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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.).
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...
123) 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...
124) 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...
125) Dead flip
Author
Publisher
Algonquin
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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2022-2023 Middle School TAB Nominations
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
Titles Worth Trying: Horror [Middle School]
Books You May Have Missed 2022: Combined
Titles Worth Trying: Horror [Middle School]
Description
"Growing up, Cori, Maz, and Sam were inseparable best friends, sharing their love for Halloween, arcade games, and one another. Now it’s 1992, Sam has been missing for five years, and Cori and Maz aren’t speaking anymore. How could they be, when Cori is sure Sam is dead and Maz thinks he may have been kidnapped by a supernatural pinball machine? These days, all Maz wants to do is party, buy CDs at Sam Goody, and run away from his past. Meanwhile,...
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...
127) The tenth girl
Author
Publisher
Imprint, a part of Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Genius Cat Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
It's Saturday, the best morning of the week when a scream interrupts the perfect day for learning about butterflies. Mili the guppy is missing! But have no fear, P.I. Butterfly is on the case. She'll stop at nothing to solve the mystery. P.I. Butterfly preserves the scene, records every clue, and interviews suspicious suspects, but she ends up on a trail to nowhere fast. As she drowns her sorrows in a glass of milk, a fishy finding leads to a new...
129) Drifters
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Jovie is adrift. She'd been feeling alone ever since her best friend, Micah, left her behind for a new group of friends--but when Micah went missing last fall, Jovie felt truly lost. Now, months later, the search parties have been called off, and the news alerts have dried up. There's only Jovie, biking around Far Haven, Washington, putting up posters with Micah's face on them, feeling like she's the only one who remembers her friend at all. This...
Author
Series
Tower of winds volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen years ago two princes of the island kingdom of St. John del Mar were kidnapped and murdered, a deadly plot by the rival kingdom of Mondrago. Everyone knows the story, but for Elias, Mercedes, and Ulises, the aftermath of that tragic day is deeply personal. Elias grew up without his father, who was killed trying to protect the princes. Mercedes is half-Mondragan, leaving her to grow up in the shadow of del Mar's hate. And Ulises, as the youngest...
131) Trouble never sleeps
Author
Series
Trouble (Stephanie Tromly) volume 3
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Of course I didn't like Digby when I met him. No one does. The first time Philip Digby--the brilliant, annoying, and somehow entirely enigmatic Digby--showed up on Zoe Webster's doorstep, he treated her like a book he'd already read and knew the ending to. But before she knew it, he's dragged her into a series of dangerous, and marginally legal, schemes all related to the futile hunt for his kidnapped sister. A hunt that as haunted him for years....
Author
Series
Monsterious volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When their town is rocked by a series of baby kidnappings, Teo and her friend Logan spend their summer investigating the disappearances and set off to rescue the missing babies.
When her small town is rocked by a series of baby kidnappings, Teo vows to spend her summer break solving the mystery, and convinces her friend Logan-who would much rather spend his vacation relaxing-to help. Their search for answers soon leads them to the woods at the edge...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
When six-year-old Beatrice Willoughby vanished at the Amadeuses’ annual All Hallows Eve party, people in the tiny mountain town of Nevermore were quick to whisper: They were always odd. Their house is full of dark magic. And when Mort Amadeus was pegged for the crime, the Amadeuses, once the center of society, retreated. They closed their doors, disappeared from life. People almost forgot. Until thirteen years later, when six envelopes land at the...
134) Winterwood
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Be careful of the dark, dark wood... Especially the woods surrounding the town of Fir Haven. Some say these woods are magical. Haunted, even. Rumored to be a witch, only Nora Walker knows the truth. She and the Walker women before her have always shared a special connection with the woods. And it's this special connection that leads Nora to Oliver Huntsman-the same boy who disappeared from the Camp for Wayward Boys weeks ago-and in the middle of...
135) The whispering wars
Author
Series
Kingdoms and empires volume 2
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
The town of Spindrift is frequented by all kinds of Shadow Mages and charlatans. It's also home to the Orphanage School, where Finlay lives with Glim, Taya, and Eli. Just outside town is the painfully posh Brathelthwaite Boarding School, home to Honey Bee, Hamish, and Victor, Duke of Ainsley. When the two schools compete at the Spindrift Tournament, the stakes are high, tensions are higher, and some people are out to win at any cost. Before long,...
136) At the speed of lies
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Quinn Calvet was supposed to be having an epic year. She had all kinds of plans with her best friend, Ximena, and sister, Ava, and to grow her following as an influencer on The Whine. Instead, Quinn finds herself third wheel to Ximena and her new boyfriend or getting ditched by Ava who has turned into an overachiever, obsessed with studying and joining every school club. It brings up Quinn's old feelings that her disability has her left behind. She...
137) A pipkin of pepper
Author
Publisher
Farrar Staus Giroux
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
While making pumpkin soup, three friends discover they have no salt and go to the city to buy some, but while Cat and Squirrel head straight to the salt store, Duck pauses at a pepper shop, then fears he will never see his friends again.
Author
Publisher
SSBYR, an imprint of Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A young, street-savvy runaway looking for a place to call home realized he might have conned his way into the wrong family in this fast-paced and thrilling novel from award-winning author Cristin Terrill. It seems too good to be true when Daniel Tate, missing since he was abducted from one of California's most elite private enclaves at the age of ten, turns up on a snowy street in Vancouver six years later. At first too traumatized to speak, he is...
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Vera, eager to start college and escape the celebrity her family has endured since her twin's disappearance twelve years earlier, finds her world turned upside-down again when Ava returns.
Vera Rivers' life is split in two: before her twin sister Ava disappeared twelve years ago and after. Before was hot Junes and ice cream trucks, dancing in sprinklers, loud Christmas mornings and pancakes on Saturdays. The after is everything...
Author
Publisher
Freeform Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Kira Bennett's earliest memories are of living alone and wild in the woods. She has no idea how long she was on her own or what she had to do to survive, but she remembers the moment that Cady Bennett and one of her search-and-rescue dogs found her. Adopted into the Bennett family, Kira still struggles with human interaction years later, but she excels at the family business: search-and-rescue. Together with Cady's son, Jude, and their neighbor, Free,...
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