Kyla Garcia
Author
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans in order to earn her keep? When Noa discovers a boxcar containing dozens of Jewish infants bound for a concentration camp, she is reminded of the child that was taken from her. And in a moment that will change the course of her life, she snatches one of the babies...
2) Refugee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
Author
Language
English
Description
Beautiful. Daring. Deadly. The Cuban Revolution took everything from sugar heiress Beatriz Perez-her family, her people, her country. Recruited by the CIA to infiltrate Fidel Castro's inner circle and pulled into the dangerous world of espionage, Beatriz is consumed by her quest for revenge and her desire to reclaim the life she lost. As the Cold War swells like a hurricane over the shores of the Florida Strait, Beatriz is caught between the clash...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Language
English
Description
"Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a powerful and urgent Native American voice exploded onto the landscape of contemporary fiction. Tommy Orange's There There introduces a brilliant new author at the start of a major career. "We all came to the powwow for different reasons. The messy, dangling threads of our lives got pulled into a braid--tied to the back of everything...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
CJ is the daughter of Captain James Hook. She has big dreams--like finding the treasure that she's known about since she was a little girl stranded on the Isle of the Lost. So she sneaks out of Auradon Prep with Freddie, her best friend, and they go on a wild adventure to find it.
Author
Series
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Stella gets a big surprise when her mom plans a trip to visit their family in Mexico! Stella loves marine animals, and she can't wait to see the ocean for the first time . . . until she arrives and learns that the sea and its life forms are in danger due to pollution. Stella wants to save the ocean, but she knows she can't do it alone. It's going to take a lot of work and help from old and new friends to make a difference, but Stella Da̕z never gives...
Author
Publisher
Tantor Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
On the morning of July 1, 1800, a surveyor and mapmaker named Cayetano Diaz opened the window of his study in Guatemala City to find a horrific sight: a pair of severed breasts. Offering a meticulously researched and evocative account of the quest to find the perpetrator and understand the motives behind such a brutal act, this volume pinpoints the sensational crime as a watershed moment in Guatemalan history that radically changed the nature of justice...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Yolanda Ciceron dreams of leaving her farm in the Valley to live in Silo--the most advanced town for miles around. First, Yoly will need to prove she belongs in a place where only the smartest and most useful are welcomed. Between her brains and determination, Yoly is well on her way but the closer she gets to securing her future, the more she uncovers the dangers inside Silo's walls. In grave peril, Yoly's only chance to surviving may lie in the...
Author
Series
Star Darlings volume 10-12
Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The ultimate battle against darkness begins...Energy levels are dangerously low, and it's affecting day-to-day life on Starland. The Star Darlings have been working furiously to discover who is behind the crisis, but they've made a grave mistake. Can they fix it before their world goes dark? When Adora goes on her Wish Mission, she accidentally reveals her identity to her Wisher! Clover's mission to help a girl with overprotective parents is like...
Author
Series
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
When four offspring of classic Disney villains are offered a chance to leave the island where they have been imprisoned and go to prep school in an idyllic kingdom, they must choose whether or not to follow in their parents' evil footsteps.
11) A Shadow Crown
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
The highly anticipated second installment of the new adult fantasy saga that took BookTok by storm picks up where A Broken Blade left off...
To the kingdom, Keera is the king's Blade, his most feared and trusted spy and assassin. But in the shadows, she works with Prince Killian and his Shadow—the dark, brooding Fae, Riven, who sets her blood on fire. Together, they plot to kill a tyrant king.
In Myrelinth, the lush,...
To the kingdom, Keera is the king's Blade, his most feared and trusted spy and assassin. But in the shadows, she works with Prince Killian and his Shadow—the dark, brooding Fae, Riven, who sets her blood on fire. Together, they plot to kill a tyrant king.
In Myrelinth, the lush,...
12) The ex vows
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Estranged exes must stick close together to save their best friend's wedding after a string of disasters in this swoony and steamy second-chance romance from the USA Today bestselling author of You, with a View. Georgia Woodward lives by her lists, none more so than the one about her ex, Eli Mora. It's full of the ironclad dos and don'ts they've been following since she returned to the Bay Area after their cataclysmic breakup five years ago. With...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"In this prequel to #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon They Both Die at the End, two new strangers spend a life-changing day together after Death-Cast first makes their fateful calls. It's the night before Death-Cast goes live, and there's one question on everyone's mind: Can Death-Cast actually predict when someone will die, or is it just an elaborate hoax? Orion Pagan has waited years for someone to tell him that he's going to die. He has...
14) A Broken Blade
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
The BookTok sensation from debut author Melissa Blair—now with exclusive bonus content!
"Gripping and fierce. This is much-needed fantasy with its fangs honed sharp by the power of resistance. Melissa Blair has built a tremendous world."—Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights
My body is made of scars,
some were done to me,
but most I did to myself....
"Gripping and fierce. This is much-needed fantasy with its fangs honed sharp by the power of resistance. Melissa Blair has built a tremendous world."—Chloe Gong, #1 New York Times bestselling author of These Violent Delights
My body is made of scars,
some were done to me,
but most I did to myself....
15) Girls like us
Author
Language
English
Description
FBI Agent Nell Flynn hasn't been home in ten years. Nell and her father, Homicide Detective Martin Flynn, have never had much of a relationship. And Suffolk County will always be awash in memories of her mother, Marisol, who was brutally murdered when Nell was just seven. When Martin Flynn dies in a motorcycle accident, Nell returns to the house she grew up in so that she can spread her father's ashes and close his estate. At the behest of her father's...
16) Yours truly
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Dr. Briana Ortiz's life is seriously flatlining. Her divorce is just about finalized, her brother's running out of time to find a kidney donor, and that promotion she wants? Oh, that's probably going to the new man--doctor who's already registering eighty-friggin'-seven on Briana's 'pain in my ass' scale. But just when all systems are set to hate, Dr. Jacob Maddox completely flips the game . . . by sending Briana a letter. And it's a really good...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Taken from their families when they are very small and sent to a remote, church-run residential school, Kenny, Lucy, Clara, Howie and Maisie are barely out of childhood when they are finally released after years of detention. Alone and without any skills, support or families, the teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world...
18) A Vicious Game
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Formats
Description
The thrilling third entry in the high fantasy saga that started with BookTok sensation A Broken Blade.
"It seems fate has dealt me the same hand again. I know how to play it."
A new king is on the throne and the rebellion lies in ruins. Keera spends her days drinking and her nights avoiding the strange dreams that have haunted her since she returned from the capital.
Keera's family in Myrelinth...
"It seems fate has dealt me the same hand again. I know how to play it."
A new king is on the throne and the rebellion lies in ruins. Keera spends her days drinking and her nights avoiding the strange dreams that have haunted her since she returned from the capital.
Keera's family in Myrelinth...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
SUMMER 1977. The Blyton Summer Detective Club (of Blyton Hills, a small mining town in Oregon's Zoinx River Valley) solved their final mystery and unmasked the elusive Sleepy Lake monster--another low-life fortune hunter trying to get his dirty hands on the legendary riches hidden in Deboën Mansion. And he would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling kids. 1990. The former detectives have grown up and apart, each haunted by...