Dactyl Hill Squad
It is the summer of 1863, and as the Civil War rages between dinosaur-mounted armies down south, and a tense New York City seems on the brink of exploding into riots, Magdalys Roca and the other children at the Colored Orphan Asylum are trying to survive; but when she receives a letter telling her that her brother Montez was wounded, Magdalys knows that somehow she must reach him--and just possibly her ability to communicate telepathically with dinosaurs may come in handy.
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copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: african americans, race relations, riots, dinosaurs, orphans [X], siblings, new york (n.y.), alternative histories (fiction), action and adventure fiction [X]
Soul Of Stars
"Once Ana was an orphaned space outlaw. Then she was the Empress of the Iron Kingdom.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 19
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 810
subjects: androids, identity (philosophical concept), interplanetary voyages, orphans [X], science fiction, friendship, survival, adventure stories, robots, adventure and adventurers, science fiction, action and adventure fiction [X]
Voyage Of The Frostheart
"In a snow-covered land where monsters rule the icy tundra, only song weavers hold the power to control these vicious giants.
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year: 2019
copies: 8
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: outcasts, orphans [X], monsters, quests (expeditions), magic, adventure stories, adventure and adventurers, fantasy, fantasy fiction, action and adventure fiction [X]
Nightshade
Teen spy Alex Rider is sent to a maximum security facility in Gibraltar to impersonate Julius Grief while seeking information about a new criminal organization called Nightshade.
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year: 2021
copies: 28
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 760
subjects: prisons, terrorism, orphans [X], adventure stories, spies, adventure and adventurers, gibraltar, action and adventure fiction [X], spy fiction, spy stories, adventure fiction
The Betrayer
Daniel and his friends continue their mission as Truth Seekers, fighting and improvising their way through an intergalactic space adventure.
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year:
copies: 7
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: adventure stories, life on other planets, orphans [X], science fiction, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction, action and adventure fiction [X], science fiction
The Storyteller
"As Sefia and Archer watch Kelanna start to crumble to the Guard's will, they will have to choose between their love and joining a war that just might tear them apart"--Provided by publisher.
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year:
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
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subjects: books and reading, war stories, adventure stories, orphans [X], war, adventure and adventurers, love, war fiction, action and adventure fiction [X], romance fiction
The Way To Rio Luna
Eleven-year-old Danny Monteverde believes in magic, he believes that the enchanted land of Rio Luna in his older sister's favorite book is real, and most of all he believes that if he can find the way to Rio Luna he will find his sister, Pili, there, because he does not believe that his sister would run away from the group home where they lived and leave him behind; but after years of being passed from one foster family to another, his faith begins to fade--until one day he finds a mysterious book in the library that contains a map to Rio Luna .
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 13
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710
subjects: magic, foster children, brothers and sisters, imaginary places, adventure stories, hispanic americans, adventure and adventurers, fantasy, fantasy fiction, action and adventure fiction [X], orphans [X], siblings, adventure fiction, fairy tales, books, fantasy fiction, latinos (u.s.), adventure fiction
The Accidental Apprentice
"Eleven-year-old Barclay Thorne yearns for the quiet life of a mushroom farmer, but after unwittingly bonding with a beast in the forbidden Woods, he must seek Lore Keepers to break the bond and return home"--OCLC.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 22
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 750
subjects: fantasy, adventure and adventurers, apprentices, monsters, orphans [X], adventure stories, action and adventure fiction [X], fantasy fiction
Daughter Of The Deep
"Ana Dakkar, a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world, makes astounding discoveries about her heritage and puts her leadership skills to the test against deadly enemies from a rival school"--Publisher.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 73
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: adventure stories, underwater exploration, marine sciences, high schools, schools, characters and characteristics in literature, orphans [X], east indian americans, adventure and adventurers, characters in literature, adventure fiction, school stories, action and adventure fiction [X]
The Plentiful Darkness
Orphaned twelve-year-old Rooney de Barra chases a thieving boy into a magician's realm of darkness.
FIC
year: 2021
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: adventure fiction, magic, light and darkness, orphans [X], fantasy fiction, action and adventure fiction [X]
Northwind
When sickness decimates his fishing village, an orphan named Leif flees north in a cedar canoe, journeying along a brutal but beautiful coastline.
FIC
year: 2024
copies: 51
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: wilderness survival, survival, orphans [X], adventure stories, adventure and adventurers, action and adventure fiction [X], survival skills, adventure fiction
Jade Fire Gold
"Ahn is no one, with no past and no family. Altan is a lost heir, his future stolen away as a child.
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year: 2022
copies: 22
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: magic, revenge, fantasy fiction, adventure fiction, fantasy fiction, action and adventure fiction [X], orphans [X], kings and rulers, adventure stories, kings, queens, rulers, etc, adventure and adventurers, fantasy
The Unforgettable Logan Foster
"Logan, an undersized twelve-year-old orphan with a photographic memory and no filter, discovers that his foster parents are superheroes in grave danger and only Logan's highly logical mind can save them"--OCLC.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: superheroes, memory, orphans [X], foster home care, adventure stories, adventure and adventurers, adventure fiction, superhero fiction, action and adventure fiction [X]
City Of Magic
Mangus the Magician and his thirteen-year-old servant, Fabrizio, are commanded to go to Venice, on pain of death, to find a book by Friar Luca Pacioli that reportedly contains a magical means of making money; but Venice is a strange and dangerous city, and someone else is also after the book--then Mangus is arrested, and taken to the prison, and Fabrizio and Bianca, an orphan he has met, must find a way to secure the book, save Magnus, and themselves.
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year:
copies: 14
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: magicians, orphans [X], magic tricks, renaissance, adventure stories, adventure and adventurers, venice (italy), italy, action and adventure fiction [X], historical fiction
Warren The 13th And The Thirteen-year Curse
After the Warren Hotel is shipwrecked on a strange island on his thirteenth birthday, Warren and his friends must solve a series of riddles to rescue Sketchy from a travelling circus.
FIC
year: 2020
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: hotels, orphans [X], shipwrecks, riddles, adventure stories, hotels, motels, etc, adventure and adventurers, action and adventure fiction [X]