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4) Celeste
Author
Publisher
SelfMadeHero
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Los Angeles, Ray is sitting in gridlock when he receives a call from an LAPD officer with news about his wife. Fearing the worst, he listens intently -- but suddenly, the caller and everyone else around him disappears. In London, the moment two commuters catch sight of each other on a packed Monday morning tube train, everyone around them vanishes. In Japan, comic artist Yoshi has come to the Aokigahara Forest to hang himself. But when the attempt...
5) The lost boy
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nate and his family moved to a new town and Nate discovers a tape recorder under the floor board, which leads to a mystery of the lost boy.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Miikwan (Anishinaabe) and Dez (Inninew) are best friends. Together, the teens navigate the challenges of growing up Indigenous in an urban landscape they're so close, they even completed their Berry Fast together. However, when Dez's grandmother becomes too sick, Dez is told she can't stay with her anymore. With the threat of a group home looming, Dez can't bring herself to go home and disappears. Miikwan is devastated, and the wound of her missing...
Author
Series
Shugo chara volume 8
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Ikuto has disappeared, and it's up to Amu and her fellow Guardians to save him. But what about Tadase's mysterious past with Ikuto? And what does that mean for Amu and Tadase's relationship? Plus, Rima learns the truth about Nagihiko's double life!"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Anne feels like an outsider compared to her new sixth-grade classmates, not least because she has recently moved in with her grandparents while her father tests a portable homeless shelter in authentic conditions. Anne plays violin with her new friend Otto, with whom she shares a love of the children's show The Blimptons.
10) Zahra's paradise
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Set in the aftermath of Iran's fraudulent elections of 2009, Zahra's Paradise is the fictional story of the search for Mehdi, a young protestor who has vanished into an extrajudicial twilight zone. What's keeping his memory from being obliterated is not the law. It is the grit and guts of his mother, who refuses to surrender her son to fate, and the tenacity of his brother, a blogger, who fuses tradition and technology to explore and explode the void...
Author
Publisher
Tokyopop
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
"Hired to locate a missing girl, detective Max "Mutt" Mason discovers deeper malignant forces at work. Femmes fatale soon give way to strange creatures older than humanity, all bent on remaking our world as their own. Mason wants answers, but the solution to this mystery may go beyond mere greed and betrayal--leading the detective to the brink of horrifying realms which man was never meant to trespass"--P. [4] of cover.
12) Agent Moose
Author
Series
Agent Moose volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Something fishy is going on at the South Shore. Folks just disappear and are never seen again. But when Agent Moose learns that a key witness has gone missing, he and Owlfred ride to the rescue. Will they find the missing turtle before time runs out?"-- cover page 4.
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphic Universe
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Tao and his friends are super excited for the international martial arts championship! But trouble is close behind them. When two top students from Master Snow's school disappear, Tao is on the case. Can he solve the mystery, defeat a clan of nasty criminals, and find a legendary sword?
15) Shugo chara!: 11
Author
Series
Shugo chara volume 11
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Description
"As graduation approaches, Amu's guardians, Ran, Miki, and Su disappear. Led by Diamond, Amu takes a journey on the road of stars to find her missing guardians. Will Amu find her guardians or will she find more than she could have ever expected?"--Page 4 of cover.
16) Trespassers
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Gabby loves a good mystery... Gabby Woods is looking forward to another summer vacation at her family's lake house, even though she would rather bury herself in a mystery novel than make new friends. But soon Gabby meets Paige, a snarky kid from Chicago, and they get caught up in a local mystery: the sudden disappearance of a glamorous couple and the extravagant lake house they left behind. To gather clues about the missing couple, Paige coaxes Gabby...
17) The book tour
Author
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A page-turning, Kafkaesque dark comedy in brilliant retro style, this graphic novel watches one man try to keep it together while everything falls apart. Upon the publication of his latest novel, G. H. Fretwell, a minor English writer, embarks on a book tour to promote it. Nothing is going according to plan, and his trip gradually turns into a nightmare. But now the police want to ask him some questions about a mysterious disappearance, and it seems...
Author
Publisher
ODOD Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Thomas is a friend to all plants. He even has a cactus collection! One morning, he discovers his mother has been replaced by a ferna monstrous fern! What happened? Is this the start of a plant revolt? Did the fern eat her? Where did this fern come from, anyway? Will it eat his father too? And then Thomas? That Night, A Monster . . . is a beautifully painted all-ages ode to the power of imagination."-- cover page 4.
19) Sabrina
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When Sabrina disappears, an airman in the U.S. Air Force is drawn into a web of suppositions, wild theories, and outright lies. He reports to work every night in a bare, sterile fortress that serves as no protection from a situation that threatens the sanity of Teddy, his childhood friend and the boyfriend of the missing woman. Sabrina's grieving sister, Sandra, struggles to fill her days as she waits in purgatory. After a videotape surfaces, we...
Publisher
Boom! Box
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When a teacher at Gotham Academy goes missing, it's up to Olive, Maps, Colton, Pom, and Kyle to figure out what is happening and how to get her back. With only an outdated birthday invitation as the clue, they find themselves in the middle of the woods with no idea of where to start. With the sudden appearance of the Lumberjanes--April, Jo, Mal, Molly, Ripley and Jen--who are on the hunt for their missing Camp Director, all clues point to an abandoned...
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