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The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Nobody Owens is a normal boy, except that he has been raised by ghosts and other denizens of the graveyard. |
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Indigo's Star by Hilary McKay
Spurred on by his youngest sister, Rose, twelve-year-old Indigo sticks up for himself and an American boy who has replaced him as the primary target of the school bullies. |
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Maze of Bones by Rick Riordan
Rick Riordan's newest mystery centers around the Cahills - the most powerful family the world has ever known. The source of its power is a mystery that can only be unraveled by assembling 39 clues that have been hidden around the world throughout history. Follow the Cahills as they find the 39 clues, and play the game online. |
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One False Note by
Gordon Korman
"The race is on to find 39 clues that safeguard a great power, and fourteen-year old Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan, are shocked to find themselves in the lead. The search seems to be taking them to Vienna, and they hold a coded piece of Mozart's sheet music that's key to finding the next clue. But tailed by a pack of power-hungry relatives, Amy and Dan can't see if they are sailing toward victory or straight into a deadly trap"-- |
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The Sword Thief by Peter Lerangis
In the first 39 Clues book, Amy and Dan Cahill discovered that they're part of one of the most powerful families in human history. Passing up the hush money, the siblings set out to uncover the 39 clues which would reveal the source of their family's awesome power. In each subsequent book, the siblings attempt to discover one clue at a time. Here, Amy and Dan endanger themselves greatly in the name of a clue when they align themselves with the infamous Alistair, a highly unreliable fellow. |
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Masterpiece by Elise Broach
Martin the beetle lives with his family under the sink in young James Pompaday's New York City apartment. When James receives a pen-and-ink set for his birthday, Martin surprises him with an artful miniature drawing. James claims the drawing as his own, which leads to his involvement in an art heist at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Will James have to depend on a beetle to get out of this mess? |
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The Devil's Breath by David Gilman
When fifteen-year-old Max Gordon's environmentalist-adventurer father goes missing while working in Namibia and Max becomes the target of a would-be assassin at his school in England, he decides he must follow his father to Africa and find him before they both are killed. |
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