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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.
Author
Series
Blackthorn key volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1665 London, fourteen-year-old Christopher Rowe, apprentice to an apothecary, and his best friend, Tom, try to uncover the truth behind a mysterious cult, following a trail of puzzles, codes, pranks, and danger toward an unearthly secret with the powerto tear the world apart.
Author
Series
Cryptid duology (Lija Fisher) volume 2
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
As thirteen-year-old Clivo Wren continues to search for the immortal cryptid, he finds that not only is the resistance getting more dangerous, so are the cryptids.
Author
Series
The Keepers (Ted Sanders) volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Horace F. Andrews, Keeper of the fabled Box of Promises, knows that nothing is impossible. After all, he has the ability to see into the future, and his friend Chloe can walk through walls. But before either of them can master their Tan'ji--their talismans of power--a new threat looms over all Keepers, and they must prepare to battle their eternal enemies: the Riven. Far away, drawn by an irresistible summons, a mysterious girl is making her way...
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"During a spy school game of Capture the Flag, twelve-year-old Ben Ripley accidentally shoots a live mortar into the principal’s office—and immediately gets himself expelled. Not long after going back to the boring real world, Ben gets an offer to join evil crime organization SPYDER. And he accepts. Ben can tell he’s a key part of their sinister plan, but he’s not quite sure what the plan is. Can Ben figure out what SPYDER is up to—and...
Author
Series
Restorationists volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After an experience he'd rather forget, Vincent is determined to be done with art. So when he and his little sister, Lili, spend spring break with their art conservator great-uncle, Vincent's plan is to stay glued to his phone. That is, until Lili disappears into one of the world's most famous paintings and Vincent learns his parents have been hiding something from him: Their family is the last of The Restorationists, a secret society with the power...
Author
Series
The explorers (Adrienne Kress) volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Featuring a mysterious society, a secretive past, and a pig in a teeny hat, The Explorers: The Door in the Alley is the first book in a new series for fans of The Name of This Book Is a Secret and The Mysterious Benedict Society. Knock once if you can find it--but only members are allowed inside. This is one of those stories that start with a pig in a teeny hat. It's not the one you're thinking about. (This story is way better than that one.) This...
Author
Series
Smells like dog series volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When farm boy Homer Pudding's explorer-uncle dies and leaves him a droopy dog with a mysterious coin hidden on its collar, it leads him to The City, where they meet Madame La Directeur, the conniving head of the Natural History Museum, who is trying to steal the coin and take Homer's place in a secret society of adventurers.
10) Faceless
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Growing up in 1943 war-torn England, thirteen-year-old Alice and her older sister Louise are members of a centuries-old spy clan, but when Louise decides to spy for the enemy, their bond is changed forever.
Author
Series
The explorers (Adrienne Kress) volume 2
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"After nefarious, nameless thugs have separated Sam and Evie, the pair must travel the globe to reunite and piece together the remaining clues about the missing explorers from the Filipendulous Five"--
Author
Series
Rosewood chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Lottie Pumpkin had always assumed that nobody could be more protected than a princess. That is, until she became one. In the two years that she's known Ellie Wolf, the rebellious princess hiding her identity, Lottie has been anything but safe. And now they're facing the greatest danger yet--Leviathan, the secret organization intent on taking the princess down. When Leviathan forces them to travel to their beloved Rosewood Hall's sister school in...
Author
Series
Tale of magic volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Brystal Evergreen has secured worldwide acceptance for the magical community but new threats arise, including the centuries-old Righteous Brotherhood that intends to exterminate all magical life, beginning with Brystal.
Author
Series
The Keepers (Ted Sanders) volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Horace F. Andrews, armed with a strange wooden box, and Chloe Burke, wearing a mysterious dragonfly pendant, become entangled in a secret and ancient society striving to protect powerful devices from the evil Riven.
15) The starlit loom
Author
Series
The Keepers (Ted Sanders) volume 4
Publisher
Harper, and imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"For centuries, the Keepers and the Wardens have been guarding the mysterious Mothergates, a source of incredible power. But now the Mothergates are dying, and Horace and his fellow Keepers know that the weakened gates may unleash a dangerous force that will consume the world--and destroy everyone in it. While their enemies are willing to take this careless risk, Horace and his friends are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the preservation of the...
16) The mapmakers
Author
Series
Hatmakers volume 2
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an imprint of W.W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Cordelia Hatmaker has saved England from war, but danger is lurking around every corner, and she must convince the rival Maker families to work together for once--not only to bring her father home, but also to save the very essence of magic itself.
17) Ghostlight
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Rebecca Strand was just sixteen when she and her father fell to their deaths from the top of the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse in 1839. Just how they fell--or were they pushed?--remains a mystery. And their ghosts haunt the lighthouse to this day. . . Gabe tells this story every day when he gives the ghost tour on Toronto Island. He tries to make it scary enough to satisfy the tourists, but he doesn't actually believe in ghosts--until he finds himself...
Author
Series
Order of Black Hollow Lane volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Emmy's adventure continues when she returns to school and has to deal with a sinister organization, a missing father, and secrets she's not sure with whom she can trust.
Series
Evil secret society of cats volume 1
Publisher
Seven Seas Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Under the direction of the purple-caped Feline Commander, the Evil Secret Society of Cats schemes against humanity in a series of humorous stories as adorable as they are diabolical. After all, the complex nature of cats is part of their charm"--
Author
Series
Charlie Hernandez volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"When Queen Joanna is kidnapped Charlie and Violet set out across South America to find her and discover a conspiracy to raise the dead"--
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