Caroline B Cooney
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Formats
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..."--
3) Code Orange
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
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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.
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
©2023.
Description
"50 years later: When Clemmie's neighbor Muffin drags her from Sunday morning service at Trinity Hill church, convinced that the man she's just spotted across the aisle is a dangerous figure from her past, at first Clemmie thinks she's being dramatic. But as Muffin reveals to Clemmie what happened in the middle of a field in South Carolina five decades ago, Clemmie realizes her friend has been keeping dark secrets -- just as Clemmie herself has. And...
Author
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2016]
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell Laurel-Leaf
Pub. Date
2002, 2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
While still adjusting to the reality of having two families, her birth family and the family into which she was kidnapped as a small child, seventeen-year-old Janie makes a shocking discovery about her long-gone kidnapper.
8) Fatality
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012
Formats
Description
Four years after a gruesome murder, a teenage girl discovers that some secrets refuse to stay buried, in this riveting mystery from a “thriller master” (Publishers Weekly).
Rose was thrilled when Angelica Lofft invited her to spend the weekend at her family’s beautiful lake house. It had everything a girl could want: delicious treats, gorgeous horses, and an exquisite pool. But instead of a weekend...
Rose was thrilled when Angelica Lofft invited her to spend the weekend at her family’s beautiful lake house. It had everything a girl could want: delicious treats, gorgeous horses, and an exquisite pool. But instead of a weekend...
9) Freeze Tag
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012
Formats
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...
10) No Such Person
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
From the author of the multimillion-copy bestseller The Face on the Milk Carton, comes a new riveting page-turner.
Murder. One of the Allerdon sisters has been charged with a pre-meditated killing and taken to jail. It doesn't seem possible—but it's happening. What was supposed to be a typical summer is anything but for this seemingly ordinary family.
Shortly after they arrive at their cozy family cottage on the river,...
Murder. One of the Allerdon sisters has been charged with a pre-meditated killing and taken to jail. It doesn't seem possible—but it's happening. What was supposed to be a typical summer is anything but for this seemingly ordinary family.
Shortly after they arrive at their cozy family cottage on the river,...
11) Twins
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012
Formats
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
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
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.
13) Burning up
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When a girl she had met at an innercity church is murdered, fifteen-year-old Macey channels her grief into a school project that leads her to uncover prejudice she had not imagined in her grandparents and their wealthy Connecticut community.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Dell Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
The members of two families have had their lives disrupted when a teenage girl who had been kidnapped 12 years earlier discovers that the people who raised her are not her biological parents.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
The Finches, a Connecticut family, sponsor an African refugee family of four, all of whom have been scarred by the horrors of civil war, and who inadvertently put their benefactors in harm's way.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Taken from her home on an Aegean island as a six-year-old girl, Anaxndra calls on the protection of her goddess while she poses as two different princesses over the next six years, before ending up as a servant in the company of Helen and Paris as they make their way to Troy.