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Can you survive the 1910 Big Burn?

2023
"The year is 1910. This summer in the Pacific Norhtwest has been the driest anyone has seen in a long time. The weather is extremely hot and windy. Crops are drying up everywhere. Then, in August, one of the biggest forest fires in United States history is sparked. Will you join the fight to battle the fires and save your town? Do you help lead others to safety or try to escape before the town is consumed by flames? With dozens of possible choices, you have to decide how to survive one of the biggest forest fires in history"--Back cover.

New moon

2022
When the Cullens, including her beloved Edward, leave Forks rather than risk revealing that they are vampires, it is almost too much for eighteen-year-old Bella to bear, but she finds solace in her friend Jacob until he is drawn into a "cult" and changes in terrible ways.

Chasing prophecy

2014
Tormented by bullies, Mo is a boy just trying to survive high school in a mysterious mountain town known as the "Bigfoot Sighting Capital of the World." He secretly loves Prophecy, a girl living with a group that some call a commune and others call a cult. When her family starts down a dark path, Mo learns that real terror doesn't hide in the woods surrounding Boulder Creek. Far scarier are the monsters found much closer to home.

The sea in winter

"After an injury sidelines her dreams of becoming a ballet star, Maisie is not excited for her blended family's midwinter road trip along the coast, near the Makah community where her mother grew up"--OCLC.

A batch made in heaven

Mina is excited to start her mentorship at A Batch Made in Heaven, a bakery famous throughout Washington State for their unique cookies, because she would like to become a baker herself, and she wants to enter the cookie competition in Seattle to win money to help her father open a restaurant to replace the one he left behind in Delhi; but she is soon frustrated because the owner's annoying son, Flynn, will not even let her near the kitchen--clearly he is hiding some secret, and Mina is determined to find out what it is.

Who are the Yakama?

An introduction to the Yakama, the tribe of Native American people who live predominantly in the state of Washington in the Pacific Northwest.

Monsters among us

2020
Recovering at home after a dorm-room rape she can barely remember, Catherine is devastated when a neighbor girl is murdered, and turns to childhood friend, Henry, for help.

I can make this promise

2020
"When twelve-year-old Edie finds letters and photographs in her attic that change everything she thought she knew about her Native American mother's adoption, she realizes she has a lot to learn about her family's history and her own identity"--Provided by publisher.

Tornado brain

2021
"Thirteen-year-old Frankie is mostly doing okay, but sometimes she feels just plain weird. Her therapist might call her neurodivergent, but all she knows is she can't stand to be touched, loud noises set her on edge, and she's easily distracted. So it can be hard to make friends, but she did have one once, colette. She never made Frankie feel bad until the day they weren't friends anymore. Now Colette is missing, and Frankie may have been the last person to see her before she disappeared. Certan she's the only one noticing the clues Colette left behind, Frankie must put the pieces together and figure out what happened before it's too late"--Provided by publisher.

The disaster days

2021
Thirteen-year-old Hannah's first real babysitting job turns into a nightmare when a major earthquake knocks out power and phones, cuts off the island, and leaves her stranded with two children.

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