Gabrielle Prendergast
1) The Overwood
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Blue Jasper has learned to respect the magic of the Faerie Woods.
For now he's quite content to stay in "the Overwood"-the name the Faeries have for the human world. The only problem is, his foster sister has accidentally expelled the evil Faerie queen Olea from Faerieland. Now Olea is hiding out somewhere in the Overwood, where Faerie magic can be very unpredictable. Then Blue's mother disappears. Blue and his Faerie friends race through the snowy...
2) Pinch Me
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After another night of girls, music, and booze, seventeen-year-old pop star Darius Zaire falls out of bed and lands on the cruddy floor of his old bedroom. No mansion, no luxury cars, no platinum records. Now he's just ordinary Darren Zegers. Some kind of nightmare has erased everything that happened to change Darren the dweeb into Darius the multimillionaire.
Now Darius has to face an ordinary day in the twelfth grade, suffering through remedial...
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When ten-year-old Journey Song hears that two pandas are being held in a warehouse in her neighborhood, she worries that they may be hungry, cold and lonely. Horrified to learn that the pandas, originally destined for a zoo in Washington, might be shipped back to China because of a diplomatic spat between China and the United States, Journey rallies her friends and neighbors on the poverty-stricken Eastside. Her infectious enthusiasm for all things...
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Fourteen-year-old Blue Jasper takes his younger siblings, twins Indigo and Violet, out for a hike to give their mother a break. One moment the twins are scampering in the trees right ahead of him, and the next moment they are gone. As Blue frantically searches for them, a strange woman appears in the forest claiming to be the Faerie Queen Olea of Nearwood and the twins' real mother. Now because of a magical pact, Blue's mother's life will be in danger...
5) Capricious
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Ella's grade-eleven year was a disaster (Audacious), but as summer approaches, things are looking up. She's back together with her brooding boyfriend, Samir, although they both want to keep that a secret. She's also best buddies with David and still not entirely sure about making him boyfriend number two. Though part of her wants to conform to high school norms, the temptation to be radical is just too great. Managing two secret boyfriends proves...
6) Aftershock
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A massive earthquake forces Amy and her estranged half-sister to work together to survive.
Amy is happy it's the last day of school…until a huge earthquake hits. She's surprised that it's Mara, her half-sister, who finally comes for her, since they hardly know each other. There's no word from any of their parents, and their homes have been destroyed. So Amy and Mara set out on a perilous journey from their suburb into the city to search for their...
7) Audacious
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Sixteen-year-old Raphaelle says the wrong thing, antagonizes the wrong people and has the wrong attitude. She can't do anything right except draw, but she draws the wrong pictures. When her father moves the family to a small prairie city, Raphaelle wants to make a new start. Reborn as "Ella," she tries to fit in at her new school. She's drawn to Samir, a Muslim boy in her art class, and expresses her confused feelings in explicit art. When a classmate...
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Sixteen-year-old drummer Stella, guitarist Jacob and bassist Miles need a wild singer for their old-school rock band. When they discover nerdy Tamara Donnelly, who nails the national anthem at a baseball game, Stella is not convinced Tamara's sound is right for the band. Stella wants to turn Tamara into a rock goddess, but Tamara proves to be a confident performer who has her own ideas about music and what it means to be epic cool.
When their band,...
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Fourteen-year-old Blue (a human) should be upset that his new friends Salix (a Nixie) and Finola (a Faerie) have tricked him into going on another adventure into the Faerieland. But, he's actually quite excited. Especially since their quest to find the way back to Salix's homeland takes them through the Wherewood, a magical region where lost things go. They encounter confused pets, misplaced homework assignments and mountains of odd socks. But when,...
10) Dear Polar Bears
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Polar bears and penguins live in similar climates, but they never, ever meet. What if they had a party together?
The penguins of Antarctica write a letter inviting the polar bears of the Arctic to join them at the South Pole to celebrate their longest day of the year. But how will the polar bears get there? It's such a long journey-will they make it in time? What will they bring? And what will happen when they arrive?
Dear Polar Bears combines...
11) Frío cae blanco
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The Nahx invasions volume 2
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Editorial Océano de México
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2020.
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Español
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Xander Liu sobrevivió a la invasión alienígena; por más de un año se ha ocultado, pero las penurias no han sido pocas... Cuando Raven despierta en un extenso campo de dunas níveas alberga muchas preguntas. ¿Qué le ha pasado a ella y al resto de los humanos que parecen reanimarse a su lado? ¿Y dónde está Augusto, el monstruo que prometió protegerla...? En la sombra de un crudo invierno apocalíptico, Xander y Raven habrán de encontrarse...
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The Nahx invasions volume 1
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Editorial Oceano de México
Pub. Date
2018, ©2017
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Esta novel de ritmo vertiginoso sobre una invasión de criaturas asesinas y una chica que lucha por su vida en el fin del mundo, es la mezcla perfecta de Frankenstein con la mejor literature apocalíptica de ciencia ficción.--back cover.