The Haunted Lighthouse
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| Author | Phyllis McGinley |
| ISBN | 0590434772 |
This is more of a Middle grade chapter book than a children's picture book. There are pages of only words. The artwork was nice what little there was of it, but I think it's because the story is so tedious. The art by itself wouldn't be that exciting either.
This book felt moldy to me. It is very repetitious...
| Author | Emily Ecton |
| ISBN | 1484788389 |
Melissa is a nobody. Wilf is a slacker. Bondi is a show-off. At least that's what their middle school teachers think. To everyone's surprise, they are the three students chosen to compete for a ten thousand-dollar scholarship, solving clues that lead them to various locations around Chicago. At first...
Another fun tween summer read. A nice little mystery full of small town charm and eccentricities, with plenty of 'moxie' and spunk. Downeaster style. Respectably impressive for a debut.
The dialogue was fresh and fun. Specifically regarding Quinnie. She was a hoot! Thirteen going on thirty....
| Author | Lauren Thompson |
| ISBN | 0439698855 |
A polar bear cub explores her artic world and finds something new--a friend. Companion to New York Times Best Illustratedbook /New York Times bestselling book.
On a chill, bright morning, a polar bear cub awakes inside her cozy den. She hears the seagulls' far-away calls and clambers out into...
| Author | Janine Beacham |
| ISBN | 1510201289 |
The Clockwork Sparrow meets Downton Abbey
Rose Raventhorpe loves nothing more than wandering around Yorke with her beloved butler, Argyle, listening to the stories he tells about the city. So when Argyle is murdered - the third butler to be stabbed in a week - Rose knows she must find out what...
| Author | Ellie Rollins |
| ISBN | 1595145702 |
A girl discovers adventure at every highway turn in this effervescent debut that's Savvy meets Little Miss Sunshine
After Lyssa's mother dies, her kind but clueless new stepfather moves with her to the suburbs of Seattle in the hopes of making a fresh start. But Lyssa feels lost and adrift in...
| Author | Patricia Beatty |
| ISBN | 0688122809 |
Mama is widowed, with two children and no job prospects. She decides to start a school out in the gold fields but is shortly and firmly disabused of all her city slicker notions. The story is narrated by Ann Katherine, who is a nicely written young teen. Her younger brother is the bane of her existence, naturally....
| Author | Jackie French Koller |
Living in a rough Puritan missionary settlement that borders an Indian village, sixteen-year-old Rebekah is forced to choose between two cultures when she falls in love with a defiant Pawtucket medicine man. “Issues about separation of church and state, the scandalous idea of thinking for oneself,...
| Author | Theodore Taylor |
| ISBN | 0152061533 |
When Ben's parents go to Africa, they leave the fourteen-year-old in charge of the family's wild animal preserve. Everything seems to be running smoothly until one night when the silence is broken by the sound of peacocks screeching. When Ben leaves the house to investigate, he sees a terrifying...
| Author | Candy Dawson Boyd |
| ISBN | 0590432664 |
The story Circle of Gold is about a girl named Mattie. Mattie had just lost her father and she lives with her mother and her two little brothers. Mattie’s mother has not been feeling well so Mattie decided to buy her a wonderful present for mother’s day. One day while Mattie was shopping , she saw a gold...
| Author | Jon Hassler |
| ISBN | 0449703231 |
This book is not just a mystery or action book its has great feeling to it. The characters have life because this book has some truth behind it. The main character is a real person that person wrote this book and many more. He has a way to make the character have pop out of the book and stay with you.
My...
| Author | Gigi Amateau |
| ISBN | 0763637661 |
A sequel to Chancey of the Maury River, this heart-tugging story focuses on Macadoo — the gentle giant of the Maury River Stables.
When Macadoo is just a colt, he challenges his father — a huge Belgian stallion — in order to protect his dam. From that moment on, Mac knows that his purpose...
| Author | Jeremy Brown |
| ISBN | 0439769345 |
An updated version of Donold Sobol's TWO-MINUTE MYSTERIES, investigated by a CSI using modern forensic techniques rather than old-fashioned sleuthing.
Four-minute forensic mysteries are solved by a cast of quirky but lovable characters. Their wisecracking leader is CSI Wes Burton who...
| Author | Adele Whitby |
| ISBN | 1481406310 |
Find out what secrets lurk within the walls of Chatswood Manor in this in this first book of a historical fiction mystery series that explores a family’s secrets throughout generations.
The Chatswood family tree has many branches—and even more secrets. It’s the summer of 1914 in England,...
| Author | Emma Kennedy |
| ISBN | 0803735405 |
"Nothing and nobody stops Wilma Tenderfoot!" (If she does say so herself.)
Wilma Tenderfoot, a tiny, brash, and determined ten-year-old orphan, dreams of becoming a worldfamous detective so she can find out who her parents are. Wilma discovers that her new next-door neighbor is the renowned...
| Author | Bruce Hale |
| ISBN | 0545665388 |
From the comic genius behind CHET GECKO comes a new kind of fairy tale hero -- and a big, bad, crime-solving adventure!
The houses of all Three (not-so-) Little Pigs were broken into and ransacked, and the Pigs are squealing for justice. So Prince Tyrone, ruler of Fairylandia, drags in the obvious...
| Author | Rick Atkinson |
| ISBN | 1627791116 |
Adapted for young readers from the #1 New York Times–bestselling The Guns at Last Light, D-Day captures the events and the spirit of that day—June 6, 1944—the day that led to the liberation of western Europe from Nazi Germany's control. They came by sea and by sky to reclaim freedom from the occupying...
| Author | Amanda Flower |
| ISBN | 0310737028 |
Twelve-year-old Andora 'Andi' Boggs and her new best friend Colin Carter couldn't be more excited to attend the prestigious science camp at the local university in Killdeer, Ohio. Unfortunately, Discovery Camp's curriculum appears to include much more than just chemistry and biology. From day...
| Author | Diane Lee Wilson |
| ISBN | 0689871384 |
WANTED: Young, skinny, wiry fellows not over eighteen. Must be expert riders. Willing to risk death daily. Orphans preferred.
When Colton Wescott sees this sign for the Pony Express, he thinks he has the solution to his problems. He's stuck with his ma and two younger sisters on the wrong side...
| Author | Kimberly Brubaker Bradley |
| ISBN | 0440414059 |
Set in a small Indiana farming community at the start of World War I, this is the heartwarming and gently humorous story of Ruthie, an 8-year-old tomboy who develops a stronger sense of self and selflessness during a particularly dramatic year in her life: the year her sixth brother is born, the year she...
| Author | John Peel |
| ISBN | 0671568116 |
The Hive came from another galaxy: billions of alien beings living inside a vast, biological starship. They've already destroyed one planet, using it as raw material and fuel for their endless voyage through the cosmos, and now the Hive is heading for Bajor. To the Bajorans they've sent a warning, to...
Help! I'm Trapped in the First Day of Summer Camp
| Author | Todd Strasser |
| ISBN | 0590029657 |
Emily Barrios-Jake Sherman's first day of summer camp at Camp Walton!Well it's not going so good for him.Jake is a boy who doesn't want to go to camp because he thinks it is going to be boring.But later on in the story Jake actually really likes camp.Jake meets new people during camp.
There is these...
| Author | Kristen Tracy |
| ISBN | 1416955194 |
Sugar and spice and everything nice.
At sixteen, Sarah Trestle has a lot going for her. She's cute, funny, and a terrific alto. She's also great behind the wheel, which is why she drives the getaway car. But Sarah T doesn't complain; she loves being part of the best clique in Kalamazoo: The Sarahs....
| Author | Steve Stevenson |
| ISBN | 0448462176 |
Agatha Mistery is a fanciful and fabulous new mystery series about a headstrong girl detective who jets off on exotic and international adventures with the help of her hulking bodyguard and loyal cat named, aptly, Watson. The first mystery in this series sees young detective Agatha Mistery traveling...
The Case of the Cursed Dodo
This is an alternate cover edition for B00Q382PV0
If you're looking for trouble, you've found it. The name's Jake G. Panda, and trouble seems to follow me wherever I go. I work in the protection racket at a flophouse for endangered critters called the Last Resort. I'm the hotel snoop. The resident...
