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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a café and co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Twelve-year-old Della Kelly of Maryville, North Carolina, tries to come to terms with her mother's mental illness while her father struggles to save the farm from a record-breaking drought.
3) Shine
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
When her best friend falls victim to a vicious hate crime, sixteen-year-old Cat sets out to discover the culprits in her small North Carolina town.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"When Miss Lana accidentally buys a haunted inn at the Tupelo Landing town auction, Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friend Dale--opens up a paranormal division to solve the ghost's identity before the town's big 250th anniversary bash"--
Author
Series
A Mandie book volume 25
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In 1901 when she visits her friend Joe and his family in the mountains of North Carolina, thirteen-year-old Mandie insists on finding out who might be using the supposedly deserted log cabin where she and her father had lived before he died.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Cat and her brother Chicken have always had a very special bond--Cat is one of the few people who can keep Chicken happy. When he has a "meltdown" she's the one who scratches his back and reads his favorite story. She's the one who knows what Chicken needs. Since their mom has had to work double-hard to keep their family afloat after their father passed away, Cat has been the glue holding her family together. But even the strongest glue sometimes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"Desperado Detectives--aka Mo Lo Beau and her best friend Dale, along with newly-appointed intern, Harm Crenshaw--must take on a new case when Dale's daddy goes on the lam just before his trial is about to start"--
Author
Series
Applewhites volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
©2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Great changes are in store for the highly creative and somewhat eccentric Applewhite family when money problems force them to open a summer camp for gifted children, who almost immediately begin to rebel, while a mysterious interloper watches from the woods.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Because living with "modern-hippy" parents on a goat farm means fourteen-year-old Janie Gorman cannot have a normal high school life, she tries joining Jam Band, making friends with Monster, and spending time with elderly former civil rights workers.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When his family moves from a small Mexican village to North Carolina, Eduardo asks how soon he will feel at home, and slowly his Tio Miguel's seemingly impossible replies come true until, at last, he can put out the Nativity scene he carved with his grandfather.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Formats
Description
Nora Pennington and her friends encounter a secretive young woman named Abilene who is in need of a new beginning, but after the suspicious death of a customer, Nora discovers a connection that points to Abilene as either a suspect or another target.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c2007, 2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Barbara O' Connor's How to Steal a Dog blew critics away and quickly became a fan-favorite. After being abandoned by her father, Georgina Hayes is forced to spend much of her time watching her younger brother, while their mother works two jobs to make ends meet. When she sees a missing-dog poster offering a $500 reward, Georgina cooks up a scheme to steal a look-a-like dog and claim the reward. But things don’t quite go as planned.
Author
Series
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When his father rejoins the Navy and moves the family to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, ten-year-old Jack becomes confused by a crush on his teacher, contradictory advice from his parents, and a very strange neighbor.
Author
Publisher
Child & Family Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Penny inquires about a wooden headboard hand-carved by her great-grandfather, she learns of her Cherokee heritage and the special gift The Great Spirit has bestowed upon her with the help of great-great-uncle, Johnny Elk.
16) The night flyers
Author
Series
History mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Pleasant Co. Publications
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In 1918, caring for her family's homing pigeons while her father is away fighting in World War I, twelve-year-old Pam comes to suspect that a mysterious stranger in her small North Carolina town is a German spy.
Author
Series
Solitary tales volume 2
Publisher
David C. Cook
Pub. Date
2011
Description
At first, Chris Buckley was simply warned and watched. But as Chris unravels the haunting riddles of the town of Solitary, he finds that much more than the life of a town is at stake. Whether facing a pastor with a house full of skeletons or a cousin he never knew existed, Chris is forced to choose between light and darkness, life and nightmarish death. Every choice he makes reminds him that the unthinkable has already happened, and if he trusts the...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Formats
Description
"In a North Carolina mountain town filled with moonshine and rotten husbands, Sadie Blue is only the latest girl to face a dead-end future at the mercy of a dangerous drunk. She's been married to Roy Tupkin for fifteen days, and she knows now that she should have listened to the folks who said he was trouble. But when a stranger sweeps in and knocks the world off-kilter for everyone in town, Sadie begins to think there might be more to life than being...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
As Pelican Island's history-making drought wears on, the water level on Bex and Davey's beloved marsh reveals the hand of a statue that has been underneath the water for who knows how long, and the siblings are determined to find out more.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"When seventh-grader Eleanor reads an article online claiming that an asteroid will hit Earth in April, she starts an underground school club to prepare kids for the end of the world as we know it"--
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