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Author
Series
Lighthouse family volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A family of animals that lives in a lighthouse helps a lost baby beluga whale find his mother. Pandora, Seabold, Whistler, Lila, and Tiny have all been enjoying the love and comfort that being a family brings. It is a comfort they are unexpectedly reminded of when Whistler and Lila hear the cries of a lonely baby beluga whale named Sebastian. When they learn that he has lost his mama, the Lighthouse Family, with the help of a cranky but noble old...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Oscar Dunleavy is missing, presumed dead. His bike was found at sea, out past the end of the pier, and everyone in town seems to have accepted this as a teenage tragedy. But Oscar's best friend Meg knows he isn't dead. Oscar is an optimistic and kind boy who bakes the world's best apple tarts; he would never kill himself, and Meg is going to prove it. Through interwoven narratives, the reader learns what really happened to Oscar....
Author
Series
Hotel between volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Ever since Cam was named Concierge-in-Training, he's been struggling to keep up with the pace of The Hotel Between. It doesn't help that his missing friend Nico keeps unleashing pranks--you try finding fifty-two cats scattered all over the world. When a grand party goes horribly wrong, Cam learns his twin sister, Cass, may also be up to no good. Now Cam must set out to prevent Cass and Nico from endangering the Hotel and keep it from falling into...
Author
Series
Samantha Spinner series volume 3
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"After finally finding Uncle Paul, Samantha realizes her brother Nipper is now missing and must find him. But while hunting him down, she must elude the mysterious and nefarious CLOUD that's hot on her heels"--
106) En el zooló̤gico
Author
Publisher
Fondo de Cultura Económica
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Español
Description
A little girl explores the zoo while her parents are searching for her.
"Una niña va con sus padres al zoológico; todo parece normal, pero pronto se dará cuenta de que algo ha pasado: ¡los animales han desaparecido de sus jaulas! Sólo hay una manera de transformar ese zoológico gris y vacío en un mundo lleno de color, donde la niña juega con el gorila, el oso, los hipopótamos, los elefantes, las jirafas y otros animales más. Al mismo tiempo,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Flying Eye Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The city's naughtiest mischiefmakers, the Yule Lads, are trying to kidnap Trolberg's kids. But being grounded means Hilda has to get creative in order to save her friends. Can she escape a tangle of timelines and a hungry time worm to protect the whole town from harm?" --
108) Call of the wraith
Author
Series
Blackthorn key volume 4
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Christopher Rowe has no idea who he is. After being shipwrecked in Devonshire, he wakes up alone, his memories gone. Villagers tell him he was possessed by an unseen evil, and only became conscious after being visited by the local witch. As Christopher tries to get his bearings, he realizes his current state may be far from coincidence. Dark events have been happening in this corner of Britain-village children are disappearing without a trace. There...
109) Evolution
Author
Series
Dark matter trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Shay has left Kai once again by following Alex to his Multiverse compound. Her goal is to find the real Callie, but Shay discovers that the younger girl has no memory of her past. Their hope is to leave the community. While Shay pretends to be a devoted follower, Alex makes his own plans to use Shay to spread the epidemic he caused with his dark matter experiments. The survivors will be only the most worthy humans--those who evolve special abilities....
110) The missing season
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Whenever another kid goes missing in October, the kids in the old factory town of Pender know what is really behind it: a monster out in the marshes that they call the Mumbler. That's what Clara's new crew tells her when she moves to town. Bree and Sage, who take her under their wing. Spirited Trace, who has taken the lead on this year's Halloween prank war. And magnetic Kincaid, whose devil-may-care attitude and air of mystery are impossible for...
111) Freeks
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Gideon Davorin's Traveling Sideshow, where necromancy, magical visions, and pyrokinesis are more than just part of the act. Mara has always longed for a normal life in a normal town where no one has the ability to levitate or predict the future. Instead, she roams from place to place, cleaning the tiger cage while her friends perform supernatural feats every night. When the struggling sideshow is miraculously offered the money they need...
112) Shuri: the vanished
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"With the heart-shaped herb thriving, a group of Wakanda's finest engineers working on expanding its dome technology, and the borders more fortified than ever, Princess Shuri can finally focus on what matters most: her training. But soon, a bigger problem rears its head. The princess hears whispers of exceptionally talented young girls across the world going missing; a young environmental scientist in Kenya, a French physics prodigy -- the list of...
114) The collector
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Josie always liked visiting her grandmother in the countryside. But when her mother loses her job in the city and they're forced to relocate along with Josie's sister, Annie, she realizes she doesn't like the country that much. Especially because Grandma Jeannie has some strange rules: Don't bring any dolls into the house. And never, ever go near the house in the woods behind their yard. Soon though, Josie manages to make friends with the most popular...
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Enter the woodland world of Hazel and Twig for a story about sisterhood, discovery, and lost things coming home.
Hazel and Twig are playing in the meadow one day when they discover an egg. "Let's hatch it together!" suggests Hazel, and they sit on it to keep it warm. But an egg takes a very long time to hatch, so the sisters decide to bring the egg home with them. Hazel dreams of all the ways they will take care of their new pet after it hatches...
116) The infinite
Author
Series
Leap cycle volume 1
Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Leaplings, children born on the 29th of February, are very rare. Rarer still are Leaplings with The Gift - the ability to leap through time. Elle has The Gift, but she's never used it. Until now. On her 12th birthday, Elle and her best friend Big Ben travel to the Time Squad Centre in 2048. Elle has received a mysterious warning from the future. Other Leaplings are disappearing in time - and not everyone at the centre can be trusted. Soon Elle's...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Victoria hates nonsense. There is no need for it when your life is perfect. The only smudge on her pristine life is her best friend Lawrence. He is a disaster lazy and dreamy, shirt always untucked, obsessed with his silly piano. Victoria often wonders why she ever bothered being his friend. (Lawrence does, too.).
118) The tenth girl
Author
Publisher
Imprint, a part of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
[In 1978] at the very southern tip of South America looms an isolated finishing school. Legend has it that the land will curse those who settle there. But for Mavi -- a bold Buenos Aires native fleeing the military regime that took her mother -- it offers an escape to a new life as a young teacher to Argentina's elite girls. Mavi tries to embrace the strangeness of the imposing house -- despite warnings not to roam at night, threats from an enigmatic...
119) Oddity
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Oddity, New Mexico, where normal is odd and odd is normal. Ada Roundtree is no stranger to dodging carnivorous dumpsters, distracting zombie rabbits with marshmallows, and instigating games of alien punkball. But things haven't been the same since her twin sister, Pearl, won the town's yearly Sweepstakes and disappeared . . . Along with her best friend, Raymond, and new-kid-from-Chicago Cayden (whose inability to accept being locked in...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"The night little Madison disappears from her crib, Luce sees a pair of eyes-two points of gold deep in the forest behind her house-and feels certain they belong to a wolf. Her town, Picnic, Illinois, is the kind of place where everyone knows one another and no one locks their doors. It's not the kind of place where a toddler goes missing without a trace, where wolves lurk in the shadows. In town, people are quick to blame Madison's mom. But when...
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