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Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America where she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Sonny Bates left South Carolina fifteen years ago and never looked back. Now she's a successful Hollywood location scout who travels the world, finding perfect places for movie shoots. Home is wherever she lands, and between her busy schedule and dealing with her boss's demands, she has little time to think about the past . . . until her latest gig lands her a stone's throw from everything she left behind.Searching off the coast of Charleston for...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bayou Perdu, a tiny fishing town way, way down in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, is home to sixteen-year-old Evangeline Riley. She has her best friends, Kendra and Danielle; wise, beloved Mamere; and back-to-back titles in the under-sixteen fishing rodeo. But, dearest to her heart, she has the peace that comes only when she takes her skiff out to where there is nothing but sky and air and water and wings. It's a small life, but it is Evangeline's....
25) Hurricane girl
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"The story of a woman on the run from catastrophe, searching for love, home, healing, a swimming pool, and perhaps someone who can stop the bleeding from her head"--
Author
Series
Bridal Veil Island romances volume 2
Language
English
Description
When the love of her life, Evan, goes missing after a hurricane strikes Bridal Veil Island in 1898, Melinda Colson returns to search for him, but as she settles into a new job, and a new life, how long will she be able to hold out hope?
27) Lot: stories
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the city of Houston - a sprawling, diverse microcosm of America - the son of a black mother and a Latino father is coming of age. He's working at his family's restaurant, weathering his brother's blows, resenting his older sister's absence. And discovering he likes boys. Around him, others live and thrive and die in Houston's myriad neighborhoods: a young woman whose affair detonates across an apartment complex, a ragtag baseball team, a group...
28) The Beach Club
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
"Mack Petersen, manager of the hotel, has been working at the Beach Club for twelve summers. Only this summer is different. His boss, the owner of the hotel, Bill Elliott, shows up in the spring with a new set of demands. His girlfriend, Maribel, is pressing Mack to get married and Vance, the African American bellman who has hated Mack since the day Mack stole his job twelve years ago, threatens him in a deadly scene."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
If bestselling books are advising us to not think, LeGault argues, it comes as no surprise that reasoning has become a lost art in the daily life of Americans. He provides an analysis of the causes and solutions for: the erosion of growth and market share at many established American companies; permissive parenting and low standards that have caused an academic crisis among our children; America's growing political polarization, which is a result...
Author
Publisher
Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Judd Markley is a hardworking coal miner who rarely thinks much past tomorrow until he loses his brother--and nearly his own life--in a mine cave-in. Vowing never to enter the darkness of a mine again, he leaves all he knows in West Virginia to escape to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It's 1954, the seaside community is thriving, and Judd soon hires on with a timber company. Larkin Heyward's life in Myrtle Beach is uncomplicated, mostly doing volunteer...
Author
Series
Vega Jane volume 2
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Vega Jane and her friend Delph have taken the map that Quentin Harris left them and set out from the town of Wormwood, determined to brave the Quag and find freedom on the other side--but the Quag was designed to keep the town people in, and it is filledwith bloodthirsty creatures and sinister magic, and it is not going to let them escape unscathed.
33) Alas salvajes
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
When a hurricane exposes Soleida's family's secret sculpture garden, the Cuban government arrests her artist parents, forcing her to escape alone to Central America. There she meets Dariel, a Cuban American boy, and together they work to protect the environment and bring attention to the imprisoned artists in Cuba.
Author
Series
Society of Explorers and Adventurers volume 2
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Shinji and his S.E.A. cohorts travel to a forgotten island in Polynesia in search of a lost culture.
As Shinji struggles to understand and control his new guardian magic, the members of S.E.A. learn that a sunken ship belonging to the long extinct Natia people has been found on the floor of the Pacific Ocean. Shinji, Lucy and Tinker, along with Oliver Ocean and Phoebe Mystic, a quirky, enthusiastic magic expert who has been called...
37) A Texas cow boy, or, Fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony: taken from real life
Author
Publisher
Indian Head Books
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
38) Darkness
Author
Series
Publisher
EPIC Escape, an imprint of EPIC Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Two teens, high school senior Sydney and rookie cop Will, must work together to find Sydney's autistic younger brother. But the most violent hurricane in New York's history leaves them stranded in a labyrinth of subway tunnels.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"'Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes...' Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. It's 1938. The Great Depression lingers. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic....
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