Forbes, Lani
Summary: Thrust into leadership upon the death of his emperor father, young Prince Ahkin feels completely unready for his new position. Though his royal blood controls the power of the sun, he's now responsible for the lives of all the Chicome people. And despite all of Ahkin's efforts, the sun is fading--and the end of the world may be at hand. For Mayana, the only daughter of the Chicome family whose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FORForbes, Lani
Summary: To the Chicome people, an eclipse is a time of terror. When darkness falls, the barrier separating the heavens and the earth becomes unstable. Then come the ravening Tzitzimime--the star demons who thirst for human blood. Mayana and Ahkin know the full extent of the coming danger, but they must gather support or the Chicome Empire is doomed. As the eclipse nears, many maneuver for power in this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FOROsborne, Mary Pope.
Summary: As a thank-you from Merlin and Morgan, Jack and Annie are sent on what should be a vacation at a luxurious resort in Cozumel, Mexico, but is, by mistake, an adventure with ancient Mayans, instead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2015
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED OSBCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: JS Magic OsbornePeña, Matt de la
Summary: Sera has seen the future, and it is terrifying. Unfortunately, she can't do anything to prevent the Cataclysm while stranded with Dak and Riq thousands of years in the past. Their only hope lies with the ancient Maya, a mysterious people who claim to know a great deal about the future. Is there more to these ancients than meets the eye?
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC INFForbes, Lani
Summary: Cast into the underworld after an act of shattering betrayal, Mayana and Ahkin must overcome unimaginable odds if they are to return home and reclaim the throne of the Chicome. A river of blood and demons disguised as children are only two of the challenges standing in their way. Fortunately Mayana's royal blood controls the power of water, and Prince Ahkin wields the power of the sun itself....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC FOREboch, Chris.
Summary: When a Mayan girl in ninth-century Guatemala suspects that the High Priest sacrifices anyone who stands in the way of his power, she proves herself a hero.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1999
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC EBOWisniewski, David.
Summary: To bring rain to his thirsty village, Pik challenges the rain god to a game of pok-a-tok.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarion Books 1991
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WISVoelkel, Jon.
Summary: "Deep in the jungle, Max and Lola battle a zombie army, mutant cave spiders, and even the ancient Maya Lords of Death"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Egmont USA 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC VOEByrne, Monica
Summary: It takes readers on a journey over two millennia and six continents, telling three powerful tales a thousand years apart, all of them converging in the same cave in the Belizean jungle. Braided together are the stories of a pair of teenage twins who ascend the throne of a Maya kingdom; a young American woman on a trip of self-discovery in Belize; and two dangerous charismatics vying for the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC BYRD'Amato, Brian.
Summary: Math prodigy and Maya descendant Jed DeLanda is invited by his former mentor, Taro, to travel back in time into another person's life more than thirteen centuries earlier to learn about a "sacrifice game" that has been described in a newly discovered Mayan codex.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAMVoelkel, Jon.
Summary: With the end of the Mayan calendar fast approaching, fourteen-year-old Max Murphy and his friend Lola, the Maya girl who saved his life in the perilous jungle, race against time to outwit the twelve villainous Lords of Death, following the trail of the conquistadors into a forgotten land steeped in legend and superstition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Egmont USA 2011
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC VOEVoelkel, Jon.
Summary: When his archaeologist parents go missing in Central America, fourteen-year-old Max embarks on a wild adventure through the Mayan underworld in search of the legendary Jaguar Stones, which enabled ancient Mayan kings to wield the powers of living gods. Includes cast of characters, glossary, facts about the Maya cosmos and calendar, and a recipe for chicken tamales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Egmont USA 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC VOECussler, Clive.
Summary: Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are in Mexico, when they come upon a remarkable discovery--the skeleton of a man clutching an ancient sealed pot, and within the pot, a Mayan book, larger than anyone has ever seen. The book contains astonishing information about the Mayans, about their cities, and about mankind itself. The secrets are so powerful that some people would do anything to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CUSMarshall, Linda Elovitz
Summary: Ixchel, a young Mayan girl, who is not allowed to use her mother's thread to weave, exercises her ingenuity and repurposes plastic bags to create colorful weavings.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dennis McMillan 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARD'Amato, Brian.
Summary: Math prodigy Jed DeLanda uses his divination knowledge to set events in motion to bring about the necessary destruction of humanity, an effort that is countered by the organization that sent him into the world of the ancient Maya.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012
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Summary: With the end of the Mayan calendar fast approaching, fourteen-year-old Max Murphy and his friend Lola, the Maya girl who saved his life in the perilous jungle, race against time to outwit the twelve villainous Lords of Death, following the trail of the conquistadors into a forgotten land steeped in legend and superstition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Egmont USA 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC VOERollins, James
Summary: Connecticut middle-schooler Jake and his older sister Kady are transported by a Mayan artifact to a strange world inhabited by a mix of people from long-lost civilizations who are threatened by prehistoric creatures and an evil alchemist, the Skull King.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ROLVegas, Peter
Summary: "Sam heads to Belize to continue his investigation into his parents' mysterious disappearance and to learn more about secret of the pyramids. But after being kidnapped by crocodile cultists, will he ever be able to find the answers he's looking for?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Vegas 2017Thomason, Dustin.
Summary: Shortly before December 21, 2012, a CDC expert encounters a confounding medical mystery, and a talented Mayan scholar comes into possession of a priceless codex with terrifying implications for modern civilization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2012
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLESummary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CLICervantes, J. C. (Jennifer C.)
Summary: "Shadow bruja Ren Santiago was relentlessly pursued by the evil Aztec Lords of Night, who claimed that she was destined to be their queen, a destiny she wasn't willing to accept. So she chose death instead. Too bad death wasn't the answer to her problems. Ren soon realizes she must return to the land of the living to make things right. Unfortunately, that means negotiating with Ixtab, queen of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Hyperion 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CEROsborne, Lawrence
Summary: As night falls on Macau and the neon signs that line the rain-slick streets come alive, Doyle - "Lord Doyle" to his fellow players - descends into his casino of choice to try his luck at the baccarat tables that are the anchor of his current existence. A corrupt English lawyer who has escaped prosecution by fleeing to the East, Doyle spends his nights drinking and gambling and his days sleeping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OSBYanagihara, Hanya
Summary: When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015