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The Yearling The Yearling Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag after a fatal encounter with his mother and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as … OL111382W
The Wheatstone Pond The Wheatstone Pond Robert Westall When an archaeological dig begins at the Whetstone pond, the pond seems to have ideas of its own. Violence and aggression builds up in the people who work there. The corpse of a baby is found. A moto… OL11314906W
In the Night Room In the Night Room Peter Straub In the wake of a grotesque accident, a famous children’s book author realizes that the most basic facts of her existence, including her existence itself, have come into question. Willy Patrick, th… OL114300W
A brief history of Montmaray A brief history of Montmaray Michelle Cooper,Michelle Cooper "There's a fine line between gossip and history, when one is talking about kings."Sophie Fitzosborne lives in a crumbling castle in the tiny island kingdom of Montmaray with her eccentric and impover… OL13683578W
The Lantern Bearers The Lantern Bearers Rosemary Sutcliff,R. Sutcliff Instead of leaving with the last of the Roman legions, Aquila, a young officer, decides that his loyalties lie with Britain, and he eventually joins the forces of the Roman-British leader Ambrosius t… OL1417732W
The Teeth of the Gale The Teeth of the Gale Joan Aiken At the request of the nun with whom he is in love, eighteen-year-old Felix embarks on a perilous rescue mission across the strife-torn countryside of Spain in the late 1820s. Sequel to "Go Saddle the… OL14851412W
If I Stay If I Stay Gayle Forman *Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel. I open my eyes wide now. I sit up as much as I can. And I listen. Stay, he says.* Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with … OL14932974W
Playing with fire Playing with fire Melody Carlson If your vision led you straight into the fire,would you follow it anyway?Samantha's brother, Zach, is finally home after a ninety-day rehab for his meth addiction, and life seems to be getting back t… OL15109914W
The White Horse Trick The White Horse Trick Kate Thompson The third book in the award-winning New Policeman sequenceIt is the latter part of the 21st century, and dramatic climate change has made life in Ireland almost impossible. Meanwhile, Tir na n'Og is … OL15169708W
Reckless Reckless Lionel Wigram,Oliver Latsch,Andrew Merkin,Cornelia Funke Jacob Reckless is a treasure hunter in a world behind a mirror, a place of dangerous magic. There, accompanied by Fox, a shape-shifting girl, he's lived up to his name. But disaster strikes when his … OL15371140W
Haunting Violet Haunting Violet Alyxandra Harvey Sixteen-year-old Violet Willoughby has been part of her mother's Spiritualist scam since she was nine, but during an 1872 house party in Hampshire, England, she is horrified to learn that she can act… OL15414013W
By royal command By royal command Mary Hooper As a reward for saving Queen Elizabeth's life, teenaged Lucy, now firmly established in Dr. Dee's household, is asked to secretely work as a spy for the queen but strange ghostly cries in the house p… OL15443991W
Afterlife Afterlife Claudia Gray When a shocking twist of fate turns Bianca into a wraith and Lucas into a vampire, the star-crosses lovers have no choice but to return to the sinister Evernight Academy to deal with the repercussion… OL15586811W
The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group Catherine Jinks When Tobias Richard Vandevelde wakes up in a hospital with no memory of the night before, his horrified mother tells him that he was found unconscious. At Featherdale Wildlife Park. In a dingo pen. H… OL15692058W
Bone Bone Jeff Smith,Charles Vess This prequel to the Bone series tells the story of the character who will go on to become Gran'Ma Ben. Princess Rose must destroy a dragon who is, unbeknownst to her, the Lord of the Locusts. OL15728819W
Stop, don't stop Stop, don't stop Jonah Black After a diving accident, Jonah wakes up in the hospital confused. OL15871109W
The FitzOsbornes in exile The FitzOsbornes in exile Michelle Cooper,Michelle Cooper In January 1937, as Sophia FitzOsborne continues to record in her journal, the members of Montmaray's royal family are living in luxurious exile in England but, even as they participate in the social… OL15998728W
Rose of no man's land Rose of no man's land Michelle Tea Fourteen-year-old Trisha Driscoll is a gender-blurring, self-described loner whose family expects nothing of her. While her mother lies on the couch in a hypochondriac haze and her sister aspires to … OL16048953W
Forever Forever Maggie Stiefvater A human girl and her werewolf boyfriend must fight for their love as death comes closing in. OL16116881W
Masque of the Red Death (Masque of the Red Death Series, Book 1) Masque of the Red Death (Masque of the Red Death Series, Book 1) Bethany Griffin In this twist on Edgar Allen Poe's gothic short story, a wealthy teenaged girl who can afford a special mask to protect her from the plague that decimated humanity in the mid-1800s, falls in love, be… OL16318152W
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