Catalog Search Results
61) 100 cupboards
Author
Series
100 cupboards volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his parents are kidnapped, timid twelve-year-old Henry York leaves his sheltered Boston life and moves to small-town Kansas, where he and his cousin Henrietta discover and explore hidden doors in his attic room that seem to open onto other worlds.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A captivating personal inquiry into the art of architecture, the craft of building, and the meaning of modern work “A room of ones own: Is there anybody who hasnt at one time or another wished for such a place, hasnt turned those soft words over until theyd assumed a habitable shape?” When Michael Pollan decided to plant a garden, the result was the acclaimed bestseller Second Nature. In A Place of My Own, he turns his sharp insight to the craft...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie deep into the sea, where they meet up with dolphins, sharks, and octopi as they search for the answer to an ancient riddle.
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
1994, c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When she makes a wish on a special ring, eleven-year-old Lucy is transported from her pampered present to a somewhat turbulent time in Ireland in 1885, where she must work as a servant for a wealthy family until she can find a way back 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.
70) The spirit well
Author
Series
Bright Empires volume 3
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
The search for the map--and the secret behind its cryptic code--intensifies in a quest across time, space, and multiple realities.
71) Keeping it real
Author
Series
Quantum gravity volume 1
Publisher
Pyr
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
73) Sir Thursday
Author
Series
Keys to the kingdom volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When Arthur is drafted into the Glorious Army of the Architect by Sir Thursday, he must survive basic training, avoid getting posted to the Front, and figure out how to free Part Four of the Will, while Leaf tries to banish Arthur's doppleganger on Earth.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having used their magic tree house to travel to India, where they must get a gift to help free the dog Teddy from a spell, Jack and Annie have adventures involving a tiger and other endangered jungle animals.
75) Vortex
Author
Series
Spin novels (Robert Charles Wilson) volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Turk and his young friend Isaac Dvali are taken up by a community of fanatics who use them to enable a passage to the dying Earth, where they believe a prophecy of human/Hypothetical contact will be fulfilled.
Author
Series
Bright Empires volume 5
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"What do you do when you're faced with The End of Everything? The evidence is compelling; not only is The End of Everything approaching, it's approaching rapidly. Desperation sends the Questors to the four corners of the universe in search of answers...." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
York trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While visiting York, England, a young American, already troubled by family problems, is assailed by strange feelings of dread whenever he approaches some of the ancient landmarks of the city.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After moving with her parents to Iowa, twelve-year-old Lucy discovers a mysterious notebook that can bring stories to life and which has a link to the 1914 disappearance of her great uncle.
79) The race
Author
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The present day and an alternate future merge as a child is kidnapped, a writer reaches into the past to discover the truth about a possible murder, and a young woman prepares for her mysterious future.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request