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Allende, Isabel.

Summary: When fifteen-year-old Alexander Cold accompanies his individualistic grandmother on an expedition to find a humanoid Beast in the Amazon, he experiences ancient wonders and a supernatural world as he tries to avert disaster for the Indians.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rayo 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH ALL

Vanderpool, Clare.

Summary: At the end of World War II, Jack Baker, a landlocked Kansas boy, is suddenly uprooted after his mother's death and placed in a boys' boarding school in Maine. There, Jack encounters Early Auden, the strangest of boys, who reads the number pi as a story and collects clippings about the sightings of a great black bear in the nearby mountains.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC VAN

Tesler, Monica

Summary: Twelve-year-old Jasper and his friends are the first group of cadets, called Bounders, to be trained as astronauts who use new spaceships to teleport, but soon are forced to go up against an alien society seeking revenge for stealing this brain-sync technology.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2016

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in J Series, Call number: J FIC TES

Vanderpool, Clare.

Summary: "Odyssey-like adventure of two boys' incredible quest on the Appalachian Trail where they deal with pirates, buried secrets, and extraordinary encounters"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2013

Copies Available at East Bay

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

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC VAN

Vanderpool, Clare.

Summary: At the end of World War II, Jack Baker, a landlocked Kansas boy, is suddenly uprooted after his mother's death and placed in a boys' boarding school in Maine. There, Jack encounters Early Auden, the strangest of boys, who reads the number pi as a story and collects clippings about the sightings of a great black bear in the nearby mountains.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Listening Library/Random House Audio 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD VAN

Grylls, Bear

Summary: "Sophie loves camp--except for all the creepy-crawlies. Getting trapped in the tent with a daddy longlegs is terrifying, and spiders make her scream. It's so embarrassing. But then a mysterious compass transports her to a fiercely hot desert, where Bear Grylls, her guide, is watching. The sun is beating down, and together they must trek to find water and overcome the dangers lurking in the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bear Grylls/Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED GRY

Verne, Jules

Summary: En 1872 Phileas Fogg ha sufrido una apuesta por viajar alrededor del mundo en setenta y nueve días,, veintitrés horas y cincuenta y siete minutos.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Blume 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: J SPANISH FIC VER

Burke, James Lee

Summary: "After a violent encounter that leaves four Mexican soldiers dead, Hackberry escapes the country in possession of a stolen artifact, earning the ire of a bloodthirsty Austrian arms dealer who then places Hack's son Ishmael squarely in the cross hairs of a plot to recapture his prize, believed to be the mythic cup of Christ. Along the way, we meet three extraordinary women: Ruby Dansen, the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUR

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BUR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Burke 2015

Burke, James Lee

Summary: A Texas ranger escapes after a violent encounter with a stolen artifact that has an Austrian arms dealer pursuing him and targeting his estranged son.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Bayard, Louis.

Summary: A reimagining of the ill-fated 1914 Amazon expedition that included Theodore Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, documents their struggles with hunger and malaria before being captured by an Amazonian tribe that requires them to hunt a mysterious beast.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt & Co 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAY

Shorr, Victoria.

Summary: Backlands tells the epic, historically based story of a group of indigenous, nomadic outlaws who rode through the backlands of Brazil from around 1922 until 1938. Led by the one-eyed bandit Lampiao and his lover Maria Bonita still folk heroes to this day the bandits marched across the vast, open reaches of their dry, desolate, starkly beautiful landscape, taking from the rich, entertaining the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHO

DeMille, Nelson

Summary: After receiving a tip from a dying priest, four unlikely partners begin a quest to find the Holy Grail in the jungles of Ethiopia.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC DEM

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEM

Summary: The lives of five people are intertwined by romance, friendship and rivalry. Victor has fallen for a woman, Elena. Elena wants nothing to do with Victor and she calls the cops when he shows up at her apartment. The two cops that show up are David and Sancho. Sancho is a chronic, abusive drunk and believes his wife, Clara may be having an affair with his partner, David.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2001

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LIV

Netz, Mo

Summary: "Ever since her dad died, 11-year-old Jerry Blum and her mom have bounced around dead-end towns, staying in a series of rundown motels where her mother picks up housekeeping work and Jerry can get around in her wheelchair. But the Slumbering Giant motel is different. Lights blink on and off in the surrounding trees, a mysterious radio station plays only at midnight, and people disappear into...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Stilton, Geronimo

Summary: Oh, what a day! I had just published New Mouse City's first phone book -- and almost every single number was wrong! My customers were out for my fur. So when Thea, Trap, and Benjamin asked me to join their quest for a legendary island covered in silver, I agreed. But no sooner had we set out than we were attacked by a ship of pirate cats! They mousenapped us and threatened to make us their...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2004

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC STI

Lee, C. B.

Summary: 1826. The legendary Dragon Fleet, the scourge of the South China Sea, is no more. Xiang has grown up with stories about the Dragon Fleet and its ruthless leader, a woman known only as the Dragon Queen. Desperate to set sail and explore, Xiang mainly wishes to find her father, a crew member of the Dragon Fleet. Her only memento of him is a simple but plain piece of gold jewelry. The pendant's...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

Brady, Dustin

Summary: After getting sucked in the new game Full Blast with his friend Eric, Jesse starts to see the appeal of being in the game, but pretty soon, a mysterious figure begins following Eric and Jesse, and they discover they cannot leave the game.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Andrews McMeel Publishing 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC BRA

Nakamura, Mei

Summary: "Poppy and Branch return for an all-new chapter in DreamWorks Animation's blockbuster musical franchise Trolls Band Together! Get ready for an action-packed all-star, rainbow-colored family reunion as the Trolls go on an epic quest to help Branch reunite with his missing brothers--spreading music, joy, friendship, and good times along the way!"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023

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Giles, Lamar

Summary: Otto and Sheed have to team up with the Ellison twins to take down a corporation obsessed with the weirdness of Logan County and that's turning its residents into Money-Zombies.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD GIL

Preston, Natasha

Summary: "A bind-up of two popular novels by author Natasha Preston--The Twin and The Lake"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2022

Copies Available at Fife Lake

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

Sorosiak, Carlie

Summary: Clementine is different from other mice: she can calculate the speed of light and she dreams in Latin. The scientists say she's a genius and put her through test after test. Clementine is proud of being a good lab mouse, but she's lonely. Her only snatches of friendship occur during her late-night visits with a chimpanzee named Rosie. When a compassionate lab technician frees Clementine, the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walker Books US, a division of Candlewick Press 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

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

West, Tracey

Summary: The Dragon Masters are still reeling from the desertion of Rori and her fire dragon Vulcan, when Mina, a Dragon Master from the far north, arrives with a problem--King Lars needs a fire dragon to defeat the Ice Giant who has frozen his kingdom; and so the Dragon Masters set out to find Rori and convince her to help.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WES

Hunter, Erin

Summary: Leopardstar knows her destiny is to save RiverClan from destruction, so as the rise of ThunderClan deputy Tigerstar shatters peace among the clans, Leopardstar must decide what kind of leader she will be.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC HUN

Young, Jessica (Jessica E.)

Summary: In this adventure Tank the Great Dane's active imagination takes her and Haggis the Scotty on a airplane trip to Scotland, where they visit a castle, enjoy high tea--and get chased by a werewolf.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Branches/Scholastic Inc. 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE YOU

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