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Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 106
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
When their favorite author fails to arrive as scheduled to speak at the local library, the Alden children investigate how he could board a train and never be seen again.
3) Dreamwood
Author
Language
English
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Description
"12-year-old Lucy Darrington goes on a quest to find her missing father in a remote, magical territory in the Pacific Northwest"--
4) Paper towns
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.
5) The testing
Author
Series
The Testing trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out her friends who do not pass The Testing are disappearing.
6) Defiance
Author
Series
Defiance trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When Rachel's father goes missing on a mission, her attempt to escape their walled city-state and find him brings danger, heartbreak, and a new romance with her father's apprentice.
Author
Series
The Book of Time trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Sam Faulkner travels back in time to medieval Ireland, ancient Egypt, and Renaissance Bruges, in search of his missing father.
10) Wizard for hire
Author
Series
Wizard for hire volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
After fourteen-year-old Ozzy's scientist parents are kidnapped, Ozzy's only help may be a classified ad that says "Wizards for hire."
11) Everlasting Nora
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
The story of a young girl living in the real life shanty town inside the Philippines' North Manila Cemetery.
12) Don't look back
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Sam seems to have everything until she and her best friend, Cassie, disappear one night and now Sam has returned with amnesia, striving to be a much better person and aware that her not remembering may be the only thing keeping Cassie alive.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 66
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
When the Alden children and their grandfather visit Everglades National Park in Florida to solve the mystery of a missing ranger, they discover that a panther provides a clue.
14) Towering
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
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Description
"A contemporary retelling of Rapunzel told from the alternating perspectives of three teens whose fates unknowingly bind them together to destroy a greater evil"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Book of Storms volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
When his parents disappear after a fierce storm, eleven-year-old Danny, unaccustomed to acts of bravery, comes to their rescue after finding a valuable shard of wood that enables him to talk to plants and animals and battle terrifyingly powerful enemies, including the demonic Sammael.
16) Oblivion
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Callie Knowles fights her compulsion to write constantly, even on herself, as she struggles to cope with foster care, her mother's life in a mental institution, and her belief that she killed her father, a minister, who has been missing for a year.
17) It found us
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Hazel, a twelve-year-old aspiring detective, must decode a series of ominous clues tied to a century-old tragedy to find a missing teenager before it is too late.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 4
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Thea's friends the Thea Sisters head to Peru, where a good friend of Paulina's is missing. There, the five mice climb the Andes mountains in search of a mysterious treasure that's hidden in the Secret City of the Incas. Readers will love following the clues to help the Thea Sisters solve the mystery!
19) Deception
Author
Series
Defiance trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
When Rachel's father goes missing on a mission, her attempt to escape their walled city-state and find him brings danger, heartbreak, and a new romance with her father's apprentice.
20) Disney in shadow
Author
Series
Kingdom keepers. Original series volume 3
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Follows Finn, Philly, Willa, Charlene, and Maybeck as they search for Wayne, their mentor.
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