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Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
435 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
It's 1941, and tensions are rising in the U.S. as the Second World War rages in Europe. Eleven-year-old Gusta's life, like the world around her, is about to change. Her father, a foreign-born labor organizer, has had to flee the country, and Gusta has been sent to live in an orphanage run by her grandmother. Nearsighted, snaggletoothed Gusta arrives in Springdale, Maine, lugging her one precious possession: a beloved old French horn, her sole memento...
102) The secret starling
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
249 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Clara Starling lives a life of dull rules, deadly routine, and flavorless meals under her cold uncle's strict regime--until the day Uncle disappears, leaving Clara alone in his old mansion. When streetwise orphan Peter and his rescue cat arrive unexpectedly, the children seize the chance to live by their own rules. But when the pair's wild romps through the halls of Braithwaite Manor reveal a single, worn ballet slipper, they are hurled into a mystery...
Author
Series
Tangled in time volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
361 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Life used to be great for Rose: full of friends, a loving mom, and a growing fashion blog. But when her mother dies in a car crash, Rose is sent away to live with a strange grandmother she hardly knows and forced to attend a new school where mean girls ridicule her at every turn. The one place Rose finds refuge is in her grandmother's Tudor-style greenhouse. But one night, she sees a strange light glowing from within it. She climbs a ladder to investigate......
104) Zebra forest
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Annie first started lying to her social worker, she had been taught by an expert: Gran. She told Annie and her little brother, Rew, the one thing they know about their father: that he was killed in a fight with an angry man who was sent away. Annie tells stories, as she and Rew laze under the birches and oaks of Zebra Forest -- stories about their father the pirate, or pilot, or secret agent. But then something shocking happens...
105) The haunting
Author
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
229 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
A dark family secret prompts a ghost to wreak havoc in this spooky novel in the spirit of Mary Downing Hahn. The only life 12-year-old Emily has ever known is the cold, unloved existence of being an orphan. But everything changes when the Thorntons, a young couple from London, adopt Emily, whisking her away to a new life at their grand estate. At first, life at Blackthorn Manor is wonderful. But as Emily explores the grounds and rooms, she stumbles...
106) Heap house
Author
Series
Publisher
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
404 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Young Clod is an Iremonger. He lives at Heap House, his family's mansion at the center of the Heaps, a vast sea of lost and discarded items whose ever-shifting masses have been known to swallow people alive. The Iremongers are an odd old family, each the owner of a Birth Object they must keep with them at all times. Clod is perhaps the oddest of all--his gift and his curse is that he can hear all of the objects of Heap House whispering. Yes, a storm...
107) Shattered glass
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
235 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Toni has always had nightmares about fire, and she also has burn scars but no idea how she got them. So when fire destroys the orphanage she has grown up in, she is ready to make her way to Toronto, where she hopes to discover the truth about the mother she believes hurt and then abandoned her. Toronto proves to be both daunting and exciting for Toni, whose charm and innocence attract attention, not always positive, wherever she goes. Buoyed by the...
108) Chime
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, seventeen-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about.
109) El círculo negro
Author
Series
Publisher
Destino Infantil y Juvenil
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
1. edición.
Physical Desc
163 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Un extraño telegrama firmado con las iniciales NRR lleva a Amy y a Dan a la lejana Rusia. En él los invitan a superar una prueba contrarreloj en la que deben encontrar un tesoro robado por los nazis y descubrir la verdad sobre el asesinato de la última familia real rusa.
After receiving a telegram from the mysterious "NRR", Dan and Amy leave for Russia. Upon their arrival, another hint from NRR leads them to a credit card and false passports belonging...
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
222 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"11-year-old Meranda thought her life was complicated enough with her weak legs (she needs crutches to walk because of cerebral palsy) and her helicopter parents. She lives in Calgary but has always felt drawn to the East Coast, where her parents grew up...though she's never visited. Her mother, a pediatric ER doctor, has all the excuses: it's too far, it's too expensive, it's not safe near the water. When her great-uncle Mark dies, Meranda's parents...
111) Moon over Manifest
Author
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past. Over the summer she pieces together his story. Having heard stories about Manifest, Abilene is disappointed to find that it's just a dried-up, worn-out old town. But her disappointment quickly turns to excitement when she discovers...
112) Who's Ju?
Author
Series
Publisher
Northampton House Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Northampton House Press edition.
Physical Desc
174 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Justina 'Ju' Feliciano and her fellow seventh-grade sleuths are on the case! A sneaky vandal has damaged scenery from the middle school drama club production and the newbie detectives must catch the culprit before opening night. But Ju faces a different kind of mystery when a science assignment forces her to investigate the cold hard fact that her frizzy blonde hair and amber eyes don't match the shades of brown that run in her family. This is one...
Author
Series
Publisher
Destino Infantil y Juvenil
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
1. edición.
Physical Desc
220 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"¿Qué pasaría si descubrieras que tu familia es una de las más poderosas de toda del historia de la humanidad? ¿Y si te dijeran que la fuente de poder de la familia está escondida por todo el mundo en forma de 39 pistas? ¿Y si, además, te dieran a elegir entre tener un millón de dolares... o conseguir la primera de las pistas? Si fueras Amy y Dan Cahill, ¡escogerías la pista y emperazarías una carrera muy peligrosa!" --From publisher's...
Author
Series
Confessions (James Patterson) volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sixteen-year-old Tandy Angel moves to Paris for a fresh start with her siblings and to be reunited with James, her lost love, but her detective work soon uncovers long-buried family secrets that threaten to destroy her life"--
115) 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" --
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