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Author
Series
All the wrong questions volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young apprentice Lemony Snicket asks all the wrong questions while trying to solve a new case involving a missing girl.
Author
Series
Winterborne home volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After years in foster care, April gets to live in a mansion where she and four other children are caught up in a mystery related to a missing heir, a lost legacy, and the Phantom.
Author
Series
Mysterious Benedict Society volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance, all graduates of the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened and members of the Benedict Society, embark on a scavenger hunt that turns into a desperate search for the missing Mr. Benedict.
Author
Series
Maya and the rising dark volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A twelve-year-old girl discovers her father is the keeper of the gateway between our world and The Dark, and when he goes missing she'll need to unlock her own powers and fight a horde of spooky creatures set on starting a war"--
5) Missing
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a chance encounter with an injured boy, Winter Crane questions if all the teenagers who left her town did so voluntarily.
There's nothing in Reeve's End abandoned mines and empty futures. Winter Crane looks forward to leaving it like all the other teens have; the only thing she'll miss is the woods. They're her only refuge. Until the day she found Lennon left for dead, bleeding in a tree. Now Lennon is gone too... and Winter is questioning...
Author
Series
Order of Black Hollow Lane volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Emmy investigates the connection between her father's disappearance and a secret society at her prestigious English boarding school.
7) It found us
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hazel, a twelve-year-old aspiring detective, must decode a series of ominous clues tied to a century-old tragedy to find a missing teenager before it is too late.
Author
Series
Greystone secrets volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Told from separate viewpoints, as Finn, Emma, and Chess Greystone and Natalie Mayhew, ages eight to thirteen, continue their quest to rescue their mothers they must return to the alternate dimension where truth is illegal.
Author
Series
Greystone secrets volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told from separate viewpoints, Chess, Emma, and Finn Greystone, ages twelve, ten, and eight, investigate why their mother went missing and uncover their ties to an alternate world.
Author
Series
Mysterious Benedict Society volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance, all graduates of the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened and members of the Benedict Society, embark on a scavenger hunt that turns into a desperate search for the missing Mr. Benedict.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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2023 Reading Challenge: Middle grade or YA novel
2024 DMPL Reading Challenge August Bonus Category: YA or Middle Grade Book
2024 DMPL Reading Challenge August Bonus Category: YA or Middle Grade Book
Description
Thirteen-year-old Amari, a poor Black girl from the projects, gets an invitation from her missing brother to join the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs and join in the fight against an evil magician.
"New York Times bestseller! Artemis Fowl meets Men in Black in this exhilarating debut middle grade fantasy, the first in a trilogy filled with #blackgirlmagic. Perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky, the Percy Jackson series, and...
12) The haunted lake
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jacob and his father are the only people who fish Lake Spetzia, which was formed when the river was dammed and their town was flooded. The villagers say the lake is haunted, but Jacob and his father don't want to leave, because Jacob's mother is buried in the cemetery below the water. As Jacob grows up, a village girl named Ellen falls in love with him, and he with her. But before they are married, Jacob disappears--lured underwater by the ghosts...
13) Treasure hunters
Author
Series
Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Join the famous treasure-hunting Kidds on their first adventure ever! The #1 New York Times bestselling series from James Patterson is jam-packed with action, humor, and heart!
The Kidd siblings have grown up diving down to shipwrecks and traveling the world, helping their famous parents recover everything from swords to gold doubloons from the bottom of the ocean. But when their parents disappear on the job, the kids are...
The Kidd siblings have grown up diving down to shipwrecks and traveling the world, helping their famous parents recover everything from swords to gold doubloons from the bottom of the ocean. But when their parents disappear on the job, the kids are...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
When everyone in town disappears without a trace, twelve-year-old Eddie and his friends, with no parental supervision, must figure out what happened to their families, but as they each deal with their fear differently, their friendships begin to fracture.
16) Reckoning
Author
Series
Whispering Pines (Heidi Lang) volume 3
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Caden leads Rae and Vivienne on a mission to rescue their friends deep into the heart of the Other Place"--
Author
Series
Dog's day volume 5
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Border collie Skye, a trained therapy dog now learning search and rescue in a national park in California, has her first opportunity to help when a sixteen-year-old boy goes missing. Includes information about border collies and working dogs.
Author
Series
Mars Patel volume 1
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Mars Patel's friend Aurora has disappeared! His teachers are clueless. His mom is stressed out about her jobs. But Mars refuses to give up--after all, his own dad disappeared when Mars was a toddler, before he and Ma moved to Puget Sound from India. Luckily, Mars has a group of loyal friends eager to help--smart Toothpick, strong and stylish JP, and maybe-telepathic Caddie. The clues seem to point toward eccentric tech genius (and Mars's hero) Oliver...
19) Olivetti
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Witty typewriter Olivetti and twelve-year-old introvert Ernest embark on a mission to find Ernest's missing mother that takes them across San Francisco.
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In this mesmerizing fantasy rooted in Urhobo and West African folklore, sixteen-year-old Naborhi longs for a life away from her small, traditional clan in Kokori. But as her rite of passage approaches and she is betrothed to an arrogant young man, Naborhi feels her dreams slipping away from her. Then Naborhi becomes bonded to a mysterious animal and begins having harrowing visions of a kidnapped boy. She soon meets Atai, the son of an Oracle from...
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