![]() ![]() Magyk is the original story of lost and rediscovered identities, rich with humor and heart. Who is this mysterious baby girl, and what really happened to the Heaps’ beloved son Septimus?The first book in this enthralling series by Angie Sage leads readers on a fantastic journey filled with quirky characters and Magykal charms, potions, and spells. Septimus Heap (Book 7): Fyre, Angie Sage Septimus Heap (Book 4): Queste, Angie Sage Septimus Heap (Book 3): Physik, Angie Sage Septimus Heap (Book 2): Flyte. That same night, the baby’s father, Silas Heap, comes across an abandoned child in the snow–a newborn girl with violet eyes. The first book in the internationally bestselling Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage, featuring the funny and fantastic adventures of a wizard apprentice and his quest to become an ExtraOrdinary Wizard.New York Times Bestselling Series”A deliciously spellbinding series opener.” –Kirkus Reviews (starred review)”Fun, mystery, and rollicking characters.” –VOYA (starred review)”Fluent, charismatic storytelling.” –ALA BooklistSeptimus Heap, the seventh son of the seventh son, disappears the night he is born, pronounced dead by the midwife. ![]()
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![]() Christoper, an orphaned apprentice in 17th century London must solve a complex puzzle surrounding the murders of apothecaries. ( On par with some of the darker imagery in the Harry Potter books). ![]() ![]() This is an incredibly suspenseful and action-packed upper middle grade series. THE BLACKTHORN KEY (series) by Kevin Sands What happens next involves frozen classmates, the Hindu epic poem, the Mahabharata, a demon and the Kingdom of Death! Ages 9 and up. Aru has a tendency to stretch the truth, and while she is spending the school holiday at the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture ( her mother is an archeologist), her classmates dare her to prove her claim that the Lamp of Bharata is cursed. I love how Roshani Cockshi's Pandava series uses Hindu mythology to take readers on a fantastical journey. Ages 9 and up.ĪRU SHAH AND THE END OF TIME (series) by Roshani Chockshi Young readers who love epic adventures, wily foes and heroic legends will love this tale. Adventures and struggles follow as Tristan meets persons and creatures from African-American and West African myth and folklore. While tussling with a strange creature he punches a tree, opening up a passage between his world and MidPass. ![]() Tristan Strong is grieving the loss of his best friend and reluctantly headed for Alabama to stay with his grandparents. TRISTAN STRONG PUNCHES A HOLE IN THE SKY (series) by Kwame Mbalia ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Poet, essayist, novelist, fiction writer, and labor organizer, Carlos Bulosan (1911-1956) wrote one of the most influential working class literary classics about the US pre-World War II, a period and setting similar to that of Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Cannery Row. A 1946 Filipino-American social classic about the United States in the 1930s from the perspective of a Filipino migrant laborer who endures racial violence and struggles with the paradox of the American dream, with a foreword by novelist Elaine Castillo. ![]() ![]() Rich was responsible for the development of the M.S. He served two terms as an elected member of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) Board of Trustees (2009-2015) and served on UCAR governance committees. He is an AMS Fellow and served as a past member of AMS Council (2008-11). ![]() Rich was the President of the American Meteorological Society (AMS) in 2022 and currently serves as immediate past-president and member of AMS Council and the Executive Committee. Rich has been instrumental in arranging the privatepublic partnership that will result in the installation of an X-band weather radar at Millersville University this summer (2023). ![]() Much of this funding went into supporting over 200 undergraduate students in research and research training from Maryland to the Mojave Desert. Clark is Professor of Meteorology Emeritus at Millersville University, having recently retired after 35 years as a faculty member, including 20 years as chair of the Department of Earth Sciences.ĭuring his tenure at MU, he was the recipient of nearly $3 million in funding for research and instrumentation primarily from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and the EPA. ![]() ![]() Clark Professor of Meteorology Emeritus at Millersville University ![]() |