Soneela Nankani
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Pandava volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Accused of stealing the god of love's bow and arrow, Aru has ten days to find the real thief or risk being kicked out of the Otherworld.
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English
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"Thirty-three-year-old Abby Stern has made it to a happy place. True, she still has gig jobs instead of a career, and the apartment where she's lived since college still looks like she's just moved in. But she's got good friends, her bike, and her bicycling club. She's at peace with her plus-size body -- at least, most of the time -- and she's on track to marry Mark Medoff, her childhood summer sweetheart, a man she met at the weight-loss camp that...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"Five years after dragons decimated the world, a chance encounter with a young dragon leaves twelve-year-old Noah questioning everything he thought he knew" -- Provided by publisher.
4) The fields
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A breakneck procedural that is beautifully written and masterfully crafted, Erin Young's The Fields is a dynamite debut-crime fiction at its very finest. Some things don't stay buried. It starts with a body-a young woman found dead in an Iowa cornfield, on one of the few family farms still managing to compete with the giants of Big Agriculture. When Sergeant Riley Fisher, newly promoted to head of investigations for the Black Hawk County Sheriff's...
5) Amina's song
Author
Series
Amina's voice volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Feeling pulled between two cultures after a month with family in Pakistan, Amina shares her experiences with Wisconsin classmates through a class assignment and a songwriting project with new student Nico.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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""I was born on the full moon under an auspicious constellation, the holiest of positions-much good it did me." So begins Kaikeyi's tale. The only daughter of the kingdom of Kekaya, she is raised on grand stories about the might and benevolence of the gods: how they churned vast oceans to obtain the nectar of immortality, how they offer the devoted and the wise magnificent boons, how they vanquish evil and ensure the land prospers. Yet she watches...
Author
Series
Daevabad trilogy volume 2
Language
English
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"The sequel to S. A. Chakraborty's brilliantly imagined fantasy The City of Brass, which #1 New York Times bestelling author Sabaa Tahir called "the best adult fantasy I've read since The Name of the Wind", in which a young con artist drawn into the kingdom of the djinn must navigate her way through their dangerous world of magic, court politics, and ever-shifting alliances"-- Provided by publisher.
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IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Julie fell in love with Sam the day she met him, and planned to attend college with him; but Sam died, and getting rid of his things, trying to erase him from her life is not working, so desperate to hear his voice one more time, Julie calls his cellphone expecting to hear his voicemail--but then Sam answers, and suddenly their cellphones become the living connection between them, a connection Julie finds impossible to let go.
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Publisher Annotation: Every detail is accurate- because one of the authors is President Bill Clinton. The drama and action never stop- because the other author is James Patterson. Matthew Keating, a one-time Navy SEAL-and a past president-has always defended his family as staunchly as he has his country. Now those defenses are under attack. A madman abducts Keating's teenage daughter, Melanie-turning every parent's deepest fear into a matter of national...
10) Run, Rose, run
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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Nashville is where she's come to claim her destiny. It's also where the darkness she's fled might find; and destroy, her.
Author
Series
Pandava volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Twelve-year-old Aru stretches the truth to fit in at her private school, but when she is dared to prove an ancient lamp is cursed, she inadvertently frees an ancient demon.
12) Internment
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"Rebellions are built on hope. In a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens. With the help of new friends also trapped within the internment camp, her boyfriend on the outside, and an unexpected alliance, Layla begins a journey to fight for freedom, leading a revolution against the camp's Director and his guards" -- Page [4] cover.
13) Fairest
Author
Series
Ella enchanted volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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In a land where beauty and singing are valued above all else, Aza eventually comes to reconcile her unconventional appearance and her magical voice, and learns to accept herself for who she truly is.
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"From debut author Nishita Parekh, a fresh take on the classic locked-room thriller, about a multigenerational Indian American family marooned in a house with a murderer during Hurricane Harvey Hurricane Harvey is about to hit Houston. Meanwhile, single mom Jia Shah is already having a rough week: her twelve-year-old son, Ishaan, has just been suspended from school for getting in a fight. Still reeling from the fallout of her divorce--their move to...
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IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Maya Aziz is caught between her India-born parents' world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy, and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil. In the aftermath of a terrorist attack hundreds of miles away, the community she's known since birth is transformed by fear, bigotry, and hatred.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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In this story inspired by Jules Verne's '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,' Ana Dakkar, a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy--a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world--makes astounding discoveries about her heritage and puts her leadership skills to the test against deadly enemies from a rival school.
Author
Series
Daevabad trilogy volume 3
Language
English
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Daevabad has fallen. After a brutal conquest stripped the city of its magic, Nahid leader Banu Manizheh and her resurrected commander, Dara, must try to repair their fraying alliance and stabilize a fractious, warring people. Nahri and Ali, now safe in Cairo, face difficult choices of their own. As peace grows more elusive and old players return, Nahri, Ali, and Dara come to understand that in order to remake the world, they may need to fight those...
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" 'You can never go home again,' the saying goes—but Hal, Athena, and Erin have to. In high school, the three were students of the eccentric Professor Marsh, trained in a secret system of magic known as the Dissonance, which is built around harnessing negative emotions: alienation, anger, pain. Then, twenty years ago, something happened that shattered their coven, scattering them across the country, stuck in mundane lives, alone. But now, terrifying...
Author
Series
Kiranmala and the kingdom beyond volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Up until her twelfth birthday, Kiranmala considered herself an ordinary sixth-grader in Parsippany, New Jersey, but then her parents disappear and a drooling rakkhosh demon shows up in her kitchen, and soon she is swept into another dimension, full of magic, winged horses, talking birds (very annoying), and cute princes--and somehow Kiranmala needs to sort it all out, find her parents, and basically save the world.
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"A diverse, exciting debut space opera about a young tea expert who is taken as a political prisoner and recruited to spy on government officials-a role that may empower her to win back her nation's independence-perfect for fans of N.K. Jemisin and Nnedi Okorafor. The dust may have just settled in the failed war of conquest between the Holy Vaalbaran Empire and the Ominirish Republic, but the last Emperor's surrender means little to a lowly scribe...