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722) Mojo
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"A boy who feels powerless in his own life sets out to investigate the mystery of a missing high school girl in his town, who attends an elite private high school very unlike his own"--
723) Lunch-box dream
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Told from multiple points of view, a white family on a 1959 road trip between Ohio and Florida, visiting Civil War battlefields along the way, crosses paths with a black family near Atlanta, where one of their children has gone missing.
Author
Series
Stumptown volume 1
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Dex is the proprietor of Stumptown Investigations, and a fairly talented P.I. Unfortunately, she's less adept at throwing dice than solving cases. Her recent streak has left her beyond broke - she's into the Confederated Tribes of the Wind Coast for 18 large. But maybe Dex's luck is about to change. Sue-Lynne, head of the Wind Coast's casino operation, will clear Dex's debt if she can locate Sue-Lynne's missing granddaughter. But is this job Dex's...
725) Animus
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The residents of a quiet Japanese neighborhood have slowly come to realize that inauspicious, paranormal forces are at play in the most unlikely of places: the local playground. Two friends, a young boy and girl, resolve to exorcise the evil that inhabit it, including a snaggle-toothed monster. In Animus, a beautiful but spooky young adult graphic novel of everyday hauntings, Antoine Revoy delivers an eerie tale inspired by the Japanese and French...
726) The paragon hotel
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnams Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Fleeing to Oregon from New York City in 1921, Alice James takes refuge in the city's only black hotel and helps new friends search for a missing child, hide from KKK violence, and navigate painful secrets.
"The year is 1921, and "Nobody" Alice James is on a cross-country train, carrying a bullet wound and fleeing for her life following an illicit drug and liquor deal gone horribly wrong. Desperate to get as far away as possible from New York City...
727) The hideaway
Author
Publisher
Pavilion Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a boy, Billy McKenna, who runs away from a difficult situation at home and takes refuge in an overgrown graveyard. While hiding there he meets an elderly man who is tending the graves in preparation for a day in November when something magical is set to happen. The book is written in two alternating narratives, both different aspects of the same story. One thread tells of Billy's experience of hiding away in the graveyard, his mixed-up...
728) The boy
Author
Series
Broussard and Fourcade novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Detective Nick Fourcade enters the home of Genevieve Gauthier outside the sleepy town of Bayou Breaux, Louisiana, the bloody crime scene that awaits him is both the most brutal and the most confusing he's ever seen. Genevieve's seven-year-old son, P.J., has been murdered by an alleged intruder, yet Genevieve is alive and well, a witness inexplicably left behind to tell the tale. There is no evidence of forced entry, not a clue that points to...
729) The Eyes of Darkness
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A year had passed since little Danny's death-a year since his mother began the painful process of acceptance. But Tina Evans swears that she sees Danny in a stranger's car and then dreams that he is still alive. When she awakes she finds a message in his bedroom--"not dead" and the mystery begins.
730) Yoko finds her way
Author
Series
Yoko books (Rosemary Wells) volume 6
Publisher
Disney Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Yoko gets lost in the airport, she uses her sign-reading skills to find her way back to her mama.
731) Franklin se pierde
Author
Publisher
Lectorum Publications
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Franklin wanders off while playing hide and seek with his friends.
Author
Series
Dotan Naor volume 1
Publisher
Oceanview Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Ex-Israeli operative turned private investigator, Dotan Naor-- to settle a bet-- agrees to locate the missing son of former acquaintance, now ruthless Israeli arms merchant, Willy Mizrachi. Willy, who does not hesitate to sell killing machines to the most heinous players in the world, is desperate to find his only son, Itiel, who has headed to an ashram in the Himalayas. The Himalayas are also host to groups of young Israelis who have completed their...
733) Wraith
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joe Hill's New York Times Bestselling novel, NOS4A2, introduced readers to the terrifying funhouse world of Christmasland, and the mad man who rules there: Charlie Manx. Now, in an original new comic mini-series, Hill throws wide the candy cane gates to tell a standalone story that is at once both accessible to new readers, and sure to delight fans of the novel where he explored Charlie's twisted beginnings, introduces a new and depraved cast of characters...
734) Cryer's Cross
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Kendall, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, lives with her parents on a potato farm in a tiny community in Montana, where two teenagers go missing within months of each other, with no explanation.
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sylvester and the magic pebble: On a rainy day, Sylvester finds a magic pebble that can make wishes come true. When a lion frightens him on his way home, Sylvester makes a wish, with results he hasn't expected.
The amazing bone: Pearl couldn't be a nicer pig. Touched by spring, she dawdles in the dandelions and exudes an infectious love for life. Then she happens upon a talking bone that used to belong to a witch. On the way home the bone manages...
736) Fearbook club
Author
Publisher
Seismic Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When shy 6th-grade shutterbug Whit Garcia starts middle school, he's forced to join a yearbook club with three other weirdos who will never be voted 'most likely to succeed.' But after the ghosts of missing students start haunting them, Whit, Hester, Hillary and Press must solve the supernatural secret behind these spirits, or their yearbook club will be voted most likely to join them. But are these ghostly students the real bad guys? Or are they...
737) What the birds see
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While the residents of his town concern themselves with the disappearance of three children, a lonely, rejected nine-year-old boy worries that he may inherit his mother's insanity.
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
Description
In 1899, a twelve-year-old rat catcher on North Carolina's Biltmore Estate teams up with the estate owner's young nephew to battle a great evil and, in the process, unlocks the puzzle of her past.
Serafina nunca ha tenido motivos para desobedecer a su padre y aventurarse más allá de los confines de la mansión donde se esconden. Hay mucho que explorar en sus sombríos pasillos, pero tiene que tener cuidado de que sus habitantes no la vean.Pero...
739) Sacrifice fly
Author
Series
Raymond Donne novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Raymond Donne wasn't always a schoolteacher. Not only did he patrol the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, as one of New York's Finest, but being the nephew of the chief of detectives, he was expected to go on to bigger things. At least he was until the accident that all but destroyed his knees. Unable to do the job the way he wanted, he became a teacher in the same neighborhood, and did everything he could to put the force behind him and come to...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
At 3:58 in the morning of June 5, 2002, Ed and Lois Smart awoke to the sound of their nine-year-old daughter Mary Katherine's frightened voice: "She's gone. Elizabeth is gone." At first they thought she was having a bad dream about her older sister, but Mary Katherine's seeming bad dream would quickly become their worst nightmare. Their daughter Elizabeth was gone.