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by Rebecca Stead
Published Dec 2010
Read ReviewsWinner of the 2010 Newbery Medal. Miranda is an ordinary sixth grader, until she starts receiving mysterious messages from somebody who knows all about her, including things that have not even happened yet. Each message brings her closer to believing that only she can prevent a tragic death. Until the final note makes her think she’s too late....
by Katherine Marsh
Published Sep 2008
Read ReviewsAfter an accident, Jack Perdu, a shy, ninth-grade Classics prodigy, is sent to a mysterious doctor in New York City. While there he meets Jack meets Euri, a young girl who offers to show him the secrets of Grand Central Station, with whom he explores New York’s ghostly underworld.
by Sally Gardner
Published Mar 2007
Read ReviewsSeamlessly meshing fact and fantasy, the author composes a suspenseful masterpiece that will have audience members gladly suspending their disbelief. Ages 10-up.
by Lemony Snicket
Published Oct 2006
Read ReviewsThe last volume of the fabulously popular A Series of Unfortunate Events series, in which the history of the Baudelaire orphans is brought to its end.
by Peter Abrahams
Published May 2006
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by Michael Gruber
Published May 2006
Read ReviewsMichael Gruber has created a world that is at once deceptively familiar and stunningly original, a world of cruelty, beauty, legend, truth, and above all, wonder. Readers will delight in the author's ingenious retelling of classic fairy tales and will marvel at the stunning new tale of a boy raised by a witch, a cat, a bear, and a demon. Ages ...
by Libba Bray
Published Mar 2005
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by Lemony Snicket
Published Sep 2004
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