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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 1605 London, sixteen-year-old Joan Sands' magical ability to control metal makes her a skilled craftswoman, but her family gift for observing the Fae, who recently broke the Pact and are now brutally attacking mortals, draws Joan into political intrigue in both human and Fae worlds."--
2) Num8ers
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Jem knows when she looks at someone the exact date they will die, so she avoids relationships and tries to keep out of the way, but when she meets a boy named Spider and they plan a day out together, they become more involved than either of them had planned.
3) So much
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Relatives arriving in succession give in to their desire to squeeze and kiss and play with the baby.
5) Gangsta rap
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When teenage Ray and his two friends, Prem and Tyronne, form a successful rap band in the London's East End where they live, they soon find themselves embroiled in increasingly violent gang warfare.
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Zac never believed his grandfather's tales about their enslaved ancestors being descended from an African king, but when his grandfather is murdered and the villains come after Zac, he sets out for Ghana to find King Baktu's long-lost treasure before the murderers do.
10) León y Beto
Author
Publisher
Castillo de la lectura
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
Español
Description
Beto, el amigo imaginario de León, siempre acompaña a León donde sea que se muda. Un día, un niño de su misma edad se muda a la casa de al lado, y León, para ganar un amigo de verdad, logra superar su timidez.
Leon and his imaginary friend Bob do everything together until a new boy moves in next door.
11) Leon and Bob
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
Leon and his imaginary friend Bob do everything together until a new boy moves in next door.
Author
Series
Numbers ; 2
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In the follow-up to Numbers [Num8ers], sixteen-year-old Adam like his mother, Jem, looks in people's eyes and can see the dates of their deaths and now he sees the same date, six months in the future, in nearly everyone around him in the London of 2026.
Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
As an African tightrope dancer in Victorian London, Iris is a strange sight for leering British audiences always eager for the spectacle of colonial curiosity. But Iris also has a secret: she cannot die. Haunted by her unnatural power and with no memories of her past, Iris is obsessed with discovering who she is. Then she meets the dark and alluring Adam Temple, a member of a mysterious order called the Enlightenment Committee. Adam shares with her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The elite Enlightenment Committee, faces a world-ending threat as Hiva, once believed to be an apocalyptic force, is revealed to be a person, Iris Marlow, an immortal African tightrope dancer seeking revenge after her murder by her own friends, while another Hiva emerges with a destructive agenda, marking the beginning of the Cataclysm.
