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1) The giver
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 1
Description
Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade. This special edition contains a new afterword by the author, as well as her Newbery Medal acceptance speech.
2) Moon
Author
Publication Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
Throughout her busy days, Moon wonders what it would be like to be wild and free until the day she meets a wolf and learns his "wolfy ways."--Provided by Publisher.
Author
Publication Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Description
"The tiger is the most fearless animal in the jungle, but when hunters take him to a cage in the city he discovers there is something much more valuable than strength or power"-- Provided by publisher.
5) El dador
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Series
Formats
Description
Diciembre es el mes en el que se celebra la Ceremonia anual, en la que los Doce reciben sus asignaciones vitalicias determinadas por el Comité de Ancianos. Pero Jonás, un niño que cumple doce años, ha sido elegido para algo muy especial.
6) Freedom bird
Author
Publication Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Description
In the antebellum South, two siblings shelter a large, mysterious, wounded bird and eventually follow it west toward freedom.
Author
Publication Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (col. ill.)
Description
Princess Cinnamon's stuffy parents want her to look grand, wearing the finest clothes and jewels, and study deportment but Cinnamon longs to be wild and free. Includes directions for making a kite.
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Formats
Description
"Ming survived the famine that killed his parents during China's "Great Leap Forward", and lives a hard but adequate life, working in the fields. When a group of city boys comes to the village as part of a Communist Party re-education program, Ming and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new arrivals...But despite his reservations, Ming befriends a charming city boy called Li. The two couldn't be more different, but slowly they form a bond...
10) Sands of Nezza
Author
Series
Adventurers wanted volume 4
Publication Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
When Alexander Taylor, wizard and warrior, is summoned to the land of Nezza in order to save a friend in need, he finds a country where war is a part of daily life, where adventurers are imprisoned by the Brotherhood, and where all magic is believed to be black.
11) Elijah of Buxton
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Formats
Description
In 1859, eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American south, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom.
12) Polaris
Author
Series
Avalon (Mindee Arnett) volume 2
Publication Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
423 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
"Jeth Seagrave and his crew of mercenaries are pulled into one last high-stakes mission"-- Provided by publisher.
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