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1) Icarus
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
A thief who steals priceless art and replaces it with his father's impeccable forgeries while targeting Mr. Black, the man responsible for his mother's death, Icarus Gallagher is torn between family loyalty, revenge, escape and Mr. Black's son--the boy he's come to love.
2) Small worlds
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Set over the course of three summers, Small Worlds follows Stephen, a first-generation Londoner born to Ghanaian immigrant parents, brother to Ray, and best friend to Adeline. On the cusp of big life changes, Stephen feels pressured to follow a certain track-a university degree, a move out of home-but when he decides instead to follow his first love, music, his world and family fracture in ways he didn't foresee. Now Stephen must find a path and...
Author
Publisher
Pinnacle Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Forced to fight for his life, the young Colter embarks on a perilous journey across a lawless frontier, hoping to save his sisters and salvage the dream they lived for. But first, Tim has to figure out how to survive. Luckily, he finds a new friend in Jed Reno, a grizzled one-eyed trapper who’s lived in the Rockies since the 1820s. Together, the mountain man and the greenhorn set out after the marauders, blazing a trail of vengeance. With danger...
Author
Publisher
Andrew McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Ninth-grader Jonah is not a jock. On the contrary, he loves history class and nerdy movies, and his athletic ineptitude verges on tragic. So, what's he doing signing up for the baseball team? Could it have something to do with the cute shortstop, Elliot?"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Although thirteen-year-old aspiring actor Zevi would like to keep his psychic abilities a secret, he may be forced to use them when a famous actor's life is endagered on a movie set.
"In this high-interest accessible novel for middle-grade readers, thirteen-year-old Zevi uses his psychic abilities to save a famous actor's life on a movie set."--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Jake volunteers at a nursing home because he likes helping people. He likes skating and singing, playing Bingo and Name That Tune, and reading mysteries and comics aloud to his teachers. He also likes avoiding people his own age . . . and the cruelty of mirrors . . . and food. Jake has read about kids like him in books--the weird one, the outsider--and would do anything not to be that kid, including shrink himself down to nothing. But the less he...
Author
Publisher
Webtoon Unscrolled, a division of Wattpad WEBTOON Studios, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this third book of the series, we focus on Seojun, Suho and Seyeon... three guys whose painful pasts are about to be revealed. The three S's! Best Friends Forever! But that last F... forever may be shorter than any of them ever dreamed"--
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Tommy Dees is in the weeds--restaurant speak for beyond overwhelmed. He's been working as a server at Sunset Estates retirement community to get the experience he needs to attend one of the best culinary schools in the world. And to make his application shine, he also needs a letter of recommendation from his sadistic manager. But in exchange for the letter, Tommy has to meet three conditions--including training the new hire. What he doesn't expect...
Author
Publisher
Firebrand Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Following the loss of his mother, fifteen-year-old Will Douglas is on a self-destructive path to nowhere, and as fate would have it, that’s exactly where he’s heading. Will’s father ships him off to a Southern Baptist boys home in the middle of Nowhere, Mississippi—a stretch of hostile backcountry, populated by duct-taped trailers and backward beliefs. Surrounded by teenage castoffs and criminals, Will must survive the next 90 days under the...
Author
Series
Miracles and mysteries of Mercy Hospital volume 16
Publisher
Guideposts Books & Inspirational Media
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Joy Atkins has met many people while running Mercy Hospital?s gift shop, but she has never come across anyone quite like boy genius, Connor Sherman. Connor is a fifteen-year-old high school senior set on starting college as soon as possible. All his life he?s been poked, prodded, examined, and filmed by doctors and documentarians, and he?s now eager to leave home and gain some independence, despite his mother?s wariness. But an accident lands him...
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"It's Earth vs. Aliens...and one teenager standing between them, in this new tale of terror and high-stakes science fiction! Growing up in the city of Compton is tough enough as it is, but as Travon has learned all too well, growing up as an orphan in the city of Compton with gang members hunting you down every day is even tougher. But all of that is about to change, because today is the day that aliens make first contact with Earth--and it only spells...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Can muscles crush magic?! In the magic realm, magic is everything-everyone can use it, and one's skill determines their social status. Deep in the forest, oblivious to the ways of the world, lives Mash. Thanks to his daily training, he's become a fitness god. When Mash is discovered, he has no choice but to enroll in magic school, where he must beat the competition without revealing his secret-he can't use magic! Orter, Rayne, and the others join...