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Towers Falling by Jewell Parker Rhodes
Fifth-grader Deja lives with her family in a shelter in New York City. When her teacher gives her class assignments related to the attacks on the Twin Towers, Deja wonders why she should care so much about something that happened before she was even born. But as she investigates 9/11, she learns things about her friends and her family she never imagined.
Call Number: W / 410L
All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook by Leslie Connor
Eleven-year-old Perry Cook is not so different from other kids his age. He has his morning ritual, goes to school, eats dinner with his mother, and plays games with his cousins and friends. However, his mother lives in the Blue River Co-Ed Correctional Facility, where Perry also lives due to the kindness of the warden. When a new district attorney finds out Perry is living in prison, Perry is forcibly placed in a foster home, where he feels, ironically, imprisoned. Desperate to reunite with his mother, Perry tries to find out exactly why his mom was jailed in the first place, and in the process he learns what it means to truly be home.
Call Number: 540L
The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing by Sheila Turnage
When Miss Lana accidentally buys a haunted inn at the Tupelo Landing town auction, Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friend Dale--opens up a paranormal division to solve the ghost's identity before the town's big 250th anniversary bash.
Call Number: 550L
Chasing Secrets by Gennifer CholdenkoCall Number: X / 540L
Deep and Dark and Dangerous by Mary Downing Hahn
While spending the summer with her aunt and cousin at the family's vacation home in Maine, thirteen-year-old Ali stumbles upon the secret to the childhood tragedy that her mother and aunt have been hiding for over thirty years.
Call Number: U / 650L
Ghostlight by Kenneth Oppel
Every summer, Gabe Vasilakis leads a ghost tour of Toronto's Gibraltar Point Lighthouse, where he recounts the unexplained deaths of sixteen-year-old Rebecca Strand and her father who fell to their deaths from the top of the lighthouse and whose spirits are said to haunt it. When Rebecca's ghost suddenly appears, he learns the terrifying truth behind her death--that her father was a ghost-hunter and they were killed by a powerful spirit named Viker. Soon, Gabe and his friends find themselves digging into Toronto history to search for a ghostlight that can banish the powerful enemy.
Call Number: 660L
Chester Keene Cracks the Code by Kekla Magoon
Eleven-year-old Chester and his classmate Skye, tasked with a complex puzzle-solving mission, discover the key to their spy assignment is to stop a heist, but cracking the code could put them in serious danger.
Call Number: 540L
City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab; V. E. SchwabCall Number: 720L
Hide and Seeker by Daka Hermon
Justin's friend Zee mysteriously disappeared a year ago, and hasn't been the same since he came back. At a party celebrating his return, Justin and his friends play a game of hide-and-seek and some in their group go missing.
Call Number: 480L
The Odds of Getting Even by Sheila Turnage
The Desperado Detectives and their new intern investigate when Dale's dad escapes custody just before his trial is about to begin.
Call Number: 540L
Small Spaces by Katherine Arden
Eleven-year-old Ollie comes across a weeping woman next to a river, holding a book and threatening to throw it into the water. Ollie is impulsive, so she plucks the book from the woman's hand and runs off with it. The book is "Small Spaces," and tells a haunting story of a girl, two boys in love with her, and a farm from hundreds of years ago, and a deal with the sinister specter called the Smiling Man, who grants wishes for the ultimate price. Now, Ollie finds herself on a school trip to a local farm with a haunted history.
Call Number: X / 570L
Bow Wow by Spencer Quinn
When a bull shark is spotted in a swamp outside the Louisiana town of St. Roch, shark fever takes the town, and Birdie Gaux and her handsome dog, Bowser, have some investigating to do when the town's greatest fisherman mysteriously disappears.
Call Number: 630L
Hide and Seeker by Daka Hermon
Justin's friend Zee mysteriously disappeared a year ago, and hasn't been the same since he came back. At a party celebrating his return, Justin and his friends play a game of hide-and-seek and some in their group go missing. As the remaining kids--Justin, Nia, and Lyric--set out to find the rest of the kids, they are taken away to Nowhere where an evil Seeker feeds off their fears. Suddenly Justin realizes where Zee has been and wonders if any of them will make it back.
Call Number: 480L
Towers Falling by
Fifth-grader Deja lives with her family in a shelter in New York City. When her teacher gives her class assignments related to the attacks on the Twin Towers, Deja wonders why she should care so much about something that happened before she was even born. But as she investigates 9/11, she learns things about her friends and her family she never imagined.
All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook by
Eleven-year-old Perry Cook is not so different from other kids his age. He has his morning ritual, goes to school, eats dinner with his mother, and plays games with his cousins and friends. However, his mother lives in the Blue River Co-Ed Correctional Facility, where Perry also lives due to the kindness of the warden. When a new district attorney finds out Perry is living in prison, Perry is forcibly placed in a foster home, where he feels, ironically, imprisoned. Desperate to reunite with his mother, Perry tries to find out exactly why his mom was jailed in the first place, and in the process he learns what it means to truly be home.
The Ghosts of Tupelo Landing by
When Miss Lana accidentally buys a haunted inn at the Tupelo Landing town auction, Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friend Dale--opens up a paranormal division to solve the ghost's identity before the town's big 250th anniversary bash.
Deep and Dark and Dangerous by
While spending the summer with her aunt and cousin at the family's vacation home in Maine, thirteen-year-old Ali stumbles upon the secret to the childhood tragedy that her mother and aunt have been hiding for over thirty years.
Ghostlight by
Every summer, Gabe Vasilakis leads a ghost tour of Toronto's Gibraltar Point Lighthouse, where he recounts the unexplained deaths of sixteen-year-old Rebecca Strand and her father who fell to their deaths from the top of the lighthouse and whose spirits are said to haunt it. When Rebecca's ghost suddenly appears, he learns the terrifying truth behind her death--that her father was a ghost-hunter and they were killed by a powerful spirit named Viker. Soon, Gabe and his friends find themselves digging into Toronto history to search for a ghostlight that can banish the powerful enemy.
Small Spaces by
Eleven-year-old Ollie comes across a weeping woman next to a river, holding a book and threatening to throw it into the water. Ollie is impulsive, so she plucks the book from the woman's hand and runs off with it. The book is "Small Spaces," and tells a haunting story of a girl, two boys in love with her, and a farm from hundreds of years ago, and a deal with the sinister specter called the Smiling Man, who grants wishes for the ultimate price. Now, Ollie finds herself on a school trip to a local farm with a haunted history.
Hide and Seeker by
Justin's friend Zee mysteriously disappeared a year ago, and hasn't been the same since he came back. At a party celebrating his return, Justin and his friends play a game of hide-and-seek and some in their group go missing. As the remaining kids--Justin, Nia, and Lyric--set out to find the rest of the kids, they are taken away to Nowhere where an evil Seeker feeds off their fears. Suddenly Justin realizes where Zee has been and wonders if any of them will make it back.
