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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Description
"Ten years after her teenage daughter disappears, a woman crosses paths with a charming single father whose young child feels eerily familiar, in this evocative, suspenseful drama from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jewell--perfect for fans of Paula Hawkins and Liane Moriarty. Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was fifteen, the youngest of three. She was beloved by her parents, friends, and teachers. She and her boyfriend made a teenaged...
Author
Series
Where are the children? volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
"Nancy Harmon had fled the heartbreak of her first marriage, the macabre deaths of her two little children, the hostile front-page newspaper stories and the shocking charges against her. She changed her name, dyed her red hair sable brown, and left California for the wind-swept peace of Cape Cod. Now she was married again, had two more beautiful children, and the terrible pain had begun to heal...until the morning when she looked in the back yard...
Author
Series
Peter Diamond mysteries volume 2
Language
English
Description
One-time police detective Peter Diamond loses his job as a security guard when he fails to spot a small Japanese child hiding in the furniture department of Harrods. Weeks later, she's still unclaimed; Diamond is unable to forget the frightened eyes of the silent little girl and takes on the challenge of uncovering her identity. Now Diamond is back in the sleuthing business, following a trail that leads from London to New York to Tokyo and to a shocking...
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway uncovers the bones of a Victorian murderess while a baby snatcher threatens modern-day Norfolk in this exciting new entry in a beloved series. Every year a ceremony is held in Norwich for the bodies in the paupers' graves: the Service for the Outcast Dead. Ruth has a particular interest in this year's proceedings. Her recent dig at Norwich Castle turned up the body of the notorious Mother Hook, who was hanged...
11) Left behind
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
Description
Christopher gets lost on the subway during an excursion to the aquarium and is afraid he'll never be reunited with his class.
12) I am lost!
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little dog gets lost and learns to find his way home again.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Beth Cappadora finds herself in the midst of every parent's nightmare when her three-year-old son vanishes without a trace from a Chicago hotel lobby, throwing Beth, her husband Pat, and their son Vincent into a turmoil that ravages their lives.
14) Back Spin
Author
Series
Myron Bolitar mysteries volume 4
Language
English
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Description
The boy was born and raised on the tony Main Line. But he vanished on Philadelphia's mean streets. For Myron Bolitar, his client, golf superstar Linda Coldren, comes first--and that means unraveling the mystery of her son's kidnapping. But when Myron goes after the missing boy, he crashes through a crowd of lowlifes, blue bloods, and liars on both sides of the social divide. And as Linda's golf-pro husband suddenly makes a run at the U.S. Open championship,...
15) Anthem: a novel
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Language
English
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Description
"The wheels are coming off in America. Opioid addictions accelerate unstoppably. Environmental collapse can be read in every weather report. Vigilante bands take over streets at night, wearing clown face makeup. The very idea of government, of citizenship, is challenged daily. And something is happening to teenagers across the country, spreading through memes only they understand. At the Float Anxiety Abatement Center, in a suburb of Chicago, Simon...
Author
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After her parents' divorce, Zoe Webster moves from Brooklyn to upstate New York where she meets the weirdly compelling misfit, Philip Digby, and soon finds herself in a series of hilarious and dangerous situations as he pulls her into his investigation into the kidnapping of a local teenage girl which may be related to the disappearance of his kid sister eight years ago.
18) The class trip
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When his class goes to the zoo, Sam fails to keep up with the rest of the group and gets lost.
19) Dead and gone
Author
Series
Burke novels volume 12
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
"It's not an unusual job for Burke -- ex-con, career criminal, and ultimate urban man-for-hire -- to act as middleman in an exchange of cash for a kidnapped child. But this time the only things exchanged are bullets. Burke loses his beloved partner, and lies in a hospital bed close to -- or maybe even past -- death, hovering in a netherworld of nightmares and hallucinations. When he finally escapes from the hospital, his appearance has changed radically...