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2) Cloaked
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Johnny is approached at his family's struggling shoe repair shop in a Miami, Florida, hotel by Alorian Princess Victoriana, who asks him to find her brother who was turned into a frog.
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.
4) Dreamwood
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"12-year-old Lucy Darrington goes on a quest to find her missing father in a remote, magical territory in the Pacific Northwest"--
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) 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.
Author
Series
Platypus Police Squad volume 1
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
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Description
Paired together after a veteran detective retires, platypus police squad members Rick Zengo, a hotshot rookie, and Corey O'Malley, a hard-nosed old-timer, struggle with their differences while tackling their first case involving a missing schoolteacher and a duffle bag filled with illegal fish.
10) 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.
11) North of nowhere
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Rushing to the sleepy seaside village of Porthaven to help her grandmother when her granddad mysteriously vanishes, Mia discovers a diary on an empty fishing boat and begins exchanging notes with a local girl who makes excuses for not meeting Mia in person, adding to an already mystifying situation.
12) The deceivers
Author
Series
Greystone secrets volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told from separate viewpoints, as Finn, Emma, and Chess Greystone and Natalie Mayhew, ages eight to thirteen, continue their quest to rescue their mothers they must return to the alternate dimension where truth is illegal.
14) 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."
15) Goblin secrets
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Hoping to find his lost brother, Rownie escapes the home of the witch Graba and joins a troupe of goblins who perform in Zombay, a city where humans are forbidden to wear masks and act in plays.
16) Almost invisible
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Maya's classmate is on the run from an abusive home situation and secretly living in the school. Should Maya tell? Or can she help her friend on her own?
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.
18) Fright night
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Creepella's father, Boris von Cacklefur, is a finalist in the Fright Night contest--Gloomeria's prestigious poetry competition. If he can perform the most terrifying rhymes, he will be crowned Fright Night Idol! But midway through the contest, Boris mysteriously disappears. Can Creepella and her friends find him before the final round?"--P. [4] of cover.
19) 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.
20) Liars, Inc
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Max, his girlfriend Parvati, and best friend Pres form Liars, Inc., expecting that forging notes and lying for their peers will lead to easy cash, but when Pres asks Max to cover for him, it may be a fatal mistake.
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