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Author
Series
His dark materials volume 2
Language
English
Description
Lyra finds herself in a shimmering, haunted underworld-Cittg̉azze, where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and wingbeats of distant angels sound against the sky. But she is not without allies: 12-year-old Will Parry, fleeing for his life after taking another's, has also stumbled into this strange new realm. On a perilous journey from world to world, Lyra and Will discover an object of devastating power. And with every step, they move closer...
2) Bone Gap
Author
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the investigation, and subjects him to even more ridicule and bullying.
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books, Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
246 pages : black and white illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Ever since she could remember, Violet and her mother have been locked away in a tower by the evil Queen Bogdana, who has the kingdom under her spell. The queen has all she wants except one thing-beauty. Violet possesses this beauty. When Violet is summoned by Bogdana to start training to become a real princess, it seems like her life might be taking a turn for the better. But hope quickly fades when Violet's mother is expelled from the castle and...
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 2
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
When his best friend disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, thirteen-year-old Theo uses his legal knowledge and investigative skills to chase down the truth and save April.
6) Twin crowns
Author
Series
Twin crowns volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Twin princesses Wren and Rose, separated at birth and raised in two different environments, meet for the first time when they have to fight for the throne while juggling their romantic pursuits"--
Author
Series
Mapmakers volume 1
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
489 pages : maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
She has only seen the world through maps. She had no idea they were so dangerous. Boston, 1891. Sophia Tims comes from a family of explorers and cartologers who, for generations, have been traveling and mapping the New World -- a world changed by the Great Disruption of 1799, when all the continents were flung into different time periods. Eight years ago, her parents left her with her uncle Shadrack, the foremost cartologer in Boston, and went on...
Author
Series
Ranger's apprentice volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chasing the Skandian slave-traders who kidnapped Will and Evanlyn, Ranger Halt and warrior student Horace find themselves in the frozen northern islands, where they battle a ruthless black-clad knight as they attempt to rescue their friends.
10) Gold rush girl
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Victoria (Tory) Blaisdell longs to live a life as adventurous and independent as that of her heroine, Jan eEyre. When Tory's father loses his job and decides to seek a share of the newly discovered gold in California, Tory stows away on the westbound ship carrying her father and younger brother, Jacob. Though San Francisco is mud-caked, frenzied, and full of wild and dangerous men, Tory quickly finds friends and independence until her father leaves...
Author
Series
Xenith volume 2
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Delaney finds herself kidnapped by aliens, at the center of a tense political battle between two alien kingdoms, and the attention of Trystan's romantic attentions. Just another day in the life of an ordinary human girl.
13) Deny all charges
Author
Series
Fowl twins volume 2
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Taking the Fowl jet without permission before it mysteriously explodes over Florida, the Fowl twins are placed under house arrest until Myles's questions about what really happened lead to an astonishing abduction.
14) The iron witch
Author
Series
Publisher
Flux
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Donna Underwood is considered a freak, cursed by the magical heritage that destroyed her alchemist parents, but when vicious wood elves abduct her best friend Navin, Donna must betray all her parents fought for and join the battle between the humans and the fey.
15) Thief's cunning
Author
Series
Assassin's heart volume 2
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
407 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
All her life, Allegra, niece of the infamous assassin Lea Saldana, has had to keep her identity hidden. She and her family are constantly watching their backs for an attack from the Da Vias, a rival family whose thirst for retaliation has lasted for almost two decades. But what really happened the night Lea made the Da Vias pay for murdering her family? Allegra wants to know--just like she wants to know her parents' identity, another secret Lea and...
16) Remote control
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
326 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Teenage agent Six of Hearts is suspected of being a double agent, which has him on the run from his fellow agents at the Deck while also trying to track down his brother's kidnappers.
17) Hit the road
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
183 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Brittany acts as chauffeur for her grandmother and three other eighty-plus-year-old women going to what is supposedly their college reunion, on a long drive that involves lies, theft, and kidnappings.
18) Jump the cracks
Author
Publisher
Flux
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the way to visit her father in New York City, fifteen-year-old Victoria finds an apparently abused child in the train's bathroom and soon finds herself branded a kidnapper and on the run while trying to fulfill her promise to protect the boy at all costs.
Author
Series
Treasure hunters volume 8
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books/Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
321 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When their ship, the Lost, explodes, Bick, Beck, Tommy, and Storm are stranded on a raft in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, but the situation worsens when the treasure hunters kidnap their parents, forcing the Kidd siblings to follow clues around the globe to uncover an ancient treasure and save their family.
Author
Series
Rebel of the sands volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
518 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Desperate to uncover the Sultan's secrets by spying on his court, gunslinger Amani is taken captive by the forces of the Sultan, whose agenda seems less tyrannical than originally believed.