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1) Hollow city
Author
Series
Miss Peregrine volume 2
Language
English
Description
In 1940, Jacob and his new friends escape from Miss Peregrine's island and travel to London where they encounter new allies, a menagerie of peculiar animals, and other unexpected surprises.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
During World War II in the Netherlands, a ten-year-old boy's dream of skating in a famous race allows him to help two children escape to Belgium by ice skating past German soldiers and other enemies.
Author
Series
Thieves of shadow volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In their final task, junior con artist Callan and his friends mastermind a prison break from the empire's most impenetrable island fortress.
5) Shadow grave
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Arlo is afraid of fire, creepy TV shows, and even his own shadow...During a Thanksgiving road trip, a sudden collision with a strange beast in the middle of the road totals the family's car, and Arlo, his mom, and his sister end up stranded in a small town. There's something off about Livermore...When he stumbles upon a dark secret that the town's inhabitants will kill to keep, getting out of Livermore becomes a matter of life or death"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fleeing the South Carolina plantation where he has spent his entire life, eighteen-year-old slave Jonah Williams uses the stars to escape to the North and is pursued by both slave hunters and a free-spirited fellow slave who believes Jonah can help her secure her own freedom.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
In the fall of 1764, after Kaya and her sister are kidnapped from their Nez Perce? village by enemy horse raiders, she tries to find a way to escape back home. Includes historical notes on education and learning among the Nez Perce? Indians.
11) The gauntlet
Author
Series
Gauntlet volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old Farah and her two best friends get sucked into a mechanical board game called The Gauntlet of Blood and Sand, a puzzle game akin to a large Rubik's cube, they know it is up to them to defeat the game's diabolical architect in order to save themselves and those who are trapped inside, including her baby brother Ahmed.
Author
Series
100 year old man novels volume 2
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a hot air balloon ride ends with a sea landing and an unexpected rescue from a North Korean ship, one hundred-year-old Allan Karlsson and his sidekick Julius find themselves in the middle of a diplomatic crisis of epic proportions.
13) Wild ride
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Charley Decker's mother is on vacation with her boyfriend, and Charley plans to spend the weekend watching movies with her best friends Wade and Oona and her older brother, Greg; but Greg has a date and takes their mother's boyfriend's expensive, rare automobile, than manages to get it towed; Charley and her friends hatch a plan to get the car back--but things go seriously wrong when they discover somebody called Mitch hiding from a...
14) The gathering
Author
Series
Shadow House volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Poppy Caldwell is an orphan who keeps seeing a figure standing behind her in the mirror at the group home where she lives, but she does not associate this ghost with the letter that mysteriously appears in her file, claiming to be from a long-lost aunt, and inviting her to Larkspur House--and she is just one of five children who find themselves gathered in this strange house with a deadly past, and apparently no intention of letting the children escape....
15) The stone angel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
While trying to escape with her family from the Nazis, a young Jewish French girl feels protected by angels.
16) Runner
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sam Dryden, retired special forces, lives a quiet life in a small town on the coast of Southern California. While out on a run in the middle of the night, a young girl runs into him on the seaside boardwalk. Barefoot and terrified, she's running from a group of heavily armed men with one clear goal--to kill the fleeing child. After Dryden helps her evade her pursuers, he learns that the eleven year old, for as long as she can remember, has been kept...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett...
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