Mary Downing Hahn
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: When best friends Abbi and Skylar witness a clandestine meeting between a mysterious woman and someone in a dark van, they're thrilled. Finally, a mystery to spice up the summer! Who could these people be? Why are they meeting? Are they spies? Criminals? The two girls are determined to find out. But then a local woman goes missing and is found dead in the woods, and Abbi and Skylar realize that their detective work could hold...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Brendan Doyle doesn't get along with his foster mother, he's failing fifth grade, and he's bullied mercilessly by a band of boys in his class. Then Brendan meets two potential friends--an eccentric old man and a girl from summer school--and he sees that there may be hope for him after all"--
10) Anna on the farm
Author
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In the summer before World War I, nine-year-old Anna is happy to spend a week at her aunt and uncle's Beltsville, Maryland, farm until she meets Theodore, who calls her a "city slicker" and spurs her to prove that she's just as clever and brave as he is.
Nine-year-old Anna is happy to spend a week at her aunt and uncle's Beltsville, Maryland, farm until she meets Theodore, who calls her a "city slicker" and spurs her to prove that she's just as...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A witch called Old Auntie is lurking near Dan's family's new home. He doesn't believe in her at first, but is forced to accept that she is real and take action when his little sister, Erica, is 'took' to become Auntie's slave for the next fifty years"--
17) As ever, Gordy
Author
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
When he and his younger sister move in with their older brother after their grandmother dies, thirteen-year-old Gordy finds himself caught between the boy he was when he lived with his abusive father and the boy his grandmother was helping him become.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Daniel Anderson is quick to dismiss Brody Mason's wild claims that a ghost witch is living up on Brewster's Hill with a man-eating hog...until Daniel's increasingly withdrawn sister, who keeps talking to a doll that looks just like her, vanishes. Daniel will have to watch his step if he hopes to save his sister from a dangerous fate.