Theme: Mystery

The Visconti House

By Book Importer | Published: May 10, 2011

Two lonely grade-eight kids in rural Australia develop a friendship as they work together to unlock a mystery. Laura feels like an outcast because of her family’s artist lifestyle, her curly hair and bushy eyebrows, and the decaying mansion she calls home. Leon, newer to the area, is ostracized for living with his grandmother, the [...]

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Jasper Jones

By Book Importer | Published: May 10, 2011

Charlie Bucktin, a bookish thirteen year old, is startled one summer night by an urgent knock on his bedroom window. His visitor is Jasper Jones, an outcast in their small mining town, and he has come to ask for Charlie’s help. Terribly afraid but desperate to impress, Charlie follows him into the night.Jasper takes him [...]

Descriptors: Australia, Mystery, Oceania, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , » Leave a comment

Death Cloud

By Book Importer | Published: May 2, 2011

It is the summer of 1868, and Sherlock Holmes is fourteen. On break from boarding school, he is staying with eccentric strangers—his uncle and aunt—in their vast house in Hampshire. When two local people die from symptoms that resemble the plague, Holmes begins to investigate what really killed them, helped by his new tutor, an [...]

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The Shadow Hunt

By Book Importer | Published: January 20, 2011

Wolf is on the run-from the oppressive monastery where he was raised, from the ghosts and demons that haunt the windswept moors of Devil’s Edge, and from the shadows in the landscape that resemble the Devil himself.When Wolf rescues a strange child on Devil’s Edge, he takes her to a grand castle hoping to win [...]

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The Fall of the Amazing Zalindas (Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars)

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

This series provides a unique new twist on Sherlock Holmes by having him assisted by a band of devoted boys, street urchins who love to solve mysteries, called the Baker Street Irregulars. These boys go everywhere, see everything, overhear everyone undetected.  In this exciting tale, Wiggins, Ozzie, Simon, and the rest–with the aid of Pilar, a [...]

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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

In the world of “Muggles” Harry is a nobody, treated like dirt by the aunt and uncle who begrudgingly inherited him when his parents were killed by the evil Voldemort. In the world of wizards Harry is famous as a survivor of the wizard who tried to kill him. He is left only with a [...]

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Little Fur: A Mystery of Wolves

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Little Fur goes in search of her friend, Ginger the cat, who has vanished completely in this third book in the Little Fur quartet. The wise Sett Owl tells Little Fur that she must first discover who or what the Mystery of Wolves is. The only creature Little Fur finds who has heard of them [...]

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Magic Night

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Magic Nights is the story of a cat who finds something that does not belong in his people’s house—something flittery and skittery that turns the rest of the night mysterious and magical. What could it want? Hurricane the cat is going to find out!

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Journey to the River Sea

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

This hair-raising novel, set in turn-of-the-last-century Brazil, introduces Maia, an orphan, sent from England to live with unfamiliar cousins on a rubber plantation. As Maia and her kind governess arrive in their new home, they each have secret hopes of adventure–which are immediately quashed by the Carters, who hate their adopted land are obsessed with [...]

Descriptors: Brazil, England (UK), Realistic Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18) » Other Themes: , , , , , » Leave a comment

The Mystery of the Martello Tower

By Yoo Kyung Sung | Published: December 1, 2008

Hazel and Ned are home for summer vacation and looking forward to long, lazy days of sleeping late, shooting hoops, building stink bombs, and spending time with their art-dealer father. But when he disappears without saying good-bye, their summer plunges into chaos. The babysitter leaves town, their apartment is burgled, and two menacing thugs start [...]

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