L. L McKinney
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Language
English
Description
A Black contemporary family drama with a side of magic.
The formerly close-knit Cauley sisters-Nicole, Lynn, and Charlie-have drifted apart in their adult lives. But they are unexpectedly brought together by sudden passing of their mother.
Returning to their ancestral home, the last Black-owned funeral parlor in the city, the sisters are joined by their cousin, Rene, and their grandmother as they come to terms with their grief. However, they're...
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Language
English
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When disturbing images keep appearing in Tai’s camera lens, Trey and Tai reignite their search for their mother, who mysteriously disappeared 10 years earlier, uncovering strange secrets about their magical ancestors and a threat to their very existence.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
The first time the Nightmares came, it nearly cost Alice her life. Now she's trained to battle monstrous creatures in the dark dream realm known as Wonderland with magic weapons and hardcore fighting skills. Yet even warriors have a curfew. Life in real-world Atlanta isn't always so simple, as Alice juggles an overprotective mom, a high-maintenance best friend, and a slipping GPA. Keeping the Nightmares at bay is turning into a full-time job. But...
Author
Series
(Leatrice L.).Nightmare-verse volume 3
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When she and her crew are attacked by Nightmares unlike any they've ever seen, Alice must step between the coming darkness and the mortal world once more, discovering that the monsters aren't waiting for her on the other side of the Veil--but in her own backyard.
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Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this empowering Black queer romance reimagining of Charlotte Brontë's classic novel, Jane Eyre, the new governess at Thornfield Hall discovers her cruel employer has locked away his wife as revenge for withholding her inheritance and, as his dark plan unfolds, must find a way to save this woman she's come to love"--
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
445 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Told from more than a dozen alternating viewpoints, this spellbinding collection of stories follows eighteen students at the Galileo Academy for the Extraordinary as they each try to solve the murder of a professor, discovering that magic doesn't always play by the rules.
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English
Description
Super-heroic spies must unravel a conspiracy-and save the world-in this original Marvel adventure.
Before Natasha Romanoff was an Avenger, she was a Russian spy and assassin, genetically altered by Soviet Union–era scientists to become a super soldier. But someone has stolen a sample of her blood-and the blood of James "Bucky" Barnes, the operative known as the Winter Soldier, another human weapon developed in a Russian laboratory.
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