Melissa de la Cruz
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Mal, Evie, Jay and Carlos make a plan to use their upcoming visit to the Isle of the Lost to help other villain kids attend Auradon Prep, while Uma teams up with Hades to bring down the barrier and get her revenge on Mal.
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2014, c 2013
Language
English
Description
Modern-day witch Freya Beauchamp is cast back in time to 1692 amongst the Salem Witch Trials by an enemy spell, as her present-day family attempts to reopen the passages of time to bring her home. Freya Beauchamp is trapped in 1692, in Salem of all places, with no recollection of her past. A powerful enemy spell has sent her spiraling away so that she is separated by centuries from her mother, Joanna, and sister, Ingrid. This is not good news for...
5) 29 Dates
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
“A heartwarming, sparkling romantic comedy about what happens when what your heart wants and what your parents want don’t match...Melissa de la Cruz enchants and delights in her usual style. Completely unputdownable!” —Sandhya Menon, New York Times bestselling author of When Dimple Met Rishi
“A refreshingly modern love story, 29 Dates serves up a funny and heartfelt rom-com about finding love and...
“A refreshingly modern love story, 29 Dates serves up a funny and heartfelt rom-com about finding love and...
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Alex & Eliza, The Witches of East End, and the Descendants series comes a powerful and moving novel about learning to love yourself.Olivia “Liv” Blakely knows how important it is to look good. Her father is running for governor and Liv is thrust into the bright media spotlight. She has an image to uphold—to her maybe boyfriend, to her new friends and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Witches of East End and the Descendants series comes the love story of young Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler.
1777. Albany, New York.
As battle cries of the American Revolution echo in the distance, servants flutter about preparing for one of New York society’s biggest events: the Schuylers’ grand ball. Descended from two...
1777. Albany, New York.
As battle cries of the American Revolution echo in the distance, servants flutter about preparing for one of New York society’s biggest events: the Schuylers’ grand ball. Descended from two...
8) Going dark
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When 19-year-old Josh returns from Rome without his budding influencer girlfriend Amelia, he immediately becomes a suspect in her disappearance, but as college sophomore and hacker Harper attempts to clear his name, she unearths secrets from both Josh and Amelia's pasts.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Alex and Eliza meet one fateful night, so begins an epic love story that would forever change the course of American history.
1777. Albany, New York. It's one of New York society's biggest events: the Schuylers' grand ball. Eliza Schuyler can barely contain her excitement when she hears of the arrival of Alexander Hamilton, a mysterious, rakish young colonel and General George Washington's right-hand man. Alex is an orphan, and a bastard one...
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Joanna and her daughters Freya and Ingrid live in North Hampton, out on the tip of Long Island. All three women lead seemingly quiet, uneventful existences. But they are harboring a mighty secret-- they are powerful witches banned from using their magic. When mysterious, violent attacks begin to plague the town and a young girl disappears over the Fourth of July weekend, they realize it's time to uncover who and what dark forces are working against...
Author
Series
Octagon Valley volume 1
Publisher
Disney, Hyperion
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After passing an intense exam, Edwin Edgefield becomes one of the lucky few to attend an exclusive weekend at the mysterious high-tech institute of the uber-famous-ultrabazillionaire-genius-recluse Onasander Octagon. Edwin hopes he'll meet other kids like him--kids who will accept him even though he's got a photographic memory, genius-level math skills, and some very specific personality quirks. But when he meets the other misfits (um, students),...
Author
Series
Never after volume 3
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In their third adventure, Filomena and company set off to Snow Country, rescue Lord Sharif of Nottingham, reverse a spell that turned Prince Charming into a Frog, and form the League of the Seven-fearless warriors devoted to fighting the orges at any cost.
Author
Series
Never after volume 2
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Filomena Jefferson-Cho and her friends, Jack Stalker, Alistair, and Gretel are once again in Never After, to help Gretel fulfill a promise to her father to recover the glass slipper he made for her cousin, Hortense, which was stolen by the cunning and manipulative Cinderella, who is determined to become Princess of Eastphalia--to do that the friends will have to infiltrate the castle, and, of course, avoid being eaten by monsters.
Author
Series
Never after volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Real life and fairy tales collide in The Thirteenth Fairy, book one in the new middle-grade Never After series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz. Nothing ever happens in Filomena Jefferson-Cho's sleepy little suburban town of North Pasadena. The sun shines every day, the grass is always a perfect green, and while her progressive school swears there's no such thing as bullying, she still feels bummed out. But one day, when...
15) Frozen
Author
Series
Heart of dread volume 1
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
More than a century after a catastrophic disaster wiped out most of humanity and covered much of the earth with ice, fifteen-year-old Cass yields to the voice in her head urging her to embark on a dangerous journey across a poisoned sea to the mythical land, Blue.
Author
Series
Queen's secret volume 2
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
From #1 bestselling author Melissa de la Cruz comes the heart-pounding follow-up to The Queen's Assassin, perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo and Holly Black.
Lilac's birthright makes her the Queen of Renovia, and a forced marriage made her the Queen of Montrice. But being a ruler does not mean making the rules. For Lilac, taking the throne means giving up the opportunity to be with love of her life, the kingdom's assassin, Caledon...
Lilac's birthright makes her the Queen of Renovia, and a forced marriage made her the Queen of Montrice. But being a ruler does not mean making the rules. For Lilac, taking the throne means giving up the opportunity to be with love of her life, the kingdom's assassin, Caledon...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay have received threatening messages demanding they return home. They have a sneaking suspicion that their villanous parents are behind the messages, and something Evie sees in her Magic Mirror confirms their fears. Although Maleficent's just a tiny lizard after her confrontation with Mal, could she have found a way to escape? Mal and her friends determine to sneak back to the Isle to get to the bottom of the mystery.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Star-crossed lovers, meddling immortals, feigned identities, battles of wits, and dire warnings: these are the stuff of fairy tale, myth, and folklore that have drawn us in for centuries.
Fifteen bestselling and acclaimed authors reimagine the folklore and mythology of East and South Asia in short stories that are by turns enchanting, heartbreaking, romantic, and passionate.
Compiled by We Need Diverse Books's Ellen
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