![]() Now change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he's pushed out-without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he's never met. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. ![]() "The best kind of love story."-Alex Sanchez, Lambda Award-winning author of Rainbow Boys and Boyfriends with Girlfriends "Feels timelessly, effortlessly now."-Tim Federle, author of Better Nate Than Ever "I am so in love with this book."-Nina LaCour, author of Hold Still ![]() "A remarkable gift of a novel."-Andrew Smith, author of Grasshopper Jungle Morris Award Winner: Best Young Adult Debut of the Year * National Book Award Longlist Now a major motion picture: Love, Simon, starring Nick Robinson and Katherine Langford! ![]()
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![]() When she finally decides to leave the only home she's ever known-to see the floating lights that appear on her birthday-she gets caught up in an unexpected adventure with two thieves: a would-be outlaw named Gina, and Flynn Rider, a rogue on the run. For eighteen years Rapunzel stays imprisoned in her tower, knowing she must protect everyone from her magical hair. For the safety of the kingdom, Rapunzel is locked away in a tower and put under the care of the powerful goodwife, Mother Gothel. But with her mysterious hair comes dangerous magical powers: the power to hurt, not heal. ![]() This shimmering flower heals the queen and she delivers a healthy baby girl?with hair as silver and gray as the moon. but someone mistakenly picks the blossom of the Moondrop instead. ![]() The 12th installment in the New York Times best-selling series asks: What if Rapunzel's mother drank a potion from the wrong flower? Desperate to save the life of their queen and her unborn child, the good citizens of the kingdom comb the land for the all-healing Sundrop flower to cure her. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But despite his fear, Paul climbs the tree and frees the American, whose name he learns is Sergeant Victor Lopez. Paul knows that helping this man is dangerous if the Nazis catch him, especially with Nazis soldiers nearby looking for the paratrooper. ![]() Leon, being pursued and shot by Nazi soldiers for being in the resistance, and he watched in horror as his hero sank into a river.īut just as he is beginning to lose hope, it's Paul's turn to be a hero when he discovers an American paratrooper caught in a tree and injured. Later, Paul had seen his favorite teacher, Mr. ![]() After France had fallen to the Nazis in 1940, his father had been arrested and sent to a German prison camp then his best friend Gerard and his family were arrested by the Nazis because they were Jewish and had disappeared. Living there in the town of Le Roc, Paul Colbert, 11, has waited and waited for the Allied Forces to come and rescue France from the hands of the Nazis and end the war. In her latest book, Tarshis takes her readers to France's Normandy coast just before and after the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944. With the same themes of courage and resilience the protagonist didn't realize they possessed, they become active participants in these events, providing the reader with an exciting fast-paced story and lots of historical background information. Lauren Tarshis's I Survived series has introduced young readers to a variety of significant, but scary events that have occurred in both recent and distant history through a young eyewitness protagonist. ![]() ![]() Now he lies awake each night beside his sleeping wife, imagining himself as a drone aircraft, hovering over the terrains of Bosnia and Vietnam, Iraq and Northern Ireland, the killing fields of Cambodia and the death camps of Europe. In 2003, Sergeant Brian Turner crossed the line of departure with a convoy of soldiers headed into the Iraqi desert. Lewis George Orwell Mary Pope Osborne LeUyen Pham Dav Pilkey Roger Priddy Rick Riordan J. 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Obviously, Plagueis’s goal of manipulating midi-chlorians to achieve eternal life is front and center but Palpatine’s backstory and rise to power is also prominently featured. ![]() Set in three parts, Darth Plagueis spans from 65 BBY (Before the Battle of Yavin) to 32 BBY. Since its initial publication it has remained one of the most loved Star Wars novels, Legends or otherwise, thanks to its deep dive into Palpatine’s past and close connection to the plot elements of The Phantom Menace. ![]() Luceno always intended to explore Plagueis’s quest for eternal life, but due to the involvement of Palpatine and his backstory, it was canceled and then brought back to life. Written by James Luceno, Darth Plagueis was first published in 2012 after years of delays. ![]() ![]() We have no clear indication (yet) that it’s mutable, but I do wonder if something is going to happen with Connor’s mother now that the young branch of Ramirez Family has thrown a Prime. Tremaine was never going to leave her house, but her fiancé was not a head of his house before he was murdered. ![]() ![]() But then there’s House Howling, where the second wife appears to have gone back to her family, House Collins (of the East Coast Collins) when the marriage fell apart, leaving the son to be raised a psychopath. In some cases, it’ll be a clear cut break, like when Ramirez Family married into House Rogan across the ocean. Presumably, there’s official notification or dispensation for the house affiliation of the married couple. ![]() With no contract for their marriage, it’s not clear that what house either Connor or Nevada are in. The first explanation everyone leapt at was that since Nevada isn’t in country, then Catalina is (Acting) Head of House Baylor. ![]() ![]() ![]() The bad luck of the fire horse seemed to show its colors when Meg flunked twice in freshman Algebra. However, no one was aware of her stigma until she became a teenager. As she was born in the astrological year of the Chinese Fire Horse, she was considered unlucky by some. Meg was born on February 1, 1967, in Bloomington as Meggin Patricia Cabot and was raised in the same city. Many of the novels of her series have featured in the New York Times Bestselling lists, which has increased her popularity as an established author. She has written several successful series in her career, in the Literature & Fiction, Young Adult, and Romance genres. Princess Mia / To the Nines / Bad Heir Dayįorever Princess / Ten Out of Ten / Crowning GloryĪuthor Meg Cabot is a famous novelist from Bloomington, Indiana, United States. Princess on the Brink / After Eight / Royal Scandal Princess in Love / Princess in the Middle ![]() ![]() Princess in the Spotlight / Take Two / A Royal Disaster ![]() ![]() ![]() If I mapped the journeys of writing this book (and I really couldn’t), there would be many winding paths looping back on themselves, as well as dead ends and blind corners. It is a small novel but dense, bursting with ideas and driven by questions – questions my children ask me, or questions I ask myself. I began Only Ever Always in 2007 and it took me four years to write. ![]() Fascinating and absolutely memorable.’ – Ursula Dubosarsky ![]() ?’Like the sound of the little loved music box that is so pivotal to the story, Penni Russon’s Only Ever Always is both deeply touching and strangely eerie, leaving the reader with a mixture of warmth and apprehension, yearning and wonder – about death, life, language, art, dreams and childhood. ![]() ?Original and poetic, this captivating novel explores dreams, grief, friendship and love through a brilliantly constructed dystopian fantasy world. She finds broken things to swap at the markets she walks the treacherous route past the brown river where lone dogs prowl she avoids the seamy side when she can, but with powerful people pulling the strings, it’s not always possible.? Which world is real?Claire’s and Clara’s paths are set to collide, and each has much to lose – or gain. The silvery notes of her music box allow her an escape from her grief into a dream-world, into Clara’s world.? Clara’s world has always been broken. Who dreams the dreamer? Claire lives in an ordinary world where everything is whole. ![]() ![]() ![]() I envisioned the sun casting its rays of light upon the surface of the moon, and how other planets took their rotational turn around the sun at that same moment. Shooting stars cascaded across the night sky like mystical rain, and in that moment, I realized that the Earth was moving the moon was more than a luminescent sphere in the sky, rather it was an instrument of perfect symmetry with the Earth, both dancing their waltz around the orbit of our sun. I spent hours that evening just lying on the ground, watching the stars as they worked their way across the sky. I wanted to take in this rare moment, and I did. Many of my friends were busy playing spades or doing their laundry at the automat, but I wanted my peace away from it all. I walked away from the buildings we were living in to find a secluded spot, away from the bustle of my comrades, and laid down upon a bed of grass to watch the night sky. Given the remoteness of our location, there was virtually no light pollution in the sky, which set the evening’s mood perfectly for a star-filled sky the likes of which I had never seen. ![]() We were staging to go out into “the box,” as the training area was called, so there was little for us to do that evening but wait. I was on maneuver in Hohenfels, Germany, and the night was calm and clear. I felt its pulse, the same as I can feel my own. Never before had I seen such splendor as this. The Milky Way galaxy was spread across the sky in all of its awesome glory. It was one of those night skies that I will never forget. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With their aid, Tarzan reaches the mainland and begins a lengthy pursuit to find Jane (who is actively engineering her own extrication) and Jack.īy the end of the story Rokoff is dead, while Paulvitch, his cohort, is presumed dead but manages to escape into the jungle. Using his jungle skill and primal intelligence, Tarzan wins the help of Sheeta, the vicious panther, a tribe of great apes led by the intelligent Akut, and a native warrior, Mugambi. Rokoff exiles Tarzan on a jungle island, informing him that Jack will be left with a cannibal tribe to be raised as one of their own, while Jane's fate is to be left to his imagination. ![]() Their trap is elaborate and insidious, leading both Tarzan and Jane to be kidnapped as well. Tarzan's adversaries from the previous novel, Nikolas Rokoff and Alexis Paulvitch, escape prison and kidnap the Greystoke heir. Tarzan has spent much time building an estate home on the Waziri lands in Uziri, Africa, but has returned to his ancestral estate in London for the rainy season. The story begins a year after the conclusion of the previous book, Tarzan (Lord Greystoke) and Jane have had a son, whom they have named Jack. Originally serialized in All-Story Cavalier magazine in 1914, the novel was first published in book form by A. The Beasts of Tarzan is a novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the third in his series of twenty-four books about the title character Tarzan. ![]() The Beasts of Tarzan was serialized in All Story in 1914. ![]() |