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The girl with the wrong name
Par Barnabas Miller. 2016
With no memory of a long ago traumatic night, a seventeen-year-old aspiring documentary maker uses her camera to keep the…
world at a safe distance, but her latest subject, a forlorn and mysterious boy, sends her into a perilous, mind-bending journey. For senior high readers. 2016.The girl with the glass bird (Knights Haddon. #1.)
Par Esme Kerr. 2015
At Knight's Haddon, a remote all-girls boarding school, feisty orphan Edie is assigned to spy on fragile, exotic Anastasia. Instead,…
the two become best friends--and discover a sinister mystery. Grades 4-7. Followed by "Mischief at midnight". 2015.The great bike rescue (Orca young readers.)
Par H. J Hutchins. 2013
The summer is off to a lousy start when Levi's bike is stolen from outside the corner store. But when…
his best friend Riley's locked bike is stolen the very next day, the boys are determined to get both bikes back. Upon discovering there have been a string of bike thefts in the area, the friends hatch several plans to find the culprit. There are so many potential suspects - Steve Morrow and his gang, the tattooed guy who sits at the bus stop, the owners of the secondhand bike store. There's also Emily Grimshaw, Levi's childhood nemesis, who keeps popping up and showing a peculiar interest in the thefts. Does she really want to help or is she involved somehow? Grades 2-4. 2013.The ghost of the Stanley Cup (Screech Owls series. #11.)
Par Roy MacGregor. 2000
The spirit of former Governor General Lord Stanley seems to be haunting the festivities at the Little Stanley Cup Pee…
Wee Tournament in Ottawa -- literally! As the Screech Owls hockey team tour the nation's capital, they encounter his ghost everywhere. Then they start meeting some other ones, like Tom Thomson and Joe Hall, not to mention a former prime minister! But what are these historical figures trying to tell the players? Grades 4-7. (The Screech Owls series ; 11)The gate in the wall (Jean Karl Books, A)
Par Ellen Howard. 1999
In Victorian England ten-year-old orphan Emma Deane has already spent three years working in a silk factory when she stumbles…
upon a job on a canal boat--a job that supplies her with food, fresh air, and love. Grades 4-7. 1999.The gravesavers
Par Sheree Fitch. 2005
When 12-year-old Minn has to spend a summer with her sour grandmother, she soon gets caught up in an old…
mystery of a tragic shipwreck, and plans to preserve the graves of the victims. While discovering romance and some intriguing information about her grandmother, Minn's plan for the graves unleashes some shocking events. And much depends on her finding the courage to face a terrible secret of her own. For junior high readers. 2005.The garden (Scholastic Canada Hardcover Ser.)
Par Carol Matas. 1997
After leading a group of Jewish refugees to Israel after World War II, sixteen-year-old Ruth joins the Haganah, the Jewish…
Army, and helps her people fight to keep the land granted to them by the United Nations. Grades 5-8. 1997.The ghost in the Tokaido Inn
Par Dorothy Hoobler, Thomas Hoobler. 1999
Japan, 1735. While attempting to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel, Seikei, a merchant's fourteen-year-old son who longs to…
be a samurai, joins a group of Kabuki actors. Junior High. 1999.The general (CHERUB. #10.)
Par Robert Muchamore. 2008
The world's largest urban warfare training compound stands in the desert near Las Vegas. Forty British commandos are being hunted…
by an entire American battalion. But their commander has an ace up his sleeve: he plans to smuggle in ten CHERUB agents, and fight the best war game ever. Includes violence and strong language. Junior high readers. 2008.The game of silence (Birchbark House Ser. #Bk. 2)
Par Louise Erdrich. 2005
It is 1850, and the lives of the Ojibwe have returned to a familiar rhythm. The satisfying routines of Omakayas's…
days are interrupted by a surprise visit from a group of desperate and mysterious people. The chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island in Lake Superior and move farther west. Grades 4-7. Sequel to "The Birchbark House" (DC21985). c2005.The frame-up
Par Wendy McLeod MacKnight. 2018
Don't let anyone know the paintings are alive. Thirteen-year-old Mona Dunn has followed that rule for almost one hundred years,…
ever since she was painted by William Orpen and her portrait was hung on the walls of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. So when the gallery director's son, Sargent Singer, discovers Mona is alive, she's sure she's just exposed the gallery's biggest secret. But Sargent, an aspiring artist himself, just wants to know more about the world beyond the frames. When Mona and Sargent suspect shady dealings in the gallery, they set out to find the culprit. Grades 5-8. 2018.The Friday Society
Par Adrienne Kress. 2012
Cora, Nellie, and Michiko, teenaged assistants to three powerful men in Edwardian London, meet by chance at a ball that…
ends with the discovery of a murdered man, leading the three to work together to solve this and related crimes without drawing undue attention to themselves. For junior and senior high readers. Includes violence and strong language. 2012.The fortress of Kaspar Snit
Par Cary Fagan. 2004
The Blande family is going on a quest to the Verulian Mountains to find out who is stealing the fountains…
of Rome. Along the way, they must face Kaspar Snit, an evil genius. Grades 3-6. 2004.The finding
Par Nina Bawden. 1985
The fortunate fall
Par Raphael Carter. 1996
In twenty-third-century Russia, the world is linked by virtual reality. The Internet is used as an instrument of thought control.…
Maya is a human camera, a reporter that transmits her feelings and thoughts as well as the news. She investigates an old atrocity and finds herself fighting the censors. For senior high and older readers. c1996.The fire-eaters
Par David Almond. 2009
There he was, below the bridge, half-naked and eyes blazing - with a pair of burning torches. It's Autumn and…
the winds of change are blowing for Bobby Burns. His new school is a frightening place, World War III might be imminent, and then there's the strange fire eater - a devil called McNulty. Grades 5-8. 2009.The Farmerettes
Par Gisela Tobien Sherman. 2015
Six girls just out of high school live together during the summer of 1943 on an Ontario farm as part…
of the Farm Services - doing the work of the men who are off fighting the war in Europe. We follow the stories of Helene, who sends her wages home to support her single mother; Peggy, a flirt with a secret she must keep; Binxie, whose rich family doesn't approve of her; Isabel, who pines for her fiance off fighting in Europe; and Jean, whose family farm has been taken over by the “farmerettes”, as they were known. Friendship, romance, hardship, and heartbreak shape their summer, all against the backdrop of the Second World War. For junior and senior high readers. 2015.The falling between us
Par Ash Parsons. 2018
At fifteen, Joshua Blackbird becomes an international singing star but, as his hometown girlfriend relates, after more than a year,…
the pressures and dangers of fame take a toll and "Shu" disappears. For senior high readers. 2018.The fall (CHERUB ; #7)
Par Robert Muchamore. 2007
When an MI5 operation goes disastrously wrong, James Adams needs all of his skills to get out of Russia alive.…
Meanwhile, his sister Lauren is on her first solo mission, trying to uncover a brutal human trafficking operation. And when James does get home, he finds that his nightmare is just beginning! For Junior High readers. Sequel to "Man vs beast" (DC38144). Followed by "Mad dogs". 2007. (CHERUB ; 7)The Crowfield curse
Par Pat Walsh. 2010
It's 1347 and fifteen-year-old Will, an orphan boy, lives at Crowfield Abbey. Sent into the forest to gather wood, he…
rescues instead, a creature from a trap - a hob, who shares with Will a terrible secret. Somewhere in the forest behind the abbey where he lives, is a grave. And buried deep in the snow is an angel. But how can an angel die? What has it to do with the monks of the Abbey? When two hooded strangers arrive at Crowfield asking questions about the angel's grave, Will is drawn into a world of dangerous Old Magic. Grades 4-7. 2010.