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Author
Series
Pup detectives volume 9
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The Pup Detectives at Pawston Elementary are quick to notice something not quite right about their special guest Prince Bubbles.
Author
Series
Kitty (Paula Harrison) volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a superhero with catlike powers, Kitty and her cat Pumpkin must recover a stolen golden tiger statue and return it to the local museum.
25) Hideout
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
Description
In this riveting middle-grade adventure, the son of a Mississippi policeman finds a boy living on his own in the wilderness. Twelve-year-old Sam has been given a fishing boat by his father, but he hates fishing. Instead he uses the boat to disappear for hours at a time, exploring the forbidden swampy surroundings of his bayou home. Then he discovers a strange kid named Davey, mysteriously alone, repairing an abandoned cabin deep in the woods. Not...
Author
Series
Makana mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"The ancient city of Cairo is a feverish tangle of the old and the new, of the superrich and the desperately poor, with inequality and corruption everywhere. It's a place where grudges and long-buried secrets can fester, and where people can disappear in the blink of an eye. Makana, a former Sudanese police inspector forced to flee to Cairo, is now struggling to make ends meet as a private detective. In need of money, he takes a case from the notoriously...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
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Description
During a family trip to China, eleven-year-old Mia Chen and her older brother, Jake, follow clues and solve riddles in hopes of finding their missing Aunt Lin and, perhaps, a legendary treasure.
31) Snake bite
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Kidnapped and taken to China, young Sherlock Holmes enjoys adventure on the high seas before encountering a puzzling case of three men bitten by the same poisonous snake in different parts of Shanghai. Includes historical notes.
32) Girl defective
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014, ©2013.
Language
English
Description
Friendship, love, and a mystery fill the life-changing summer of fifteen-year-old Sky, who lives with her unconventional family in a run-down record store in St. Kilda, a seaside suburb of Melbourne, Australia.
Author
Series
Chicken Squad volume 1
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"Dirt, Sweetie, Poppy, and Sugar might be chicks, but they sure aren't chicken. They're the Chicken Squad, and it's up to them to figure out what Tail, the not-so-brave squirrel, is so afraid of. When he describes it as BIG and SCARY, that doesn't give much insight as to what is lurking beyond the coop. Can our feckless, fluffy heroes defeat something that could very well be--gulp--from out of this world?"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Anna and Elsa volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When Kristoff and the ice harvesters challenge Oaken and his new invention to a friendly contest, Oaken, Elsa, and Anna becomes embroil in a mystery involving a missing ice harvesting machine.
35) In harm's way
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Benjamin Pratt and his friends Jill and Robert continue their efforts to save their school, they find themselves dodging two evil janitors, Lyman and Wally, but their team has also grown and now has a secret fund of millions of dollars.
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"When Paulina gets a phone call from home telling her that a friend is missing, the Thea Sisters travel to Peru to help solve the mystery. There, the five mice climb the Andes Mountains in search of a missing archaeologist. Along the way, they stumble upon clues leading them to a mysterious hidden city. Will the Thea Sisters find Paulina's friend, and the treasure of the Secret City?"--P. [4] of cover.
37) Behind her eyes
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Louise is a single mom, a secretary, stuck in a modern-day rut. On a rare night out, she meets a man in a bar and sparks fly. Though he leaves after they kiss, she's thrilled she finally connected with someone. When Louise arrives at work on Monday, she meets her new boss, David. The man from the bar. The very married man from the bar...who says the kiss was a terrible mistake, but who still can't keep his eyes off Louise. And then Louise bumps...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Bram moves to the small town of Louth in order to help her uncle start his new inn, but when she discovers a legacy of silenced women tied to her new home, she sets out to investigate the truth behind the town's 'Dead Girl' myths"--
39) Labyrinth
Author
Publisher
Speaking Volumes, LLC
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Nameless is called in by his friend, police lieutenant Eberhardt, when a dead woman's purse contains Nameless's business card. Nameless has never met her, and cannot make a connection. Next, Nameless is hired to track and protect a disturbed man, Martin Talbot, who may be harmed by the husband of a woman who died when Talbot's car collided with theirs after Talbot fell asleep at the wheel. "Pronzini makes people and events so real that you're living...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Nicholas and his ten-year-old, twin sisters, Hetty and Haley, spend the summer with their Great-Uncle Nick at Forsaken Lake, where he and their new friend Charlie investigate the truth about an accident involving their families many years before.
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