries introduces a welfare program called the “Elpis Program”, which allows the working class to apply for Cybernetic implants to make workers more efficient. On the surface, it seems like a program to empower the poor and allow them to rise to the ranks of the elite....
216) Outlaw mage
Author
Series
The Dageian puppetmaster volume 1
Publisher
Snowy Wings Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Despite Rosha's best efforts, she will never fit in. To her classmates, she is forever an outsider, a girl from the fringes of the empire just lucky enough to have well-off parents. To her teachers, she is either a charity case or an exception to the rule that Gorenten just aren't capable of performing complex magic. Worse, still, she is nothing but a status symbol to her father—a child gifted with magic to show his powerful friends that even people...
217) A secret princess
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Best friends Mary Lennox, Sara Crewe, and Cedric Erroll flee their repressive boarding school, intending to start over in the theaters of Paris, but they instead find themselves at Cedric's estate in Yorkshire, where a hidden garden helps them realize their destiny.
218) Sparkers
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Marah, an underclass 'sparker' in a society ruled by magicians, works with her friend Azariah to find a cure for a mysterious disease that turns its victims' eyes black"--
219) Just kiss me
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Returning home to Charleston, Vivian Leigh Rochet, now a famous actress, reconnects with Harrison Whitley-Shuler, the man she loved years ago, who, after leaving Wall Street behind, is trying to escape his family's heritage.
220) The whispering wars
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Told in multiple voices, after students from elite Brathelthwaite Boarding School and the Orphanage School compete in the Spindthrift Tournament, they team up to face the Whisperers"--Provided by publisher.