![]() Intrigued, Cedar follows him to the renowned Summerlost theatre festival. They’re just settling into their new house when a boy named Leo, dressed in costume, rides by on his bike. Cedar and what’s left of her family are returning to the town of Iron Creek for the summer. It’s the first real summer since the accident that killed Cedar’s father and younger brother, Ben. Will it be enough to find the treasure and save his house? Summerlost by Ally Condie ![]() With the help of misfit classmates, two grandfathers, a ghosthouse, hidden messages, séances, and an uncanny mind for numbers, Nicholas stages a nursing home breakout, tangles with high schoolers in smugglers’ tunnels, and gets swept up in a duel with the biggest bullies in the neighborhood. Just in time, Nicholas’s senile grandfather arrives, filled with tales of priceless treasure he has hidden somewhere in town-but where? Nicholas is a math and music genius with no friends and a huge problem: His father has lost his job, and they’ll have to sell their house, which holds the only memory Nicholas has of his younger brother. Kyle and the other kids must solve every clue and figure out every secret puzzle to find the hidden escape route! If You Find This by Matthew Baker Because when morning comes, the doors stay locked. When Kyle learns that the world’s most famous game maker, Luigi Lemoncello, has designed the town’s new library and is having an invitation-only lock-in on opening night, he’s determined to be there! But the tricky part isn’t getting into the library-it’s getting out. Lemoncello’s Library by Chris Grabenstein When this special family heirloom vanishes from a local church, strange clues surface: a tea kettle ornamented with a familiar pointy-faced dragon, a threatening note, a connection to a famous dead musician, and even a legendary curse. Her particular instrument was a gift from her grandmother-intricately carved with a mysterious-looking dragon. Vanished by Sheela ChariĮleven-year-old Neela dreams of being a famous musician, performing for admiring crowds on her traditional Indian stringed instrument. Something otherworldly is about to be unleashed, and Rosa will need all her ghost appeasement tools-and a little help from Jasper-to rein in the angry spirits and restore peace to Ingot before it’s too late. Then an apparition thunders into the festival grounds and turns the quiet town upside down. Jasper has never seen a ghost, and can’t imagine his un-haunted town any other way. His father plays a knight at the local Renaissance Festival, and his mother plays the queen. Jasper Chevalier has always lived in Ingot. ![]() Frankly, she doesn’t understand why anyone would. She doesn’t understand how her mother-a librarian who specializes in ghost-appeasement-could possibly want to live in a place with no ghosts. Rosa Ramona Díaz has just moved to the small, un-haunted town of Ingot-the only ghost-free town in the world. A Properly Unhaunted Place by Will Alexander So when a lawman comes to town asking about a murder, Mo and her best friend, Dale Earnhardt Johnson III, set out to uncover the truth in hopes of saving the only family Mo has ever known. She will protect those she loves with every bit of her strong will and tough attitude. Although Mo hopes someday to find her “upstream mother,” she’s found a home with the Colonel-a café owner with a forgotten past of his own-and Miss Lana, the fabulous café hostess. She washed ashore in a hurricane eleven years ago, and she’s been making waves ever since. Rising sixth grader Miss Moses LoBeau lives in the small town of Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, where everyone’s business is fair game and no secret is sacred. ![]()
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