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Find it in the catalogue 13 treasures / Michelle Harrison.
Bedeviled by evil fairies that only she can see, thirteen-year-old Tanya is sent to stay with her cold and distant grandmother at Elvesden Manor, where she and the caretaker's son solve a disturbing mystery that leads them to the discovery that Tanya's life is in danger.
 
Find it in the catalogue A coven of witches / Joseph Delaney ; illustrations by Tim Foley and Patrick Arrasmith.
Separate tales reveal the backgrounds of four terrifying witches, including Alice and the Spook's love, Meg.
 
Find it in the catalogue Alchemy and Meggy Swann / Karen Cushman.
In 1573, the crippled, scorned, and destitute Meggy Swann goes to London, where she meets her father, an impoverished alchemist, and eventually discovers that although her legs are bent and weak, she has many other strengths.
 
Find it in the catalogue All that glitters / by Laura Dower.
Madison, Fiona, and Aimee get invited to join Lindsay in New York City for the weekend to celebrate her thirteenth birthday.
 
Find it in the catalogue Battles of the clans / Erin Hunter ; illustrations by Wayne McLoughlin.
Onestar, leader of WindClan, introduces two young kittypets to the warrior code, the history of each of the clans, and legendary battles that have been fought.
 
Find it in the catalogue Clementine, Friend of the Week / Sara Pennypacker ; pictures by Marla Frazee.
With her kitten, Moisturizer, missing and having fought with her best friend, Margaret, eight-year-old Clementine finds it hard to concentrate on doing her best as her classmate's Friend of the Week.
 
Find it in the catalogue Mockingbird / Kathryn Erskine.
Ten-year-old Caitlin, who has Asperger's Syndrome, struggles to understand emotions, show empathy, and make friends at school, while at home she seeks closure by working on a project with her father.
 
Find it in the catalogue Mystery at Saddle Creek / Shelley Peterson ; illustrations by Marybeth Drake.
Assault and battery -- Fiction.
Aunts -- Fiction.
Farm life -- Fiction
Teenagers -- Fiction.
Mystery fiction.
Detective and mystery stories.
 
Find it in the catalogue No safe place / Deborah Ellis.
Orphans -- Fiction.
Kurds -- Iraq -- Fiction.
Teenage immigrants -- Fiction.
Human smuggling -- Fiction.
English Channel -- Fiction.
 
Find it in the catalogue Special delivery! / Sue Stauffacher ; illustrated by Priscilla Lamont.
Ten-year-old Keisha and her family's animal rescue center face more challenges involving a baby crow in a mailbox and a skunk found in the nearby community garden.
 
Find it in the catalogue SPHDZ book #1! / by Jon Scieszka ; made extra-strength by Francesco Sedita ; illustrated by Shane Prigmore.
On his first day at Brooklyn's P.S. 858, fifth-grader Michael K. is teamed with two very strange students, and while he gradually comes to believe they are aliens who need his help, he has trouble convincing anyone else of the truth.
 
Find it in the catalogue Stolen child / Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch.
Canada -- History -- 1945- -- Fiction.
Kidnapping victims -- Fiction.
Nightmares -- Fiction.
Refugees -- Canada -- Fiction.
Ukrainians -- Canada -- Fiction.
Recovered memory -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Brantford (Ont.) -- Fiction.
 
Find it in the catalogue The birthday ball / Lois Lowry ; illustrations by Jules Feiffer.
When a bored Princess Patricia Priscilla makes her chambermaid switch identities with her so she can attend the village school, her attitude changes and she plans a new way to celebrate her sixteenth birthday.
 
Find it in the catalogue The Declaration / Gemma Malley.
In England, when drugs enable people to live forever and children are illegal, Anna, an obedient house servant trainee, discovers that her birth parents are trying to find her.
 
Find it in the catalogue The inside story / Michael Buckley ; pictures by Peter Ferguson.
As the fairytale detectives race through the Book of Everafter searching for their baby brother, they encounter various characters including the Editor and his army of Revisers, who threaten the children with dire consequences if they continue to change the stories.
 
Find it in the catalogue The song of the whales / by Uri Orlev ; translated by Hillel Halkin.
At age eight, Mikha'el knows he is different from other boys, but over the course of three years as he helps his parents care for his elderly grandfather in Jerusalem, Grandpa teaches Mikha'el to use the gift they share of making other people's dreams sweeter.
 
Find it in the catalogue The talent show / Dan Gutman.
After a devastating tornado destroys much of Cape Bluff, Kansas, residents come together as a community to put on a talent show as a fund-raiser.
 
Find it in the catalogue Windblowne / Stephen Messer.
Hapless Oliver, who lives in the trees in the town of Windblowne, seeks his eccentric great-uncle Gilbert's help in creating a kite for the all-important kite festival, but when Gilbert suddenly disappears, Oliver is guided by one of Gilbert's kites in a quest through different worlds to find him.
 
Find it in the catalogue Word after word after word / Patricia MacLachlan.
A visiting author teaches five friends about the power of words and writing.
 
Find it in the catalogue Your life, but cooler : a novel / by Crystal Velasquez.
As a middle school girl trying to decide whether to audition for the choir which might perform at Carnegie Hall, the reader determines the outcome of the story by taking personality quizzes interspersed throughout the text.
 
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