Matt Haig
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
"Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of...
Author
Language
English
Description
Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history--performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life. So Tom moves back his to London, his old home, to become a high school history teacher--the perfect job for someone who has witnessed the city's...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
315 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Amelia Wishart's Christmas spirit helped Santa get the extra boost of magic he needed to make his first trip around the world. When she's sent to the workhouse, now-orphaned Amelia's hope begins to drain away. Santa sets out to find her with the help of his reindeer, a curious cat, and Charles Dickens.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
234 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Nikolas, the boy who would one day be known as Santa Claus, goes on a life-changing quest to the North Pole"--
Author
Publisher
Alianza Editorial, S.A
Pub. Date
c2021.
Physical Desc
330 pages ; 24 cm
Language
Español
Description
Entre la vida y la muerte hay una biblioteca. Y los estantes de esa biblioteca son infinitos. Cada libro da la oportunidad de probar otra vida que podrías haber vivido y de comprobar cómo habrían cambiado las cosas si hubieras tomado otras decisiones... ¿Habrías hecho algo de manera diferente si hubieras tenido la oportunidad?
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
256 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"Matt Haig's accessible and life-affirming memoir of his struggle with depression, and how his triumph over the illness taught him to live"--
Like nearly one in five people, Haig suffers from depression. Here he explains how, minute by minute and day by day, he overcame the disease with the help of reading, writing, and the love of his parents and his girlfriend, and eventually learned to appreciate life all the more for it. Both inspiring to those...
Author
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
316 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Accompanied by his aunt's Norwegian elkhound, Ibsen, twelve-year-old Samuel ventures into a weird forest filled with strange and dangerous creatures to rescue his younger sister, Martha, who has been mute since their parents' recent death.
9) The humans
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 282 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Regarding humans unfavorably upon arriving on Earth, a reluctant extraterrestrial assumes the identity of a Cambridge mathematician before realizing that there's more to the human race than he suspected.
Author
Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
294 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When the Easter Bunny tries to ruin Christmas, it is up to Amelia, her family, and a group of elves to repel the attack on the magical town of Elfhelm and save the holiday.
11) Los humanos
Author
Publisher
Roca Editorial
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"Un humedo viernes por la noche el profesor Andrew Martin de la Universidad de Cambridge resuelve uno de los mas grandes enigmas matematicos de todos los tiempos: el secreto de los numeros primos, la clave que dara respuesta a los misterios del universo y garantizara el fin de la enfermedad y la muerte. Y entonces desaparece. Cuando finalmente lo encuentran, desnudo y desorientado en medio de una transitada carretera, el profesor Martin parece diferente....
12) The Radleys
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
x, 371 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Struggling with overwork and parenting angst, English village doctor Peter Radley endeavors to hide his family's vampire nature until their daughter's oddly satisfying act of violence reveals the truth, an event that is complicated by the arrival of a practicing vampire family member.
Author
Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
243 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Evie has a talent. A SUPERTALENT. A talent that can let her HEAR the thoughts of an elephant, and make friends with a dog and a sparrow. The only problem is, this talent is dangerous. VERY dangerous. That's what her dad says. So when she frees the school rabbit from its tiny hutch, she vows to keep her talent a secret. But after a face-to-face encounter with a lion, things start to go very wrong. Her dad - and every animal in town...