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Publisher
Del Rey
Language
English
Description
"A multiverse-hopping outsider discovers a secret that threatens her home world and her fragile place in it-a stunning sci-fi debut that's both a cross-dimensional adventure and a powerful examination of identity, privilege, and belonging. The multiverse business is booming, but there's just one catch: no one can visit a world where their counterpart is still alive. Enter Cara, whose parallel selves happen to be exceptionally good at dying-from diseases,...
Author
Series
Strangeworlds Travel Agency trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Language
English
Description
"With worlds everywhere under threat of collapse and mysteries abounding, it's up to Flick and Jonathan to discover why the Strangeworlds Society exists and who it is trying to protect. And only if they can uncover these secrets, and the secrets of a mysterious new world called the Stormforest, will they have any hope of defending their world--and others--from the threat that is facing them all"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom
Language
English
Description
"Aimee Pokwatka's novel Self-Portrait with Nothing is "fraught and deeply moving... the work of a genuinely exciting new talent." (Booker Prize winner, George Saunders). If a picture paints a thousand worlds... Abandoned as an infant on the local veterinarian's front porch, Pepper Rafferty was raised by two loving mothers, and now at thirty-six is married to the stable, supportive Ike. She's never told anyone that at fifteen she discovered the identity...
Author
Series
Me vs. the multiverse volume 1
Publisher
A Yearling Book
Language
English
Description
"Thirteen-year-old Meade Macon attends Me Con, a convention where he meets different versions of himself from across the multiverse"--
Author
Series
October Daye novels volume 17
Publisher
DAW Books
Language
English
Description
"October is very happy with her life as the second daughter of her pureblood parents, Amandine and Simon Torquill. Born to be the changeling handmaid to her beloved sister August, she spends her days working in her family's tower, serving as August's companion, and waiting for the day when her sister sets up a household of her own. Everything is right in October's Faerie. Everything is perfect. Everything is a lie. October has been pulled from her...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
"Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher--for that world or ours"--Publisher
Author
Series
Two-headed chicken volume 1
Publisher
Walker Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Anything is possible in the multiverse, including a madcap adventure starring a plucky two-headed chicken. But look out--there's a chicken-hungry moose in pursuit! In this fourth wall-breaking graphic novel, our double-headed hero is chased through dozens of bizarre universes, from an ocean planet with a disturbing mermoose (that you can never unsee) to a world where chickens drive cars, and even to a land covered with ... pizza sauce? With each...
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Language
English
Formats
Description
"Film-maker Hayes Figueiredo is struggling to finish the documentary of his heart when handsome physicist Yusuf Hassan shows up, claiming Hayes is the key to understanding the Envisioner--a mysterious device that can predict the future. Hayes is taken toa top-secret research facility where he discovers his alternate self from an alternate universe created the Envisioner and sent it to his reality. Hayes studies footage of the other him, he discovers...
Author
Series
Wayward children volume 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Where the Drowned Girls Go, the next addition to Seanan McGuire's beloved Wayward Children series, students at an anti-magical school rebel against the oppressive faculty "Welcome to the Whitethorn Institute. The first step is always admitting you need help, and you've already taken that step by requesting a transfer into our company." There is another school for children who fall through doors and fall back out again. It isn't as friendly as...
Author
Series
Sal and Gabi novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
In order to heal after his mother's death, thirteen-year-old Sal learns to reach into time and space to retrieve things--and people--from other universes.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Description
Evelyn Wang, a flustered immigrant mother, is contacted from a parallel universe and told that only she can save the world. The unlikely hero must learn to channel her newfound powers and fight through the splintering timelines of the multiverse to save her home, her family, and herself in this big-hearted and irreverent adventure.
14) Crown of Flames
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Sayantani DasGupta comes the sequel to the critically-acclaimed Force of Fire
Pinki never expected to be the leader of the resistance—in fact, she's gone on record spitting at the idea. But as domination and persecution of rakkosh continues, she summons her courage for a triumphant return to reluctant leadership in this thrilling sequel.
Readers will be brought
...15) The black slide
Author
Language
English
Description
Against his better judgment, fifth grader Griffin Birch follows his best friend down the new slide in the school playground, and at the other end of this portal they discover a cruel world populated by bloodthirsty creatures on a quest to become immortal.
16) Nophek gloss
Author
Series
The Graven novels volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Language
English
Description
"Caiden's planet is destroyed. His family gone. And, his only hope for survival is a crew of misfit aliens and a mysterious ship that seems to have a soul and a universe of its own. Together they will show him that the universe is much bigger, much more advanced, and much more mysterious than Caiden had ever imagined. But the universe hides dangers as well, and soon Caiden has his own plans. He vows to do anything it takes to get revenge on the slavers...
17) Bright family: 1
Author
Series
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Language
English
Description
"For the Bright family, rocket science is no big deal, but learning how to be a family is a real challenge! When a dimensional portal sends Mom and Dad who-knows-where, it's up to Nia and Jayden (and their robot nanny, Dusty) to bring their parents home.The question is, where in the multiverse could they possibly be?"--Publisher.
18) The chaos curse
Author
Series
Kiranmala and the kingdom beyond volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After Prince Lal is taken to her hometown in New Jersey, Kiranmala must return home to rescue him, but she faces a disturbing prophecy about the coming conflict between good and evil that is being led by her father, the evil Serpent King.
Author
Series
Travis Daventhorpe volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Language
English
Description
"Travis Daventhorpe may be a genius, but he's always struggled to make friends. After his attempt to befriend new kid Juniper Reyes results in an epic fail, Travis takes his sentient flying robot, Travbot, out for a ride. But when Travbot malfunctions, the two take a nosedive into the woods. There, they discover a legendary sword, a wizard from another dimension, and a mysterious prophecy: Travis Daventhorpe is destined to save the multiverse!"--
Author
Series
Sal and Gabi volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When best friends Sal and Gabi try to repair the damage they created when they altered the universe to help their families, they end up creating even more chaos"-- Provided by publisher.
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