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1) The familiar
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
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Description
"In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position. What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when...
Author
Series
Familiars volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Description
When a scrappy alley cat named Aldwyn passes himself off as a magical animal companion to Jack, a young wizard in training, Aldwyn and his fellow "familiars," a know-it-all blue jay and bumbling tree frog, must save the kingdom after the evil queen of Vastia kidnaps Jack and two other wizards.
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Ofrecemos este calendario, para que tú y tus niños pueden establecer una divertida conexión diaria. Las actividades están diseńadas para nińos menores de 6 años, pero niños de todas la edades pueden también disfrutar del calendario. Ya sea que seas un padre, proveedor de cuidado infantil o guardián, recuerda que el mehor aprendizaje que tus miños obtendrián, sucede cuando dedicas tiempo para leer, hablar; jugar y explorar...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Formats
Description
For fans of David Joy and Christopher J. Yates, comes Ian Pisarcik's haunting debut novel exploring the fraught nature of families and the inescapable secrets that are out to cripple them. On the outskirts of a town too tired for its own happenings, the boys were found dead inside a tent. Three years later, their fathers have disappeared, too. Ruth Fenn's son was the boy they blamed. For three years, Ruth has accepted her lot as pariah, focusing on...
Author
Series
Hikaru no Go volume 17
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
From the moment he began playing go, Hikaru relied on Sai's supernatural support. Now that his mentor has vanished into thin air, will he be able to handle the demands of life as a pro? Meanwhile, Hikaru's archrival Akira is playing so well even veteran players tremble at the mention of his name. And now, at long last, the boys will compete against each other...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Description
Pendle Hill Young Fleetwood Shuttleworth is with child again. As the mistress of Gawthorpe Hall, she is anxious to provide her husband with an heir. But none of her previous pregnancies have come to term. Then she discovers a hidden letter from her physician that warns her husband that she will not survive another pregnancy. Distraught over the frightening revelation, Fleetwood wanders the woods of Pendle Hill, where she meets a young local woman...
9) The familiar
Author
Series
Animorphs. Main series volume 41
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
A boy named Jake wakes up to find himself twenty-five years old and in a world ruled by the aliens known as the Yeerks.
Author
Series
The Color Purple volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 23
Description
Three couples, two in crisis, talk about themselves and reconstruct the missing pieces of the past and in the end, they deeply affect one another. Transcending the conventions of time and place, Walker's novel moves from contemporary America, England, and Africa to unfamiliar primal worlds, where women, men, and animals socialize in surprising ways. The author of The Color Purple has created a mesmerizing novel of vision and spirit.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Description
Almon Campbell's mother stepped on a cat's tail. Now, the cat expects Almon's soul as penance.
If he agrees, he will unlock clues to a mystery from his mother's past.
What happened at Tarago Bridge between the matriarch and the feline? Should he make an eternal vow to find out?
Cozy mysteries in a paranormal world. A Pact with Demons investigates uncanny tales with heart and danger. In a world where cat's talk. And darkness lurks everywhere. Why...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Description
Three powerful novels by Alice Walker, beginning with her masterpiece The Color Purple, and following characters as they are drawn into critical confrontations with history The Color Purple is Walker's stunning, Pulitzer Prize–winning novel of courage in the face of oppression. Celie grows up in rural Georgia, navigating a childhood of ceaseless abuse. Not only is she poor and despised by the society around her, she's badly treated by her family....
20) Familiar
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
One morning Jake wakes up and he's twenty-five years old. And there's another problem. The world Jake-the-kid went to sleep in has changed. It's ruled by the Yeerks. Jake has to find out if the other Animorphs and Ax are still around....or is he on his own?