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"It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a 'scientist' determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes...
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Marzana and her best friend, Nialla, are bored. In a city where normal rules don't apply, it seems that adventure should be everywhere, yet nothing exciting ever happens to them. Nothing, that is, until Marzana's parents are recruited to help solve a kidnapping that makes no sense. This could be the excitement Marzana and Nialla have been looking for--if they can crack the case without getting caught meddling. They gather a group of kid detectives...
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She has only seen the world through maps. She had no idea they were so dangerous. Boston, 1891. Sophia Tims comes from a family of explorers and cartologers who, for generations, have been traveling and mapping the New World -- a world changed by the Great Disruption of 1799, when all the continents were flung into different time periods. Eight years ago, her parents left her with her uncle Shadrack, the foremost cartologer in Boston, and went on...
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Following her victory over her evil Aunt Lily and winning back her family's magic cookbook, Rosemary Bliss is kidnapped by the Mostess Corporation and made to use her magic to create new recipes for some of the world's favorite snacks. The problem is the International Society of the Rolling Pin and their plan to use Rose's recipes to take over the world. Rose will have none of that.
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Journeyman toymaker Stefan Drosselmeyer is recruited by his mysterious cousin, Christian, to find a mythical nut that will save Boldavia's princess and his own kidnapped father from a fanatical Mouse Queen and her seven-headed Mouse Prince, who have sworn to destroy the Drosselmeyer family.
10) Power play
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"When the creator of a new, popular reality game is kidnapped, Abigail Hunter and her friends go on their first official mission for The Center and if they are lucky they might just save the world"--OCLC.
11) Nightbooks
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Presents a modern twist on "One Thousand and One Nights." Alex loves horror stories and has notebooks full of his own compositions. One day he and some other occupants are trapped in their apartment by a witch and the only way to keep her happy is to tell her one of his stories each night. Soon though, he begins reaching the last pages so he begins making up stories with the help of the other prisoners.
12) The strangers
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The Greystone kids thought they knew. Chess has always been the protector over his younger siblings, Emma loves math, and Finn does what Finn does best--acting silly and being adored. They've been a happy family, just the three of them and their mom. But everything changes when reports of three kidnapped children reach the Greystone kids, and they're shocked by the startling similarities between themselves and these complete strangers. The other kids...
13) Abduction!
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Thirteen-year-old Bonnie has a feeling of foreboding on the very day that her six-year-old brother Matt and their dog Pookie are abducted, and she becomes involved in a major search effort as well as a frightening adventure. Matt is missing. Bonnie's brother left his classroom to use the bathroom --and disappeared. A police dog traces his scent to the curb, where he apparently got into a vehicle. But why would Matt go anywhere with a stranger? Overwhelmed...
14) Chickadee
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In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.
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"With the heart-shaped herb thriving, a group of Wakanda's finest engineers working on expanding its dome technology, and the borders more fortified than ever, Princess Shuri can finally focus on what matters most: her training. But soon, a bigger problem rears its head. The princess hears whispers of exceptionally talented young girls across the world going missing; a young environmental scientist in Kenya, a French physics prodigy -- the list of...
16) The familiars
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Three young wizards-in-training are kidnapped by an evil queen and their familiars--Aldwyn the alley cat, Skylar, a know-it-all blue jay, and Gilbert a tree frog who can see the future--set out on a dangerous journey to rescue the boys.
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Young Outsider Hylas' search for his missing sister is derailed when he is captured and sold into slavery, placing him in great danger from his mortal enemies, the Crows. Planning his escape, Hylas befriends an orphaned lion cub along with the runaway and cunning Pirra. Together, the three must cast the Crows' sacred dagger into a volcano and destroy their power.
19) Oliver Twist
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Oliver Twist is a classic tale of a boy of unknown parentage born in a workhouse and brought up under the cruel conditions to which pauper children were exposed in the Victorian England. With this novel, Dickens did not merely write a topical satire on the workhouse system and the role of the 1834 New Poor Law in fostering criminality. He created a moral fable about the survival of good, a romance, and a gripping story in which he exploited suspense...
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Anastasia, Ollie and Quentin have barely managed to escape the nefarious clutches of C.R.U.D. when they are brought to the underground Cavelands. There Anastasia finds out she is Caveland royalty, and that her family figures into a centuries old scandal that began with the disappearance of her grandfather.
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