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41) The gauntlet
Author
Series
Gauntlet volume 1
Publisher
Salaam Reads
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Farah and her two best friends get sucked into a mechanical board game called The Gauntlet of Blood and Sand, a puzzle game akin to a large Rubik's cube, they know it is up to them to defeat the game's diabolical architect in order to save themselves and those who are trapped inside, including her baby brother Ahmed.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Yetta, the beautiful chicken, breaks free from the truck that is carrying her to market. She quickly realizes the big city is nothing like the chicken farm. She is scared and confused until she meets and saves the life of a little, green parrot.
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
232 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Longing for a life filled with poetry and the green pastures beyond the farm where she is destined for the slaughterhouse, Audrey the cow enlists the help of human and animal friends to stage a daring escape.
44) The gathering
Author
Series
Shadow House volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
215 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Poppy Caldwell is an orphan who keeps seeing a figure standing behind her in the mirror at the group home where she lives, but she does not associate this ghost with the letter that mysteriously appears in her file, claiming to be from a long-lost aunt, and inviting her to Larkspur House--and she is just one of five children who find themselves gathered in this strange house with a deadly past, and apparently no intention of letting the children escape....
Author
Series
Choose your own adventure volume 169
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Readers are placed in the character of a passenger aboard the Titanic on the night of its fatal sinking, and are challenged to survive by making choices that result in dozens of possible endings.
Author
Series
Vega Jane volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Audiobooks
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
11 CDs (11 hr., 58 min.) : digital ; 12 cm.
Language
English
Description
Vega Jane and her friend Delph have taken the map that Quentin Harris left them and set out from the town of Wormwood, determined to brave the Quag and find freedom on the other side--but the Quag was designed to keep the town people in, and it is filled with bloodthirsty creatures and sinister magic, and it is not going to let them escape unscathed.
47) The ice thief
Author
Publisher
BBC Audiobooks America
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
2 sound discs (85 min.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
48) Chickenhare
Author
Series
Chickenhare volume 1
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
157 p. : chiefly col. ill. ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Night is falling on the frozen landscape as Chickenhare and his turtle friend Abe find themselves on their way to be sold to Klaus, an insane taxidermist with a penchant for unique animals and enough emotional baggage to go on a very long vacation. With the help of two mysterious new companions, our fuzzy, feathered, and amphibious heroes endeavor to escape their dire fate. But they soon discover that might not be so easy when they get caught up...
Author
Series
Chickenhare volume 2
Publisher
Dark Horse
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
199 p. : chiefly ill. ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Chickenhare and Abe narrowly escape from Taxidermist Klaus as they learn about the backgrounds of their partners on the run, Meg and Banjo
Author
Series
Gamayun tales volume 3
Publisher
Nobrow
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
64 pages : chiefly colour illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
The latest installment in the Gamayun Tales series introduces a clever heroine who has a secret even she doesn't know about. Tyna of the Lake rescues the Hunter's son from a life of servitude to her father the Water Spirit. Their attempt to make an escape to the surface world is interrupted when they are captured by the Water Spirit and he reveals the truth about who Tyna's real father is. An ideal book for kids who aren't quite ready for Percy Jackson...
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