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Three Times Lucky
Sheila Turnage - Puffin Books
Format: Print book
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A Newbery Honor BookA hilarious Southern debut with the kind of characters you meet once in a lifetime Rising sixth grader Miss Moses LoBeau lives in the small town of Tupelo Landing, NC, where everyone's business is fair game and no secret is sacred. She washed ashore in a hurricane eleven... |
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Fake Mustache: Or, How Jodie O'Rodeo and Her Wonder Horse
Tom Angleberger - Amulet Books
Format: Paperback
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Tom Angleberger flexes his comic and literary muscle in this clever, slapstick farce in which regular kid Lenny Flem, Jr., is the only thing standing between his evil genius friend Casper, a master of disguise and hypnosis and world domination. It all begins when Casper spends a vast sum on a spectacular... |
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The Doll People
Ann M. Martin - Hyperion Books for Children
Format: Book
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Annabelle Doll is eight years old-she has been for more than a hundred years. Not a lot has happened to her, cooped up in the dollhouse, with the same doll family, day after day, year after year. . . until one day the Funcrafts move in. |
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The Great Greene Heist
Varian Johnson - Scholastic
Format: Hardcover
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Jackson Greene swears he's given up scheming. Then school bully Keith Sinclair announces he's running for Student Council president, against Jackson's former friend Gaby de la Cruz. Gaby wants Jackson to stay out of it -- but he knows Keith has "connections" to the principal,... |
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Vanished
Sheela Chari - Hyperion Book CH
Format: Hardcover
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Eleven-year-old Neela dreams of being a famous musician, performing for admiring crowds on her traditional Indian stringed instrument. Her particular instrument was a gift from her grandmother—intricately carved with a mysterious-looking dragon. . When this special family heirloom vanishes... |
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The Screaming Staircase
Jonathan Stroud - Disney-Hyperion Books
Format: Print book
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A sinister Problem has occurred in London: all nature of ghosts, haunts, spirits, and specters are appearing throughout the city, and they aren't exactly friendly. Only young people have the psychic abilities required to see-and eradicate-these supernatural foes. Many different Psychic... |
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Icefall
Matthew J Kirby - Scholastic Inc.
Format: Print book
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Critically acclaimed author Matthew J. Kirby deftly weaves a stunning coming-of-age tale with chilling cleverness and subtle suspense that will leave readers racing breathlessly to the end.Trapped in a hidden fortress tucked between towering mountains and a frozen sea, Solveig--along with... |
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Sammy Keyes and the Hotel Thief
Wendelin Van Draanen - Yearling
Format: Paperback
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"The most winning junior detective ever in teen lit. (Take that, Nancy Drew!) " - Midwest Children's Book ReviewWhat Sammy should have done was put the binoculars down and call 911. What she does instead is tighten up the focus on her right eye to get a better look. There's... |
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The Case of the Missing Marquess: An Enola Holmes Mystery
Nancy Springer - Philomel Books
Format: eBook
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When Enola Holmes, sister to the detective Sherlock Holmes, discovers her mother has disappeared, she quickly embarks on a journey to London in search of her. But nothing can prepare her for what awaits. Because when she arrives, she finds herself involved in the kidnapping of a young marquess,... |
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City of orphans
Avi - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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The streets of 1893 New York are full of life: crowded, filthy, dangerous. If you are a newsboy like thirteen-year- old Maks Geless, you need to watch out for Bruno, leader of the Plug Ugly Gang whose shadowy, sinister boss is plotting to take control of all the newsies on the lower East... |
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Chasing Vermeer
Blue Balliett - Scholastic Press; 1st edition
Format: Hardcover
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This bewitching first novel is a puzzle, wrapped in a mystery, disguised as an adventure, and delivered as a work of art.When a book of unexplainable occurances brings Petra Andalee Calder Pillay together, strange things start to happen seemingly unrelated events connect, an eccentric... |
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Malcolm At Midnight
W H Beck - Clarion Books
Format: Paperback
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When Malcolm the rat arrives as the pet at McKenna School, he revels in the attention. He also meets the Midnight Academy, a secret society of classroom pets that keeps the nutters (kids) safe. Theres just one problem: Rats have a terrible reputation! So when the Academys iguana leader... |
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The Secret Zoo
Bryan Chick - Greenwillow Books; Revised edition
Format: Hardcover
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Something strange is happening at the Clarksville City Zoo. Late at night, monkeys are scaling the walls and searching the neighborhood—but what are they looking for?Noah, his sister Megan, and their best friends, Richie and Ella, live next door to the zoo. Megan is the first to notice... |
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The Lost Treasure of Tuckernuck
Emily Fairlie - Katherine Tegen Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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This laugh-out-loud novel by Emily Fairlie is a fresh take on the classic mystery caper. Its perfect for fans of From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Chasing Vermeer, The Westing Game, and the Mysterious Benedict Society books.Using a unique blend of notes, lists, and classic... |
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From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler: 35th Anniversary Edition
E L Konigsburg - Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Claudia knew that she could never pull off the old-fashioned kind of running away....She didn't like discomfort....Therefore, she decided that her leaving home would not be just running from somewhere but would be running to somewhere. To a large place, a comfortable place, an indoor place,... |
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Westing Game: Anniversary Edition
Ellen Raskin - Dutton Books for Young Readers; Anniversary edition
Format: Hardcover
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For twenty-five years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite and is now being reissued with a brand-new jacket by Kevin Hawkes and an introduction by Ann Durell. This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are invited to the reading... |
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Theodore Boone: Kid Lawyer
John Grisham - Puffin; Reprint edition
Format: Paperback
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In the small city of Strattenburg, there are many lawyers, and though he's only thirteen years old, Theo Boone thinks he's one of them. Theo knows every judge, policeman, court clerk - and a lot about the law. He dreams of being a great trial lawyer, of a life in the courtroom.But... |
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Cold Case
Julia Platt Leonard - Aladdin
Format: Hardcover
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When 13-year-old Oz Keillor finds a dead body in his family restaurant, he is soon caught up in a mystery where the stakes are high. His older brother is the prime suspect, and Oz quickly finds out that the murder may be tied to the death of their father years earlier, who was accused... |
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Greenglass House
Kate Milford - Clarion Books
Format: Book
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National Book Award Nominee Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Juvenile Mystery Nebula/Andre Norton Award NomineeNew York Times Bestseller It's wintertime at Greenglass House. The creaky smuggler's inn is always quiet during this season, and twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers'... |
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Billionaire's Curse, The
Richard Newsome - WaldenPond; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover
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Gerald Wilkins never considered himself a particularly exceptional thirteen-year-old. But that was before he inherited twenty billion pounds, a Caribbean island, a yacht, and three estates from a great-aunt he never knew. With this fortune, however, comes a letter. One from his great-aunt... |
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Framed!
JAMES PONTI - Aladdin
Format: Paperback
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Get to know the only kid on the FBI Director's speed dial and several international criminals' most wanted lists all because of his Theory of All Small Things in this hilarious start to a brand-new middle grade mystery series.So you're only halfway through your homework and the Director... |
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The Secret Box
Whitaker Ringwald - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Hardcover
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The Secret Box is a Junior Library Guild selection and the first in an irresistible middle grade series that will delight fans of Dan Gutman, Wendy Mass, and Trenton Lee Stewart.What starts as a fun quest to open a mysterious birthday present quickly turns crazy and dangerous when Jax and her cousin... |
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Independence Hall
Roland Smith
Format: Hardcover
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"Step-siblings Q (Quest) and Angela are thrust into the work of the U.S. Secret Service and the Israeli Mossad when Angela realizes she's being followed, and Q learns the secret about Angela's real mother--a former Secret Service agent who was supposedly killed by a terrorist... |
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Behind the Bookcase
Mark Steensland - Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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A girl stumbles into a fantastic world in this tale perfect for fans of Coraline, Alice in Wonderland, and The Twilight Zone.Spending the summer at her grandmother's house is the last thing Sarah wants to do - especially now that Grandma Winnie has died... |
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Murder Is Bad Manners
Robin Stevens - Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Format: Hardcover
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Two friends form a detective agency - and must solve their first murder case - in this "sharp-witted debut" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) that is the first adventure in a brand-new middle grade mystery series set at a 1930s boarding school.Daisy Wells and Hazel... |
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The Harlem Charade
Natasha Tarpley
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WATCHER. SHADOW. FUGITIVE.Harlem is home to all kinds of kids. Jin sees life passing her by from the window of her family's bodega. Alex wants to help the needy one shelter at a time, but can't tell anyone who she really is. Elvin's living on Harlem's cold, lonely streets, |
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Walls Within Walls
Maureen Sherry - Katherine Tegen Books
Format: Print book
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After their father, a video-game inventor, strikes it rich, the Smithfork kids find they hate their new life. They move from their cozy Brooklyn neighborhood to a swanky apartment on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. They have no friends, a nanny who takes the place of their parents, and a school... |
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