Alex London
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Battle dragons volume 1
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Description
To protect his friends and family, Abel must figure out what is worth fighting for when he partners with a stolen dragon, an action that has him riding in kin battles and keeping more secrets than a dragon has scales.
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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Fleeing her prince, Rosamund discovers the Princess Protection Program, an academy where fairy tale princesses evade unwanted fates and unwanted kisses, and as she adapts to real-world life and forms close friendships, she begins to question the academy's secrets and the possibility of changing her own story.
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Series
Battle dragons volume 2
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Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"In a modern mega-city built around dragons, one boy gets caught up in the world of underground dragon battles and a high-stakes gang war that could tear his family apart. In the city of Drakopolis, dragons and humans have co-existed for centuries. Dragons burn the city's garbage, taxi its busy citizens from place to place, and even compete in vicious underground battles for ganglike kins. But the dragons also compete in legal sports, like the spectacular...
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The people of Uztar have long looked to the sky with hope and wonder. Nothing in their world is more revered than the birds of prey and no one more honored than the falconers who call them to their fists. Brysen strives to be a great falconer--while his twin sister, Kylee, rejects her ancient gifts for the sport and wishes to be free of falconry. She's nearly made it out, too, but a war is rolling toward their home in the Six Villages, and no bird...
6) Guardian
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Proxy volume 2
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"The only way to stop people from getting sick is to get the network back online. That means reversing the very revolution that Syd and Knox began"--
In the new world led by the Rebooters, former Proxy Syd is the figurehead of the Revolution. But armed Machinists aren't the only danger. People are falling ill: their veins show through their skin, they find it hard to speak, and sores erupt all over their bodies. Guardians, the violent enforcers of...
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Series
Battle dragons volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Banished from Drakopolis to the desolate frontier town of Glassblower's Gulch, Abel and his family must face a harsh new reality: life without dragons. Far from the lights and lizards of the megacity, Abel's new home effectively bans the great beasts. Anyone caught smuggling dragons is hauled away by the ruthless sheriff and her fearsome deputies. They have the only dragons in town, and they run the dreaded dragon rodeo, which pits those who fall...
8) Still life
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Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
As an artist demonstrates the strict rules for creating a still life painting, the painting disregards each one as it comes alive and tells its own story.
11) Pentagon escape
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Scholastic Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
A taut and harrowing depiction of the 9/11 terrorist attacks against the Pentagon, alternating between a boy caught in the chaos and the rescue dog who's attempting to save him. Twelve-year-old Mikey is doing a school project on the Pentagon, where his father works as a civilian contractor. Mikey has been given special permission to visit his dad's office and do some research on the facility, all for a school report. At first he finds the tour strangely...