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When her mother, who disappeared 16 years before, reappears while a true crime documentary about her case is being filmed, 18-year-old Bel, not buying her mom's unbelievable story about what happened to her, must uncover the real reason Rachel Price is back from the dead.
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Gabriel Finley volume 1
Language
English
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Eleven-year-old Gabriel, with the help of the young raven Paladin, which whom he has a magical bond, travels to the foreboding land of Aviopolis, where he must face challenges and unanswerable riddles to rescue his long-missing father.
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Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"Twelve-year-old twins Bickford and Rebecca Kidd and their two older siblings travel to Africa to track down priceless artifacts that will keep the family's treasure hunting business afloat long enough to rescue their kidnapped mother--and possibly find their missing father"--
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Series
Order of Black Hollow Lane volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Emmy investigates the connection between her father's disappearance and a secret society at her prestigious English boarding school.
7) Second sleep
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English
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When Max and his sister Rose go to visit their grandmother's lakeside vacation home, they soon discover that their nightly sleeps bring them to a timelocked place with kids from all different eras, united by their love of the lake--and Max begins to wonder if they can help him to find his missing mother.
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Series
Platypus Police Squad volume 1
Publisher
Walden Pond Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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.
9) Liars, Inc
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Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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.
10) Treasure hunters
Author
Series
Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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"Following clues left by their missing father, twelve-year-old twins Bickford and Rebecca Kidd sail from the Caribbean to New York City with their siblings to finish the dangerous quest of their world-famous treasure-hunting parents"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Anne's life is a little topsy-turvy. She and her mother don't know where Anne's dad has gone. He left to test out his latest invention, and he hasn't really been in touch since. The kids at school won't stop calling her Anne of Green Bagels because of the strangely colored bagels she keeps bringing in for lunch. Not to mention the odd, vivid dreams she keeps having! It's up to Anne to find her dad, but she can't do it alone."--Back cover.
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Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Two years after their mothers mysteriously went missing, Delilah, Bo, and twin sisters Jude and Whitney begin to unearth secrets that cause the girls to question everything they thought they knew about their small Kansas town.
14) Going dark
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Publisher
Union Square and Co
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When 19-year-old Josh returns from Rome without his budding influencer girlfriend Amelia, he immediately becomes a suspect in her disappearance, but as college sophomore and hacker Harper attempts to clear his name, she unearths secrets from both Josh and Amelia's past."--Publisher marketing.
15) Retro
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"To save her struggling family, Luna enters a competition offering reward money to anyone who can successfully live without modern technology for a year, but when this social experiment turns sinister and her classmates start disappearing, her family's livelihood might not be the only thing she is in danger of losing."--
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Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In a future where a botched scientific experiment has flooded the planet, twins Will and Annalie finally set a course to intercept their father. He is protecting research about the flood's origins that the corrupt Admiralty is bent on turning to their own sinister purposes."--
17) Horizon
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Series
Horizon (Scholastic) volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When Aero Horizon 16 crashes in the Arctic, eight children emerge from the wreckage to find themselves alone and surrounded, not by ice, but by a mysterious and deadly jungle full of carnivorous plants and predatory birds--the other five hundred people from the plane are gone, not necessarily dead, but taken by something that lives in the jungle. Horizon is the debut middle grade novel for Scott Westerfeld.
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English
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"There is often trouble of a mythical sort in Bath. The booksellers who police the Old World keep a careful watch there, particularly on the entity that inhabits the ancient hot spring. This time trouble comes from the discovery of a sorcerous map, leading left-handed bookseller Merlin into great danger, requiring a desperate rescue attempt from his sister, the right-handed bookseller Vivien, and art student Susan Arkshaw, who is still struggling...
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Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 20
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
" While on vacation in Greece, the Thea Sisters make friends with a company of actors who are rehearsing for a play that's about to open. When an actress sprains her ankle, Colette ends up standing in for her! But suddenly, right before the performance, the lead actor goes missing. Can the mouselets find him in time for the show to go on?" --
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Series
Servants of the Empire volume 4
Publisher
Disney Lucasfilm Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
What if you uncovered a conspiracy that reached to every corner of the Galactic Empire--and you were the only one who knew about it? This action-packed conclusion to the Servants of the Empire tells an original story of intrigue, espionage, and coming of age, all set in the world of Star Wars Rebels.
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