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The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker, by Leanna Renee Hieber (Unabridged)

What fortune awaited sweet, timid Percy Parker at Athens Academy? Hidden in the dark heart of Victorian London, the Romanesque school was dreadfully imposing, a veritable fortress, and little could Percy guess what lay inside. She had never met its powerful and mysterious Professor Alexi Rychman, knew nothing of the growing shadows, of the Ripper and other

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2) Traveling Through Time and Space

Series

Strange science

Description

Doug and Mike's strange kid chronicles

Although they seem like scene-stealing sci-fi stories, they are based in actual ideas and thought-out theories. How close are we to flying through space or going back in time? Could we really change history or affect the future? Would there be downsides? The ethics of changing things should be explored, and every possible thread would need to be tied up. Could we even time travel responsibly, or would things just unravel? If only we could look into...

3) Mighty Monday madness

Series

Pub. Date

c1997

4) Tuna fish Tuesday

Author

TenNapel, Doug

Series

Doug & Mike's strange kid chronicles volume 2
Doug and Mike's strange kid chronicles volume 2

Pub. Date

c1997

Description

Weird things happen in Mrs. Frightenright's class on Tuesday morning! How about giant ants, a kid who is constantly picking his nose, and Clockboy the mechanical mystery?

5) Just Thursday

Author

TenNapel, Doug

Series

Doug & Mike's strange kid chronicles volume 4
Doug and Mike's strange kid chronicles volume 4

Pub. Date

c1998

Description

Derek Strange and Terry Quinn

Weird things happen in Mrs. Frightenright's class on Thursday morning! However, that nasty principal Prickly-Pear is up to something, and you can bet that something is not a good thing.

6) Hell to Pay

Author

Pelecanos, George

Series

Pub. Date

2002

Formats

Description

Derek Strange and Terry Quinn, the team of private investigators who made their stunning debut in Right As Rain, are hired to find a 14-year-old white girl from the suburbs who's run away from home and is now working as a prostitute. The two ex-cops think they know D.C.'s dangers, but nothing in their experience has prepared them for Worldwide Wilson, the pimp whose territory they're intruding upon.
Combining inimitable neighborhood flavor, action...

7) Hard revolution: a novel

Author

Pelecanos, George P

Series

Derek Strange and Terry Quinn mysteries volume 1

Pub. Date

c2004

Description

This novel, a prequel to the later books featuring Derek Strange, begins by telling the story of how Derek came to be a rookie cop. It then focuses on the years before and during the 1968 riots sparked by the death of Martin Luther King Jr. and how Derek, as an African American cop, is considered an enemy by other members of his community.

8) Emily the strange: The boring issue

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2005

9) Emily the strange: 4,Rock issue

Author

Series

Pub. Date

c2007

Description

Emily survives the last week of school at Rock and Roll High, summonsthe ghost of her favorite guitar god, hits Rock Bottom, and sitsthrough a day of traffic school with a very cool rocker.

10) Betrayals: a strange angels novel

Author

St. Crow, Lili

Series

Strange angels volume 2

Pub. Date

[2009]

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13

Description

For her own protection, sixteen-year-old Dru is taken to a secret training facility that feels more like a prison, but she faces great danger there and learns that a traitor who was involved in her mother's death now wants Dru dead.

11) Darklight: a novel

Author

Livingston, Lesley

Series

Wondrous strange trilogy volume 2

Pub. Date

2010

Description

After a dangerous encounter in Central Park, actress Kelley Winslow, who has only recently learned that she is a Faerie, journeys to the Otherworld and begins to untangle the strands of a magical conspiracy with far-reaching consequences.

12) The Lost Days

Author

Series

Emily the Strange graphic novellas volume 1

Pub. Date

2009

Formats

Description

13 Elements you will find in the first Emily the Strange novel:

1. Mystery

2. A beautiful golem

3. Souped-up slingshots

4. Four black cats

5. Amnesia

6. Calamity Poker

7. Angry ponies

8. A shady truant officer

9. Top-13 lists

10. A sandstorm generator

11. Doppelgängers

12. A secret mission

13. Earwigs

Emily the Strange: 13 years old. Able to leap

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13) Strange angels

Author

St. Crow, Lili

Series

Strange angels volume 1

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13

Formats

Book, CD

Description

Sixteen-year-old Dru's psychic abilities helped her father battle zombies and other creatures of the "Real World," but now she must rely on herself, a "werwulf"-bitten friend, and a half-human vampire hunter to learn who murdered her parents, and why.

14) Wondrous Strange

Author

Livingston, Lesley

Series

Wondrous strange trilogy volume 1

Pub. Date

c2009

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10

Description

When seventeen-year-old actress Kelley Winslow meets Sonny Flannery, she discovers he is a changeling and guardian of the gate between the faerie Otherworld and the mortal realm. She also learns that her mother had otherworldly powers that she has passed on to Kelley.

15) Wondrous strange (#1): a novel

Author

Livingston, Lesley

Series

Wondrous Strange volume 1

Pub. Date

2009.

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10

Description

Seventeen-year-old actress Kelley Winslow always thought faeries were just something from childhood stories. Then she meets Sonny Flannery, a changeling, meaning a mortal taken as an infant and raised among Faerie. Within a short time Sonny has turned Kelly's heart inside out and her life upside down. She learns Central Park is a gateway between her city and the Faerie's dangerous Otherworld. Kelley's eyes are opening to the Faerie that surround...

16) Dark Times: Dark Times

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2010

Formats

Description

Emily's uniquely strange homeschool syllabus includes:

1. Time Travel 101
2. Advanced Spy Photography
3. Bonnet Basics
4. Great Aunts Through the Ages
5. Intro to Germ Theory
6. Care and Feeding of 'Squito Fish
7. Fundamentals of Black Rock
8. Spiderweb Embroidery
9. Historical & Contemporary Felines
10. Pop Quizzes
11. Foodstuffs of the 1780s
12. Thwarting Ancestral Enemies

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17) The Darkly Luminous Fight for Persephone Parker

Author

Hieber, Leanna Renee

Series

Strangely Beautiful

Pub. Date

2010

Description

Learning the truth of her mythic past was only the beginning, for young Percy Parker's destiny is to defend both the world and her true love from the gathering undead minions of Darkness.

18) Defiance: a Strange angels novel

Author

St. Crow, Lili

Series

Strange angels volume 4

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

When sixteen-year-old Dru's worst fears come true and Sergej kidnaps her best friend Graves, she embarks on a suicidal rescue mission in which she will test Christophe's training and try to defeat her mother's betrayer, Anna, for good.

19) Strange angels: Jealousy

Series

Strange angels

Pub. Date

c2010

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13

Description

Dru's best friend, Graves, and her strange and handsome savior, Christophe, are ready to help her take on the ultimate evil. But will their battle for Dru's heart get in the way of her survival?

20) Stranger and Stranger: Stranger and Stranger

Author

Series

Pub. Date

2010

Formats

Description