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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Peyton, who is having the worst summer ever after moving away from her best friend, finds a box buried in her back yard while, in 1989, Mel and Jess embark on their best summer.
This is going to be the worst summer ever for Peyton. Her family just moved, and she had to leave her best friend behind. She's lonely and bored until she comes across a box buried in her backyard, with a message: "I'm so sorry. Please forgive me." Back in 1989, Melissa and...
122) The secret starling
Author
Publisher
Walker Books US
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Clara Starling lives a life of dull rules, deadly routine, and flavorless meals under her cold uncle's strict regime--until the day Uncle disappears, leaving Clara alone in his old mansion. When streetwise orphan Peter and his rescue cat arrive unexpectedly, the children seize the chance to live by their own rules. But when the pair's wild romps through the halls of Braithwaite Manor reveal a single, worn ballet slipper, they are hurled into a mystery...
123) The old house
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
From three-time Edgar Award winning author Willo Davis Roberts comes the instantly compelling ("Kirkus Reviews") classic mystery, originally published as "Buddy Is a Stupid Name for a Girl," about a young girl who unravels her family s deepest, darkest secrets. All Buddy ever wanted was a normal family. But with her mother dead, her father missing, and her brother on the road searching for him, Buddy has a hard time believing it will ever happen....
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"11-year-old Meranda thought her life was complicated enough with her weak legs (she needs crutches to walk because of cerebral palsy) and her helicopter parents. She lives in Calgary but has always felt drawn to the East Coast, where her parents grew up...though she's never visited. Her mother, a pediatric ER doctor, has all the excuses: it's too far, it's too expensive, it's not safe near the water. When her great-uncle Mark dies, Meranda's parents...
126) Bad blood
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Aaron Peterson has never had it easy. As the son of a famed and eccentric theme park designer, his life has been one move after the next as his father chases new jobs in countries around the world. Aaron has watched rides and attractions of all kinds start with a blueprint on his father's desk, and end up a towering, larger-than-life creation to marvel park-goers. That is, until something really, really bad happened on his dad's latest job in Germany....
127) Anna and Johanna
Author
Publisher
Prestel Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"This delightful tale about two young friends in 17th-century Holland is inspired by Vermeer's two masterpieces, The Milkmaid and The Lacemaker. Although one is the daughter of a wealthy Dutch family and the other a household servant, Anna and Johanna become friends. Born on the same day, they celebrate their joint birthdays by making gifts for each other. But then a letter arrives that changes their lives forever. Told against the backdrop of the...
128) Pike
Author
Series
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When Kenny and Nicky spot a glint of gold in the murky waters of Bacon Pond, they can't leave it alone. It means money, and money helps patch things up when you haven't got any. But sometimes it's better not to look too deep. Not when there are local gangsters involved, and tough questions about your own family's past. But Nicky can't help looking back. He knows it's a bad idea, and it could ruin everything. Can he save himself and his family, or...
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Ninjas are stealthy. They are disciplined. Ninjas trust no-one, and do not let anything deter them from completion of their mission. Teenage Kata has trained since childhood to live up to the exacting standards that Madame Chiyome sets for her ¿́¿deadly flowers¿́¿ - the girls who live a harsh, hungry life at her school for ninjas, and she is determined to succeed in her first mission as an assassin for hire. When it all goes wrong, she finds...
Author
Series
39 clues volume 1
Publisher
Destino/Planeta
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
Español
Description
"¿Qué pasaría si descubrieras que tu familia es una de las más poderosas de toda del historia de la humanidad? ¿Y si te dijeran que la fuente de poder de la familia está escondida por todo el mundo en forma de 39 pistas? ¿Y si, además, te dieran a elegir entre tener un millón de dolares... o conseguir la primera de las pistas? Si fueras Amy y Dan Cahill, ¡escogerías la pista y emperazarías una carrera muy peligrosa!" --From publisher's...
Author
Series
Power button volume 1
Publisher
Graphic Universe, an imprint of Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Truly's parents are arguing all the time, so they've dropped her off with her aunt and uncle. Her cousin Kaz has a big imagination but he's not the best at making friends. Maximo Skulldigg gets bullied by his older brother -- and now he has to conquer Kaz and Truly's home planet. It's a good thing Kaz and Truly just uncovered a family secret. After the cousins find a hideout full of strange treasures near Kaz's house, they slip on wristbands that...
Author
Series
William Wenton volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old William Wenton is a code-breaking, puzzle-solving genius. He lives with his family in a quiet Norwegian town. He and his family used to live in England, but eight years ago his grandfather vanished and the Wentons suddenly packed up, moved to Norway, and changed their last name! Neither of his parents will tell William why or share the reason he has to keep his talent for solving codes and puzzles a secret. But then a special exhibit...
Author
Series
Chronicles of Astranthia volume 1
Publisher
Mango & Marigold Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It all begins on the night Rea turns twelve. After a big fight with her twin brother Rohan on their birthday, Rea's life in the small village of Darjeeling, India, gets turned on its head. It's four in the morning and Rohan is nowhere to be found. It hasn't even been a day and Amma acts like Rohan's gone forever. Her grandmother, too, is behaving strangely. Unwilling to give up on her brother, Rea and her friend Leela meet Mishti Daadi, a wrinkly...
134) The viper's nest
Author
Series
39 clues volume 7
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
135) Beyond the grave
Author
Series
39 clues volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
136) The villa
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, A part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When Tess Angel receives a letter informing her she has inherited the Villa Sirena, perched on a clifftop in Sicily, she is stunned. Her only link to the small beautiful island is through her mother, Flavia, who left Sicily during World War II and has not spoken to her family, or of her life there, since. Initially resistant to Tess traveling to her home country, Flavia begins to recount her youth, told in flashbacks as she writes in a journal to...