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Author
Series
Hardy boys undercover brothers volume 12
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Frank and Joe go to the island of St. John to try to find the missing son of a UN ambassador.
3) Cloaked
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Johnny is approached at his family's struggling shoe repair shop in a Miami, Florida, hotel by Alorian Princess Victoriana, who asks him to find her brother who was turned into a frog.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 106
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
When their favorite author fails to arrive as scheduled to speak at the local library, the Alden children investigate how he could board a train and never be seen again.
5) Scarlet
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Scarlet Benoit and Wolf, a street fighter who may have information about her missing grandmother, join forces with Cinder as they try to stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana in this story inspired by Little Red Riding Hood.
6) Dreamwood
Author
Language
English
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Description
"12-year-old Lucy Darrington goes on a quest to find her missing father in a remote, magical territory in the Pacific Northwest"--
7) The testing
Author
Series
The Testing trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out her friends who do not pass The Testing are disappearing.
8) Paper towns
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.
9) Defiance
Author
Series
Defiance trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When Rachel's father goes missing on a mission, her attempt to escape their walled city-state and find him brings danger, heartbreak, and a new romance with her father's apprentice.
10) North of nowhere
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Rushing to the sleepy seaside village of Porthaven to help her grandmother when her granddad mysteriously vanishes, Mia discovers a diary on an empty fishing boat and begins exchanging notes with a local girl who makes excuses for not meeting Mia in person, adding to an already mystifying situation.
11) The Book of Time
Author
Series
The Book of Time trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Sam Faulkner travels back in time to medieval Ireland, ancient Egypt, and Renaissance Bruges, in search of his missing father.
14) Wizard for hire
Author
Series
Wizard for hire volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
After fourteen-year-old Ozzy's scientist parents are kidnapped, Ozzy's only help may be a classified ad that says "Wizards for hire."
15) The deceivers
Author
Series
Greystone secrets volume 2
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told from separate viewpoints, as Finn, Emma, and Chess Greystone and Natalie Mayhew, ages eight to thirteen, continue their quest to rescue their mothers they must return to the alternate dimension where truth is illegal.
16) Almost invisible
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Maya's classmate is on the run from an abusive home situation and secretly living in the school. Should Maya tell? Or can she help her friend on her own?
17) Don't look back
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Sam seems to have everything until she and her best friend, Cassie, disappear one night and now Sam has returned with amnesia, striving to be a much better person and aware that her not remembering may be the only thing keeping Cassie alive.
18) Leepike Ridge
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
While his widowed mother continues to search for him, eleven-year-old Tom, presumed dead after drifting away down a river, finds himself trapped in a series of underground caves with another survivor and a dog, and pursued by murderous treasure-hunters.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 66
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
When the Alden children and their grandfather visit Everglades National Park in Florida to solve the mystery of a missing ranger, they discover that a panther provides a clue.
20) Everlasting Nora
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
The story of a young girl living in the real life shanty town inside the Philippines' North Manila Cemetery.
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