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From the creator of the New York Times bestselling Wildwood Chronicles comes an original, humorous, and fast-paced middle grade novel about a band of child pickpockets—imagine The Invention of Hugo Cabret meets Oliver Twist. It is an ordinary Tuesday morning in April when bored, lonely Charlie...

A powerful novel by Carnegie Medal–winning author Beverley Naidoo that is in turns heart-wrenching, infuriating, and inspiring—and at its core, a call to readers to make a better world than they have found. Adam and his sister, Leila, are Nons—second-class citizens, living under the...

From the critically acclaimed author of Waiting for Normal and All Rise for the Honorable Perry T. Cook, Leslie Connor, comes a deeply poignant and beautifully crafted story about self-reliance, redemption, and hope. Mason Buttle is the biggest, sweatiest kid in his grade, and everyone knows he...

Do you need something? Mac can get it for you. It's what he does—he and his best friend and business manager, Vince. Their methods might sometimes run afoul of the law, or at least the school code of conduct, but if you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can pay him, Mac is on...

As a pizza detective, Colin Kingsley, a.k.a. Mark Anchovy, has survived murderous criminals, bloodthirsty henchmen and some questionable modes of transport. He now has a much more worrying problem: his younger sister is working as his apprentice. Coaching seven-year-old Alicia for her exams to join the Golden Spatula League would be challenging enough. But the siblings must head to Japan to track down the missing English eccentric Lord Bobo - former host of the hit '90s gameshow Battered by the Butler - before he winds up dead.

Officer Jack is in Hamilton Township airport when a woman screams, “Help Me! My baby’s not breathing! Somebody, help me!” His partner, Officer Kate, knows how to help, but a scanner system blocks her path to the frantic mother. Can she get there in time to save the baby?

Privatdetektiv Vic Baskerstreet bliver inviteret ud på et slot, hvis ejer er hunderæd. Han siger, at slottet bliver hjemsøgt af et genfærd, og at han er bange for, at det vil ham til livs. Vic og hans trofaste hjælper Edgar går straks i gang med den uhyggelige opgave at finde ud af, hvad genfærdet vil have, hvis det da overhovedet er virkeligt! Mesterdetektiv Vic Baskerstreet er byens bedste sporhund. Hans assistent, Edgar Poulardrovsky, er godmodig og pligtopfyldende, men måske ikke lige "den skarpeste kniv i skuffen"...

Det er en mørk og dunkel nat. Uvejret raser og vinden får træernes grene til at slå imod ruderne. Fritz ligger i sin seng og kan høre alle slottets lyde. Men pludselig er der en lyd udover det sædvanlige. Fritz står op for at undersøge, hvad det er, og ser en kvinde stå ude ved voldgraven. Pludselig begynder hun at skrige af sine lungers fulde kraft! Fritz løber forskrækket væk fra vinduet, men mysteriet er først lige begyndt.