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Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In these three novellas, Gary Paulsen explores how children can survive the most difficult circumstances through art and the love of dogs"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Armored Ones Teka has one mission while working undercover with the Storyteller: kill Cyra Noavek. Akos, on the other hand, must prove his wit and mettle in a rite which will likely kill him.
Hearkeners There is a unique symphony, a slow ode of aches and joy, notes created by each body as if it lives as it dies. These songs are heard by a select few. As Darya makes a difficult decision between her role as a recorder of life songs or death songs,...
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books/Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Presents and eight-course banquet of ghost stories centering around Chinese cooking and culture. Each story is followed by a recipe and historical notes.
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of sixteen stories introduces a host of strange, wondrous beings that have never existed anywhere but in the imagination, with stories from Neil Gaiman, Diana Wynne Jones, and E. Nesbit.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Three stories explore how we lose and find what matters most to us, as a girl finds a bright spot in a dark world, a boy leads a strange, lost being home, and a group of peaceful creatures loses its home to cruel invaders.
Three short stories that focus on loss and despair ; the final story, The rabbits, was written by John Marsden.
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"This exceptional and powerful anthology explores the joys, heartbreaks and triumphs of immigration, with stories by critically acclaimed and bestselling YA authors who are shaped by the journeys they and their families have taken from home, and to find home"--
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Four linked stories of discovery and survival begin with a Paleolithic-era girl who makes the first written signs, continue with Anna, who people call a witch, then a mad twentieth-century poet who watches the ocean knowing the horrors it hides, and concluding with an astronaut on the first spaceship from Earth sent to colonize another world.
Author
Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Readers may be familiar with these traditional tales of gods, demons, and tricksters but they have never heard them like this before! Fantasy author Maura McHugh revisits the popular myths of Loki, Odin, Cupid and Psyche, and other myths from Africa, Asia, and the Americas and gives them a macabre makeover. All 20 terrifying tales are accompanied by stunningly dark illustrations that heighten the mood, and will leave readers thrilled, chilled, and...
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