ADVENTURE

PETER AND THE STARCHATCH
ERS by Dave Barry
FIC BAR
Prequel to Peter Pan. In a fast-paced adventure on the high seas and on a faraway island, an orphan boy named Peter and his new friend, Molly,
external image 078684907X.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg overcome bands of pirates and thieves in their quest to keep a fantastical secret safe and save the world from evil.






AIRMAN by Eoin Colfer
FIC COL
In the 1890s on an island off the Irish coast, Conor Broekhart is falsely imprisoned and passes the solitary months by scratching designs of flying
external image img177888.jpg machines into the walls, including one for a glider with which he dreams of escape.




ZOOBREAK by Gordon Korman.
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Sequel to Swindle. When Griffin Bing's class goes to the zoo, they don't expect to see animals being treated so badly. Hilarity ensues
as Griffin's team once more pulls off a heist...trying to break the animals back into a (better) zoo!





MYSTERY/SUSPENSE__

SCAT by Carl Hiaasen
FIC HIA
external image 0375834869.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg Nick and Marta get involved in an environmental who-dunnit when their Biology teacher goes missing in the Black Vine Swamp.






THE GRAVEYARD BOOK by Neil Gaiman (author of Coraline)
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The orphan Bod, short for Nobody, is taken in by the inhabitants of a graveyard as a child of eighteen months and raised lovingly and carefully to the age of eighteen years by the community of ghosts and otherworldly creatures.



THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET by Brian Selznick
FIC SEL
external image 16640T7-1-1.jpgWhen twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his biggest secret are jeopardized.





BEHIND THE CURTAIN by Peter Abrahams
FIC ABR
external image img613857.jpg An avid Sherlock Holmes fan, eighth grader Ingrid Levin-Hill is kidnapped while investigating mysterious happenings in her home town.



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MASTERPIECE by Elise Broach
FIC BRO
external image 0805082700.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg11-year-old James and Marvin, a beetle who lives under James' sink, form an unlikely friendship and help to solve the case of some missing artwork from the Metropolitan Museum.






THE CALDER GAME by Blue Balliett
FIC BAL

external image 0439852072.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg When Calder Pillay travels with his father to England, he finds a mix of mazes and mystery, including an unexpected Alexander Calder sculpture in the town square. Both the boy and the sculpture seem out of place, and then they dissapear!





COVER UP: by John Feinstein
FIC FEI
Two teenagers learn that every player on a professional football team--which is supposed to play in the Super Bowl--has failed their drug test
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ENDYMION SPRING by Matthew Skelton
FIC SKE
In 1452, a man appears at Gutenberg's home with a mysterious chest which can only be opened when the fangs of its serpent's-head clasp taste
blood. Centuries later, in an Oxford library, a boy touches a strange book and feels something pierce his finger. The book is blank, but then words
begin to appear on the page, words only the boy can see.
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