Shannon McManus
Author
Series
Wings of fire volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Growing up in the hives, Cricket has always had a million questions. Why are trees forbidden, even in art? Why do her parents seem to hate her? And the biggest, most dangerous and secret question of all: why is Cricket immune to Queen Wasp's powers? Whenever the queen takes control of all the HiveWings, speaking through their mouths and seeing through their eyes, Cricket has to hide, terrified of being discovered. Now she's hiding again, wanted for...
Author
Series
Wings of fire volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Sunny has always taken the Dragonet Prophecy very seriously, so Morrowseer's devastating news changes everything--now she must forge a new identity, and find a way to stop the futile and destructive war between the dragon clans.
Author
Series
Wings of fire volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When a young NightWing has the first prophecy in generations of the end of Pyrrhia, five young dragons are tasked with saving the world.
4) Darkstalker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Long before the SandWing and the Dragonet Prophecy, Darkstalker, half NightWing and half IceWing, is hatched under the three moons--born into a divided heritage, he is destined to become the most powerful and dangerous dragon Pyrhhia will ever know, and it will take the combined efforts of a SeaWing named Fatham and a NightWing seer named Clearsight to come up with a way to save all the kingdoms from his anger.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Sundew, and most of the other LeafWings are nursing a deep hatred for the HiveWings, who have ripped every tree from the surface of Pantala, except those in Poison Jungle where the surviving LeafWings have been hiding, waiting for a dragon clever and powerful enough to exact their revenge--and now they are searching for the jungle's oldest and darkest mystery, one that could destroy them all.
Author
Series
Wings of fire volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When Starflight, one of the dragonets of destiny, is kidnapped by the NightWings he finds that the kingdom of his birth is a miserable place, full of terrible secrets--and that, with his fellow dragonets too far away to help, the fate of two kingdoms rests in his talons.
Author
Series
Wings of fire volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Peril is possibly the most dangerous dragon in Pyrrhia, because she has firescales that can kill an opponent with a touch, but now she has a mission--find her former queen, Scarlet, who is threatening the Jade Mountain Academy, and then stop her, and she is not sure if the persistent SeaWing, Turtle, who is accompanying her, will be a help or a hindrance.
Author
Series
Wings of fire volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Overjoyed to be reunited with her fellow ocean-dwelling dragons, Tsunami the SeaWing continues efforts to end the war for Pyrrhia in spite of a dangerous assassin who is threatening all their lives.
Author
Series
Lowcountry tales volume 12
Language
English
Description
"Beekeeper Holly McNee Kensen quietly lives in a world of her own on Sullivan's Island, tending her hives and working at the local island library. Holly calls her mother The Queen Bee because she's a demanding hulk of a woman. Her mother, a devoted hypochondriac, might be unaware that she's quite ill but that doesn't stop her from tormenting Holly. To escape the drama, Holly's sister Leslie married and moved away, wanting little to do with island...
10) The obsession
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Language
English
Description
Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father's crimes and made him infamous. Now a successful photographer living under the name Naomi Carson, she has found a place that calls to her, thousands of miles away from everything she's ever known. Naomi wants to embrace the solitude, but the residents of Sunrise Cove keep...
Author
Series
Wings of fire volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
For centuries there have been rumors of another continent on the dragons' planet -- another land far across the ocean, populated by tribes of dragons very different from those we know. But there's never been any evidence, and most dragons dismissed the rumors as fairy tales. Until now. Because it turns out the stories are true. And the other tribes are coming.
Author
Series
Wings of fire volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
A thrilling new series soars above the competition and redefines middle-grade fantasy fiction for a new generation!The seven dragon tribes have been at war for generations, locked in an endless battle over an ancient, lost treasure. A secret movement called the Talons of Peace is determined to bring an end to the fighting, with the help of a prophecy — a foretelling that calls for great sacrifice.Five dragonets are collected to fulfill the prophecy,...
13) Dragonslayer
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Ivy doesn't trust the Dragonslayer. He may be her father and the beloved ruler of Valor, but she knows he's hiding more than the treasure from the sand dragon he killed two decades ago. Leaf doesn't trust dragons. They're the reason his favorite sister, Wren, is dead, and now he'll do whatever it takes to slay even one. Wren doesn't trust anyone. She swore off humans after her village tried to sacrifice her to the dragons. She only has one friend,...
14) Wind Chime Point
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Series
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English
Description
"After years of working in publicity, Gabriella Castle's dreams of becoming a VP are within reach. But then an unexpected pregnancy forces her to return to the North Carolina coast--and to the welcoming arms of her family. In Sand Castle Bay, ambitious and driven Gabi finds herself adrift and with difficult decisions to make about her future. Coming home means reuniting with carpenter Wade Johnson, a man she's beginning to fall for. With so much uncertain...
Author
Series
Bhinian Empire volume 1
Language
English
Description
The girl with no past, and no future, may be the only one who can save their lives.
Nisha was abandoned at the gates of the City of a Thousand Dolls when she was just a little girl. Now sixteen, she lives on the grounds of the isolated estate, where orphan girls apprentice as musicians, healers, courtesans, and, if the rumors are true, assassins. She makes her way as Matron's errand girl, her closest companions the mysterious cats that trail
...16) Going wild
Author
Series
Going wild volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Discovering a mysterious bracelet after moving to Arizona, Charlie Wilde finds that she has developed superhuman abilities and speed and teams up with new friends to discover what is happening to her and how to control her powers.
18) Sorrow road
Author
Series
Bell Elkins novels volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the small towns of Appalachia they came, the young men who joined the fight for liberty in World War II. Now they are elderly, and some of them--like Harmon Strayer, father of prosecutor Bell Elkins's former law school classmate--suffer from Alzheimer's. When Harmon dies in an Alzheimer's care facility from what appear to be natural causes, Bell confronts a mystery that brims with questions about memory, grief and the lethal cost of burying...
19) On the fence
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
"Sixteen-year-old Charlie has always been a tomboy, but when she accidentally becomes a makeup model, her newfound feminity draws her into an unknown social world, complete with guy troubles she's never had before"--
Author
Series
Dream keeper saga volume 2
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lily is pulled back into the Realm, together with Adam and Keisha, because the dreamworld is being threatened by the blight, and her friends there need her help--but first she has to discover its origin, a quest that will not be easy, or safe.