Abrahams, Peter. Into the Dark.
Thirteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes aficionado Ingrid Levin-Hill tries to clear her grandfather’s name when he is accused of murdering an environmental activist found dead on his farm.
20 comments September 26th, 2009
Balliett, Blue. The Calder Game.
When seventh grader Calder Pillay disappears from a remote English village–along with an Alexander Calder sculpture to which he has felt strangely drawn–his friends Petra and Tommy fly from Chicago to help his father find him.
23 comments September 26th, 2009
Bradbury, Jennifer. Shift.
When best friends Chris and Win go on a cross country bicycle trek the summer after graduating from high school and only one returns, the FBI wants to know what happened.
19 comments September 26th, 2009
Broach, Elise. Masterpiece.
After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover an Albrecht Dürer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
18 comments September 26th, 2009
Haddix, Margaret Peterson. Found.
When thirteen-yearolds Jonah and Chip, who are both adopted, learn they were discovered on a plane that appeared out of nowhere, full of babies with no adults on board, they realize that they have uncovered a mystery involving time travel and two opposing forces, each trying to repair the fabric of time.
38 comments September 26th, 2009
Pearson, Ridley. Steel Trapp: The Challenge.
On a two day train trip to enter his invention in the National Science Competition in Washington,D.C., fourteen-year-old Steven “Steel” Trapp, possessor of a remarkable photographic memory, becomes embroiled in an international plot of kidnapping and bribery that may have links to terrorists.
12 comments September 26th, 2009
Soo, Kean. Jellaby.
Not long after Portia Bennett and her mother move to a new town to start their lives over, Portia discovers a huge purple monster she names Jellaby and enlists the help of fellow student Jason, as the two search for a way to find their new friend’s true home–a search which may connect Portia to her
missing father.
42 comments September 26th, 2009
Vande Velde, Vivian. Stolen.
A girl finds herself running through the forest at the edge of a village with no memory of anything, even her own name, and later learns that she might be twelve-year-old Isabelle, believed to be stolen by a witch six years before.
19 comments September 26th, 2009
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