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Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"As a Special Constable, Teddy Creque is the only police presence on the remote, sun-drenched island of Anegada, nestled in the heart of the British Virgin Islands. In all his years on the job, Teddy has never considered the possibility that he might have to address an actual crime on his peaceful island. That is, until he receives a hysterical call about a dead man on the beach. Indeed, Teddy is shocked to discover Paul Kelliher, a biologist who...
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Babar, his family, and the Old Lady are shipwrecked on what seems to be a desert island, but soon they have made a new friend who calms their fears and introduces them to his pleasant way of life.
83) Edgeland
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Orphaned Wren and her friend Alec live on Edgeland, where the dead are prepared for the afterlife, but when they are accidentally sucked into the Drain, they find something unimaginable.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Stuck in a decaying mansion surrounded by sea monsters, Sophie Seacove's only hope for escape is to find the mysterious Monster Box before the other inhabitants of the house get to her first"--
85) Family of origin
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When a controversial scientist drowns while investigating his theories about evolution moving in reverse, his estranged adult children reunite to settle their late father's affairs while trying to understand the research he abandoned them to pursue.
Author
Series
Passion Grove volume 1
Publisher
Harlequin Kimani Romance
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Childhood rivals and co-CEOs of a billion-dollar business conglomerate find sparks flying between them, but must contend with shocking secrets and a breaking scandal.
Author
Series
Leven Thumps volume 5
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Leven discovers that he must travel to the island of Alder to find the answer that will save the realm of Foo from destruction.
89) Nim's island
Author
Series
Nim series volume 1
Publisher
Alfred Knopf
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Nim loves her island home and the animals she shares it with even while her scientist father is away doing research, but trouble is on the way and a new e-mail friend could be the only one who can help.
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Constable Teddy Creque is assigned to the security detail at a grand reception on the little island of Tortola for Princess Portia and her husband Lord Sutherland, he's prepared for a British royal night out. He's less prepared for an evening of dreary small talk about bond prices and tax havens. But at least the event is going smoothly, he tells himself . . . That is, until it's cut dramatically short by a shot ringing out from the direction...
Author
Series
Scuola dei Pirati volume 7
Publisher
Pirueta
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
Ha comenzado el segundo curso en la Escuela de Piratas y los Lobitos de Mar, para variar, arman una de las suyas: dejan que se les escape delante de sus narices la tripulación más cafre, la de los novatos. ¿Conseguirán encontrarla? ¿Y qué ocurrirá cuando, en su búsqueda, se tropiecen con un pirata ..., o, mejor dicho, con su esqueleto?
92) Chasing midnight
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 19
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Sneaking an underwater look at a notorious Russian black marketeer's fancy yacht, Doc Ford emerges to discover that the marketeer's private island has been taken over by environmental extremists who threaten to kill a hostage every hour until their demands are met.
Author
Series
Deep black volume 9
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
When radical Islamic terrorists and a rogue element of the Chinese government plot a geological attack on a major fault line, Lia travels to Berlin to infiltrate a ruthless billionaire's operation at the same time a best-selling author is assassinated.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"For seven months of the year, the remote island of Lark is fogbound, cut off completely from the mainland. Three strangers arrive before the mists fall: Ben Hailey, a charismatic teacher looking to make his mark, teenager Viola Kendrick, and her mother, both seeking a place to hide from unspeakable tragedy. As the winter fog sets in, the presence of the newcomers looms large in this tight-knit community. They watch as their women fall under the teacher's...
95) The Lake House
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Three girls who arrive to an abandoned island must outwit and outlast the mysterious killer who awaits them there"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While spending the summer at Grandmary's home on Goose Lake, Samantha and the twins Agnes and Agatha decide to visit the island where Samantha's parents were drowned during a storm.
98) Second nature
Author
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
While trying to cope with a divorce and a troubled teenaged son, Robin Moore impulsively decides to hide an institutionalized man in her suburban home, with dire consequences for the community and her own feelings.
Author
Series
Cedar Key novels (Eva Marie Everson) volume 3
Publisher
Revell
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
When long buried family secrets are revealed, the Claybourne women must either pull together or be torn apart.
100) The weekenders
Author
Language
English
Description
"Some people stay all summer long on the idyllic island of Belle Isle, North Carolina. Some people come only for the weekends-and it's something they look forward to all week long. When Riley Griggs is waiting for her husband to arrive at the ferry one Friday afternoon, she is instead served with papers informing her that her island home is being foreclosed. To make matters worse, her husband is nowhere to be found. She turns to her island friends...
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