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Journey
By Joyce Carol Thomas. 1988
Tigress
By Helen Cowcher. 1991
Author Helen Cowcher addresses environmental concerns in this children's book. A tiger and her cubs leave their forest sanctuary to…
hunt. What will happen when they unknowingly attack a farmer's bull?I Can See You (The Midnight Library #7)
By Damien Graves. 2006
Michael is afraid of the dark. Soon, he'll realize there's nothing to fear except fear itself -- until he meets…
the hideous things that stalk him in the night. This story is joined by two additional tales for this frightening collection.Karen's Newspaper (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #40)
By Ann M. Martin, Susan Tang. 1993
Ellie the Flower Girl (The Critter Club #14)
By Callie Barkley, Tracy Bishop. 2016
Ellie's dream of being a flower girl comes true in the fourteenth book of The Critter Club series!When Ellie learns…
that her cousin is getting married, she's really excited! She has always wanted to go to a wedding. But then she gets even better news when her cousin asks her to be a flower girl! Then the Critter Club gets the cutest guest Ellie has ever seen: a little French bulldog. Ellie works hard to find a home for the puppy, but she's worried she won't be able to. Suddenly she has an idea that will guarantee that the puppy lives happily ever after! With easy-to-read language and illustrations on almost every page, The Critter Club chapter books are perfect for beginning readers!The Mummy (A Junior Novelization)
By David Levithan, Stephen Sommers. 1999
Christmas Treasures
By Katherine Spencer, Thomas Kinkade. 2011
The Christmas season is full of shopping and holiday cheer, but finding one's true purpose is the greatest gift of…
all... Reverend Ben has been ignoring his health recently, and it's finally caught up with him in the form of a heart problem requiring bypass surgery. Since Ben will need six weeks of recuperation and physical rehab, an interim minister is assigned to the congregation. Reverend Isabel Moran is young, but she has a quiet but steady way of connecting with the members of the church. While most of the congregation was troubled by the absence of Reverend Ben, Isabel has ultimately reassured them with her warmth and understanding. Meanwhile, Ben has secretly been considering when he should retire. Is this health setback a sign from above that it's time to start a new phase of his life? As Ben grows stronger, he starts to wonder if he's really ready to celebrate his final Christmas as pastor. After all, Christmas is a time for giving, but retiring and presenting Isabel with his much-treasured job might be the biggest test of faith Ben has ever had to face...Danger (Undercover Girl #4)
By Christine Harris. 2005
Jesse Sharpe, child prodigy and secret agent, must find a bomb in a crowded railway station... before the unthinkable happens.…
Time is running out. Thousands of people could die, and Jesse is the only one who can save them. But the situation is even more deadly than Jesse realizes...Star Gazing: An epic, uplifting love story unlike any you've read before
By Linda Gillard. 2008
Blind since birth, widowed in her twenties, now lonely in her forties, Marianne Fraser lives in Edinburgh in elegant, angry…
anonymity with her sister, Louisa, a successful novelist. Marianne's passionate nature finds solace and expression in music, a love she finds she shares with Keir, a man she encounters on her doorstep one winter's night. Whilst Marianne has had her share of men attracted to her because they want to rescue her, Keir makes no concession to her condition. He is abrupt to the point of rudeness, and yet oddly kind. But can Marianne trust her feelings for this reclusive stranger who wants to take a blind woman to his island home on Skye, to 'show' her the stars?The Mystery of the Bad Luck Curse
By Laura E. Williams. 2001
A terrible crime committed long ago in Mystic, Maine, resulted in a ghost haunting the area. When a team of…
archaeologists arrive, things start to happen. Twins Jen and Zeke must uncover the secrets of the old legend before the curse turns deadly.The Mozart Season
By Virginia Euwer Wolff. 1991
Allegra Shapiro decides to enter a prestigious competition for young musicians, but ends up spending the summer doing more than…
practicing the violin. She comes to terms with difficult issues and learns important lessons about her family and herself.An Unspoken Suspicion: A Novel
By Françoise Bourdin. 2010
Daphné loves to spend time with her late husband’s family in its sprawling mansion in the South of France. It…
was there that she spent the happiest years of her life married to Ivan before he died tragically in a domestic accident.Eight years on, she still spends time there with Max, her father-in-law, a famous sculptor who’s been a recluse since his son’s death; Nelly, the matriarch; and Ivan’s siblings. Daphné cannot help but feel unsettled as she realizes that her feelings for her husband’s brother Dimitri are more than platonic. Dimitri tries to keep some distance between himself and Daphné and not give in to his feelings.But theirs is not the only secret. It seems everyone is hiding something, and some secrets are darker than others . . .A Begonia for Miss Applebaum
By Paul Zindel. 1989
When Henry and Zelda become the Saturday companions of their, beloved teacher, her exuberance for learning, having fun, and helping…
the homeless is contagious. Their visits to Central Park, museums, and other places around New York City open an exciting new world to Zelda and Henry. But Miss Applebaum can't escape the inevitable. Will Henry and Zelda be able to carry out her last wish?A Festival of Ghosts
By Kelly Murphy, William Alexander. 2018
National Book Award winner William Alexander conjures up a spooky adventure full of excitement in this entertaining sequel to A…
Properly Unhaunted Place.Rosa Ramona Diaz, the ghost appeasing assistant librarian, has unleashed all the ghosts who were previously shut out of the small town of Ingot. Now ghosts are everywhere, and the town’s living residents are either learning to cope or trying to do the one thing no one can successfully do—banish the ghosts. At school, something supernatural is stealing kids’ voices and leaving them speechless. And it’s Rosa’s job to solve the mystery and set things right. Meanwhile her best friend Jasper is dealing with what remains of the Renaissance Festival, where ghosts from Ingot’s past are now battling it out with the ghosts of the Renaissance reenactors. And Rosa is experiencing a haunting of her own—could her father’s ghost have followed her here? Somehow Rosa and Jasper are going to have to find a way to bring Ingot back to normal—in a world where the living are now residing side-by-side with the dearly departed.A Family This Christmas
By Sue Mackay. 2014
The greatest gift of all... The sleepy town of Havelock is the last place Dr. Jenny Bostock wants to get…
stuck over the holidays. Her whole trip has been designed to escape the heartbreak of a family Christmas. But when an adorable boy crashes into her on his skateboard-closely followed by his twin and their stressed-out (and seriously sexy!) single dad, Dr. Cameron Roberts-Jenny's forced to put her traveling plans on hold. And the longer she stays with Cameron and his two little boys, the harder it is to leave...Twilight
By Melissa J. Morgan. 2009
This summer is shaping up to be so much better than Cassie had expected. Not only has she gotten over…
her fear of people, she's also gotten over her fear of people that are boys! Now if only she could get over her most crushing fear of all--that pesky little one that can't be named-- this would qualify as the absolute best summer ever!The Bone Hunter
By Tom Holland. 2002
An heir of John Buchan and Rider Haggard, Holland is a storyteller, dealing in mysteries and marvels ... he holds…
the reader's attention in an iron grip' DAILY TELEGRAPH1878. The golden days of dinosaur discoveries. In the still-Wild West, fossils of a monstrous size are being uncovered by America's two greatest bone-hunters, Professors Marsh and Cope. Caught in the bitterest of feuds, their rival gangs steal or smash up each other's collections of bones, and clash murderously in the badlands of the West. Back in New York, the two professors are sniffing out tantalising rumours of the ultimate find. Also lured by these hints are enigmatic English scientist Captain Dawkins and Miss Lilian Prescott, a naïve but wilful heiress. Drawn into a web of corruption and murder, they are forced on a desperate hunt for a box of mysterious fossils - a quest filled with danger, adventure and extraordinary discoveries.Fink's Funk (Boyds Will Be Boyds #4)
By Sarah Weeks. 2004
Nat Boyd and Boyd Fink love making up crazy games to play. In their latest, Faboo Facts, the two Boyds…
go head-to-head, battling to out-faboo each other with the more impressive fact. But this crash of craniums is destined for disaster. It's not long before the competition has gone too far, and Fink starts to change. He's not the same Fink any more... now he's Fink in a funk! Nat had better find a way to break Fink's funk. If he doesn't, he'll lose more than just the game. He'll lose his best friend!Pop!
By Aury Wallington. 2006
Marit has decided: It's time to lose it. Being a virgin is getting in the way of holding on to…
a boyfriend. So who better to get it over with than her best guy friend, Jamie? They've known each other forever. It's pressure-free. But doing the deed changes everything. Jamie falls for Marit! Not only does he ruin her chances with the guy she had in her sights, now she's in danger of losing her friends too. If only there was a way to un-do it! Aury Wallington, a writer for Sex and the City and Veronica Mars, paints an entertaining and thoughtful portrait of the mess we make when we divorce sex from love.The Sleeper In The Sands
By Tom Holland. 1998
Egypt, 1922: the Valley of the Kings. After years of fruitless labour, the archaeologist Howard Carter discovers a mysterious tomb,…
sealed and marked with a terrible curse. But what is the nature of the tomb's deadly secret? And what is the web of strange connections spreading back through millennia, to the very heart of Egypt's fabulous past? In a glorious Arabian Nightmare of lost cities, treacherous priests and daring archaeologists, an ancient civilisation shimmers into life; colourful, magical, and unutterably strange. 'True adventure stories are all too scarce nowadays. And adventure stories that have the capacity to make the reader think and wonder are an even rarer commodity. Tom Holland's latest novel manages both with tremendous verve ... a galloping page-turner' DAILY TELEGRAPH