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Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 81
Language
English
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Description
While visiting a small town in Alabama, the Aldens hear mysterious howls at midnight, leading them to wonder if an old local legend about a ghost dog is true.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 39
Publisher
Oasis Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
While visiting the seaport town of Ragged Cove, Massachusetts, the Alden children find the ship's log of the Flying Cloud, shipwrecked in 1869, supposedly during a mutiny.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 64
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
While visiting their cousin's pineapple plantation in Hawaii, the Aldens hear a local legend about a black pearl with a curse on it and investigate mysterious incidents on and around the plantation.
504) Sink or swim
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Once again Abby and her brother Jonah go through the magic mirror in their basement, and this time they find themselves interfering in the Little Mermaid story--and needing to set things right and make sure everyone has a happy ending.
505) Brother's keeper
Author
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Sora and her eight-year-old brother, Youngsoo, must try to escape North Korea's oppressive Communist regime on their own in 1950. Includes historical notes, photographs of the author's mother, glossary of Korean words, and timeline.
506) Wretched waterpark
Author
Series
Sinister summer series volume 1
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
Twins Theo and Alexander and their sister Wil are abruptly dropped off at their Aunt Saffronia's house, where they learn they must complete a series of tasks in order to see their parents again--and their first assignment is at a waterpark.
507) The Kingdom of Back
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Desperate to be forever remembered for her music, Nannerl Mozart makes a dangerous pact with a mysterious stranger from a magical land, which may cost her everything"--
508) Best family ever
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Dr. Baxter tells the family that they will be moving from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Bloomington, Indiana, the five Baxter children, ages six to thirteen, are sure that their lives and home will never be the same. But they find that being together with the ones you love is the most important part of home"--
509) Civil War on Sunday
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 21
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
Jack and Annie are transported by their magic tree house to the time of the Civil War where they meet Clara Barton.
Author
Series
The Montague twins volume vol 2
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Alastair, Pete, Charlie, and Rachel aren't just magical teen detectives in their coastal town of Port Howl--they are also members of a local teen rock band. Before a show one night, Charlie and Rachel meet a famous rockstar, Gideon, and invite him to their show. He'll never come, but why not try, right? Little do they know, Gideon does show up, and he brings the threads of his dark past with him. In fact, he might even be the source of the rumored...
511) The wild lands
Author
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
After the government collapses and fires burn the wilderness, Travis and his younger sister, Jess, must travel hundreds of miles searching for some type of civilization.
Natural disasters and a breakdown of civilization have cut off Alaska from the world and destroyed its landscape. Food is running out and the few who remain turn on each other. As Travis and his younger sister, Jess, cross hundreds of miles in search of civilization, the wild lands...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 20
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Magically transported to southwest China to find the final object needed to break the spell on the wizard Merlin's beloved penguin, Jack and Annie take a side trip to the world's largest giant panda reserve.
513) Two peas in a pod
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 11
Publisher
Scholastic Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Abby is feeling slighted by not being chosen festival leader at school, and her brother Jonah thinks that a trip through the magic mirror is just what she needs--but when they find themselves in a strange version of the Princess and the pea, and Abby is tagged as the princess, who will be the next ruler of the Kingdom of Bog (which is very damp and infested with alligators), she is not so much complimented as desperate to find an alternate princess,...
514) Good as gold
Author
Series
Whatever after volume 14
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
The magic mirror has a crack and it sends Abby, Jonah, and Prince into the mixed up tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and they soon find that Goldy is in need of a lot of gold to get her father out of jail, and so they find themselves negotiating between the Bears, who want honey, and Rumpelstiltskin, who just wants a friend or two--but King Ned is just plain greedy and somehow the children and Goldy's father have to escape from the king's jail,...
515) Flame in the mist
Author
Series
Flame in the mist volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After an attempt is made on her life, Mariko disguises herself as a boy and infiltrates a gang of bandits known as the Black Clan, determined to hunt down the person responsible"--
516) Abduction!
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Bonnie has a feeling of foreboding on the very day that her six-year-old brother Matt and their dog Pookie are abducted, and she becomes involved in a major search effort as well as a frightening adventure.
517) The woodshed mystery
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"On a farm, the Aldens find their oldest mystery yet! Adapted from Gertrude Chandler Warner's story of the same name, this early reader allows children to start reading with a Boxcar Children classic."--
Author
Series
I survived (Graphic novels) volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a Jewish ghetto, Max Rosen and his sister, Zena, struggle to live after their father is taken away by the Nazis. With barely enough food to survive, the siblings make a daring escape from Nazi soldiers into the nearby forest. Max and Zena are brought to a safe camp by Jewish resistance fighters. But soon, bombs are falling all around them. Can Max and Zena survive the fallout of the Nazi invasion?
519) Dust & Grim
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Soon after meeting her eighteen-year-old brother, Dustin, for the first time, thirteen-year-old Molly learns their shared inheritance, a mortuary business, serves monsters.
Author
Series
Zara's rules volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old (nearly eleven) Zara's nickname is "Queen of the Neighborhood" because she organizes the other children (even the older ones), sets the rules, and generally makes sure everyone has fun; but now another ten-year-old, Naomi, has moved in across the street and she has her own ideas about fun games, and suddenly the other kids (even Zara's younger brother Zayd) are listening to Naomi--if she is going to retain her influence Zara needs to...