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Author
Series
Midnight hour volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When strange late-night letters start arriving at home, Emily's parents set off to investigate. But when her parents disappear completely and Emily is left home alone to face the weird strangers that begin to appear at her door, she takes all of the clues at her disposal and makes for the place where the letters came from -- the mysterious Night Post. What she'll discover is the secret world of the Midnight Hour -- a Victorian London frozen in time,...
Author
Series
Love sugar magic volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wanting to be a part of her family's Dia de los Muertos preparations, Leonora sneaks out of school to discover her mother, aunt, and older sisters have been keeping a secret.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
184 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A guide to the characters and situations in "The 39 Clues" outlines the Cahills' secrets, including hidden facts, strategies, agents, lost founders, secret bases, and scandals, as well as information about all branches of the family.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1945. War has ended, but for sisters Isobel and Flora the struggles still continue. They've lost their father and had their home destroyed in a bombing raid, and now they must go to live with their aunt and her awful husband Mr Godfrey in their ancestral home, Splint Hall. From the moment of their arrival it seems that this is a place shrouded in mysteries and secrets. Who are the strange men who arrive with packages at night? What is the source...
45) Final word
Author
Series
Winterton deception volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thirteen-year-old twins Hope and Gordon enter a spelling bee in a last-ditch effort to save their family from financial ruin, only to find themselves in a cut-throat competition to uncover a fortune and dark secrets about the wealthy relations they have never known" --
46) The rat queen
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For Annie's tenth birthday, her papa gives her a pad of paper, some colored pencils, and the Klimas family secret. It's called the nuodeema burna, or eater of sins. Every time Annie misbehaves, she has to write down her transgression and stick the paper into a hidey-hole in the floor of their house. But Annie's inheritance has a dark side: with each paper fed to the burna, she feels less guilty about the mean things she says and does. As a plague...
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jeska doesn't know why her mother keeps the curtains drawn so tightly every day. And what exactly is she trying to drown out when she floods the house with Mozart? What are they hiding from? When Jeska's grandmother accidentally calls her by a stranger's name, she seizes her first clue to uncovering her family's past, and hopefully to all that's gone unsaid....A true story of navigating generational trauma as a child, I'll Keep You Close is about...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
'Seven years ago, the Ballastian sisters' parents left them in the magical Straygarden Place, a house surrounded by tall silver grass and floating trees. They left behind a warning saying never to leave the house or go into the grass. "Wait for us," the note read. "Sleep darkly." Ever since then, the house itself has taken care of Winnow, Mayhap, and Pavonine--feeding them, clothing them, even keeping them company--while the girls have waited and...
Author
Publisher
Children's Book Press, an imprint of Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
Although Mo's parents insist he eat zombie cuisine, Mo craves vegetables and strives to get them to taste recipes made from his hidden garden. Includes recipes.
50) Box of shocks
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
160 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Oliver, a pampered only child, collects souvenirs from his daring exploits, but discovers that the most shocking things of all cannot be cataloged or contained.
Author
Series
Secrets of the manor volume 2
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
This Simon Spotlight edition.
Physical Desc
148 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kate is thrilled when her English cousin Beth visits for her twelfth birthday, and they stumble upon a secret in Vendermeer Manor that may bring them closer to unraveling the family mystery that's been hidden away for generations.
Author
Series
Raven cycle volume 2
Language
English
Description
Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater are awake, magic is swirling around Blue and The Raven boys and Ronan Lynch's ability to pull objects from his dreams is almost out of control. Worst of all, the mysterious Gray Man is stalking the Lynch family, looking for something called the Greywaren.
53) The black circle
Author
Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 5
Language
English
Description
A mysterious telegram sends Amy and Dan Cahill off to Russia, where they search for a treasure stolen by the Nazis, the truth about the end of the Romanov dynasty, and information about the death of their parents.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Ten-year-old Anthony Joplin has made it to double digits! Which means he's finally old enough to play in the spades tournament every Joplin Man before him seems to have won. So while Ant's friends are stressing about fifth grade homework and girls, Ant only has one thing on his mind: how he'll measure up to his father's expectations at the card table. Then Ant's best friend gets grounded, and he's forced to find another spades partner. And Shirley,...
Author
Series
Raven cycle volume 3
Language
English
Description
Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs. The trick with found things, though, is how easily they can be lost.
56) The innocents
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After moving to Serenity Point for the summer, sisters Charlie and Alice draw apart from each other after their mother remarries their stepfather, Richard, a rich and lonely man with a previous life of which he seldom speaks--and that haunts him still.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Melody always wanted to get to know the Korean side of her Korean American heritage better, but not quite like this. Thanks to a tiny transgression after school one day, she's shocked to discover that her parents have decided to move her and her mom out of New York City to join her father in Seoul--immediately! Barely having the chance to say goodbye to her best friend before she's on a plane, Melody is resentful, angry, and homesick. But she soon...
59) A box of bones
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
284 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After receiving a wooden puzzle box at a town festival, twelve-year-old Kallie figures out how to open the box and finds that her fate seems to be connected to a young bone carver from another time.
60) Apartment 1986
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
255, 10 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Skipping a day at her elite New York City prep school when things get a bit too intense, Callie befriends a boy who is doing research throughout the city's museums while they try to reveal why her grandmother wants to travel back to 1986.
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