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After his sister - and best friend - Claire leaves home after a fight with their mother, Morgan has one chance to convince Claire to come home and put their family back together, but Claire has her own plan for the day she told Morgan she wanted to spend with him - one that will change things between them forever.

Two years after a tragedy saddles him with viral fame, twelve-year-old Simon O'Keeffe and his family move to Grin And Bear It, Nebraska, where the internet and cell phones are banned so astrophysicists can scan the sky for signs of alien life, and where, with the help of two new friends, a puppy, and a giant radio telescope, Simon plans to restart the narrative of his life.

Frustrated by how love seems to change those closest to her, twelve soon to be thirteen-year-old Berry sets out to prove that life is better without romance.

When troubled twelve-year-old Alex is assigned to spend his summer volunteering at a senior living facility, he forms a unique bond with a Holocaust survivor and learns lessons that change the trajectory of his life.

After the death of his best friend and the only other trans boy at school, Noah starts writing letters expressing his feelings to the humanoid creature Mothman and risks everything when he treks into the woods to prove Mothman's existence.

Told in verse, Lilac has always lived with her aunt and uncle, but when her aunt becomes pregnant, her best friend drifts away, and Lilac feels no one in her life wants her, she tries to reconnect with her estranged father

When twelve-year-old Fern and her mother abruptly leave their isolated, off-the-grid community, Fern wants nothing more than to return, but things get murky as she slowly adjusts to her new life and discovers unsettling truths about her old one.

When a wildfire breaks out on her watch, twelve-year-old Opal, a fourth-generation fire lookout-in-training, must face her fears in order to save the forest she loves and her family.

Two very different twelve-year-old girls, Hadley and Willow, bond over Instagram as they both struggle with oversharing influencer moms and grapple with how long their lives will stay public.

In order to rescue his friends back in London, thirteen-year-old Tom accepts an offer to attend an elite, international school for thieves run by the most powerful criminals in the world.

Weatherby is a fish out of water. When she lands a scholarship to the prestigious Boston School, she’s excited to be in the same world as her dad, whom she’s never met, and make real friends. But Weatherby has a secret she’ll risk everything to protect, one that could destroy her new life. Every member of Jack’s wealthy and privileged family has made their mark at the Boston School. Everyone, that is, except for Jack, who is entirely mediocre. He’s desperate to prove his worth to his influential father. But Jack has a secret of his own . . . one with the power to ruin everything. When the money for their school trip to a private island -- exclusive to Boston students -- is stolen, Jack and Weatherby are invited to play a high-stakes game and solve the mystery of the missing money. If they win, they’ll be selected to join the oldest, most powerful secret society in the world -- and they’ll be Boston royalty forever. If they lose . . . well, they better not lose.

When fifteen-year-old Valdez Jones VIII, a.k.a. Wrecker, unwittingly becomes entangled with a group of smugglers and grave robbers, he must deep dive into their shady dealings in order to escape their twisted net.

Brooklyn girl Kaylani McKinnon is thrust into an intricate web of lies when a shocking murder on Martha's Vineyard threatens to expose dangerous secrets

When a mysterious man with a pipe notices young Arthur's incredible deductive skills, Arthur's offered a spot at the esteemed Baskerville Hall and a chance to lift his family out of poverty. There Arthur makes quick friends with Irene Eagle, a girl who boldly strides into any adventure, and Jimmie Moriarty, a boy whose brilliance rivals Arthur's own. Soon Arthur and his friends are invited into a powerful secret society called the Clover. In order to be accepted into the illustrious social club, they must pass three tests, but along the way, Arthur uncovers a mystery that will lead to grand adventure . . . and even greater danger

Set in a world inspired by pre-Shogun era Japan and woven through with Japanese culture and legends. When Kai's twin sister, Kishi, is stolen and killed by the legendary Ghost Whale, Kai sets out a long and dangerous adventure to bring her back to life

Twelve-year-old Marcus enters Mr. O's rigorous training program to hone his newfound magical abilities, but his mentor's alarming behavior makes him reevaluate his values and priorities.

When thirteen-year-old Annabella Ballinkay arrives at the magical Ravenfall Inn, she is eager to help fourteen-year-old Colin Pierce in his search for his missing older brother and a supernatural creature who killed their parents. As the two team up in search for answers, they soon discover that Colin has powers beyond his imagination, and must stop the supernatural creature from opening a portal to the Otherworld by Halloween night.

Fiora Barrowling lives in a world where sorcerers rule over humans. After surviving an encounter with The Radiance--the very worst of the sorcerers--she's whisked away to the incredible Incorruptibles ("Inc") Academy, a school for resistance fighters in training. But most of the other students think Fiora hasn't earned her place there, and when things start to go wrong and it seems the sorcerers have a spy in the academy, all eyes are on Fiora. With all odds stacked against her, can Fiora prove that she belongs?

In 2021 alternate London, Adam and his new friend Zadie join forces to save a magical animal's life and ultimately their own world from destruction.

Thirteen-year-old Maggie and her friends investigate her mother's disappearance and discover a world where stories are real.

Set in 1776, thirteen-year-old Elsbeth struggles to find her missing father amidst the smallpox epidemic sweeping across Boston during the revolution.

Twelve-year-old Evie travels to Berlin for the 1936 Olympics where she witnesses Hitler's terror on the German people and plans to steal from a Nazi bank with two fellow Olympic athletes.

Follows siblings Jakob Novis and his quirky younger sister Lizzie as they find themselves at Bletchley Park, the home of WWII codebreakers working to decrypt the Nazi's Enigma cipher, where the two struggle to unravel a mystery surrounding their mother's disappearance against the backdrop of the Battle of Britain and Hitler's feared invasion.

Thirteen-year-old Junius Leak is doomed to ten days of boredom on a houseboat on Lake Peigneur with his uncle while his parents “work on” their marriage. Caught up in a mystery involving pirates, a buried treasure, and a hundred-year-old family feud, he is determined to learn why his mom left Delcambre, Louisiana, when he was a baby and to conquer his fear of water. But the lake has other plans for him. When disaster strikes, Junius must dive deep within to emerge an unlikely hero. Inspired by the real-life story of the Lake Peigneur oil-drilling accident of 1980.

Told in alternating voices and timelines, twelve-year-old Henry and his two friends unknowingly alter the outcome of World War II when they communicate over radio with three kids from 1944 and must now work together to change it back.

When twelve-year-old Maddie hatches a scheme for a secret sleepover with her two best friends, she ends up waking up to a nightmare. She's alone--left behind in a town that has been mysteriously evacuated and abandoned. With no one to rely on, no power, and no working phone lines or internet access, Maddie slowly learns to survive on her own.

Twelve-year-old Zola discovers that she is stuck in a fake utopian future, and that those around her are counting on her to help them escape.

Twelve-year-old twin brothers Cypress and Oakley Young must stop aliens from taking over their Atlanta suburb.

The invasion begins--but not as you'd expect. It begins with rain. Rain that carries seeds. Seeds that sprout--overnight, everywhere. These new plants take over crop fields, twine up houses, and burrow below streets. They bloom--and release toxic pollens. They bloom--and form Venus flytrap-like pods that swallow animals and people. They bloom--everywhere, unstoppable.Or are they? Three kids on a remote island seem immune to the toxic plants. Anaya, Petra, Seth. They each have strange allergies--and yet not to these plants. What's their secret? Can they somehow be the key to beating back this invasion? They'd better figure it out fast, because it's starting to rain again.

Thirteen-year-old Candace discovers a portal in her locker that connects her across time and space with two other women who also had the same locker as girls, and the three go on to investigate the origins of the portal.

When Glennon McCue moves into a lighthouse on a mysterious island not found on any maps, he must figure out why those who visit are never heard from again before he and his family fall victim to the island's curse.

Twelve-year-old Melony befriends a wish-granting demon who encourages her to rebel against her overprotective parents, all while using her for his own evil scheme. Based on the Japanese folktale “Urikohime to Amanjaku,” or “The Melon Princess and the Amanjaku."

When otherworldly forces descend on their town of Whispering Pines, conspiracy theorist Rae, who's searching for her lost father, and Caden, who's haunted by the ghost of his brother, must band together to save their home.

Thirteen-year-old twin paranormal investigators Gabby and Trent face a terrifying challenge when a seance goes wrong and their mother disappears in a haunted theater, forcing them to confront a powerful demon and live up to their grandparents' ghost-hunting legacy.

Adam and Victor are brothers who have the usual fights over the remote, which movie to watch and whether or not it's morally acceptable to eat people. Well, not so much eat... just drink a little blood. They're vampires, hiding in plain sight with their eclectic yet loving family. Ten-year-old Adam knows he has a better purpose in his life (well, immortal life) than just drinking blood, but fourteen-year-old Victor wants to accept his own self-image of vampirism. Everything changes when bodies start to appear all over town, and it becomes clear that a vampire hunter may be on the lookout for the family. Can Adam and Victor reconcile their differences and work together to stop the killer before it's too late?

Convinced that a big-foot-like creature took her best friend during a scouting trip, eleven-year-old Jenna sets out into the woods to find her.