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A child’s abduction sends a father reeling in this Whitbread Award-winning novel that explores time and loss with “narrative daring and imaginative genius” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children’s books, is on a routine trip to the supermarket with his three-year-old daughter. In a brief moment of distraction, she suddenly vanishes—and is irretrievably...
Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children’s books, is on a routine trip to the supermarket with his three-year-old daughter. In a brief moment of distraction, she suddenly vanishes—and is irretrievably...
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"A lifetime ago, every year Carole Shipley looked forward to her wedding anniversary. But then a celebratory trip to Mexico for the occasion with her husband and friends ended in the unsolved kidnapping of her infant daughter, Samantha. Now, fifteen years after that horrific time, divorced and isolated, Carole is forced to relive the kidnapping by reporters who call every year on the anniversary of Samantha's disappearance. However, this year when...
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Description
A beautifully told story of a small Oklahoma town and a mystery that has haunted its residents. In 1972, Morgan David Evers, no more than a baby at the time, disappears in the tiny town of De Clare. Only his pajama bottoms are found on the banks of Willow Creek. Now, 30 years later, he mysteriously returns in this edgy, intriguing tale peopled by authentic heartland characters.
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Women's Murder Club volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
"Detective Lindsay Boxer's long awaited wedding celebration becomes a distant memory when she is called to investigate a horrendous crime: a teenage girl is badly injured left for dead, and her newborn baby is nowhere to be found. Lindsay discovers that not only is there no trace of the criminals, but that the victim may be keeping secrets as well. At the same time, Assistant District Attorney Yuki Castellano is prosecuting the biggest case of her...
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"Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged beasts in the woods, to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines, his tales are so extraordinary no one can possibly believe him. Including Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache, who now live in the little Quebec village. But when the boy disappears, the villagers are faced with the possibility that one of his tall tales might...
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Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"After the sudden death of his wife, Tom Kennedy believes a fresh start will help him and his young son Jake heal. A new beginning, a new house, a new town. Featherbank. But the town has a dark past. Twenty years ago, a serial killer abducted and murdered five residents. Until Frank Carter was finally caught, he was nicknamed "The Whisper Man," for he would lure his victims out by whispering at their windows at night. Just as Tom and Jake settle...
9) Hard eight
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Fugitive Apprehension Agent Stephanie Plum has a big problem on her hands: Seven-year-old Annie Soder and her mother, Evelyn, have disappeared. Evelyn's estranged husband, Steven, a shady owner of a seedy bar, is not at all happy. During the divorce proceedings, he and Evelyn signed a child custody bond, and Steven is demanding the money guaranteed by the bond to find Annie. The money was secured by a mortgage on Evelyn's grandmother's house, and...
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Publisher
Park Row Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Kat Kinkaid's only son, Ethan, goes missing on a class field trip, while Stefanie Huntington's son is being threatened. As the police investigation unfolds, Ethan's disappearance has earth-shattering consequences for Stef. With the clock ticking, the desperate search for answers reveals dangers behind the everyday smiles of those they trust the most. But is the culprit an anonymous stranger or someone the women trust?
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Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 700L
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English
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"While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate apocalypse, Dinétah (formerly the Navajo reservation) has been reborn. The gods and heroes of legend walk the land, but so do monsters. Maggie Hoskie is a Dinétah monster hunter, a supernaturally gifted killer. When a small town needs help finding a missing girl, Maggie is their last best hope. But what Maggie uncovers about the monster is much more terrifying than...
12) A cold treachery
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Series
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
In December 1919, when five members of a family are found slaughtered in the kitchen of their Lake District cottage, Inspector Ian Rutledge investigates the crime as well as the disappearance of the missing youngest child in the family.
13) Blood mountain
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Publisher
BooksbyAFoster
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Sarah Houston Hawks was a young girl, a lone survivor on the trail west. She is found by Tall Feather. He is the fierce, intelligent medicine man for the people. He brings her home and makes Sarah his own daughter. She becomes Aponi. The problem is that her remaining rich and powerful family back east wants her returned... at all costs."--Back cover.
14) Endeavour
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
In 1965, the young Detective Constable Endeavour Morse is recruited into the hunt for a missing schoolgirl and finds himself in the midst of a murder investigation.
15) Gone by midnight
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Series
Crimson Lake novel volume 3
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English
Description
"Crimson Lake is where people with dark pasts come to disappear-and where others vanish into thin air... Four young boys are left alone in a hotel room while their parents dine downstairs. When Sara Farrow checks on the children at midnight, her son is missing. Distrustful of the police, Sara turns to Crimson Lake's unlikeliest private investigators-disgraced cop Ted Conkaffey and convicted killer Amanda Pharrell. For Ted, the case couldn't have come...
16) Midnight creed
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Series
Ryder Creed novels volume 8
Publisher
Prairie Wind Publishing
Language
English
Description
Ryder Creed's top priority is to keep his scent dogs safe. That's why he's avoided nighttime searches. When a boy goes missing, Creed must put aside his fears and navigate the risks his dogs will face after dark.
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English
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"Mother and daughter Charlie and Eva never sought social media fame, but when a stunning photo of Eva went viral, fame found them. Now, after more than two years documenting life on the road in their vintage Airstream trailer, the duo has temporarily settled on the North Shore of Lake Superior. Eva is happily finishing her senior year of high school and applying to college, but Charlie longs for the adventures they left behind. When Eva goes missing...
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Publisher
Soho Constable
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
Description
Becoming obsessed with uncovering the fate of a child who disappeared in the aftermath of a local gas explosion, disenchanted Oxford resident Sarah Tucker is astonished when her investigation turns up people who are believed to be dead.
19) Hide and seeker
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
Description
Something is wrong with twelve-year-old Zee, who has returned after a year's absence; nobody knows where he was or what happened to him, but now he is distracted and violent, freaking out when he sees his friends, Justin, Nia, and Lyric, playing an odd game of hide-and-seek, and talking wildly about some danger that is approaching--and soon his friends are pulled into a shadowy world ruled by a monstrous, shape-shifting Seeker, forced to play a terrifying...
20) Keane
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English
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William Keane is barely able to cope. It has been six months since his six-year-old daughter was abducted from New York City's Port Authority Bus Terminal while traveling with him. Repeatedly drawn to the site of the abduction, Keane wanders the bus station, compulsively replaying the events of that fateful day, as if hoping to change the outcome. One day he meets a financially strapped woman, Lynn Bedik, and her seven-year-old daughter, Kira, at...
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