Catherynne M. Valente
1) Space opera
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny. They must sing. A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented by the remnants of civilization. Something to cheer up everyone who was left. Something to celebrate having escaped total annihilation by the skin of one's teeth, if indeed one has skin. Or teeth. Something to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
For as long as they can remember, the twin endermen Fin and Mo have lived in the mysterious land of the End. On the outskirts of the great enderman city of Talos, they explore ancient ruins under the watchful gaze of the mighty ender dragon. They have everything they need in the end ship they call home, and know everything there is to know about their world -- or so they think until the strangers from another dimension arrive. The invaders are called...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
September misses Fairyland and her friends Ell, the Wyverary, and the boy Saturday. She longs to leave the routines of home and embark on a new adventure. Little does she know that this time, she will be spirited away to the moon, reunited with her friends, and find herself faced with saving Fairyland from a moon-Yeti with great and mysterious powers.
Author
Publisher
Saga Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author Catherynne Valente comes a series of linked stories from the points of view of the wives and girlfriends of superheroes, female heroes, and anyone who's ever been "refrigerated": comic book women who are killed,raped, brainwashed, driven mad, disabled, or had their powers taken so that a male superhero's storyline will progress. In an entirely new and original superhero universe, Valente explores these ideas...
7) Radiance
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Radiance is a decopunk pulp SF alt-history space opera mystery set in a Hollywood--and solar system--very different from our own. --Publisher
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Whisked away to a magical land of their own making as they are about to depart for boarding school, sisters Charlotte and Emily Brontë find themselves fighting Napoleon to obtain a potion that raises the dead.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When his mother accidentally kills a Quidnunk in the woods, Osmo Unknown must embark on a quest to find the Eightpenny Woods--the mysterious kingdom where all wild forest creatures go when they die--and make amends.