Caroline B Cooney
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Language
English
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Description
"Clementine Lakefield leads a simple life in her retirement community in Sun City, South Carolina. But while she plays cards, substitute teaches, and has learned to text with her niece and nephew, Clemmie is not who she says she is. Behind her carefree facade, she is hiding a lifetime of secrets. When Clemmie's curmudgeonly neighbor goes missing, Clemmie suddenly finds herself at the center of a dangerous conspiracy..."--
Author
Series
Janie Johnson volume 1
Language
English
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Description
A photograph of a missing girl on a milk carton leads Janie on a search for her real identity.
Author
Series
Janie Johnson volume 3
Language
English
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Description
Fifteen-year-old Janie feels devastated when she discovers that her boyfriend has betrayed her and her family through his college radio program.
Author
Series
Janie Johnson volume 2
Language
English
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Description
The members of two families have their lives disrupted when a teenage girl who had been kidnapped twelve years earlier discovers that the people who raised her are not her biological parents. Sequel to "The Face on the Milk Carton."
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Freddy leads a life of little responsibility, following his own meandering path. His only real attachment is to his memory-challenged grandmother, whose nursing home he regularly visits. His far-flung sisters may belittle his artistic ambitions, and his grandmother only occasionally knows who he is, but he can go with the flow. When another nursing home resident is murdered, though, Freddy panics. He can't take care of his grandmother alone, and...
Author
Language
English
Description
In this Sun City mystery, Clemmie finds herself caught up in another drama against her wishes when her neighbor Muffin drags her from Sunday morning service at Trinity Hill, convinced that the man she's just spotted across the aisle is a dangerous figure from her past. It turns out that Muffin, like Clemmie, has her own dark secret that she's been keeping for decades-and whether or not the man at Trinity Hill is who she thinks he is, other figures...
8) Code Orange
Author
Language
English
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Description
While conducting research for a school paper on smallpox, Mitty finds an envelope containing 100-year-old smallpox scabs and fears that he has infected himself and all of New York City.
9) Flash Fire
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Will the California wildfires bring Danna the summer excitement she craves?
In the Southern California suburb of Pinch Canyon, among the swimming pools and tennis courts, fifteen-year-old Danna Press finds her summer life so dull she longs for some cinematic excitement. A kidnapping? An earthquake? A presidential assassination attempt? Even the scary wildfires she watches on TV, raging in nearby Los Angeles, seem like they would liven things...
In the Southern California suburb of Pinch Canyon, among the swimming pools and tennis courts, fifteen-year-old Danna Press finds her summer life so dull she longs for some cinematic excitement. A kidnapping? An earthquake? A presidential assassination attempt? Even the scary wildfires she watches on TV, raging in nearby Los Angeles, seem like they would liven things...
10) The Fog
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Will Maine's historic Schooner Inne Bed and Breakfast be a safe haven for the island kids boarding during the school year, or the end of them all? Christina Romney is thirteen, with a personality that matches her unruly but charming tri-colored hair. She is about to start seventh grade, and for kids from Maine's Burning Fog Island, that means leaving their little white schoolhouse for regular classrooms and life on the mainland. Everyone assures Christina...
11) Freeze Tag
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Suppose that you really could freeze somebody' There always was something a little off about Lannie, but when she poses the question during a game of freeze tag, 'Suppose that you really could freeze somebody', Meghan and Tuesday think she's joking and just being her usual weird self. But Lannie's freezing power horrifyingly turns out to be anything but a game. To save Meghan and Tuesday from Lannie, popular neighborhood boy West Trevor must make...
12) Twins
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
A case of mistaken identity reveals a twin’s horrifying secret in this twisted tale from the bestselling author of What Janie Found.
Mary Lee and Madrigal are identical twin sisters, inseparable since birth—until the day their parents inexplicably send Mary Lee away to boarding school. While Madrigal flourishes at home, growing popular and even landing a boyfriend, Mary Lee spends her days at school feeling...
Mary Lee and Madrigal are identical twin sisters, inseparable since birth—until the day their parents inexplicably send Mary Lee away to boarding school. While Madrigal flourishes at home, growing popular and even landing a boyfriend, Mary Lee spends her days at school feeling...
Author
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2016].
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A playful and comforting bedtime book that imagines all the wonderful ways a child might give and receive a hug. Whether it's a big bear, gasp for air, knock over a chair hug or a wet and drippy, slimy, slippy fish hug, children will giggle their way through all the imaginative examples. Cooney's sweet, whimsical rhymes encourage playful interaction between parent and child and ultimately help them wind down before they snuggle into bed and drift...
14) The terrorist
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1997
Physical Desc
198 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Laura, an American living in London, tries to find the person responsible for the death of her younger brother Billy, who has been killed by a terrorist bomb.
15) The party's over
Author
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
c1991
Physical Desc
187 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After graduating from high school and deciding not to go on to college, a young girl struggles to figure out who she is and what she wants to do with her life.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
249 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1704, in the English settlement of Deerfield, Massachusetts, eleven-year-old Mercy and her family and neighbors are captured by Mohawk Indians and their French allies, and forced to march through bitter cold to French Canada, where some adapt to new lives and some still hope to be ransomed.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
276 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When sixteen-year-old Missy Vianello decides to try to convince her classmates that her cousin Claire is really her long-lost identical twin, she has no idea that the results of her prank will be so life-changing.
18) No such person
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
246 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A murder mystery in a small town raises suspicions when a member of a well-regarded family in the community is implicated"--
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
200 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Cathy decides to carpool from Norwalk to tony Greenwich, Connecticut, to study Latin in summer school, she does not expect the shocking events that occurred five years earlier to suddenly come flooding back into her relatively settled life.
20) Hit the road
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
183 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Brittany acts as chauffeur for her grandmother and three other eighty-plus-year-old women going to what is supposedly their college reunion, on a long drive that involves lies, theft, and kidnappings.