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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 ghosts of Ashbury High
Par Jaclyn Moriarty. 2010
Student essays, scholarship committee members' notes, and other writings reveal interactions between a group of modern-day students at an exclusive…
New South Wales high school and their strange connection to a young Irishman transported to Australia in the early 1800s. Junior and Senior High. 2010.The gold Cadillac
Par Michael Hays, Mildred D Taylor. 1987
Wilma and 'lois, two black girls living in North Carolina during the 1950s, are proud of their family's new Cadillac…
until they travel to the South and encounter racial prejudice for the first time. Grades 3-6. 1987.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 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 girl who could fly
Par Victoria Forester. 2010
Piper McCloud can fly. Just like that. Easy as pie. Problem is, the good folk of Lowland County are afraid…
of Piper. And her ma's at her wits' end. So it seems only fitting that she leave her parents' farm to attend a top-secret, maximum-security school for kids with exceptional abilities, whose skills range from super-strength to super-genius. But Piper is special, even among the special. And there are consequences. Grades 4-7. 2010.The girl death left behind
Par Lurlene McDaniel. 1999
When fourteen-year-old Beth's entire family is killed in a car accident, she has to live with her aunt and uncle…
and spoiled cousin Terri in another state. Beth misses her family and friends terribly, but with help she learns to cope while never forgetting. For junior and senior high readers. 1999.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 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 friendship riddle
Par Megan Frazer Blakemore. 2015
When her former best friend gets popular and leaves her behind, sixth-grader Ruth prefers to be alone, studying for the…
school spelling bee, until she finds a riddle in an old book. Grades 5-8. 2015.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 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 fashion committee: a novel of art, crime, and applied design
Par Susan Juby. 2017
Charlie Dean is a style-obsessed girl who eats, sleeps, and breathes fashion. John Thomas-Smith is a boy who forges metal…
sculptures in his garage and couldn't care less about clothes. But they share one thing in common: both are gunning for a scholarship to the private art high school that could make all their dreams come true. And whoever wins the fashion competition will win the scholarship. Told in the alternating voices of Charlie's and John's fashion journals which they're required to keep for the contest, this tale perfectly captures what it's like to have an artistic passion so fierce that nothing--not your dad's girlfriend's drug-addicted ex-boyfriend, a soul-crushing job at Salad Stop, or being charged with a teensy bit of kidnapping--can stand in your way. For senior high readers. 2017.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)