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Author
Series
School of Fear volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-olds Madeleine, Theo, and Lulu, fourteen-year-old Garrison, and ten-year-old new "contestant" Hyacinth must face their phobias and join forces to learn who is stealing wigs and pageant trophies from the School of Fear.
2) Nightbird
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Language
English
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Description
Twig, aged twelve, is practically ignored by classmates and other residents of Sidwell, Massachusetts, but gets along fine with just her mother and brother, whose presence must be kept secret, until descendants of the witch who cursed her family move in next door and want to be her friends.
Author
Series
The Penderwicks volume 2
Language
English
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Description
The four Penderwick sisters are faced with the unimaginable prospect of their widowed father dating, and they hatch a plot to stop him.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Eighth-grade star quarterback Nate Brodie's family is feeling the stress of the troubled economy, and Nate is frantic because his best friend Abby is going blind, so when he gets a chance to win a million dollars if he can complete a pass during the halftime of a New England Patriot's game, he is nearly overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed.
Author
Series
The Penderwicks volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Description
As spring arrives on Gardam Street, there are surprises in store for each Penderwick, from neighbor Nick Geiger's expected return from the war to Batty's new dog-walking business, but her plans to use her profits to surprise her family on her eleventh birthday go astray.--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Language
English
Description
As Benjamin Pratt and his friends Jill and Robert continue their efforts to save their school, they find themselves dodging two evil janitors, Lyman and Wally, but their team has also grown and now has a secret fund of millions of dollars.
8) Braced
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Rachel learns that her scoliosis has worsened and she will need to wear a back brace to keep her spine straight, she is devastated; afraid that she will not be able to play soccer, and terrified that she will not be able to hide her condition from her friends and classmates--but her mother is determined to spare her the spinal fusion surgery that she herself had as a teenager.
9) Ghost Hawk
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Language
English
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Description
At the end of a winter-long journey into manhood, Little Hawk returns to find his village decimated by a white man's plague and soon, despite a fresh start, Little Hawk dies violently but his spirit remains trapped, seeing how his world changes.
10) The sacrifice
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Two sisters, aged ten and twelve, are accused of witchcraft in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1692 and await trial in a miserable prison while their mother desperately searches for some way to obtain their freedom.
Author
Series
Beacon Street Girls volume 1
Language
English
Description
Charlotte Ramsey is the new girl again, and ready to make friends and stay in one place. After causing the biggest cafeteria blunder in the history of Abigail Adams Junior High School, Charlotte's assigned lunch partners, Katani, Avery and Maeve, can't wait to dump her. Can it get any worse?
12) Bounce
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Evyn's world is turned upside-down when her father, widowed since she was a toddler, suddenly decides to remarry a woman with six children, move with Ev and her brother from Maine to Boston, and enroll her in private school.
13) Out of bounds
Author
Series
Beacon Street girls volume 4
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Can the Beacon Street Girls bring the house down at Abigail Adams Junior High's talent show? or will the Queens of Mean steal the show?
Author
Series
Beacon Street girls volume 2
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Charlotte can't believe it. Her father wants to move away again, and the timing couldn't be worse for the Beacon Street Girls. Charlotte just joined the school newspaper. Maeve needs help with the most important project of her life. The new girl, Isabel, is trying to join their group. And their adopted dog, Marty, needs lots of attention. For Charlotte, Katani, Avery and Maeve -- does all this add up to good news? or bad news? Find out in the Beacon...
Author
Series
Beacon Street girls volume 3
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"A family history project for school is giving the Beacon Street Girls a lot to think about -- especially Avery. She's got three families: her mother and brothers at home, her father in Colorado, and the birth mother she never really knew. But family is an uncomfortable subject for Maeve. Her parents have just separated, and she doesn't want to talk about it to anyone, not even her best friends in the world, the BSG. Can a bundle of old letters make...
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Language
English
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Description
When Jane's stepfather is fired from his job as a high school French teacher, her family packs up and embarks on a series of new adventures. Jane sees her world, which used to be so safe and secure, shift in strange and inconvenient ways.
When her stepfather loses his job in Saskatchewan, Jane and the rest of the family set off on a car trip, ending up in Nevada after improbably being given a bag full of possibly stolen money.
18) I, Emma Freke
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Growing up near Boston with her free-spirited mother and old-world grandfather, twelve-year-old Emma has always felt out of place but when she attends the family reunion her father's family holds annually in Wisconsin, she is in for some surprises.
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