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1) No and me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Precocious thirteen-year-old Lou meets a homeless eighteen-year-old girl on the streets of Paris and Lou's life is forever changed.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised--the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now, Agnès is free to tell her story. As children in a war-ravaged, backwater town, they'd built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves--until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnès on an epic...
Author
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Minerva Promise claimed that her three "test tube" daughters--gifted pianist Joanie, artistic Meg, and storyteller Avery--were engineered and molded to be geniuses. Now twenty years later, the sisters reluctantly agree to take part in a documentary that will reveal secrets and spur them to forge their own extraordinary lives at last.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"By turns suspenseful and enchanting, this breathtaking first novel weaves a story of love, family, history, and myth as seen through the eyes of one immortal woman. Collette LeSange is a lonely artist who heads an elite fine arts school for children in upstate New York. Her youthful beauty masks the dark truth of her life: she has endured centuries of turmoil and heartache in the wake of her grandfather's long-ago decision to make her immortal like...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Critics and readers everywhere stood up and took notice when Laura Moriarty's captivating debut novel hit the stores in June '03. Janet Maslin of the New York Times praised The Center of Everything as "warm" and "beguiling." USA Today compared the scrappy yet tender-hearted Evelyn Bucknow to Scout Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird. It garnered extensive national attention; from Entertainment Weekly to the Boston...
Author
Publisher
Arrow
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Victims. In New York, ten-year-old boys from the city's most exclusive schools are being brutally attacked, before their mutilated corpses are found washed up in the river. Target. Benjamin Winslow is a ten-year-old child genius who has just been accepted to Harvard. He is just like all the other murdered boys. In fact, he is more like them than he, or anyone else, imagines. Saviour. Detective Alex Hemingway is on the hunt for the killer. But as he...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A mysterious child teaches two strangers how to love and trust again. After the loss of her mother and her own battle with breast cancer, Joanna Teale returns to her graduate research on nesting birds in rural Illinois, determined to prove that her recent hardships have not broken her. When a mysterious child who shows up at her cabin, barefoot and covered in bruises, Joanna enlists the help of her reclusive neighbor, Gabriel Nash, to solve the mystery...
10) The soloist
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1994
Language
English
Description
Acclaimed best-selling author Mark Salzman delivers a humorously poignant tale in this novel of disappointment and redemption. Renne Sundheimer's life is a shadow of his youth, when he was a celebrated genius cellist. Now a college professor, he struggles to regain his gift. But in one week he is drafted into jury duty and reluctantly agrees to tutor a young Korean boy, forcing Renne to come to terms with his limitations and broaden his horizons....
Author
Series
Universe after volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jane Kamali is an agent for the Justified. Her mission: to recruit children with miraculous gifts in the hope that they might prevent the Pulse from once again sending countless worlds back to the dark ages. Hot on her trail is the Pax--a collection of fascist zealots who believe they are the rightful rulers of the galaxy and who remain untouched by the Pulse. Now Jane, a handful of comrades from her past, and a telekinetic girl called Esa must...
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
At the start of his second adventure, Artemis is at boarding school in Ireland when he receives an urgent video e-mail from Russia. In it is a plea from a man who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafia--a man Artemis had thought never to see again: his beloved father. Artemis must join forces with the fairies instead of battling them if he wants to save one of the few people in the world he loves.
13) Sage's eyes
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Sage is a lonely child. Her adoptive parents watch her obsessively, as if studying her for warning signs of...something. And maybe they're right to--even she can't make sense of the strange things she sees and hears. She possesses knowledge that other teenagers don't, that her parents and teachers--no adult--could possibly have. So when Sage finally makes a friend who understands her alarming gift, he becomes her confidant, a precarious...
14) Artemis Fowl
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
Author
Series
Universe after volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
It's been three years since Esa joined the ranks of the Justified. Together, Esa and fellow Justified agent Jane Kamali travel from planet to Pulse-ravaged planet, searching for other children with Esa's supernatural abilities. But on a visit to an extremely remote planet to rescue a gifted Wulf boy named Sho, they learn that the Justified are not the only people searching for gifted children. There is a creature with unexpected powers who will stop...
18) Matilda
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Matilda applies her previously untapped mental powers to rid the school of the evil, child-hating headmistress, Miss Trunchbull, and restore her nice teacher, Miss Honey, to financial security.
19) Baby: a novel
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
©1981
Language
English
Description
A beautiful child, allegedly born from a virgin birth, and endowed with an incredible talent to sing, is called a hoax by others.
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