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By John C. Ford. 2009
Eighteen-year-old Christopher Newell gets a summer job at the morgue hoping to learn about forensic pathology for his future career…
as a spy. But when examining a corpse leads Christopher to suspect a police cover-up, he investigates the case himself. Some strong language. For senior high readers. 2009By Margaret Meacham. 1996
Set in 1885 on Maryland's eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay, a fourteen-year-old girl rescues her twin brother from the…
clutches of the cruel captain of an oyster dredge during the height of the Oyster Wars. For grades 4-7By Lois Ruby, Jean-Francois Podevin. 2000
Parallel stories about Dana, a modern teenager, investigating a mystery involving the old Kansas house that her parents run as…
a bed-and-breakfast, and James, a Quaker youth living in that same house in 1857, trying to help some fugitive slaves to freedom. Sequel to Steal Away Home (DB 41158). For grades 3-6. 2000By Ian Rankin, Sherry Conway Appel. 2000
Inspector John Rebus is assigned to a bogus task force for the new Scottish parliament. He contends with inexperienced--but noble…
class darling--Inspector Derek Linford, while determining whether a newly discovered corpse, a homeless man's suicide, and a murdered politician are connected. Some violence and some strong language. 2000By J. T Flynn, J. T. Flynn, Lynn Arensmeyer. 1998
Montana Mirage combines the conflict of man versus nature with that of man versus man in a unique fusion of…
adventure, intrigue and character study. The search for a mountain lion that has preyed upon a small child and ranch cattle pits Headwaters County Sheriff Ben Green and District Attorney Jefferson Kirk against the animal rights group, Animals Forever. Mystery and suspense intensify with the discovery of another bodyBy Laura Lee Hope. 1966
By Jennifer Sturman. 2010
Delia discovers that her mother, an environmentalist, is alive and hiding from evildoers in South America and tries to help…
remotely. Meanwhile she manages her school, boyfriend, and aunts. Sequel to And Then Everything Unraveled (DB 70160). Some strong language. For junior and senior high readers. 2010By Blue Balliett. 2013
Chicago. One January day, eleven-year-old Early's dad disappears without a trace from their neighborhood. Soon after Early, her mom, and…
her brother must flee their apartment and seek safety in a shelter, and it is up to Early to find her father. For grades 5-8 and older readers. 2013By Kim Harrington. 2013
Seventeen-year-old Jade's dream comes true when her family moves into a big house in an upscale Boston suburb. But the…
house is haunted by the ghost of a beautiful, mean girl who ruled Jade's new high school. Some violence. For senior high and older readers. 2012By Virginia Hamilton. 2001
Fourteen-year-old Tree resents her working mother for leaving her in charge of her seventeen-year-old brother Dab, who is simple. But…
when she encounters her uncle's ghost, Tree comes to a deeper understanding of her family's problems--and the power of love. For grades 6-9. C.S. King Award, Newbery Honor. 1982By Beverly Cleary. 2006
Ramona feels that seven and a half is an awkward age--too young to be home alone but too big to…
play with pesky little Willa Jean at the sitter's house. And yet Ramona would like to still be her mother's "little rabbit." For grades 2-4. 1979By Beverly Cleary. 2006
Ramona Quimby enters first grade feeling brave and grown-up. But her bravery falters when she faces an unsympathetic teacher, a…
classmate who copies her work, and a difficult older sister. For grades 2-4. 1975By Beverly Cleary. 2006
By Beverly Cleary. 2006
When Ramona's father unexpectedly loses his job just before Christmas, the second grader tries to think of ways to help…
the family. But getting her out-of-work father to stop smoking was not her best idea. For grades 2-4. Newbery Honor. 1977By Jennifer Sturman. 2009
When the ship that Delia's mother is aboard disappears in Antarctica, Delia goes to live with her two aunts in…
Manhattan. Refusing to believe her mom is dead, Delia searches for clues and discovers that her mother was the victim of a conspiracy. For junior and senior high readers. 2009By Frances Hodgson Burnett. 1987
In this Victorian story, India-born Sara Crewe arrives at Miss Minchin's boarding school in London with beautiful clothes and the…
good manners of a real princess. But Sara's life changes dramatically when she is suddenly left penniless. For grades 4-7. 1904By Norma Fox Mazer. 2008
A middle-aged man secretly stalks the Herbert family's five sisters, ages eleven to seventeen, as they carry out their everyday…
activities in the small town of Mallory, New York. Then the stranger makes his move, luring Autumn, the youngest girl, into his house. For junior and senior high readers. 2008By James Preller. 2005
Jigsaw walks into the school cafeteria during a food fight and gets hit in the face with Jell-O. When one…
of the lunch aides blames Joey Pignattano, Joey asks Jigsaw to prove that he's innocent and thus save Joey from being banned from the cafeteria. For grades 2-4. 2005By Beverly Cleary. 2002
By Mark Twain. 1980
A humorous account loosely based on the celebrated author's life during the years 1861-1867. Mark Twain tries his hand at…
prospecting, speculating, laboring, and, more successfully, reporting. His exaggerated adventures take him across the frontier plains to California and then to Hawaii. 1962 foreword by Leonard Kriegel. 1872