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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Told in flashbacks, dark fairytales, and present-day prose, fourteen-year-old Emma, whose best friend has accused her father of heinous crimes, must testify against her friend's word, and her carefully constructed "truths" about what she may or may not have witnessed between father and friend start to crumble.
42) Suffer love
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Hadley St. Clair and Sam Bennett are teenagers caught up in the grip of their mutual attraction--but adultery, family secrets, and betrayal threaten to drive them apart.
44) Matteo
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Matteo literally sprouts leaves and grows bark during one of his baseball games, he digs into his family tree to find out what it all means.
Author
Series
Treasure hunters volume 2
Publisher
Epic Escape, an imprint of Epic Press, a division of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Somewhere in Saint Erasmus's Catholic church, there's a parish register containing a firsthand account of the sinking of the "San Telmo." To find that ship in honor of their murdered aunt, Chris and Carrie first have to find the register. And it turns out that the church is supposed to be very haunted."--Page [4] cover.
46) Apartment 1986
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017].
Language
English
Description
Skipping a day at her elite New York City prep school when things get a bit too intense, Callie befriends a boy who is doing research throughout the city's museums. She also tries to solve the mystery of why her grandmother wants to travel back in time to 1986.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Seven siblings are forced by the destruction of their swamp home to move into their grandpa's mansion, but greedy neighbors plot to steal their secrets and place them in homes far away from each other.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Emma-Rose Paley has always felt very different from her bubbly, outgoing parents. Unlike them, Emma-Rose has pale skin and jet-black hair, she prefers gray weather to sunshine, and she hates the taste of garlic. When Emma-Rose's great-aunt Margo comes to visit from Romania, Emma-rose uncovers a dark family secret and has a sudden revelation. Could Emma-Rose be a real, live vampire?" (publisher).
49) The portal
Author
Series
Tangled in time volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Finding refuge in the greenhouse after her mother's death, Rose investigates a strange light only to find herself transported back in time, where she becomes the servant and confidante of Henry VIII's daughter Elizabeth.
50) And she was
Author
Publisher
Point
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When Dara finds her birth certificate, she is puzzled to find two strange names on it, but when her mother, Mellie, reveals that she is transgender and transitioned when Dara's biological mother died soon after Dara's birth, Dara is stunned and angry--and she sets off with her friend Sam, in search of the grandparents she never knew existed (and who may be able to fund her tennis career), and the family secrets she can only guess at.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Clivo Wren learns that his recently deceased father was not an archaeologist as he was told, but rather a cryptid catcher, known for finding elusive mythological creatures, and now Clivo must pick up where his father left off and track down a cryptid whose blood grants immortality before the knowledge falls into the wrong hands.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Sammy Wallach's plans for the end of her junior year include sneaking out to the city to see her favorite band and getting Jamie Moss to ask her to the faux prom, but when the international bank her father works for is hacked she suddenly finds her and her family's whole digital world, emails, photos, journal, exposed for everyone to see--and the repercussions are making all their lives a misery.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Annabelle's mother is a hoarder, and their whole house is full of canned goods, broken toys, fabric, and old newspapers--but when a pile of newspapers (organized by weather reports) falls on Annabelle's younger sister Leslie and their mother is more concerned about the newspapers, it sets off a chain of events that brings their fix-it-all grandmother in and Annabelle realizes that if there is any hope for change she can not isolate...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Emily Elizabeth Davis has been told for her entire life that her destiny is to become a poet, just like her famous namesake, Emily Dickinson. But Emily doesn't even really like poetry, and she has a secret career ambition that she suspects her English-professor mother will frown on. Then, just after discovering that it contains an important family secret, she loses the special volume of Emily Dickinson's poetry that was given to her...
Author
Series
Montague siblings volume 3
Language
English
Description
Return to the enchanting world of the Montague siblings in the finale to the New York Times bestselling and Stonewall Honor-winning series, featuring a teenage Adrian Montague as he desperately seeks the now adult Monty and Felicity - the older siblings he never knew he had. The sole heir to his family's fortune, Adrian Montague desperately wants to be free - from his father's high expectations; the grief of losing his beloved mother; and the constant...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Gifted with the ability to draw maps of worlds that are beyond imagining, K2 O'Hero, sworn to keep his family's Magical history a secret, must use his gift to find a crossing point into one of those worlds when his baby sister is kidnapped.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When ghoulish creatures kill twelve-year-old Asha's guardian, her dying words launch Asha on a quest to stop an ancient evil, and along the way, she uncovers shocking secrets about the family she never knew and begins to find her place in the world as she discovers her own untapped powers.
58) A secret shared
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Nora and Ben's younger sister Birdy loves to keep secrets ... One day Birdy watches her mother spit into a tube, ready to send it off to find out more about herself ... Birdy spits into a tube, too, when no one sees her. But when the test results come back, they are a surprise. Birdy is seemingly not related to Nora and Ben's parents. But if she is adopted, how could that have happened without the children knowing?"--
59) The reunion
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In CancĂșn, Mexico, the Mayweather family gathers for a family reunion to bring them all together, but each brings their own agenda, old grudges, and dangerous secrets that ultimately lead to murder.
60) A family mystery
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Join Miguel and his dog, Dante, as they solve a family mystery.