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1) Caraval
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister Tella live with their powerful and cruel father. Now Scarlett's father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval, the far-away, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show, are over. But this year, Scarlett's long-dreamt-of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor, Tella whisks Scarlett away...
2) First family
Author
Series
Sean King and Michelle Maxwell volume 4
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
First lady Jane Cox insists on hiring private detectives Sean King and Michelle Maxwell to help when her twelve-year-old niece is abducted and the child's mother killed following a birthday party at Camp David, and while the investigators have no trouble identifying the assailant, they cannot figure out the motive for his obsession with the first family.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Five-year-old Jack has spent his life living in an eleven-by-eleven foot space his mother calls Room and while Jack uses his imagination to create wondrous fantasies to entertain himself, his mother dreads the day her son begins to question why they must remain in Room and tries to find a way to escape.
5) The cellar
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
For months, Summer is trapped in a cellar with the man who took her and three other girls: Rose, Poppy, and Violet.
7) Kidnapped
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being kidnapped by his villainous uncle, sixteen-year-old David Balfour escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish highlanders against English rule.
9) Saint
Author
Publisher
Westbow Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Carl Strople struggles to remember the truth behind his covert identity and escape from the brutal Speical Ops group that forced him to give up his past life.
Author
Series
The traitor's game volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After three years in exile, Kestra Dallisor has been summoned back to Antora by her father, right-hand man of the seemingly immortal king, Lord Endrick. But Kestra is intercepted and kidnapped by the Coracks who want to use her to get the Olden Blade, which they believe can be used to kill the despot. Simon, one of the rebels with his own grudge against the Dallisors, is assigned to accompany her, but Kestra has her own plans and she does not intend...
12) Kill Alex Cross
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Detective Alex Cross is thwarted at every turn while he attempts to investigate the abduction of the president's son and daughter and also discovers a deadly contagion released in the capital's water supply that foreshadows a larger, more devastating attack.
13) Bone Gap
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eighteen-year-old Finn, an outsider in his quiet Midwestern town, is the only witness to the abduction of town favorite Roza, but his inability to distinguish between faces makes it difficult for him to help with the investigation, and subjects him to even more ridicule and bullying.
15) Roses are red
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Alex Cross's investigation of a series of bank robberies in Washington, D.C. which have led to the deaths of bank employees and their family members, puts him on a collision course with the mysterious criminal known as "The Mastermind.".
16) The 6th target
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The members of the Women's Murder Club are thrown into turmoil when one of them is injured in a shooting incident on a crowded ferry, and homicide inspector Lindsay Boxer has her hands full trying to find out who tried to kill her friend while at the same time investigating the kidnappings of children from well-to-do families, along with their nannies.
17) Maximum Ride: 7
Author
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Fang's blog highlights ITEX and their research, causing them to shut down, while Max goes to Antarctica to study the effects of global warming.
18) The big bad wolf
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Alex Cross battles a ruthless and powerful killer, a master criminal and shadowy figure known only as the Wolf, who appears to be behind a terrifying business in which ordinary men and women are kidnapped and sold as slaves.
19) Maximum Ride: 5
Author
Series
Maximum ride the manga volume 5
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Max and her winged friends must face the ultimate enemy and stop a plot to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race that will terminate the rest of humankind.
20) The Reader
Author
Series
The Reader volume 1
Publisher
Speak
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Sefia knows what it means to survive. After her father is brutally murdered, she flees into the wilderness with her aunt Nin, who teaches her to hunt, track, and steal. But when Nin is kidnapped, leaving Sefia completely alone, none of her survival skills can help her discover where Nin has been taken, or if she's even alive. The only clue to both her aunt's disappearance and her father's murder is the odd rectangular object her father left behind;...
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