Julie Berry
1) Lovely war
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English
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"In the perilous days of World Wars I and II, the gods hold the fates -- and the hearts -- of four mortals in their hands. They are Hazel, James, Aubrey, and Colette. A classical pianist from London, a British would-be architect-turned-soldier, a Harlem-born ragtime genius in the U.S. Army, and a Belgian orphan with a gorgeous voice and a devastating past. Their story, as told by goddess Aphrodite to her husband, Hephaestus, and her lover, Ares, is...
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In mid-thirteenth century Provence, Dolssa de Stigata is a fervently religious girl who feels the call to preach, condemned by the Inquisition as an "unnatural woman," and hunted by the Dominican Friar Lucien who fears a resurgence of the Albigensian heresy; Botille is a matchmaker trying to protect her sisters from being branded as gypsies or witches--but when she finds the hunted Dolssa dying on a hillside, she feels compelled to protect her, a...
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English
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Orphaned at age five, Lucinda, now fifteen, stands with courage against the man who took everything from her, aided by a thief, a clever goat, and a mysterious woman called the Witch of Amaranth, while the prince she knew as a child prepares to marry, unaware that he, too, is in danger.
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Wishes and Wellingtons volume 1
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English
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Maeve Merritt, chafing against the rigid rules of her London boarding school, finds her life transformed by the genie she happens upon--and by those who want to steal him.
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English
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"Young dairymaid Begonia has lost her cow, Alfalfa. So she has set off on a search across the countryside even though she has nothing but a magical map to guide her. Meanwhile, the Emperor has gone missing from the royal palace in a most mysterious manner. Was it murder? Was it magic? It will take all of Begonia's wits to save the empire and get Alfalfa home safely"--
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Wishes and Wellingtons volume 2
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English
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Maeve, Tommy, and their best friend Alice embark on an adventure filled with magic, danger and flying carpetbags to rescue Tommy's father and the djinni Mermeros before Mermeros's fabled wishes fall into the wrong hands.
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When their irascible headmistress, Mrs. Plackett, and her surly brother, Mr. Godding, are poisoned at Sunday dinner, the girls of St. Etheldreda's School for Young Ladies face a dilemma. The school will almost certainly be closed and the girls sent home-- unless these seven very proper young ladies can hide the murders and convince their neighbors that nothing is wrong. But there's a murderer on the loose-- how can the girls be sure the killer won't...
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Wishes and Wellingtons volume 3
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English
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In 1897 England, while visiting Cambridge University, thirteen-year-old Maeve Merritt and her friends encounter charmed mirrors, meddling thieves, and a lady scholar who does not believe in magic--yet.
12) Worn Thresholds
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English
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Reading Julie Berry's poetry means entering a new poetic space, crossing thresholds of pain and delight at once raw and refined. "like marie d'oignies who buried bloody/ mouthfuls of herself/ in the garden/ i need my poems to be like this," Berry writes in "Touching Ground." "Like this" is finely-turned and constantly surprising, haunting as plainsong, throaty as the blues. Her images are so completely unexpected and yet so thoroughly right that you...
13) Happy right now
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Sounds True
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
Description
Describe how it feels to be happy and what can cause it.
14) Cranky right now
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Publisher
Sounds True
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
Description
"A hilarious ride through the ups and downs of being grumpy, helping kids deal with cranky feelings, frustrating relationships, and things that just make them mad"--
15) The night frolic
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"Before they go to sleep, children travel on a dreamy, whimsical journey to visit the Night Tiger, the Night Walrus, the Night Elephant, and others"--
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Splurch Academy for Disruptive Boys volume 3
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Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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When Headmaster Farley's estranged sister takes over Splurch Academy, Cody and the other boys are pitted against their new classmates, the girls of Priscilla Prim Academy for Precious and Proper Young Ladies.
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Splurch Academy for Disruptive Boys volume 2
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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Escaping the Splurch Academy infirmary using stolen keys, Cody Mack and friends prepare for Halloween and try to figure out Cody's dreams about a giant beetle that seems to be turning him into a monster.
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Splurch Academy for Disruptive Boys volume 1
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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Cody Mack's misdeeds land him in a reformatory school, where he soon discovers that the principal and teachers are actual monsters with a sinister plan to alter the boys' brains.
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Splurch Academy for Disruptive Boys volume 4
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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When Cody Mack and the boys uncover an old, forgotten swimming pool hidden below the floor of Splurch Academy's gymnasium they think it may provide them with an escape route, but the pool is overflowing with evil, monstrous squids.
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J. Paul Getty Museum
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"A boy discovers a medieval Book of Beasts and uses it to invent a tale of heroic deeds. Each time he says the name of an animal, it magically emerges from the book, causing a day full of hilarity and mayhem at the castle"--