Justin Torres
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book--Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns--and its devastating history. The book contains accounts collected in the early twentieth...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
128 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"An exquisite, blistering debut novel. Three brothers tear their way through childhood -- smashing tomatoes all over each other, building kites from trash, hiding out when their parents do battle, tiptoeing around the house as their mother sleeps off her graveyard shift. Paps and Ma are from Brooklyn -- he's Puerto Rican, she's white -- and their love is a serious, dangerous thing that makes and unmakes a family many times. Life in this family is...
3) The 100
Author
Series
The 100 volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When 100 juvenile delinquents are sent on a mission to recolonize Earth, they get a second chance at freedom, friendship, and love, as they fight to survive in a dangerous new world.
5) Homecoming
Author
Series
The 100 volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
New dropships arrive from space and the Hundred send a rescue party to the crash site.
6) Day 21
Author
Series
The 100 volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"It's been 21 days since the hundred landed on Earth. They're the only humans to set foot on the planet in centuries...or so they thought. Facing an unknown enemy, the hundred struggle to survive the only way they can--together, as secrets are revealed, beliefs are challenged, and relationships are tested"--
7) Rebellion
Author
Series
The 100 volume 4
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Book four in the New York Times bestselling series The 100. Now a hit TV show on the CW!
It's been a month since the new dropships landed and the rest of the Colonists joined the hundred on the ground. The teens, once branded juvenile delinquents, are now leaders among their people. It should be a time for celebration and togetherness, but a new threat appears before long: a fanatical cult determined to grow its ranks and "heal"...
It's been a month since the new dropships landed and the rest of the Colonists joined the hundred on the ground. The teens, once branded juvenile delinquents, are now leaders among their people. It should be a time for celebration and togetherness, but a new threat appears before long: a fanatical cult determined to grow its ranks and "heal"...