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Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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When she discovers that her small Scottish town used to burn witches simply because they were different, a neurodivergent girl who sees and hears things others cannot refuses to let them be forgotten.
Author
Publisher
Chooseco
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The sequel to The Rescue of the Unicorn takes you on a fantastic quest through medieval Scotland to find your missing pegacorn mentor, Dame Scotia. You believe she was kidnapped to use her magic to create a pegacorn army. Will you and your newly trained pegacorn, Liss, locate Dame Scotia in time to prevent a possible war?"--
Author
Series
City of ghosts volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Ever since her near-fatal drowning, Cassidy has been able to pull back the "Veil" that separates the living from the dead and see ghosts, not that she wants to, and she was really looking forward to a ghost-free summer at the beach; however her parents are going to start filming a TV series about the world's most haunted places, starting with Edinburgh with its graveyards, castles, and restless phantoms--and Cass and her personal ghost companion,...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Callie can't wait for her new life to start. After a major friendship breakup in San Diego, moving overseas to Scotland gives her the perfect chance to reinvent herself. On top of that, she's going to live in a real-life castle! But as romantic as life in a castle sounds, the reality is a little less comfortable: it's run-down, freezing, and crawling with critters. Plus, starting off on the wrong foot with the gardener's granddaughter doesn't help...
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Lizzie Chu has lived with her Wai Gong (grandfather) in Glasgow since her parents died when she was a baby. But Wai Gong has been acting different lately. He spends a lot of time talking to his Guan Yin statue--the Chinese goddess of compassion, kindness, and mercy--at his altar and seems to be becoming more forgetful. Even the shared passion he and Lizzie have for their favorite show, Strictly Come Dancing, seems to be tailing off....
8) Wild wings
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Callum becomes friends with Iona, a practically feral classmate who has discovered an osprey, thought to be gone from Scotland, on Callum's family farm, and they eventually share the secret with others, including Jeneba who encounters the same bird at her home in Gambia.
Author
Series
Strange scout tales volume 2
Publisher
Rodale Kids
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
During the annual Strange Scouts Loch Ness Lock-In, Ben and the other Strange Scouts of Troop D try to foil a dastardly plot to frame the famous monster for destroying a wind farm.
Author
Series
Mad Wolf's daughter volume 2
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After Drest manages to free her father, Sir Oswyn captures Faintree Castle and convinces the court that Drest has slain Lord Faintree, with a substantial reward for her capture, but Drest, knowing that Lord Faintree is alive, must find a way to restore him to his throne.
Author
Series
Mad Wolf's daughter volume 1
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In 1210 Scotland, when invading knights capture 12-year-old Drest's father, the Mad Wolf of the North, and her beloved brothers who make up his fearsome war-band, she sets off to rescue them from the castle prison, taking along a wounded knight as her captive to trade for her family's freedom"--
14) Howl at the moon
Author
Series
Haggis and Tank unleashed volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
In this adventure Tank the Great Dane's active imagination takes her and Haggis the Scotty on a airplane trip to Scotland, where they visit a castle, enjoy high tea--and get chased by a werewolf.
15) Nessie quest
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
Ada Ru finally thought her parents were going to agree to a Fitzhugh family vacation in Disney World the summer before sixth grade, until her father announces he's taking a teaching position in Scotland, and moving the family there for the entire summer. Ada Ru is anything but happy. She doesn't like their new home, she hates haggis, and she certainly doesn't like the idea that she will be away from her best friend all summer. To top it all off,...
Author
Series
Ms. Frogbottom's field trips volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Learning is an adventure in Ms. Frogbottom's class, because she's got a magic map - one that takes her students all over the world to do battle with mythical monsters no one believes are real. All Ms. Frogbottom has to do is take out the map, tap a country and ... off they go to a place somewhere far, far away. When Ms. Frogbottom's crew lands in Scotland, they come nose to nose with the legendary Loch Ness Monster! --
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Originlly published: London : Faber & Faber Limited, 2018, as Children of Castle Rock.
Desperate to meet up with her unpredictable father, quiet Alice persuades two friends to abandon their boarding school's orienteering exercise and head for a remote, inaccessible island. As they confront storms, illness, injury, and a gang of international jewel thieves, the quest tests their courage and loyalty and strengthens the bonds of friendship. Readers...
Author
Publisher
Kelpies
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Reema runs to remember the life she left behind in Syria. Caylin runs to find what she's lost. Under the grey Glasgow skies, twelve-year-old refugee Reema is struggling to find her place in a new country, with a new language and without her brother. But she isn't the only one feeling lost. Her Glasgwegian neighbour Caylin is lonely and lashing out. When they discover an injured fox and her cubs hiding on their estate, the girls form a wary friendship....
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Rumors of ancient curses and mischievous ghosts surround the disappearance of a priceless sword said to belong to the legendary Scottish King, Robert the Bruce. Determined to solve the case of this missing relic, Agatha, her cousin, Dash, and her faithful cat, Watson, set their sights on the mysterious Highlands of Scotland.
20) The haunting
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
In the wilds of Scotland, a secret colony of beavers have been hiding in plain sight, safe from humans who crave their fur, until Dunwattle, a young beaver kit, exposes their hidden colony and faces a fate worse than death.
Deep in the wilds of Scotland, land of ancient warrior kings and myths, there is a deep secret. The secret is a colony of beavers, a species that is craved for their fur pelts, but vilified for what humans consider to be the destruction...
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