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1) Amber Alert
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When you're buried alive, who do you talk to? On the trail of a killer, Casey could be his next victim. In this thrilling conclusion to The Academy series, Casey must escape a killer's clutches.
Time is running out. Casey must escape, find her kidnapper, and rescue her missing dorm mate. Sheila could be killed while Casey tries for a second shot at a first-rate school.
The third book in a series set at The Northeast Kingdom Academy, Amber Alert...
2) Jacob's Body
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Is The Academy's headmaster a killer? Will Casey be his next victim? The mystery deepens in Jacob's Body, Book Two of The Academy Series.
The Northeast Kingdom Academy of Music & Art was built on a farmer's field. Today it's world famous, with graduates scoring movies and performing in symphonies. The farmer's son was one of the first students. Then Jacob disappeared and his father died.
As Casey searches for Jacob's body, she discovers a map...
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On an island in the Mississippi River, a ghost and his dog stand guard When their aunt buys an old, run-down inn on the banks of the Mississippi, Chris and Amy Holt go south to help her fix up the place. They lend helping hands during the day, but at night, they wonder about the island in the middle of the rivera mysterious place where the townsfolk will not set foot. The island was created by an earthquake which shook the ground so fiercely that...
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Five full-length novels in the YA Small Town Secrets Series are together for the first time in this collection.**Welcome to Silver Canyon, where faith is tested and the truth is not what it seems.**Clean YA mysteries with a serving of suspense.Intent: In the ShadowsIntent: Deadly SecretsIntent: Return of EvilIntent: What No One KnewIntent: In A Coma
5) Bird of Prey
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Themes: Animals, Pets, Curses, Magic, Mind Control. Kendra's heart is still healing from the passing of her cherished pet. But while visiting Vintage Rose, she is drawn to a beautiful bird at the shop. Could this be a new beloved pet for Kendra, or will she come to regret taking it home? In the fictional town of Scarecrow, California, tweens keep discovering mysterious and sometimes magical objects at the Vintage Rose Antique Shop. When they take...
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1 String of Spaghetti + 2 Friends = A Noodle-Cooking, Crime-Solving Adventure!
Sometimes Rico acts a bit odd - his mom calls him a "proddity" - but he's GENIUS at noticing little things nobody else does. Like a string of spaghetti stuck to the sidewalk. Or the big buckteeth of that boy in the blue motorcycle helmet. Or the strange behavior of the neighbors in his apartment building. Oscar is a true prodigy, with a high IQ and high anxieties to match....
7) Lost Girls
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Teens are disappearing from The Academy. One Saturday night, Sheila LaRoche doesn't come home. Everyone says the world-famous musician is overseas. Casey doesn't believe it. Her dorm mate was helping her prep for a big audition. She wouldn't have just ghosted her. Plus, Casey found her passport. How'd she travel without it? More troubling, who was the boy lingering outside their dorm, comfortable in a t-shirt despite the November chill?
Casey soon...
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Themes: Mean Girls, Arrogance, Selfishness, Social Media, History, Helping Others, Kindness, Zombies, Mystery. Heather and Sasha need a good idea for their history project. After a mailbox at Vintage Rose catches their interest, they discover a mysterious letter inside. Have the girls found what they need for their project, or are they about to encounter something they never saw coming? In the fictional town of Scarecrow, California, tweens keep discovering...
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Who is the man in the woods, and can Helen catch him before it's too late? Helen's first day at New Bedford Regional High School is off to a hectic start. Her locker combination doesn't work, she's late to all her classes, and she doesn't know a single person. But she doesn't need friends to figure out the unofficial rules: Cheerleaders simply don't associate with frizzy-haired new girls who look too young and draw political cartoons. And when Mr....
10) Lit
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Themes: Bullying, Financial Struggles, Family Struggles, Caring for Others, Fire, Magic. Danny is known as the bully of Scarecrow Middle School, but there is more to his story. With no friends, life can be hard. When Danny makes a discovery that brings him to a turning point, will it improve his situation or make everything worse? In the fictional town of Scarecrow, California, tweens keep discovering mysterious and sometimes magical objects at the...
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Casebusters volume 6
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Inside a time capsule, Brian and Sean discover a decades-old mystery In 1918, the people of Redoaks buried a time capsule full of messages for the future. Besides all the grown-up stuff, the fourth-graders of 1918 included a packet of letters to the fourth-graders of todaywhich means Sean Quinn is about to get a letter straight from the past! But when it comes time to crack the capsule's seal, Sean and his brother Brian learn that its contents could...
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Themes: Family Relations, Mourning a Loss, Friendship, Financial Struggles, Magic, Mystery, Terminal Illness. Sarah thinks she has stumbled upon a treasure when she takes home an antique photo booth from Vintage Rose. The booth seems to provide the perfect way for her and her friends to be part of their school carnival this year. But when the photo booth starts working strangely, Sarah wonders if it is really a gift or a curse. In the fictional town...
13) The Mirror
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Themes: Vanity, Conflicts, Curses, Magic, Siblings, Friendship. Grace and Kimberly can't wait to get to high school next year, but they're ready to look the part right now. The girls purchase an ornate mirror at Vintage Rose that they love to use for practicing their makeup. But will the mirror help them perfect their mature looks, or will it lead them to much more than they bargained for? In the fictional town of Scarecrow, California, tweens keep...
14) The Newcomer
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Someone is vandalizing the apartment building where Bobby and Sonny live. These two amateur sleuths set out to find the culprit or culprits before they can do more damage. This is another mystery in the Bobby and Sonny Mystery series in which the eleven year olds solve crimes in their Harlem community.
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Dotty Detective volume 3
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The Join the Dots Detectives: Dot, Beans and McClusky are back on the case in a third, brand-new mystery! Dot and Beans can't wait for their school trip to Adventure Camp where they will do lots of exciting activities like zip-wiring, grass tobogganing and roasting marshmallows round a campfire! But once they arrive, strange things start happening. Could mean girl Laura could be up to her old tricks in a bid to win the Adventure Camp Prize...? It's...
16) Shadows of Love
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In the heart of Eldridge, where shadowswhisper secrets and love concealsmysteries, Detective Adrian Hart faces achoice that will unravel the town's dark pastand forge a destiny unforeseen.
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Somehow Troy Angelo, whose face is as sweet as an angel but his personality is as sour as lemons went from being the worst student in history class to getting a perfect score on the test! Seventh-grader Usman Grant who loves movies, dressing up for school, and getting perfect scores himself, and his best friend, Dana Batyrov, punk rocker and softball queen, are recruited by Mr. R to find out if and how Troy cheated and if it has anything to do with...
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THE PAST FORWARD In this book for the most part you will find people saying things like: "I'm old enough to make my own underwear choices." And probably way too many pop culture references. Anything else on the high or low brow measure is highly due to delusions of grandeur on the part of the writer.
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In this young adult mystery set in 1970, a family tragedy prompts Christi, a shy and studious teenager, and her mother to travel to rural Roselyn, Mississippi. Christi's Uncle Bill, the county jailer and a deputy sheriff, is critically wounded while investigating a moonshine still that a local farmer found on his property. As the deputies approach the scene, they are ambushed by four assailants,
resulting in the death of the farmer, then vanish...
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Fourteen-year-old Jason can't say no when Emma from school asks for his help to stop a logging company. But Jason's behaviour takes a turn for the worse after he receives some bad news, and he gets into a serious clash with the loggers. Curiously, the loggers don't react as expected.Things get even stranger when weird computer glitches suggest the loggers are up to something. Using his computer smarts, Jason starts to investigate but it isn't long...
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