Everything changes when a handsome stranger rides off into the night on Dusty's horseThere's no way around it: Dusty's horse Tazz needs to be put down.
The gruesome murder of a popular high school student turns two small-town neighbors against each otherAaron Gingrich is a well-liked high school senior who always seems to have a smile on his face.
It's one thing to be interested in history-it's another to thing to make itAndrew Tillet is just looking out for a younger classmate when he gets pulled into a heroic scheme a mission to return an abducted boy to his heartbroken mother.
A mysterious, broken-nosed cabby, a beautiful actress, and a villainous art heist have one thing in common-but the only one man who knows what it is has methods that are a little, shall we say .
When their classmates are kidnapped, Nick, Jessie, and Frasier must defeat the aliens once and for allNick, Jessie, and Frasier have managed to escape the clutches of slimy alien invaders only to be taken prisoner by their own parents.
When Luke and Mandy start experiencing strange hallucinations and blackouts, they know something is seriously, out-of-this-world wrongLuke Ingram is on his way home one evening when the sky goes black and seems to swallow him whole but four hours later he wakes up in his own room with no idea how he got there.
From the ancient sewers of London to the heights of a barren attic prison, Andrew and Sara race to uncover a wicked plotThough he's usually more of a cricket fan, Andrew Tillet would never miss a chance to see American baseball played in London especially not in the company of his best friends, Sara Wiggins and Inspector Peter Wyatt.
Blink once for yes, twice for no, and three times for murderSometimes it seems like all the boys at school know about Andrew Tillet's friendship with Inspector Peter Wyatt of Scotland Yard.
Special effects might look like magic to the audience, but there's always someone behind a curtain pulling the stringsSomeone is targeting the best actresses in London, and the only way to keep Verna Tillet safe is to keep her off the stage until Andrew Tillet, Sara Wiggins, and Inspector Peter Wyatt can find out who the deadly killer is.
While investigating a series of mysterious murders, Nate uncovers dark secrets that threaten to reveal the true nature of the Wildenstern family The British Empire is no longer the authority it once was.
An Agatha Award nominee for Best Children's/Young Adult Mystery and a WILLA Award finalist for Best Children's/Young Adult Book: In 1867, a twelve-year-old girl faces danger and disaster when she moves to the Colorado Territory with her widowed mother, who is hoping to start a newspaperEmma Henderson's mother has changed since her father died fighting in the Civil War.
Nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Mystery: In 1732, a twelve-year-old girl of Ojibwe and French heritage must clear her father of a stealing charge-or risk being separated from him foreverSuzette Choudoir always looks forward to summer, when her family leaves the Ojibwe people's winter camp and returns to the summer gathering place on La Pointe Island.
An eleven-year-old immigrant must clear her name when things start disappearing from a Boston settlement houseInnocenza Moretti's parents died in a fire when she was two.
Winner of the Edgar Award: When her homing pigeons disappear while her father is fighting in World War I, a twelve-year-old girl suspects a German spy may be responsibleWith her father in France, fighting in the war, Pam Lowder has the responsibility of taking care of the family's prize-winning homing pigeons on their farm.
In the Carolina hills, a friend reaches out from beyond the graveHis parents dead, Timor is brought to America to live with his uncle in rural Appalachia.
His memory gone, a mysterious youth knows only one thing: It's time to runOn a crowded commuter train, a young boy shakes with fear, unable to remember how he got there or where he's going.
As war rages in Europe, an eleven-year-old girl is swept into the New York suffragist movementEleven-year-old Susan O'Neal is sick of always having to look after her two younger sisters.
As the Civil War draws to a close, a young Virginia girl grieving over the death of her brother meets a Confederate deserterAs the Civil War rages nearby, Cassie Willis and her family struggle to scrape a living from their small Virginia farm, while Cassie's father and beloved brother, Jacob, are away fighting with the Confederate army.
Set in 1860 as the first wagon trains rumble into the American West, this adventure-filled novel centers on a frontier girl and the beloved pony she tries to saveBorn in the back of a covered wagon traveling west from Vermont, Annie Dawson dreams of someday seeing what's on the eastern side of the great Mississippi.
A young girl's life changes forever when she investigates a mystery with the help of writers, artists, and musicians in 1920s HarlemBessie Coulter has no idea why her father spirits her and her brother, Eddie, away from their home in Burlington, North Carolina, in the middle of the night, leaving their sick mother behind.
A twelve-year-old girl searches for answers when she finds an abandoned baby in the aftermath of the San Francisco earthquake of 1906Clara Curfman is awakened from a recurring swimming dream by her big, furry sheepdog, Humphrey.
In 1958, a girl risks everything to put a stop to a deadly Ku Klux Klan plot to bomb her Tennessee schoolThe middle child in a family of eight, Mendy Anna Thompson was named after her grandmother's hero former first lady Anna Eleanor Roosevelt.
The Flattery siblings put their heads together to figure out who's poaching rhinos in a Kenyan wildlife parkFoghorn Flattery may be a twelve-year-old genius, but to his sister C.
Nominated for an Edgar Award: When Marc and his friends discover an Indian grave in a long-abandoned cavern, they begin to wonder if it's hauntedIt's the summer of 1954, and Marc Schaller expects to spend his days playing baseball, swimming in the river, and reading comic books.
An Apple Books Best of the Month SelectionAPublishers WeeklySummer Reads 2020 Editors' PickA Library Journal ';12 Novels Featuring Protagonists on the Autism Spectrum' SelectionA chilling murder in a prestigious prep school is at the heart of this riveting novel from acclaimed author Charlie Donlea, featuring forensic reconstructionist Rory Moore and her psychologist partner, Lane Phillips.
In Tracy Clark's electrifying new mystery featuring Cassandra Raines, the former Chicago cop turned private investigator looks into a suspicious death as a favor to a friend-and makes some powerful enemies .
