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The girl with the wrong name
By Barnabas Miller. 2016
With no memory of a long ago traumatic night, a seventeen-year-old aspiring documentary maker uses her camera to keep the…
world at a safe distance, but her latest subject, a forlorn and mysterious boy, sends her into a perilous, mind-bending journey. For senior high readers. 2016.The girl with the glass bird (Knights Haddon. #1.)
By Esme Kerr. 2015
At Knight's Haddon, a remote all-girls boarding school, feisty orphan Edie is assigned to spy on fragile, exotic Anastasia. Instead,…
the two become best friends--and discover a sinister mystery. Grades 4-7. Followed by "Mischief at midnight". 2015.The glass arrow
By Kristen Simmons. 2015
Stolen from her home and being groomed for auction, Aya is desperate to escape her fate and return to her…
family. Her only allies are a loyal wolf she's raised from a pup and a strange mute boy who may be her best hope for freedom - if she can truly trust him. For Senior High readers. 2015.The great bike rescue (Orca young readers.)
By H. J Hutchins. 2013
The summer is off to a lousy start when Levi's bike is stolen from outside the corner store. But when…
his best friend Riley's locked bike is stolen the very next day, the boys are determined to get both bikes back. Upon discovering there have been a string of bike thefts in the area, the friends hatch several plans to find the culprit. There are so many potential suspects - Steve Morrow and his gang, the tattooed guy who sits at the bus stop, the owners of the secondhand bike store. There's also Emily Grimshaw, Levi's childhood nemesis, who keeps popping up and showing a peculiar interest in the thefts. Does she really want to help or is she involved somehow? Grades 2-4. 2013.The ghost of the Stanley Cup (Screech Owls series. #11.)
By Roy MacGregor. 2000
The spirit of former Governor General Lord Stanley seems to be haunting the festivities at the Little Stanley Cup Pee…
Wee Tournament in Ottawa -- literally! As the Screech Owls hockey team tour the nation's capital, they encounter his ghost everywhere. Then they start meeting some other ones, like Tom Thomson and Joe Hall, not to mention a former prime minister! But what are these historical figures trying to tell the players? Grades 4-7. (The Screech Owls series ; 11)The gravesavers
By Sheree Fitch. 2005
When 12-year-old Minn has to spend a summer with her sour grandmother, she soon gets caught up in an old…
mystery of a tragic shipwreck, and plans to preserve the graves of the victims. While discovering romance and some intriguing information about her grandmother, Minn's plan for the graves unleashes some shocking events. And much depends on her finding the courage to face a terrible secret of her own. For junior high readers. 2005.The Giver
By Lois Lowry. 1993
Jonas's world is perfect - every person is assigned a role in the Community. When Jonas turns twelve he is…
singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life, and now it's time for Jonas to receive the truth. Winner of the Newbery Award. Grades 5-8. 1993.The ghost in the Tokaido Inn
By Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler. 1999
Japan, 1735. While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's fourteen-year-old son who longs to…
be a samurai, joins a group of Kabuki actors. Junior High. 1999.The general (CHERUB. #10.)
By Robert Muchamore. 2008
The world's largest urban warfare training compound stands in the desert near Las Vegas. Forty British commandos are being hunted…
by an entire American battalion. But their commander has an ace up his sleeve: he plans to smuggle in ten CHERUB agents, and fight the best war game ever. Includes violence and strong language. Junior high readers. 2008.The frame-up
By Wendy McLeod MacKnight. 2018
Don't let anyone know the paintings are alive. Thirteen-year-old Mona Dunn has followed that rule for almost one hundred years,…
ever since she was painted by William Orpen and her portrait was hung on the walls of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. So when the gallery director's son, Sargent Singer, discovers Mona is alive, she's sure she's just exposed the gallery's biggest secret. But Sargent, an aspiring artist himself, just wants to know more about the world beyond the frames. When Mona and Sargent suspect shady dealings in the gallery, they set out to find the culprit. Grades 5-8. 2018.The final six
By Alexandra Monir. 2018
Twenty-four teens are on a quest to become one of six sent on a scouting mission to Jupiter's moon. Leo…
is an Italian championship swimmer, and Naomi, a science prodigy from California. As the finalists become fewer, the two grow closer as the tests get more challenging--even deadly. For junior and senior high readers. 2018.The Firefly code
By Megan Frazer Blakemore. 2016
Mori and her friends live a normal life on Firefly Lane in Old Harmonie, a utopian community where every kid…
knows he or she is genetically engineered to be better and smarter. But when a strangely perfect new girl named Ilana moves in, the friends begin to question the only world they have ever known. Grades 4-7. 2016.The Friday Society
By Adrienne Kress. 2012
Cora, Nellie, and Michiko, teenaged assistants to three powerful men in Edwardian London, meet by chance at a ball that…
ends with the discovery of a murdered man, leading the three to work together to solve this and related crimes without drawing undue attention to themselves. For junior and senior high readers. Includes violence and strong language. 2012.The fortress of Kaspar Snit
By Cary Fagan. 2004
The Blande family is going on a quest to the Verulian Mountains to find out who is stealing the fountains…
of Rome. Along the way, they must face Kaspar Snit, an evil genius. Grades 3-6. 2004.The finding
By Nina Bawden. 1985
The fortunate fall
By Raphael Carter. 1996
In twenty-third-century Russia, the world is linked by virtual reality. The Internet is used as an instrument of thought control.…
Maya is a human camera, a reporter that transmits her feelings and thoughts as well as the news. She investigates an old atrocity and finds herself fighting the censors. For senior high and older readers. c1996.The darkest legacy (Darkest Minds. #4.)
By Alexandra Bracken. 2018
Five years after the destruction of the so-called rehabilitation camps that imprisoned her and countless other Psi kids, seventeen year…
old Suzume "Zu" Kimura has assumed the role of spokesperson for the interim government, fighting for the rights of Psi kids against a growing tide of misinformation and prejudice. But when she is accused of committing a horrifying act, she is forced to go on the run once more in order to stay alive. Sequel to "In the afterlight". For junior and senior high readers. 2018.The falling between us
By Ash Parsons. 2018
At fifteen, Joshua Blackbird becomes an international singing star but, as his hometown girlfriend relates, after more than a year,…
the pressures and dangers of fame take a toll and "Shu" disappears. For senior high readers. 2018.The fall (CHERUB ; #7)
By Robert Muchamore. 2007
When an MI5 operation goes disastrously wrong, James Adams needs all of his skills to get out of Russia alive.…
Meanwhile, his sister Lauren is on her first solo mission, trying to uncover a brutal human trafficking operation. And when James does get home, he finds that his nightmare is just beginning! For Junior High readers. Sequel to "Man vs beast" (DC38144). Followed by "Mad dogs". 2007. (CHERUB ; 7)The fates divide (Carve the mark. #2.)
By Veronica Roth. 2018
As Lazmet ignites a barbaric war, Cyra and Akos are desperate to stop him at any cost. For Cyra, that…
could mean taking the life of the man who may--or may not--be her father. For Akos, it could mean giving his own. Sequel to "Carve the mark". For junior and senior high readers. 2018.