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Please use the drop down menus below to tweak the list of books to suit your interests and grade level. For instance use the first menu to choose mysteries and the second menu to choose Jr. High and you’ll get a list of all our featured Jr. High age appropriate mysteries.
An unusual remake of Hamlet, set in contemporary L.A., featuring a girl named Holly haunted by her mother's ghost - a ghost who's claiming her sister, Claudia killed her in order to become Holly's father's girlfriend.
Auden's decision to spend the summer with her remarried Dad and his new family leads to some surprises (one in the guise of an adorable trick-bike rider) for the formerly uptight academically-inclined girl.
Tolstoy and 19th-century Russia go steampunk is this rollicking mash-up that begins, "Functioning robots are all alike; every malfunctioning robot malfunctions in its own way."
In this controversial and much-lauded book, the author reimagines life in Anne Frank's hiding spot, the Annex, through the eyes of a dying Peter Van Pels, the boy Anne crushed on before their hidden families were rounded up and sent to Auschwitz.
Rosemary takes charge of her weight and deals with her mother's cancer while also embarking on her first romantic relationship and discovering other people's less-than-perfect lives.
For more about the book or author go to www.suzannesupplee.com
A backwater southern town is turned upside down when Lena moves into her reclusive uncle's house. Local boy Ethan, though, isn't put off by the telekinetic girl who seems connected to him through his dreams.
After several people disappear from a carnival and Pete comes under suspicion, he's not really sure he can trust his old friends.
The second book featuring Beka Cooper has her advancing in the Provost's Guard and taking on not only a case involving missing coins, but love.
In a boot camp for troubled teens where Garrett's been placed after a kidnapping directed by his parents, he must deal with physical and psychological abuse.
For more about the book or author go to www.toddstrasser.com
Rachel is really peeved. Seems her little sis inherited Mom's womanly figure. Rachel didn't. Miri also has a talent for witchcraft. Rachel doesn't. How to cope? This is the first book in the Magic in Manhattan series.
