Jacqueline West
1) The shadows
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 1
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Olive and her distracted parents move into an old Victorian mansion, Olive finds herself ensnared in a dark plan involving some mysterious paintings, a trapped and angry nine-year-old boy, and three talking cats.
3) Spellbound
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 2
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Olive finds herself drawn to the grimoire of the witches who built her house and tries to use its spells to uncover the house's magic and control the cats themselves, but the book is more wicked than it seems.
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 3
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
After plummeting through a hole in her backyard and finding herself once again in the room of mysterious jars, eleven-year-old Olive unwittingly releases two of Elsewhere's biggest, most cunning, most dangerous forces.
Author
Series
Collectors (Jacqueline West) volume 2
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Van Markson embarks on a quest to rescue his best friend from a dangerous wish collector"--
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 4
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"When something crucial goes missing, eleven-year-old Olive and her friends must decide how to get it back--put their faith in a strange and dangerous magic, their odd new neighbors, or someone more uncertain and terrifying than both"--Provided by publisher.
7) Still life
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 5
Publisher
Puffin Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"An old magic resurfaces in twelve-year-old Olive's house, and in order to save herself, those she loves, and all of Elsewhere, she must uncover the complex history of this eerie, painted world, its magical origins, and its creator"--
Author
Series
Collectors (Jacqueline West) volume 1
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Overlooked in class, a hearing-impaired boy who collects lost or discarded trinkets discovers a dangerous underground world full of stolen wishes and the people who collect them.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Eliza isn't thrilled about spending the summer helping her mom research plants-she'd much rather go ghost hunting instead. But when a rare and exotic plant from the store goes missing without explanation, she finds herself mixed up in a sinister plot involving forces that seem beyond human understanding. Could it be that there's a ghost in Carroll's Gardens? --from Amazon.
10) Long lost
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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2021-2022 Middle School TAB Nominations
TAB 2022: Gunston
TAB 2022: H-B Woodlawn
Titles Worth Trying: Mystery [Middle School]
TAB 2022: Gunston
TAB 2022: H-B Woodlawn
Titles Worth Trying: Mystery [Middle School]
Description
Feeling lonely and out of place after her family moves to a new town, eleven-year-old Fiona Crane ventures to the local library, where she finds a gripping mystery novel about a small town, family secrets, and a tragic disappearance.
11) Last things
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
High school senior Anders Thorson is unusually gifted. His band, Last Things, is legendary in their northern Minnesota hometown. With guitar skills that would amaze even if he weren't only eighteen, Anders is the focus of head-turning admiration. And Thea Malcom, a newcomer to the insular town, is one of his admirers. Thea seems to turn up everywhere Anders goes: gigs at the local coffeehouse, guitar lessons, even in the woods near Anders's home....
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
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Description
On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history, but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal...
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