Valente, Catherynne M.
Summary: For as long as they can remember, the twin endermen Fin and Mo have lived in the mysterious land of the End. On the outskirts of the great enderman city of Talos, they explore ancient ruins under the watchful gaze of the mighty ender dragon. They have everything they need in the end ship they call home, and know everything there is to know about their world -- or so they think until the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2019
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC VALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile- Series, Call number: JT Series Mine ValenteBaptiste, Tracey
Summary: Bianca Cooper escapes into the world of Minecraft after getting into a terrible car accident. Soon, however, she realizes she is trapped inside the game, and the in-game characters who have been attacking her resemble figures from her real life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2018
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MINCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: JT Series Mine BaptisteKeppeler, Jill
Summary: "Jasmine Jackson has a great imagination, but when her friend Matt tells their group of friends that he has a VR headset that can send him into the world of Minecraft, she finds it a little hard to believe. When Jaz tries the headset out for herself, she learns the truth--but then a creeper comes along and does what creepers do! She'll need to rebuild her shelter and maybe improve on it before...
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Publisher / Publication Date: West 44 Books, an imprint of Enslow Publishing 2020
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE KEPHimes, Leigh
Summary: "In this irresistible debut novel, a freak accident allows a wife and mother to explore the alluring alternative of the Road Not Taken. Abbey Lahey is a married, harried working mother of two, struggling to make ends meet in a blue-collar suburb of Philadelphia. When a tumble down a Nordstrom escalator lands her in an alternate reality, Abbey finds herself happily married to the one who got...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HIMStiefvater, Maggie
Summary: Ronan Lynch is a dreamer. He can pull both curiosities and catastrophes out of his dreams and into his compromised reality. Jordan Hennessy is a thief. The closer she comes to the dream object she is after, the more inextricably she becomes tied to it. Carmen Farooq-Lane is a hunter. Her brother was a dreamer and a killer. She has seen what dreaming can do to a person. And she has seen the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Playaway 2019
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC STIKinew, Wab
Summary: "Devastated by the loss of her beloved older brother to cancer, Bugz returns to the place where she can always find solace and strength: the Floraverse. Over the past year, she has gained back all that she had lost in that virtual world, and while the remaining ClanLess members still plot against her, she is easily able to overcome their attacks. Even better, she's been secretly working on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KINMastai, Elan
Summary: "There's no such thing as the life you're "supposed" to have... You know the future that people in the 1950s imagined we'd have? Well, it happened. In Tom Barren's 2016, humanity thrives in a techno-utopian paradise of flying cars, moving sidewalks, and moon bases, where avocados never go bad and punk rock never existed. because it wasn't necessary. Except Tom just can't seem to find his place...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MASCline, Ernest.
Summary: "Ready Player One takes place in the not-so-distant future--the world has turned into a very bleak place, but luckily there is OASIS, a virtual reality world that is a vast online utopia. People can plug into OASIS to play, go to school, earn money, and even meet other people (or at least they can meet their avatars), and for protagonist Wade Watts it certainly beats passing the time in his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2011
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CLIEliopulos, Nick
Summary: Based on the most popular video game of all time, this all-new chapter book series takes a group of intrepid Minecraft players deeper into the game than ever before. Something has turned the Evoker King to stone, and elements of his code have turned into new and terrible bosses that threaten the digital world of Minecraft. Now Po, Harper, and their friends must travel deep into underground and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ELICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED ELICline, Ernest.
Summary: At once wildly original and stuffed with irresistible nostalgia, READY PLAYER ONE is a spectacularly genre-busting, ambitious, and charming debut-- part quest novel, part love story, and part virtual space opera set in a universe where spell-slinging mages battle giant Japanese robots, entire planets are inspired by Blade Runner, and flying DeLoreans achieve light speed.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2011
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD SF CLIForbeck, Matt.
Summary: Brave heroes have banded together to take a perilous journey through the war-torn Overworld to defeat the Arch-Illager and his formidable army. But how did that army come to be? And just where did the Arch-Illager come from? The terrible truth behind the Arch-Illager is that he never asked for ultimate power. Known as Archie, this little Illager is bullied by his fellow Illagers and mistrusted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey, of Penguin Random House LLC 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Series, Call number: JT Sereis Minecraft BrooksGaiman, Neil.
Summary: Helena is a young girl growing up in the circus who longs to know what "normal" life is like. After she sees a girl who looks remarkably like her in a mirror, she is transported to a mystical land where very little makes sense. There, she befriends the mischievous Valentine, and together they attempt to get her home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC GAIClare, Gwendolyn
Summary: A certain pen, a certain book, and a certain person can craft entirely new worlds through a branch of science called scriptology. Elsa comes from one such world that was written into creation by her mother a noted scriptologist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CLARuff, Matt
Summary: John Chu is a "sherpa"--a paid guide to online role-playing games like the popular Call to Wizardry. For a fee, he and his crew will provide you with a top-flight character equipped with the best weapons and armor, and take you dragon-slaying in the Realms of Asgarth, hunting rogue starships in the Alpha Sector, or battling hordes of undead in the zombie apocalypse
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUFCline, Ernest
Summary: Days after winning control of OASIS, the immersive virtual reality environment in which most of humanity chooses to live, Wade Watts discovers a world-changing technological advancement and draws the attention of a merciless new rival --
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2020