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81) Geek girl
Author
Series
Geek Girl volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
?My name is Harriet Manners, and I am a geek." Harriet Manners knows that a cat has 32 muscles in each ear, a ?jiffy? lasts 1/100th of a second, and the average person laughs 15 times per day. She knows that bats always turn left when exiting a cave and that peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite. But she doesn?t know why nobody at school seems to like her. So when Harriet is spotted by a top model agent, she grabs the chance to reinvent herself....
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Fiction
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged affections, one or two orphans, and a sky full of watchful desert stars. At the heart of this place you will find the Soria family, who all have the ability to perform unusual miracles. And at the heart of this family are three cousins longing to change its future: Beatriz, the girl without feelings, who...
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Series
The Eldest Curses volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Children's UK
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
From #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Cassandra Clare and award-winning author Wesley Chu comes the second book in the Eldest Curses series, which continues the love story between Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood. The Lost Book of the White is a Shadowhunters novel. Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood are settling into domestic life with their son Max when the warlocks Ragnor Fell and Shinyun Jung break into their loft and steal a powerful...
84) Model misfit
Author
Series
Geek Girl volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollinsChildren?sBooks
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
?My name is Harriet Manners, and I am still a geek." MODEL MISFIT is the sequel to No. 1 UK debut GEEK GIRL. Harriet Manners knows a lot of facts. She knows that humans have 70,000 thoughts per day. She knows that Geek + Model = a whole new set of graffiti on your belongings. And that the average person eats a ton of food a year, though her pregnant stepmother is doing her best to beat this. But Harriet doesn?t know where she?s going to fit in once...
Author
Series
System Divine volume 1
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Deluxe edition with special embellishments on first printing only ?Not to be missed!? -Marissa Meyer, New York Times bestselling author of The Lunar Chronicles ?An explosion of emotion, intrigue, romance, and revolution.? -Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Caraval series In the tradition of The Lunar Chronicles, this sweeping reimagining of Les Misřables tells the story of three teens from very different backgrounds who...
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Series
Legacy of Orisha volume 2
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Children of Virtue and Vengeance is the breathtaking second title in Tomi Adeyemi's YA fantasy trilogy, Legacy of Ors̐ha, following her ground-breaking, West African-inspired debut Children of Blood and Bone. After battling the impossible, Zľie and Amari have finally succeeded in bringing magic back to the land of Ors̐ha. But the ritual was more powerful than they imagined, reigniting the powers of not only the maji but also some nobles with magic...
Author
Publisher
Stripes Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Jess has an incredible memory. She can remember every single detail of every single day since she was eleven. But Jess would rather not be remarkable and, after years of testing at the hands of a ruthless research team, she has finally managed to escape. Just when Jess thinks that she?s managing to settle in to living a normal life, everything changes. Her boarding-school roommate dies and the school is thrown into a state of chaos and grief. Then...
88) Gilded
Author
Series
Gilded volume 1
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
All magic comes at a price, but love was never part of the bargain . . . The look he was giving her. Serilda had never been looked at like that before . . . The intensity. The heat. The raw astonishment. He was going to kiss her. Cursed by the god of lies, a miller's daughter has developed a talent for storytelling - but are all of her tales as false as they appear? When one of Serilda's stories draws the attention of the devastating Erlking, she...
89) Wintersmith
Author
Series
Discworld Novels volume 35
Publisher
RHCP Digital
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
'Crivens!' Tiffany Aching put one foot wrong, made just one little mistake . . . And now the spirit of winter is in love with her. He gives her roses and icebergs and showers her with snowflakes, which is tough when you're thirteen, but also just a little bit . . . cool. And if Tiffany doesn't work out how to deal with him, there will never be another springtime . . . Crackling with energy and humour, Wintersmith is the third tale in a sequence about...
90) All just glass
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Sarah Vida has given up everything for love. From a legendary family of vampire-hunting witches, Sarah was raised to never trust a vampire, to never let her guard down, and to avoid all tricky attachments of the heart. But now Sarah IS a vampire-changed by the boy she thought she loved. Her family has forsaken her, and Sarah herself is disgusted by her appetite for blood. Aida Vida is Sarah's older sister, the good, reliable sibling who always does...
91) Need
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Childrens
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
It's little wonder, since she's had a fairly rough life. Her father left when she was a baby, her stepfather just died and her mother's almost given up - in fact, she's sent her to live with her grandmother in cold and sleepy Maine to keep Zara safe'. Zara doesn't think she's in danger; she thinks her mother just can't cope. Zara's wrong. The man she sees everywhere - the tall, creepy guy who points at her from the side of the road - is not...
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Series
Sally Lockhart volume 2
Language
English
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Description
The breathtaking return of daredevil detective Sally Lockhart. These days, Sally is twenty-two, an entrepreneur and expert financial advisor. But amid the mist-shrouded streets of Victorian London, strange news meets Sally's ears: rumours of the disappearance of steamship Ingrid Linde. As she investigates the loss, a clairvoyant mentions the name of Europe's richest man. Who is financier Axel Bellmann? What is behind the mysterious bad luck that has...
93) The cruel prince
Author
Series
The Folk of the Air volume 1
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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An absolute classic in the YA fantasy genre.
An incredible fantasy full of world building, politics and complex characters.
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Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Readers have been falling for the timeless story of sisters Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy as they navigate hardship and adventure in post-Civil War Concord, Massachusetts, for more than 150 years. This new keepsake edition of the classic novel is illustrated throughout with gorgeous black-and-white photos from the film adaptation written for the screen and directed by Greta Gerwig, and starring Timothě Chalamet, Chris Cooper, Laura Dern, Louis Garrel,...
95) The toll
Author
Series
Arc of a Scythe volume 3
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
It?s been three years since Rowan and Citra disappeared; since Scythe Goddard came into power; since the Thunderhead closed itself off to everyone but Grayson Tolliver. In this pulse-pounding finale to Neal Shusterman's internationally bestselling trilogy, constitutions are tested and old friends are brought back from the dead.
96) Scythe
Author
Series
Arc of a Scythe volume 1
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a world where disease, war and crime have been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed by professional scythes. Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scythes' apprentices, and despite wanting nothing to do with the vocation, they must learn the art of killing and understand the necessity of what they do. Only one of them will be chosen as a scythe's apprentice and as Citra and Rowan come up against a terrifyingly...
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Series
His Dark Materials volume 2
Publisher
Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A breathtaking epic, the award-winning His Dark Materials trilogy spans a multitude of worlds. The second instalment, The Subtle Knife, introduces Will Parry - a young boy in search of his long-lost explorer father. Will's discovery of an extraordinary 'window in the air' near the Oxford ring road leads him out of our world and into the strange and unsettling Cittg̉azze. There he meets Lyra, a girl who is herself searching for something: the secret...
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Series
Enola Holmes volume 1
Publisher
Hot Key Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
'A story of a young girl who is empowered, capable, and smart . . . the Enola Holmes book series convey an impactful message to kids and teenagers all over the world that you can do anything if you set your mind to it, and it does so in an exciting and adventurous way.' Millie Bobby Brown When Enola Holmes, sister to the detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has disappeared, she quickly embarks on a journey to London in search of her. But...
Author
Series
Enola Holmes volume 3
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follow London's newest and greatest detective, Enola Holmes, in her third captivating adventure - from the series that inspired the film, starring Millie Bobby Brown. Enola Holmes is still on the run from her brother and world's most famous detective Sherlock Holmes. After one close encounter too many with him, Enola must abandon her disguise and find a new way to avoid discovery. But when Sherlock's right-hand man, Dr Watson, goes missing without...
100) Who's that girl
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Junior Nattie McCullough has always been that under-the-radar straight girl who hangs out in the cafeteria with her gay-straight alliance friends. She?s never been the girl that gets the guy, let alone the girl that gets a hit song named after her. But when last summer?s crush, smoking-hot musician Sebastian Delacroix-who has recently hit the mainstream big-time-returns home to play a local show, that?s just what she gets. He and his band, the Young...
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