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1) Flipped
Author
Language
English
Description
In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.
3) Runaway
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Formats
Description
This diary of a runaway girl and her search for a home celebrates hope, resilience, and happy endings.
Holly's run away before, but this time she actually gets away—and what felt like an escape at first soon becomes a daily struggle for survival. She is smart and resourceful, and she manages to make it across the country on her own. But how long can this go on? It's getting harder to avoid the truth—Holly is now...
Holly's run away before, but this time she actually gets away—and what felt like an escape at first soon becomes a daily struggle for survival. She is smart and resourceful, and she manages to make it across the country on her own. But how long can this go on? It's getting harder to avoid the truth—Holly is now...
Author
Series
Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Sammy Keyes has spent the last few years solving other people's mysteries; now her friends (and some foes) come together to unmask the fiend who has put Sammy in a coma"--
Author
Series
Gecko and Sticky volume 1
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Dave and his sidekick, a talking gecko named Sticky, try to retrieve an ancient Aztec powerband and its magic ingots from the evil villain, Damien Black.
6) Wild bird
Author
Publisher
Ember
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When her behavior escalates out of control, fourteen-year-old Wren is taken away to a wilderness therapy camp where she is forced to develop new skills, including the courage to ask for help.
Author
Language
English
Description
Lincoln Jones is always working on the latest story he's got going in his notebook. Those stories are his refuge. A place where the hero always prevails and the bad guy goes to jail. Real life is messy and complicated, so Lincoln sticks to fiction and keeps to himself. Which works fine until a nosy girl at his new school starts prying into his private business. She wants to know what he's writing, where he disappears to after school, and why he never...
Author
Series
Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Live Oak Media
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Awards:
Edgar Allan Poe Award
Reviews:
"Listeners are immediately swept into the story when Sammy relates that she's observed a crime while looking at the Heavenly Hotel through her grandmother's binoculars...Young listeners are sure to embrace this solid entry in the Live Oak Mysteries series." - starred review, Publishers Weekly
Audio Recommended By:
AudioFile, Booklist, Publishers Weekly*, School
...11) Secret identity
Author
Series
Shredderman volume 1
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Nolan Byrd, tired of being called names by the class bully, has a secret identity--Shredderman!
Author
Series
Publisher
Live Oak Media
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
In this fifth Sammy Keyes mystery, the normally unflappable heroine encounters a corpse, an arsonist, and an irate policeman - and her first real experiences with adolescent angst. On a quiet weekend in the country, Sammy and her friends meet Lucinda Huntley and her 200-pound pig and become involved in a centuries old family feud involving Lucinda's great grandma Moustache Mary. When Mary's pioneer cabin burns to the ground, it's up to Sammy to dig...
Author
Series
Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Live Oak Media
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Hooray for Hollywood? The saucy sleuth Sammy Keyes discovers otherwise in this spirited mystery. When Sammy's mother dumped her with Grams to go to Hollywood and become a star, Sammy dealt with it. But when she discovers that Lady Lana has changed her name, dyed her hair, and shaved ten years off her age, Sammy hops a bus to Hollywood and finds her mom in deeper trouble than she expected. One of Lana's biggest competitors is found dead in the room...
Author
Series
Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Live Oak Media
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas but leave it to Sammy Keyes to find trouble even in the midst of the holiday parade. Trying to help a friend, she reluctantly volunteers on the Canine Calendar float, only to have the famous cover dog dog-napped on her watch! The animal's owner orders Sammy to find the dog before the $50,000 ransom being demanded comes due. But all that Sammy can uncover is a little elflike girl named Elyssa, whose problems seem more important than...
Author
Series
Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Live Oak Media
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Awards:
AudioFile Earphones Award
Reviews:
"The Sammy Keyes series keeps getting better and better. In the seventh title in the series, a frightened teen at a video arcade asks Samantha to hold a package for her. When the girl disappears, Sammy finds that she's now responsible for a baby!...Despite the light tone of Van Draanen's writing and Tara Sands' cheerfully cherubic performance, the book deals with hard issuees - gangs,
...Author
Series
Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Live Oak Media
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Sammy and her friends are startled when they interrupt what seems to be an attempted murder on Halloween. While trick-or-treating at a spooky old, house, they find the door open, and inside a man is tied to a chair while a fire rages on the floor. A robbery? But what valuable could be missing from the home of a reclusive old man? Sammy tries to solve the mystery, all the while dealing with her nemesis Heather Acosta, fending off her Grandmother’s...
Author
Series
Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Live Oak Media
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
While serving school detention in the soup kitchen at St. Mary's church, Sammy finds herself the prime suspect in the theft of Father Mayhew's ivory cross. But there have been other robberies at the church recently, and as Sammy attempts to discover the real thief, all the suspects appear to be religious figures who are above suspicion. That is, until Sammy cuts through disguises to uncover an enormous heist! Of course, solving the mystery would be...
Author
Series
Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Live Oak Media
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Awards:
Audiofile Earphones Award
Reviews:
"The Edgar-winning seventh-grade sleuth takes on the art world, not to mention affairs of the heart, in the eighth novel in this charming series. Wearing high-top sneakers to a classy art gallery reception, she mortifies the elite guests by asking why an orange splot on a canvas is worth $8,000, and then, when a masked gunman attempts to rob the gallery, Sammy tackles him...Actress
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