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1) The testing
Author
Series
The Testing trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Cia Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out her friends who do not pass The Testing are disappearing.
2) Defiance
Author
Series
Defiance trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Rachel's father goes missing on a mission, her attempt to escape their walled city-state and find him brings danger, heartbreak, and a new romance with her father's apprentice.
3) Cloaked
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Johnny is approached at his family's struggling shoe repair shop in a Miami, Florida, hotel by Alorian Princess Victoriana, who asks him to find her brother who was turned into a frog.
4) Towering
Author
Series
Kendra chronicles volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A contemporary retelling of Rapunzel told from the alternating perspectives of three teens whose fates unknowingly bind them together to destroy a greater evil"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Michael Malone saves a dog, he discovers that he has paranormal abilities, which bring him to the attention of a secret organization, UNICORNE--but he plans to use the ability to find out what happened to his father, who mysteriously vanished three years earlier, and save his new friend, Freya.
6) Fire storm
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A fourth action-filled puzzler for teen Sherlock as he plunges into a fight for his life and battles to discover what has happened to his missing friends"--
7) Pretty sly
Author
Series
Pretty crooked volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifteen-year-old Willa takes to the road with Aidan in a stolen car after her artist mother disappears, heading for the Santa Barbara, California, hotel from which her mother sent an email, but soon they are the targets of a nationwide manhunt.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
While accompanying her parents to Paris, twelve-year-old Nell sets off to investigate the disappearance of her beloved, former au pair, Perrine, affectionately known as Pear. With the help of a friendly bellboy at her parents' hotel, Nell sets out into-- and under-- the streets of Paris. They bring to light a sinister plot to destroy a cherished-- and delicious-- part of Parisian life. -- adapted from jacket
9) Yonder
Author
Language
English
Description
"Danny Timmons has looked up to Jack Bailey ever since Jack saved two small children from drowning during the Great Flood of 1940. Now, with his father away fighting in World War II and his mother about to have a new baby, Danny relies on Jack's friendship and guidance more than ever. So when Jack goes missing without a trace from their small Appalachian town, Danny is determined to find him. He wonders if Jack's abusive father could be behind his...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1889 Evaline Stoker, Mina Holmes, and their time traveler friend, Dylan are asked by the Princess of Wales to find out what happened to Robby Ashton, who may have drowned--but the reappearance of vampires in the heart of London threatens to become a more urgent problem.
Author
Series
Chronoptika volume 2
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While Jake continues searching for his father and is sent by the obsidian mirror to multiple times in the past, Sarah and Venn battle with Summer for control of a powerful coin.
12) Crazy
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old loner Jason struggles to hide father's declining mental condition after his mother's death, but when his father disappears he must confide in the other members of a therapy group he has been forced to join at school.
Author
Series
Leland sisters volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1837, as seventeen-year-old twins, Persephone and Penelope, are starting their first London Season they find that their beloved governess, who has taught them everything they know about magic, has disappeared.
14) Possession
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In a world where Thinkers control the population and Rules are not meant to be broken, fifteen-year-old Violet Schoenfeld must make a choice to control or be controlled after learning truths about her "dead" sister and "missing" father.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
304 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1886 England, when fifteen-year-old Mariah begins working at the Prince Regent Hotel and discovers many previous workers have disappeared, he tries to solve the mystery, only to find that nothing is as it appears.
16) Picture me gone
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Mila travels with her father to upstate New York to visit friends and family, who may lead them to clues to the whereabouts of her father's best friend, who has gone missing.
17) I am Princess X
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Best friends Libby Deaton and May Harper invented Princess X when they were in fifth grade, but when the car Libby is in goes off a bridge, she is presumed dead, and the story came to an end--except now, three years later, Princess X is suddenly everywhere, with a whole underground culture focused on a webcomic, and May believes her friend must be alive.
18) Dead reckoning
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1867 Texas, Jett, a girl passing as a boy while seeking her long-lost twin brother, joins forces with Honoraria Gibbons, an inventor, and White Fox, a young Army scout, to investigate a zombie army that is terrorizing the West.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After thirteen-year-old Tucker Feye's parents disappear, he suspects that the strange disks of shimmering air that he keeps seeing are somehow involved, and when he steps inside of one he is whisked on a time-twisting journey trailed by a shadowy sect of priests and haunted by ghostlike figures.
Author
Series
An Iris Anderson novel volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1942 New York City, fifteen-year-old Iris grieves for her mother who committed suicide and for the loss of her life of privilege, and secretly helps her father with his detective business since he, having lost a leg at Pearl Harbor, struggles to make ends meet.
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