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Author
Publisher
Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA), Inc
Pub. Date
c2013.
Language
English
Description
Violet is in love with River, a mysterious seventeen-year-old stranger renting the guest house behind the rotting seaside mansion where Violet lives, but when eerie, grim events begin to happen, Violet recalls her grandmother's frequent warnings about the devil and wonders if River is evil.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
In the early 1950s, Lydia Hawkins has grown up poor in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia with her widowed mother, brother BJ, who has cystic fibrosis, and her Gran, but when Gran and BJ die and her mother is jailed unjustly, Lydia must try to remain strong and clear her mother's name, even after she learns a shocking secret from the uncle with whom she is sent to live.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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...
64) Queen of secrets
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Essie Green, an orphan who has been raised by her secular Jewish grandparents in Michigan, experiences conflicting loyalties and confusing emotions when her aunt, uncle, and cousin move back from New York, and her very religious cousin tries to fit in with the other football players at Essie's high school, one of whom is Essie's popular new boyfriend.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Who has never dreamt of being whisked away to a world of fantasy, ruled by magic, and populated by mythical creatures? Well... not Archibald Finch. Exploring his Grandma's manor, an adventure is not what he was looking for --only his Christmas present. Instead, it's a family secret he stumbles upon. Key to that mystery, an ancient terrestrial globe, populated by the most fantastic beasts. When he unlocks the storm trapped inside, Archibald is thrust...
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Life has just become very complicated for seventeen-year-old Katie; her father walked out a year ago, her mother is stressed out, her brother is a "special needs" teenager, and she is caring for the maternal grandmother she has never met, who is suffering from Alzheimer's--and Katie has a secret of her own that she cannot reveal.
Author
Series
Conspiracy 365 volume 5
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
On New Year's Eve, 15-year-old Callum Ormond is chased down the street by a staggering, sick man with a deadly warning, "They killed your father. They'll kill you. You must survive the next 365 days". Hurled into a life on the run, with a price on his head, the fugitive is isolated and alone. Hunted by the law and ruthless criminals, Cal must somehow uncover the truth about his father's mysterious death and a history-changing secret. 12 books, 12...
Author
Series
Conspiracy 365 volume 1
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
2010, c2009
Language
English
Description
On New Year's Eve, 15-year-old Callum Ormond is chased down the street by a staggering, sick man with a deadly warning, "They killed your father. They'll kill you. You must survive the next 365 days". Hurled into a life on the run, with a price on his head, the fugitive is isolated and alone. Hunted by the law and ruthless criminals, Cal must somehow uncover the truth about his father's mysterious death and a history-changing secret. 12 books, 12...
70) Eventide
Author
Publisher
Tor Teen
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Wheeler, Arkansas, 1907 When their father descends into madness after the death of their mother, Verity Pruitt and her little sister Lilah find themselves on an orphan train to rural Arkansas. In Wheeler, eleven-year-old Lilah is quickly adopted, but seventeen-year-old Verity is not. Desperate to stay close to her sister, Verity indentures herself as a farmhand. But even charming farm boy Abel Atchley can’t completely distract her from the sense...
Author
Series
Love sugar magic volume 2
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The second book in the acclaimed, delightful, lighthearted, fun, and character-driven young middle grade series about a family of Mexican American bakers who also happen to be brujas - witches!
Author
Series
Treasure hunters volume 3
Publisher
Epic Escape, an imprint of Epic Press, a division of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
On the trail of a document that could lead them to a lost treasure ship, Chris, his cousin Carrie, and their friend Maddison head into the woods in search of and old Spanish Mission church. It should be simple--except for that little stalker problem the kids still haven't been able to shake, plus the film crew that doesn't take kindly to unexpected hikers. And then there's the vengeful ghost said to haunt the woods ...
73) West of the sea
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When her mom disappears from their small Texas town, paleontology-loving Haven is determined to find her. But as she uncovers truths about her mom's identity, Haven also uncovers a monstrous family secret. Her mom can take the shape of a human and, in the right environment, also turn into an amphibious creature known as a kitskara. And now that she's growing up, Haven is discovering she has this ability, too. This newfound identity is her only clue...
74) The treasure
Author
Series
Treasure hunters volume 6
Publisher
Epic Escape, an imprint of Epic Press, a division of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The San Telmo: a Spanish merchant vessel lost in a hurricane off the coast of Archer's Grove while carrying a magnificent dowry home to the Spanish Princess. Chris, Carrie, and Maddison think they know where it is. But if they want to find the ship, they're going to have to survive screaming caves, psychotic oceanography professors, dangerous cave floors, ghosts--and a boat with one terrible paint job. But for Aunt Elsie, who set them on this investigation,...
75) The truth
Author
Series
Treasure hunters volume 5
Publisher
EPIC Escape, an imprint of EPIC Press, a division of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Chris and Carrie have been betrayed. Maddison has discovered the dark secret in her father's past. A cold case is suddenly hot--and has changed from "missing" to " murder." As a crime wave hits Archer's Grove and authorities struggle to catch the culprits, Chris, Carrie, and Maddison turn to the Kingsolvers' Aunt Elsie for answers. Can the notebooks she left behind illuminate this tangled web of lies, betrayals, and broken promises? Will the truth...
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Bryony Gray is becoming famous as a painter in London art circles. But life isn't so grand. Her uncle keeps her locked in the attic, forcing her to paint for his rich clients ... and now her paintings are taking on a life of their own, and customers are going missing under mysterious circumstances.
77) Keyword cypher
Author
Series
Treasure hunters volume 1
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
"Chris Kingsolver has always been especially close to his aunt. He's heartbroken when she dies in a car accident--and shocked to get a coded letter in the mail after her death. Elsie left Chris clues to the location of a lost treasure ship as an inheritance--if he, his cousin Carrie, and their new friend Maddison can find it. But that might be difficult, what with the mysterious people stalking them, and the strange behavior of the new archivist....
Author
Publisher
Chicken House, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
1919. Mama is ill. Father has taken a job abroad. Nanny Jane is too busy to pay any attention to Henrietta and the things she sees - or thinks she sees - in the shadows of their new home, Hope House. All alone, with only stories for company, Henry discovers that Hope House is full of strange secrets: a forgotten attic, ghostly figures, mysterious firelight that flickers in the trees beyond the garden. One night she ventures into the darkness of Nightingale...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
One morning, Ben finds an envelope containing a very special invitation to come and see the Gee Museum -- a dusty old place under threat of closure. However, once inside he discovers all sorts of incredible things like talking owls, dancing bees, magical bottles, witches, and of course, a hippo at the end of the hall. But most importantly he discovers a connection to his father and the family he never even knew he had. And now he has something important...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Every year, summer begins when the Callahans arrive on Mariposa Island. That’s when Elena Finney gets to escape her unstable, controlling mother by babysitting for their two children. And the summer of 1986 promises to be extra special when she meets J.C., the new boy in town, whose kisses make Elena feel like she’s been transported to a new world. Joaquin Finney can’t imagine why anyone would want to come to Mariposa Island. He just graduated...