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Author
Series
Doll people volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Best friends Annabelle and Tiffany risk placing all of dollkind in danger when they run away while trying to prevent Tilly from being sent back to London before they can determine if she is Annabelle's long-lost baby sister.
42) What she knew
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Rachel Jenner is walking in a Bristol park with her eight-year-old son Ben when he asks if he can run ahead. It's an ordinary request on an ordinary Sunday afternoon, and Rachel has no reason to worry--until Ben vanishes. Police are called, search parties go out, and Rachel, already insecure after her recent divorce, feels herself coming undone. As hours and then days pass without a sign of Ben, everyone who knew him is called into question, from...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When their little sister doesn't come home from school, fifteen-year-old Maggie and her brother must face up to some deep, dark secrets about their natural mother, whom they must consider as a kidnapping suspect.
44) Lion
Publisher
The Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
At only five years old, Saroo Brierley got lost on a train in India. Unable to read or write or recall the name of his hometown or even his own last name, he survived alone for weeks on the rough streets of Calcutta before ultimately being transferred to an agency and adopted by a couple in Australia.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged beasts in the woods, to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines, his tales are so extraordinary no one can possibly believe him -- iIncluding Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache, who now live in the little Quebec village. But when the boy disappears, the villagers are faced with the possibility that one of his tall tales might...
47) Dead List
Author
Publisher
Joffe Books
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Police partners, D.I. Calladine and D.S. Ruth Bayliss battle a murderer who is working their way through a list of victims. Each murder is meticulously planned and unique, and a tarot card is left at the scene of the crime. When two children disappear in the local area, the stakes are raised and the team are baffled by the link between the crimes. Calladine and Bayliss race against time to prevent any more carnage.
48) Stranger Child
Author
Publisher
Black Dot Publishing
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
When Emma Joseph met her husband David, he was a man shattered by grief. His first wife had been killed outright when her car veered off the road. Just as tragically, their six-year-old daughter mysteriously vanished from the scene of the accident. Now six years later, Emma believes the painful years are behind them. She and David have built a new life together and have a beautiful baby son, Ollie. Then a stranger walks into their lives, and their...
Author
Series
Publisher
NavPress
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Plunged again into the gray world of Lyric and Hazor, Susan and Mark search frantically for their teenage son, Jake, as all signs hint that a trusted ally has betrayed them and threatens their son. Assassins and political intrigue, false leads, and near misses beset their path, which will lead them into the dark prisons of Hazor before the One's purpose is revealed.
50) Wildwood Road
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Language
English
Description
Anxieties over marriage, home and work amplify the eeriness of Golden's engrossing suburban horror novel. Michael and Jillian Dansky are heading home from a Halloween party when they give a young girl on the road a lift to a strange old mansion. She leaves them with the injunction to "come find me," and suddenly their lives are no longer the same.
Author
Series
Simon Fisk novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Tapped to oversee a ransom exchange involving a movie mogul's abducted daughter, former U.S. Marshal Simon Fisk learns that the kidnappers have no intention of returning the girl, a discovery that prompts a quest through the most dangerous cities of South America.
Author
Series
Naomi Cottle novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A year ago, Naomi, the investigator with an uncanny ability for finding missing children, made a promise that she would not take another case until she finds the younger sister who has been missing for years. Naomi has no picture, not even a name. All she has is a vague memory of a strawberry field at night, black dirt under her bare feet as she ran for her life. The search takes her to Portland, Oregon, where scores of homeless children wander the...
Author
Series
Xanth volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In Xanth the Gap Dragon had escaped from the Gap and was ravaging across the land. The forget-spell that had covered the Gap was breaking into small forget-whorls that wandered about, giving amnesia to all they touched.
54) Buried
Author
Series
Publisher
Montlake Romance
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Reporter Michael Brody is used to getting answers. The one that's eluded him, though, for twenty long years is learning what happened to his brother Daniel the day his school bus disappeared. When the remains of the other children are discovered and Daniel's aren't among them a desperate Michael calls upon the sole survivor of the tragedy, Chris Jacobs, hoping he will finally break his silence. Constant fear of being found by his kidnapper has driven...
55) Wildwood
Author
Series
Wildwood chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her baby brother is kidnapped by crows, seventh-grader Prue McKeel ventures into the forbidden Impassable Wilderness--a dangerous and magical forest in the middle of Portland, Oregon--and soon finds herself involved in a war among the various inhabitants.
56) Baby Bear
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Baby Bear is lost and afraid. All the other animals try to help: Trust yourself. Sing a song. Retrace your steps. As Baby Bear gains courage with every step, he realizes he was never far from home after all."--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Set in November 1918 on the opulent, castle-like island estate of the eccentric millionaire Claude Arkel, a young couple settle in as guests on Prosper Island. They find themselves quarantined in a shabby outpost far from Mr. Arkel's mansion - from which they learn three girls had gone missing. After she encounters a figure in the woods that may be the ghost of her long-lost friend Mary, Anna Filing Fort resolves to find out who Mr. Arkel really is,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Hannah is having a bad day. A bad month. A bad year? That feels terrible to admit, since it's been eight months since her son, Jack, was born, and she loves Jack more than anything. But ever since his harrowing birth, she can't shake the feeling that it could have gone the other way. That her baby might not have made it. As her cozy, claustrophobic days with Jack begin unraveling, Hannah can't tell whether the strange things happening are just new...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
It may seem strange to describe Grant's debut as a charming horror novel, but there's a determined amiableness about the narrative that will appeal to readers who wouldn't typically be drawn to such subject matter. It's December 1998, and 10-year-old Pia Kolvenbach and her family are living happily in the quaint German town where her father grew up, until Pia's grandmother accidentally sets herself on fire and burns to death. A rumor erupts that her...
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Kristy's mom is getting married, and Kristy is going to be a bridesmaid! The only problem? Fourteen kids are coming to town for the wedding. Kristy, Claudia, Mary Ann, Stacey, Dawn, and Mallory think they can handle it, but that's before they spend a week changing diapers, stopping arguments, solving mix-ups, and planning activities. It's the biggest job the BSC has ever had, but they'll work together to make sure Kristy's big day is a success!"...