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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
Series
Edinburgh nights volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
Desperate for money to look after her family, Ropa Moyo accepts a job at the magical private hospital Our Lady of Mysterious Ailments, but when her investigation into a coma patient leads her to the Edinburgh Ordinary School for Boys, she learns a long-dormant and malevolent entity has taken hold in this world.
Author
Publisher
Puck
Pub. Date
©2018.
Language
Español
Description
Desde que Cass estuvo a punto de ahogarse (está bien, sí, se ahogó, pero no le gusta pensar en eso), puede correr el Velo que separa a los vivos de los muertos… y entrar al mundo de los espíritus. De hecho, Jacob, su mejor amigo, es un fantasma. Así que las cosas ya son bastante extrañas en su vida, pero se van a volver más extrañas aún. Cuando a los padres de Cass les ofrecen realizar un programa de TV sobre los lugares más embrujados...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The haunting starts even before Sophie arrives on the Isle of Skye to spend the summer with her cousins, but when she arrives she finds a house haunted by the ghost of a girl who attended school there a hundred years ago, as well as cousin Rebecca who died young and is never mentioned by her family--and she must somehow solve the mystery of the frozen Charlotte dolls before the whole family is destroyed.
8) Royals
Author
Series
Royals volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Meet Daisy Winters. She's an offbeat sixteen-year-old Floridian with mermaid-red hair; a part time job at a bootleg Walmart, and a perfect older sister who's nearly engaged to the Crown Prince of Scotland. Daisy has no desire to live in the spotlight, but relentless tabloid attention forces her join Ellie at the relative seclusion of the castle across the pond. While the dashing young Miles has been appointed to teach Daisy the ropes of being regal,...
Author
Series
City of ghosts volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
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,...
10) Across the pond
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...
11) Bad blood
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
All sixteen-year-old Heather MacNair wants is to feel normal, to shed the intense paranoia she's worn all year like a scratchy sweater. After her compulsion to self-harm came to light, Heather was kept under her doctor's watchful eye. Her family thinks she's better-and there's nothing she wants more than for that to be true. She still can't believe she's allowed to spend her summer vacation as she always does: at her aunt's home in Scotland, where...
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 41
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Nancy travels with her father and two close friends to visit her great-grandmother in Scotland and discovers the mystery of a missing family hierloom.
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....
15) Bravely
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
When a supernatural being appears in DunBroch on Christmas Eve with the intent of demolishing the realm, Princess Merida, under the watchful eyes of the gods, embarks on a series of epic journeys to save those she loves from ruin.
Merida of DunBroch needs a change. She loves her family—jovial King Fergus, proper Queen Elinor, the mischievous triplets— and her peaceful kingdom. But she’s frustrated by its sluggishness; each day,...
16) 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.
18) Journey's end
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Faced with a mysterious, deadly fog bank in a seaside Scottish village, new friends Nolie and Bel look for ways to stop it--coming across an ancient spell that requires magic, a quest, and a sacrifice.
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.
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