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Author
Series
Edinburgh nights volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
While at the Society of Skeptical Enquirers’ conference, 15-year-old ghostalker Ropa is drawn into a locked room mystery when one of the magical attendees steals a priceless scroll, and must use her gift to track down the culprit in an ancient castle rife with deadly politics and alliances.
2) Z. Rex
Author
Series
The hunting volume 1
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
From Santa Fe, New Mexico, to Edinburgh, Scotland, thirteen-year-old Adam Adlar must elude police while being hunted by a dinosaur come-to-life from a virtual reality game invented by his father, who has gone missing.
3) Nessie quest
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ru reluctantly joins her parents in Scotland for the summer, where she and new friends Dax and Hammy Beans search for the Loch Ness Monster.
Author
Series
Pure dead magic volume 4
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Danger continues to find the members of the eccentric Strega-Borgia family at their Scottish castle, this time in the form of a butler who wants to blow up a nearby corporation and a demon who seeks the all-powerful Chronostone.
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
The haunting starts even before Sophie arrives on the Isle of Skye to spend the summer with her cousins, but when she arrives she finds a house haunted by the ghost of a girl who attended school there a hundred years ago, as well as cousin Rebecca who died young and is never mentioned by her family--and she must somehow solve the mystery of the frozen Charlotte dolls before the whole family is destroyed.
Author
Series
City of ghosts volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Ever since her near-fatal drowning, Cassidy has been able to pull back the "Veil" that separates the living from the dead and see ghosts, not that she wants to, and she was really looking forward to a ghost-free summer at the beach; however her parents are going to start filming a TV series about the world's most haunted places, starting with Edinburgh with its graveyards, castles, and restless phantoms--and Cass and her personal ghost companion,...
10) Lucy Dove
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
While sewing the laird's trews by moonlight in a haunted churchyard in return for a sackful of gold, an aging seamstress outwits a terrible monster.
Author
Series
Grey Griffins. Original series volume 2
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Aided by the Knights Templar, the four young Grey Griffins face a host of evil forces, including Morgan LaFey's Black Wolves, who kidnap Max's father while the quartet is spending what at first seemed a fairytale Christmas break at the Sumner's castle in Scotland.
13) Hollow Earth
Author
Series
Hollow Earth volume 1
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Possessing extraordinary powers, including the ability to bring artwork to life, twelve-year-old twins Matt and Emily are sought by villains trying to access the terrors of Hollow Earth, a place where demons and mythological beasts lie trapped for eternity.
Author
Series
Mad Wolf's daughter volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"In 1210 Scotland, when invading knights capture 12-year-old Drest's father, the Mad Wolf of the North, and her beloved brothers who make up his fearsome war-band, she sets off to rescue them from the castle prison, taking along a wounded knight as her captive to trade for her family's freedom"--
16) Like a charm
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Discovering a world she thought only existed in fairy tales, Ramya, who can see magic, must save both Hidden and mortal worlds from the sirens — beautiful monsters who use their persuasive voices to convince those around them to do their bidding.
Author
Series
Strange scout tales volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
During the annual Strange Scouts Loch Ness Lock-In, Ben and the other Strange Scouts of Troop D try to foil a dastardly plot to frame the famous monster for destroying a wind farm.
Author
Series
Bottega Battibaleno volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Finley McPhee is an ordinary thirteen-year-old living outside a small town in northern Scotland--until he meets Aiby Lily and is caught up in the deadly, centuries-old fight for ownership of the Enchanted Emporium, where genuinely magical items are safely stored.
19) Time sight
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
After a family emergency sends twelve-year-old Will and five-year-old Jamie to Scotland, a "magic eye" book takes them and their cousin Nan on a journey through their family's violent history.
20) Last witness
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
While on a camping trip to an isolated beach on the Scottish coast, Heather's friends suffer the wrath of a malevolent spirit, and a year later, Heather remains imprisoned in a facility, refusing to admit guilt.
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