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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
Appears on list
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
Order of Black Hollow Lane volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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.
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
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
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"--
6) 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
Blood Guard trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Two Lions
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ronan Truelove learns that he is a member of the Blood Guard, a secret society sworn to protect the pure, and must use his skills to save his kidnapped father, the girl of his dreams, and the world.
Author
Series
Rosewood chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When the students at Rosewood Hall are targeted by members of a secret society, Lottie Pumpkin and Ellie Wolf must find the culprit before the school is forced to close its doors.
Author
Series
Cryptid duology (Lija Fisher) volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Clivo Wren learns that his recently deceased father was not an archaeologist as he was told, but rather a cryptid catcher, known for finding elusive mythological creatures, and now Clivo must pick up where his father left off and track down a cryptid whose blood grants immortality before the knowledge falls into the wrong hands.--
Author
Series
Ashtown burials volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When their parents' seedy old motel burns down on the same night they are visited by a strange man covered in skeleton tattoos, Cyrus, Antigone, and their brother Daniel are introduced to an ancient secret society, and discover that they have an important role in keeping it alive.
Author
Series
Charlie Hernandez volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Steeped in Hispanic folklore since childhood, middle schooler Charlie Hernández learns the stories are true when, shortly after his parents disappearance, he grows horns and feathers and finds himself at the heart of a battle to save the world."--Colophon.
Author
Series
Society of Explorers and Adventurers volume 1
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
To free himself from an ancient curse, thirteen-year-old Shinji Takahashi must team up with a secret organization of explorers, find a magical font hidden in the jungles of Mexico, and replace a stolen idol.
14) Hide and seek
Author
Series
Silver Jaguar Society volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
©2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Summary: For five hundred years the Jaguar Cup, sacred to the Silver Jaguar Society, was hidden in a cave on the coast of Costa Rica--so when a fake copy shows up on display in America, it is up to José, Anna, and Henry, junior members of the society, to travel to Costa Rica and rescue the real cup from thieves.
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.
Author
Series
Lock and key (Ridley Pearson) volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Moira Moriarty calls upon the clever Sherlock Holmes, her brother James's roommate at school, to help solve the mystery of her father's death, leading them to a secret sect, a rare jewel, and a friendship torn asunder.
17) 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.
18) Bridge of souls
Author
Series
City of ghosts volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Cassidy Blake and her ghostly friend, Jacob, have survived the ghosts of Edinburgh and Paris, but New Orleans is a haunted city in a class by itself, and that is the current stop for her parents' TV show; but there is something a lot scarier than ghosts here: the Emissary of Death is after Cassidy, and to defeat it she will need the help of the Society of the Black Cat and she will also be faced with a terrible choice--lose one of her two friends,...
Author
Series
The Keepers (Ted Sanders) volume 3
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Horace and his friends discover their talismans of power may be dying out. Now the race is on to save their way of life and the world as we know it.
Author
Series
League of Seven volume 2
Publisher
Starscape
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Archie Dent and his friends Hachi and Fergus, the first three members of a new League of Seven, a group of heroes who come together to fight the Mangleborn whenever the monsters arise to destroy humanity, undertake separate missions and in the course of their adventures meet potential candidates to join their League, while learning deep-rooted secrets that could destroy the League forever.
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