Emily Bauer
2) Scars
Author
Lexile measure
HL 560L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Kendra, a budding artist, has not felt safe since she began to recall devastating memories of childhood sexual abuse, especially since she cannot remember her abuser's identity, and she copes with the pressure by cutting herself.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nine-year-old Julia Gillian learns a lot about facing fear as she and her St. Bernard, Bigfoot, take long walks through their Minneapolis neighborhood one hot summer, and she seeks the courage to finish a book that could have an unhappy ending.
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young athlete whose running days might be behind her, a compulsive liar, a shy researcher, a bitter old woman, and a little girl with a big secret; the only thing they have in common is the annual Wind Festival in Fula City. The festival celebrates the Legendary Pokemon Lugia, who brings the wind that powers this seaside city. When a series of threats endanger not just the festival, but all the people and Pokemon of Fula City, itâ‚‚ll take more...
8) Mind games
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
241 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Fia and her sister, Annie, are trapped in a school that uses young female psychics and mind readers as tools for corporate espionage--and if Fia doesn't play by the rules of their deadly game, Annie will be killed"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
1070L
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the spring of 1929, eighteen-year-old Cordelia Grey and her stage-struck friend Letty Larkspur run away from their small Ohio town to seek their fortunes in New York City and soon find themselves drawn into situations and relationships, particularly with the dazzling Astrid Donal, that change their lives forever.
10) The borrower
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In this delightful, funny, and moving first novel, a librarian and a young boy obsessed with reading take to the road.
Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten- year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly...
Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten- year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly...
Author
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year old Lizzie Hood and her next door neighbor Evie Verver are inseparable. They are best friends who swap bathing suits and field-hockey sticks, and share everything that's happened to them. Together they live in the shadow of Evie's glamorous older sister Dusty, who provides a window on the exotic, intoxicating possibilities of their own teenage horizons. To Lizzie, the Verver household, presided over by Evie's big-hearted father, is the...
12) Perfect lies
Author
Series
Mind games volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Sisters Anie and Fia have had their abilities manipulated by the Keane Foundation for too long--and now they're ready to fight back against the twisted organization that has been using them as pawns"--
13) Insatiable
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Meena Harper, forced to write about vampires even though she doesn't believe in them, falls in love with Lucien Antonescu, a modern-day prince with a bit of a dark side. It's a dark side a lot of people, like an ancient society of vampire hunters, would prefer to see him dead for. The problem is: Lucien's already dead! And while Lucien seems like everything Meena has ever dreamed of in a boyfriend, he might turn out to be more like a nightmare.
14) Enclave
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 650L
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a post-apocalyptic future, fifteen-year-old Deuce, a loyal Huntress, brings back meat while avoiding the Freaks outside her enclave, but when she is partnered with the mysterious outsider, Fade, she begins to see that the strict ways of the elders may be wrong-- and dangerous.
15) Hurt go happy
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st mass market ed.
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
267 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Joey Willis, deaf since the age of six, meets Dr. Charles Mansell and his chimpanzee Sukari, who use sign language, her world blooms with possibilities but that of the chimp begins to narrow.
16) Overbite
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Now working for the Palatine Guard--a secret demon-hunting unit of the Vatican--Meena Harper tries to win over her co-workers as well as her new partner Alaric Wolf while investigating a young priest recently assigned to the case.
17) Outpost
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Deuce struggles for respect in a new topside town where she is treated like a child and avoided by Fade, a situation that compels her to volunteer for patrol duty and protect topside citizens from an unexpected upsurge in Freak activity.
Author
Lexile measure
390L
Language
English
Description
Fall has arrived and Mrs. Connor's class is off to the pumpkin patch to find the perfect pumpkin. Unhappy with her choice of pumpkin from the pumpkin patch, Katie thinks it is too small until her father shows her that the best things often come in small packages. This story introduces young readers to the wonders of the fall season.
19) Jane Anonymous
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In chapters alternating between "then" and "now," seventeen-year-old Jane Anonymous chronicles the events leading up to her abduction and seven-month captivity and her painful return to family and friends.
20) Boneyard
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First mass market edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Annie Pearl is the keeper of oddities, the mistress of monsters. Her unique collection of creatures is one of the circus's star attractions, drawing wide-eyed crowds at every small frontier town they visit. But Annie is also a woman running from her past...and the mother of a mute young daughter, Adeline, whom she will do anything to protect. Hoping to fill its coffers before winter sets in, the circus steers its wagons to The Clearing, a remote community...