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1) Jukebox
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"A mysterious jukebox, old vinyl records, and cryptic notes on music history, are Shaheen's only clues to her father's abrupt disappearance. She looks to her cousin, Tannaz, who seems just as perplexed, before they both turn to the jukebox which starts...glowing? Suddenly, the girls are pulled from their era and transported to another time! Keyed to the music on the record, the jukebox sends them through decade after decade of music history, from...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"When Karen moved to Mt. Olympus, she certainly didn't expect to start junior high with a bunch of gods and goddesses--let alone discover she's a demigoddess (who doesn't yet know her powers)! Having recently joined the school newspaper, Karen decides to investigate a mysterious online troll that goes by the moniker M1N0T4UR. This leads her to a treacherous maze beneath the school where Karen and her friends must complete a set of phases to leave...
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Series
Gamayun Tales volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
The latest installment in the Gamayun Tales series introduces a clever heroine who has a secret even she doesn't know about. Tyna of the Lake rescues the Hunter's son from a life of servitude to her father the Water Spirit. Their attempt to make an escape to the surface world is interrupted when they are captured by the Water Spirit and he reveals the truth about who Tyna's real father is. An ideal book for kids who aren't quite ready for Percy Jackson...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Lola is a girl like any other, except for one tiny detail: her father, Robert Darkhair, is James Blond, a top-secret agent so secretive that not even he knows what he does, or at least that is what Blond want us to believe. When the villains of Friendly Fall's kidnap Lola's parents, she becomes Super-Lola. Accompanied by her toy dinosaur Super-James (in undies) who can grow the size of an actual dinosaur (thus stretching the undies), their cat Hot...
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Trixie Stone is only a freshman in high school when Jason, the junior she thinks she loves, dumps her. Then one night at a party, their paths cross again. A few hours later, a visibly shaken Trixie comes home to tell her father that Jason sexually assaulted her. Daniel Stone has always done everything in his power to keep his daughter safe. But he never imagined anything so devastating could happen to Trixie--and now he's not sure how to help her....
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"For Violet Marlocke, family is the most important thing in the whole galaxy. So when her father goes missing while on a hazardous job, she can't just sit around and do nothing. To get him back, Violet throws caution to the stars and sets out with a group of misfit friends on a quest to find him. But space is big and dangerous, and she soon discovers that her dad has been swallowed by a giant, planet-eating whale. With her father's life on the line,...
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Series
Yotsuba&! volume 15
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Language
English
Description
"Yotsuba is going to school--almost! Fuuka says at school you read and write and do tests! A test is where you write your name at the top and answer questions. Yotsuba got all the questions right, so Fuuka gave her a perfect score! And, and, you get to paint with big-girl paints like Ena, wear a backpack, make picture books, and collect pretty rocks! School is gonna be great! Right?"--Back cover.
10) Yotsuba&!: 6
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Language
English
Description
"Yotsuba's getting a biiiiike, Yotsuba's getting a biiiiiike!! Didja know the wheels of a bike go round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and round and roun-- oh, Yotsuba's getting dizzy--whoooooa" -- from publisher's web site.
11) Yotsuba&!: 8
Author
Series
Yotsuba&! volume 8
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Language
English
Description
"The ranch wasn't fun, huh? But maybe festivals will be less funner?! (Yotsuba's playing opposites, ha-ha!) Yotsuba got uninvited to Fuuka's school for a culr-- a clart-- a cultural festival! And she didn't promise Yotsuba there wouldn't be CAKE! Yotsuba doesn't want a cake as biiiiiig as Jumbo, nope!! You wouldn't either, now would you?! Ohhh! And then, and then! There ISN'T gonna be a great big festival for the whole town to go to! And Yotsuba isn't...
12) Bad friends
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Jinju is bad. She smokes, drinks, runs away from home, and has no qualms about making her parents worry. Her mother and sister beg her to be a better student, sister, daughter; her beleaguered father expresses his concerns with his fists. Bad Friends is set in the 1990s in a South Korea torn between tradition and Western modernity and haunted by an air of generalized gloom. Cycles of abuse abound as the characters enact violence within their power...
13) Break
Author
Series
Click volume 6
Language
English
Description
"Spring Break is full of possibilities...but not for Olive. This year, Olive is leaving her friends and all of their exciting vacation plans behind to visit her dad at his new apartment in the city. Goober is thrilled to spend a whole week with their father and has a long list of activities for their time together. Olive, on the other hand, still remembers the hurt of their dad moving halfway across the world. She would rather spend time with her...
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Rema chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Enter the rich and fantastical world of Rema in the first installment of this middle-grade graphic novel series with sweeping adventure and light romance! Tabby Simon is determined to learn what happened to her father, who was found dead after researching a tree that leaks a mysterious mist in her neighborhood. She is unexpectedly led to Rema, a distant world of magic and beauty that is periodically invaded by a nearby planet desperate for resources....
15) City of secrets
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Since his father's death, Ever Barnes has secretly been in charge of an amazing mechanical building but now, ruffians are after him and his new friend Hannah, the building owner's spunky daughter.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Brianna Jakobsson has big cooking dreams, and when her ailing father, a world-renowned chef, poses a challenge to his only daughter and fifteen sons, she seizes the opportunity. She's going to have the best restaurant around and earn the family empire. Thing is, the only place she can afford to set up shop is in Monster City. Her menu is full of weird delicacies, her kitchen is run by a half-bird harpy, and her dining room is filled with skeleton...
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Scatterbrained Cornelius, King of Kazoo, and his resourceful daughter, Bing, explore a mysterious cave at the top of Mount Kazoo. There they discover a famous alchemist named Quaf is planning a dangerous and forbidden experiment. Now Cornelius, Bing, and the brilliant royal inventor Torq must go all out to stop Quaf before his crazy undertaking threatens the entire kingdom" --
19) Odessa
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Eight years ago an earthquake--the Big One--hit along the Cascadia fault line, toppling cities and changing landscapes all up and down the west coast of the United States. Life as we know it changed forever. But for Vietnamese American Virginia Crane, life changed shortly after the earthquake, when her mother left and never came back. Ginny has gotten used to a life without her mother, helping her father take care of her two younger brothers, Wes...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Robyn Goodfellowe and her father arrive in Kilkenny, Ireland, tasked with hunting the last of the wolves, but Robyn's friendship with Mebh, a girl living in the forests and protecting the wolves, threatens everything Robyn--and her father--hold dear."--Provided by publisher.
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