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81) Wave riders
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First American edition.
Language
English
Description
After their guardian disappears, twelve-year-old twins Jess and Jude are fostered by the Blakeney family, but their search for information about their parents puts them in danger when they uncover secrets their wealthy benefactors want to keep hidden.
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 14
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
An unexpected inheritance allows the Heffley family to make major improvements to their home, but construction causes so much trouble they consider just moving, instead.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
On her eighteenth birthday, spoiled party girl Lexington Larrabee learns that her days of making tabloid headlines may be at an end when her ever-absent father decides she must learn some values by working a different, low-wage job every week for a year or forfeit her multimillion-dollar trust fund.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Out in the peaceful countryside, far away from the painful memories of the Imperial Capital, Aristia hopes to recuperate and focus on her sword training. However, she soon finds out the hard way that it's not so easy to escape fate. As Ruveliss's unexpected visit rekindles the deep-seated trauma in her heart, can Tia find the strength cut a new path for herself?"--
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 7
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Seymour Hope and his ghostly "mother" Olive go to Scotland to claim a castle inherited from Ignatius Grumply's punster uncle, Ian, but while they tend an aged tortoise and face an unscrupulous developer, Iggie deals with Ian's ghost and an inept insurance agent.
Author
Series
Treasure troop volume 4
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
After their shocking discoveries on Summer Island, Marly, Sai, and Isla have one final set of clues to follow before reaching the end of their search.
88) Mist of midnight
Author
Series
Daughters of Hampshire volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rebecca Ravenshaw, daughter of missionaries, spent most of her life in India. Following the death of her family in the Indian Mutiny, Rebecca returns to claim her family estate in Hampshire, England. Upon her return, people are surprised to see her-- less than a year earlier, an imposter had arrived with an Indian servant and assumed Rebecca's name, home and incomes-- and died within months of her arrival. Everything reverted to a distant relative,...
Series
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
"The Black Book of Buried Secrets" lays bare each hidden fact, concealed strategy, top agent, lost founder, secret base and hushed-up scandal of the Clue hunt. This complete guide to the Cahills contains information on all five branches, including the notoriously elusive Madrigals.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Caro and Markus must decide if their love is more important than the fate of Akhaia when a powerful Archon offers to help Markos fight for the throne if Markos will marry his daughter.
Caro and Markos have settled into a routine: Wake up, eat breakfast, and try to figure out who might attempt to assassinate Markos today. His claim to the throne is shaky without the support of an army, but then a powerful Archon offers Markos the military might he...
Author
Series
Treasure troop volume 1
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Mr. Summerling, Marly's neighbor, talked about being a treasure hunter, and news of his death has brought Marly into a treasure hunt of her own. In his will, Mr. Summerling left a treasure for Marly and two classmates, Isla and Sai. They barely know each other, but they have to work together with a series of riddles, puzzles, and clues to find the treasure.
92) Awful Auntie
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From number one bestselling author David Walliams comes another heartfelt but hilarious hoot of an adventure Stella Saxby is the sole heir to Saxby Hall. But awful Aunt Alberta and her giant owl will stop at nothing to get it from her. Luckily Stella has a secret - and slightly spooky - weapon up her sleeve ...
93) The hidden room
Author
Series
Treasure troop volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Marly, Sai, and Isla are back on the hunt. After finding Mr. Summerling's hidden treehouse, they've discovered a new set of clues for them to follow, leading them straight to the heart of their mysterious neighbor's life: his house. The same house Marly has been living next to all of these years, which, they discover, is filled with hidden rooms and staircases. With just a few scraps of papers as clues, and Mr. Summerling's angry son on their tails,...
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In this story told mostly through letters, Noah Breth's feuding children come to Ghastly, Illinois, to follow a trail of limericks to their inheritance, while Seymour tries to convince Iggy and Olive to let him keep Mr. Breth's dog.
Author
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
This moving story about a magical bookstore explores the way war can shape a family and is perfect for book lovers everywhere, especially fans of Pages and Company, Pax, and Wolf Hollow. It's 1944 Sutton, NY, and Poppy's family owns and runs, Rhyme and Reason, a magical bookshop that caters to people from all different places and time periods. Though her world is ravaged by World War II, customers hail from the past and the future, infusing the shop...
96) Odin's child
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First English-language edition.
Language
English
Description
"Hirka has always been a little bit different, ostracized because her tail was cut off when she was an infant, so it is unexpected that she's summoned to take place in this year's Rite--and even more shocking that her adoptive father reveals she is a tailless, powerless, human whose kiss rots flesh. The Rite also looms for Rime, a popular young man whose discovery of Hirka's secret threatens his destiny on the Council, and Urd, who would literally...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Thanks to the crass yet well-meaning Carsein and her new imperial bodyguards, Aristia's pleased to get her training back on track, though it's Allendis’s return that truly excites her. Being apart seems to have only brough them closer--but are close enough that she can finally tell him the truth?"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Yen Press edition.
Language
English
Description
"The empire is in full festival mode. But for Aristia, the ballroom is yet another battlefield and every dance step a desperate riposte. Princesses from neighboring kingdoms are here, and they have one goal--to take her place by Ruveliss's side! To that end, they are willing to use every dirty trick in the book to humiliate Tia and turn the prince against her. But as she begins to falter under constant pressure, unexpected allies come to her aid...!"--...
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