Alikhan, Salima
Summary: Emmi, a German immigrant, is living in Chicago when the Great Fire breaks out on October 8, 1871, and, separated from her father, she finds herself with her neighbors, Cara and Seamus, braving the smoke and flames trying to escape the danger of the burning city, and searching for all their parents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ALITarshis, Lauren
Summary: "Robbed on the train platform as soon as he arrives in the city, eleven-year-old Oscar Starling soon finds himself in the middle of the Great Chicago Fire when he chases after his thief, who is herself in need of rescue." --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TARButcher, Jim
Summary: "Harry has faced terrible odds before. He has a long history of fighting enemies above his weight class. The Red Court of Vampires. The fallen angels of the Order of Blackened Denarius. The Outsiders. But this time, it's different. A being more powerful and dangerous on an order of magnitude beyond what the world has seen in a millennia is coming. And she's bringing an army. The Last Titan has...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUTCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUT DF 17Alikhan, Salima
Summary: When a massive fire breaks out in 1871 Chicago, twelve-year-old orphan Ollie and his young charge Leo scramble to escape the burning city, but before they find shelter they must search for Ollie's lost sister Eliza among the wreckage.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE ALICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ALIGilbert, Julie
Summary: For young Cora Moffat March 18, 1925 has been a bad day, but it gets much worse when her school is hit by the Tri-State Tornado, and she, her twin brother and her former best friend Claire, struggle to survive as the school and town are destroyed around them. Includes historical notes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GILCharbonneau, Joelle.
Summary: "The United Commonwealth wants to eliminate the rebel alliance fighting to destroy The Testing for good. Cia is ready to lead the charge, but will her lethal classmates follow her into battle?"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHATanaka, Shelley
Summary: Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 TANCenter, Katherine
Summary: "A year after getting divorced, Helen Carpenter, thirty-two, lets her annoying, ten years younger brother talk her into signing up for a wilderness survival course. It's supposed to be a chance for her to pull herself together again, but when she discovers that her brother's even-more-annoying best friend is also coming on the trip, she can't imagine how it will be anything other than a...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2020
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Elison, Meg
Summary: Philip K. Dick Award Winner for Distinguished Science Fiction When she fell asleep, the world was doomed. When she awoke, it was dead. In the wake of a fever that decimated the earth's population--killing women and children and making childbirth deadly for the mother and infant--the midwife must pick her way through the bones of the world she once knew to find her place in this dangerous new...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 47North 2016
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Michallon, Clémence
Summary: "A psychological thriller about trauma, power, and survival, which follows a young woman who has been captured and confined by a serial killer--who is a father, widower, former Marine, and lineman for the local electric company--as he hides the true nature of his double life from his daughter, neighbors, and the local bartender who could be his next victim, unless his captive manages to stop...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Austin, Lynn N.
Summary: "In this gripping portrait of war and its aftermath from bestselling author Lynn Austin, a young woman searches for the truth her childhood friend won't discuss after returning from World War II, revealing a story of courage, friendship, and faith. Peggy Serrano couldn't wait for her best friend to come home from the war. But the Jimmy Barnett who returns is much different from the Jimmy who...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC AUSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Fiction, Call number: LP FIC AUSAfshar, Tessa
Summary: "The beloved daughter of Jewish captives in Babylon, Keren is sold into Daniel's household to help her family survive. She becomes Daniel's most trusted scribe, while taking lessons and swordsmanship training alongside Daniel's sons and their best friend, Jared. But after a tragic accident changes the course of her life, Keren finds herself in a foreign country, charged with a mysterious task:...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction AfsharMacHale, D. J.
Summary: Once again, Tucker Pierce and friends must fight for their lives against the better-equipped SYLO, and they will risk nearly everything to keep each other safe the battle's climax nears.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MACLane, J. C.
Summary: Six young people play a dangerous Game of Tag in public, chasing through the crowds, streets, and buildings of Chicago. This secret, one-of-a-kind, wildly expensive Game offers a macabre twist to the childhood version... if you get Tagged, you get Dead.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Poisoned Pen Press 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANBrown, Erik J.
Summary: Putting their trust in one another, two boys, Andrew and Jamie, search for civilization in a world ravaged by a deadly pathogen, but their secrets could cost them everything as they try to find the courage to fight for the future, together.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.MacHale, D. J.
Summary: Having escaped from Pemberwick Island, Kent, Tori, Olivia, and Tucker continue to try to get word out about SYLO, the organization that had quarantined them, while trying to avoid being caught in the middle of an inexplicable new civil war.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Razorbill, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MACCummings, Lindsay
Summary: Wrongly accused of her brother's murder, Sonara's destiny was to die, sentenced to execution by her own mother. Punished and left for dead, the shadows have cursed her with a second life as a Shadowblood, cast out and hunted by society for her demon-like powers. Now known as the Devil of the Deadlands, Sonara survives as a thief on the edge of society, fighting for survival on a quest to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HQ 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Ware, Ruth
Summary: "Lyla is in a bit of a rut. Her post-doctoral research has fizzled out, she's pretty sure they won't extend her contract, and things with her boyfriend, Nico, an aspiring actor, aren't going great. When the opportunity arises for Nico to join the cast of a new reality TV show, One Perfect Couple, she decides to try out with him. A whirlwind audition process later, Lyla find herself whisked off...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Audiobook Display, Call number: CD FIC WARAustin, Lynn N.
Summary: "Peggy Serrano couldn't wait for her best friend to come home from the war. But the Jimmy Barnett who returns is much different from the Jimmy who left, changed so drastically by his experience that he can barely function. When he attempts the unthinkable and his parents check him into the VA hospital, Peggy determines to help the Barnetts unravel what might have happened to send their son over...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tyndale House Publishers 2022
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Oliver, Ben
Summary: A contestant on a brand-new game show offering young criminals the chance at freedom and a cash prize by winning over viewers, Emerson desperately needs the money to save her family, but little does she know that winning is her only chance at survival because losing means death.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Chicken House, Scholastic Inc. 2024
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OLICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC OLIRedfearn, Suzanne
Summary: "Needing to escape her abusive marriage, Hadley flees with her two kids, knowing it might be her only chance. A woman who can't even kill a spider, Hadley soon finds herself pushed to the limits as she fights to protect her family. Grace, new mother of baby Miles, desperately wants to put her rough past behind her for good, but she finds it impossible when her path crosses with Hadley's, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2022
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC REDEllis, Deborah
Summary: The first book in Deborah Elliss riveting Breadwinner series is an award-winning novel about loyalty, survival, families and friendship under extraordinary circumstances during the Talibans rule in Afghanistan. Eleven-year-old Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistans capital city. Parvanas father a history teacher until his school was...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books 2000
View online at Hoopla
Guanzon, Thea
Summary: "The heart is a battlefield. War has raged for a decade in Lir, and orphaned soldier Talasyn has learned to keep her powers hidden to survive. As the last known Lightweaver on the continent, she can create radiant weapons that cut through the invading Shadowforged warriors' dark magic. But all that changes when she is forced to reveal her abilities on the battlefield to defend herself from the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GUACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GUAShin, Ann
Summary: "Jin and Suja meet and fall in love while studying at university in Pyongyang. She is a young journalist from a prominent family, while he is from a small village of little means. Outside the school, North Korea has fallen under great political upheaval, plunged into chaos and famine. When Jin returns home to find his family starving, their food rations all but gone, he makes a rash decision...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Park Row Books 2021