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Author
Series
Octagon Valley volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
In this first volume in the series, "eight singular middle schoolers from across America find belonging in a series of escape room-type challenges. Each sixth grader assumes that winning a coveted spot to spend three days at the Octagon Valley Institute led by Willy Wonka-esque Onasander Octagon--an ethnically ambiguous multiracial tech genius--means winning a 'golden ticket to the rest of your life.' However, they soon realize that instead of an...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Banana Fox has a real mess on his hands this time! When the jail is left in ruins and Sour Grapes is on the run, Banana Fox has very few clues to work with to find him. He's coming across a number of red herrings, so it's clear that something fishy is going on... With the help of Sharyanna, William, and Sour Grapes Jr. (?!), can Banana Fox get to the bottom of this caper, or will the baddies run wild forever?
104) Watch out! a giant!
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Description
Two children escape a giant through secret passageways, trapdoors and underground tunnels.
105) Baby doll
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Formats
Description
"For fans of Gone Girl and Girl on the Train, BABY DOLL is the most tense thriller you will read this year. Held captive for eight years, Lily has grown from a teenager to an adult in a small basement prison. Her daughter Sky has been a captive her whole life. But one day their captor leaves the deadbolt unlocked. This is what happens next.....to her twin sister, to her mother, to her daughter...and to her captor. "--
"You've been held captive...
Author
Series
Ryan Quinn volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"Ryan Quinn hopes his traveling days are over. The son of a United Nations worker, hes grown up in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa-everywhere but home. Hes finally settled at a great school in New York and is making friends when, suddenly, his world is turned upside down. Ryan is blindsided when his father disappears and his mother is abducted. Left with nothing but questions, he soon discovers his parents have been leading a double life. They...
108) Nevertell
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Lina escapes from the Siberian prison camp where she was born, only to find herself pursued in the frozen wilderness by a witch, her wolf pack, and an enormous bird, and she will need all her courage and the magic she never suspected she has if she is to survive.
109) Race for the escape
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Ami Oswald and her four escape room challenge teammates realize the danger in the rooms is very real and they must solve the mysterious riddle the Host has given them before it is too late.
110) Dreadful acts
Author
Series
Eddie Dickens trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Eddie Dickens survives encounters with an escape artist in a runaway hearse's coffin, a hot air balloon bearing the escape artist's lovely assistant, a gas explosion, and a jewel thief on the run.
111) Runaway retriever
Author
Series
Pet trouble volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Parker hadn't considered getting a dog, but when playful Merlin, the golden retriever, comes into his life, Parker is thrilled. The two are inseparable from day one because whenever Parker tries to leave, Merlin escapes his fence or cage and follows him! Can anythin
112) The lost treasure
Author
Series
The mysterious world of Cosentino volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Cosentino, the Grand Illusionist, is in danger! He is trapped in a glass ball hanging over the ocean, where dangerous beasts lurk. He will have to undo shackles, a straitjacket, and padlocks to escape! The audience watching him from the pier is terrified, but not as much as when the evil two-headed King arrives on a mission to find his lost sunken treasure. Cos must stop the King from taking the treasure, but first he must avoid arrest AND escape...
113) Zebra forest
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When eleven-year-old Annie first started lying to her social worker, she had been taught by an expert: Gran. She told Annie and her little brother, Rew, the one thing they know about their father: that he was killed in a fight with an angry man who was sent away. Annie tells stories, as she and Rew laze under the birches and oaks of Zebra Forest -- stories about their father the pirate, or pilot, or secret agent. But then something shocking happens...
Author
Series
Game master volume 1
Pub. Date
c2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"Rebecca Zamolo is on a mission to save her summer. Instead of going to camp like she'd planned, she's been stuck in summer school. But today is the day! She's going to present her final science assignment--using her Nana's borrowed vintage zoetrope--and then she'll be free to have fun. But as Becca and her classmates wait for her teacher to arrive, a menacing voice comes over the intercom claiming to be the Game Master! The kids quickly discover...
116) Bad boys
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
After killing the brother of a Chicago drug dealer, a young thug faces violent consequences both in and out of jail.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Eddie Plum, who insists he's been unjustifiably committed to a California psychiatric hospital, manages to finally escape after fourteen years of incarceration to start his life anew. On the run, he holes up in a sheltered barrio on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean owned by his wealthy but unsympathetic father. Here he meets Sweets, the telepathic dog, laments the loss of Sofia, his madhouse lover, and plays the horses at the Del Mar Racetrack. Eventually...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Ever wonder how to navigate a quantum asteroid field? Escape a deep-space maximum-sercurity prison? Insult a powerful adversary without anyone catching on? You're in luck! In this ultimate intergalactic survival guide. Rocket covers everything you need to know - including what it takes to be a good member of a team. So pay attention and read up!
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
As famine and death ravage Richmond, VA, five northern Civil War POWs plan a daring escape by hijacking a hot air balloon. Drifting through the night, they wake to find themselves marooned on a desert island, but they're not alone. Littered with wreckage, the island is home to a cast of survivors who have been lost in space and time. Forced to defend themselves against vicious pirates, terrifying creatures and a volcano that's ready to blow, they...
120) Hero: rescue mission
Author
Series
Hero volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Ben and Hero, the incredible search-and-rescue dog, have saved the day before but never like this. Ben's town is in trouble when two convicts escape from a nearby prison. His dad, a police officer, sets off to find the men and bring them to justice, but then Ben's dad disappears and the trail goes cold. Ben knows that it's up to him and Hero to solve the case. As they embark on their most dangerous mission yet, the two best friends must stock up on...