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(0)Avi
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
From Newbery Medalist Avi comes a richly imagined, action-packed companion to his bestselling medieval mysteries Midnight Magic and Murder at Midnight* "The novel's pace is quick, and. . . the ending completely satisfying." - Booklist, starred review "Another smart and compelling novel from one of our best children's writers." - Tim McCarthy, Boswell Book Company???????When King Claudio sends Mangus the Magician and his faithful servant, Fabrizio,...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Newbery Medal-winning author Avi has penned over 50 novels for children and young adults. His historical fiction, in particular, is often singled out for glowing praise thanks to his engaging characters and carefully researched period details. In City of Orphans, Avi transports listeners to the streets of 1893 New York City for an adventure starring young newsboy Maks Geless. Amongst the grime and filth of the streets, Maks and his new friend Willa...
Author
Language
English
Description
Small steps lead to big adventures for a pair of unlikely friends in this "charming modern fable" by the Newbery Medal-winning author of Crispin (Booklist).
Avon the snail has never had an adventure. And adventure, he has heard, is the key to a happy life. So he sets out on an exciting journey with his new pal, Edward, a thoughtful but misinformed ant. Together they meet all manner of wise, weird, and intriguing creatures-including a dragon!-and...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Pr Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Renowned, award-winning author Avi pens a stark, unflinching tale of ordinary boys living in wartime as tensions — and desperations — mount among them.Twelve-year-old Patryk knows little of the world beyond his tiny Polish village; the Russians have occupied the land for as long as anyone can remember, but otherwise life is unremarkable. Patryk and his friends entertain themselves by coming up with dares — some more harmful than others — until...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
High adventure from a master storyteller about one boy’s attempt to fend for himself among cruel orphan masters, corrupt magistrates, and conniving thieves.
In the seaside town of Melcombe Regis, England, 1724, Oliver Cromwell Pitts wakes to find his father missing and his house flooded by a recent storm. He’s alone in his ruined home with no money and no food. Oliver’s father has left behind a barely
...In the seaside town of Melcombe Regis, England, 1724, Oliver Cromwell Pitts wakes to find his father missing and his house flooded by a recent storm. He’s alone in his ruined home with no money and no food. Oliver’s father has left behind a barely
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Avi's ground-breaking graphic novel gets a stunning new cover to celebrate its twentieth anniversary!
Two kids fight to save their city from eternal winter in this gripping fantasy by Newbery Medalist Avi, illustrated by three-time Sibert Honoree Brian Floca."To begin with--there were these KURBS. These Kurbs owned an Island...with their POWER they controlled both day and night...Years ago, when People first came to the Kurbs' Island, they wanted...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Go on a journey with Avi Leibovic, Esq. as the disability expert teaches readers how to win their claim for Social Security disability benefits. With over 25 years of experience, you will learn how to file a case, what to do, what NOT to do and where to seek help, as well as how to win the case - very easily. Inside, you will find tips of the trade, as well as helpful advice and how-to instructions which await your perusal. 101 easy-to-follow tips...
9) There There
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A lover’s doubt in the cold light of morning leads to a chain of uneasy intimacies. THERE THERE takes physical separations to an extreme while simultaneously forging, always, to create unique intimacies on screen.
10) Doppelganger
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
A writer with a room for rent acquires a strange new roommate with a psychotic alter-ego that follows her wherever she goes.
11) The Insiders
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * An ALA Rainbow Book List Top 10 Title for Young ReadersThree kids who don’t belong. A room that shouldn’t exist. A year that will change everything.Perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead and Meg Medina, this debut middle grade novel from award-winning author Mark Oshiro is a hopeful and heartfelt coming-of-age story for anyone who’s ever felt like they didn’t fit in.San Francisco and Orangevale may be...
12) Just Ash
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ashley "Ash" Bishop has always known who he is: a guy who loves soccer, has a crush on his friend Michelle, and is fascinated by the gruesome history of his hometown—Salem, Massachusetts. He's also always known that he's intersex, born with both male and female genitalia. But it's never felt like a big deal until his junior year of high school, when Ash gets his first period in front of the entire boys' soccer team. Now his friends and teachers...
13) Godly Heathens
Author
Publisher
Macmillan
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Avi Roque is the perfect narrator for this queer YA fantasy...The novel hits all the expected beats of YA fantasy, and Roque infuses it with even more life and drama." —AudioFile Godly Heathens is the first book in H.E. Edgmon's YA contemporary fantasy duology The Ouroboros, in which a teen, Gem, finds out they’re a reincarnated god from another world. Maybe I have always just been bad at being human because I’m not one.Gem Echols is a nonbinary...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dreamscape Media Llc
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Julián and his abuela are going to a wedding. Better yet, Julián is in the wedding. Weddings have flowers and kissing and dancing and cake. And this wedding also has a new friend named Marisol. It's not long before Julián and Marisol set off for some magic and mischief of their own, and when things take an unexpected turn, the pair learns that everything is easier with a good friend by your side. Jessica Love returns with a joyful story of friendship...
15) The Insiders
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * An ALA Rainbow Book List Top 10 Title for Young Readers
Three kids who don't belong. A room that shouldn't exist. A year that will change everything.
Perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead and Meg Medina, this debut middle grade novel from award-winning author Mark Oshiro is a hopeful and heartfelt coming-of-age story for anyone who's ever felt like they didn't fit in.
San Francisco and Orangevale may be in...
16) Lakelore
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
In this young adult novel by award-winning author Anna-Marie McLemore, two non-binary teens are pulled into a magical world under a lake, but can they keep their worlds above water intact?
Everyone who lives near the lake knows the stories about the world underneath it, an ethereal landscape rumored to be half-air, half-water. But Bastián Silvano and Lore Garcia are the only ones, who've been there. Bastián grew up both above the lake and in the...
Author
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Named one of "The five best books to understand AI" by The Economist
The impact AI will have is profound, but the economic framework for understanding it is surprisingly simple.
Artificial intelligence seems to do the impossible, magically bringing machines to life-driving cars, trading stocks, and teaching children. But facing the sea change that AI brings can be paralyzing. How should companies set strategies, governments design policies, and people...
18) Love & Dance
Author
Language
עברית
Description
Young Chen upsets his Israeli father, Rami-- but pleases his Russian mother, Lena-- when he halts his martial arts studies to enroll in dance lessons. Amid mounting tensions at home, Chen finds joy in his lessons -- and in the true source of his interest in the sport: his crush, fellow classmate Natalie.
19) Image of Victory
Author
Language
Arabic
Description
Inspired by true events in 1948. Hassanin, an Egyptian filmmaker, is tasked with documenting a raid on the isolated kibbutz Nitzanim. When the kibbutz learns of the impending army raid, Mira, a young but valiant mother, is forced to reckon with the true cost of war and make an impossible choice.