Hayashida, Kyū

Summary: Zaha Sanko is the most wanted man in the universe. They say that if you can take his bones, you'll be rewarded with anything you might desire. That's made no end of trouble for Sanko, who's a pretty normal teenage dude (when he's not killing people with an axe made out of pure darkness). Currently the prisoner of an ancient space cult, he'll need everything he's got to reclaim his freedom....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas 2021

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DAI

Hayashida, Kyū

Summary: Zaha Sanko is the most wanted man in the universe. They say that if you claim his bones, you'll receive anything your heart desires. Having the entire galaxy trying to kill you all the time is kind of a drag when you're just fourteen years old, but Sanko has the mysterious power of darkness on his side, not to mention a talking spaceship and three horribly powerful space weirdos. Together,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas 2022

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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 DAI

Takahashi, Rumiko

Summary: Ever since a strange encounter when she was a child, Sakura Mamiya has had the power to see ghosts. Now in high school, she just wishes the ghosts would leave her alone! When her mysterious classmate Rinne Rokudo shows up, Sakura finds herself following him into the amazing world between life and death! The Shinigami Ageha caught more than she bargained for when she tried to set a trap for her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2012

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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 RIN

Bell, Davina

Summary: Identical twin sisters Summer and Winter live alone on a remote island, sheltered from the fallout of a mysterious event that has laid waste to the rest of the world. They survive on rations stockpiled by their father and spend their days deep in their mother's collection of classic literature - until a mysterious stranger upends their carefully constructed reality. At first, Edward is a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Text Publishing Company 2020

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BEL

Funke, Cornelia Caroline.

Summary: As Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double--tries to keep the Book of Immortality from unraveling, Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, asking for Bluejay's surrender or the children will be doomed to slavery in the silver mines.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House/Scholastic Inc. 2008

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FUN

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FUN

Zusak, Markus.

Summary: Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2006

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ZUS

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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA CD FIC ZUS

Funke, Cornelia Caroline.

Summary: Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2003

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FUN

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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FUN

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC FUN

Summary: "Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teen love to this interlinked novel of charming, hilarious, and heartwarming stories that shine a bright light through the dark"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BLA

Funke, Cornelia Caroline.

Summary: When Dustfinger finds a crooked storyteller who can read him back to Inkscape, he leaves his apprentice Farid behind. Farid seeks out Meggie and the two follow him back into the enchanted book. Although a year has passed, not a day goes by without Meggie thinking of Inkheart, the book whose characters became real. But for Dustfinger, the fire-eater brought into being from words, the need to...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House 2005

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3 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC FUN

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC FUN

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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC FUN

Quezon, Lynn Ng

Summary: "A fictionalized account of Margaret E. Knight's struggle to win legal rights to the invention of the paper-bag machine. Fifteen-year-old Mattie holds a rare position at Columbia Paper: Unlike the other girls and women, she doesn't run machines or hand-fold paper bags. She's a mechanic. In her first job at a cotton mill, she invented a device to keep women from being injured by flying shuttles....

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Santa Monica Press Teen 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC QUE

Montaña Ibáñez, Francisco

Summary: "Two intertwining stories of Bogotá. One, a family of five children, left to live on their own. The other, a girl in an orphanage who will do anything to befriend the mysterious Immortal Boy"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MON