Lois Duncan
2) Ransom
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Edgar Award finalist: When the strange new bus driver passes the last stop, the five teens on board know something’s wrong: “[A] gripping thriller.” —Publishers Weekly
Valley Gardens is the last stop on the bus route after school. The neighborhood is known for its wealthy families, perhaps the richest in town. Marianne, Bruce, Glenn, Dexter, and Jesse live in Valley Gardens, and have no trouble guiding the...
Valley Gardens is the last stop on the bus route after school. The neighborhood is known for its wealthy families, perhaps the richest in town. Marianne, Bruce, Glenn, Dexter, and Jesse live in Valley Gardens, and have no trouble guiding the...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
The new guy at Tracy’s school is handsome, intense, and desperately needs her help—but there’s something about him that isn’t quite right
High school junior Tracy Lloyd is unsure about the new guy in school. Brad Johnson is attractive, smart, and polite, but Tracy can’t help but feel he watches her too closely. Then one day Brad confides in Tracy a horrible secret: His little sister Mindy has been...
High school junior Tracy Lloyd is unsure about the new guy in school. Brad Johnson is attractive, smart, and polite, but Tracy can’t help but feel he watches her too closely. Then one day Brad confides in Tracy a horrible secret: His little sister Mindy has been...
4) Gallows Hill
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Salem witch trials haunt a teenage psychic in this suspenseful thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author of I Know What You Did Last Summer.
When Sarah Zoltanne moves from sunny California to a small town in Missouri, she feels like she’ll never fit in. Her mother is dating a jerk, the kids at her school despise her, and she misses her old home. So when a popular boy asks her to tell fortunes...
When Sarah Zoltanne moves from sunny California to a small town in Missouri, she feels like she’ll never fit in. Her mother is dating a jerk, the kids at her school despise her, and she misses her old home. So when a popular boy asks her to tell fortunes...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Media
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
A hiking trip turns into a missing persons search in this suspense novel “guaranteed to hold any reader” from the New York Times–bestselling author (The New York Times Book Review).
When high school buddies Larry Drayfus and Dan Cotwell take a backpacking trip into the Mogollon Mountains, nobody is concerned when they don’t come home exactly on time. Dan is a natural outdoorsman, and he knows...
When high school buddies Larry Drayfus and Dan Cotwell take a backpacking trip into the Mogollon Mountains, nobody is concerned when they don’t come home exactly on time. Dan is a natural outdoorsman, and he knows...
Author
Publisher
IG Publishing
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Louis Duncan's 1958 young adult classic tells the story of what happens when the debutante tradition comes to one small town: the parties, the ball gowns, as well as one girl's growing sense of right and wrong.
Lynn Chambers is popular, wealthy, and going (almost) steady with a handsome college boy. But when she decides not to be a debutante, Lynn finds herself on the outside, which leads her to a side of her town she barely knew existed. There...
Lynn Chambers is popular, wealthy, and going (almost) steady with a handsome college boy. But when she decides not to be a debutante, Lynn finds herself on the outside, which leads her to a side of her town she barely knew existed. There...
Author
Publisher
StarWalk Kids Media
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author Lois Duncan and Navajo artist Shonto Begay collaborate in this enchanting Navajo teaching tale. Through the magic of Spider Woman, a young girl learns one of the most vital lessons of Navajo culture—the importance of leading a balanced life.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case, force her family to go into hiding under assumed names and flee the pursuit of a hired killer.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Andi, unable to adopt an adorable stray dog because of her aunt's allergies, enlists her brother Bruce in a plan to care for the dog and its puppies in an abandoned house down the street, but when the siblings give in the urge to take in more canine guests, the secret becomes too large to keep.
11) News for dogs
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Andi and her brother, Bruce, begin publishing a newspaper for dogs, strange things start to happen including a series of dognappings.
12) Movie for Dogs
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Red Rover stood in front of the shed. He seemed to understand the importance of this final scene. "Open, Sesame!" Bruce shouted, and off Red went. He bounded to the door of the shed, stood up on his hind feet, and seized the latch in his teeth. The door flew open, and the dogs behind it poured out.
13) Down a dark hall
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Suspicious and uneasy about the atmosphere at her new boarding school, fourteen-year-old Kit slowly realizes why she and the other three students at the school were selected.
14) A gift of magic
Author
Series
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Until she learns to control it, Nancy's gift of extrasensory perception brings her more trouble than she can handle.
15) Hotel for dogs
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
[Widescreen ed.]
Language
English
Description
Foster children Andi and Bruce have been placed with a flaky couple who care more for their aspiring rock careers than their charges. Their mischievous tendencies repeatedly get them into trouble. After a close call with the local pound, the kids end up searching for Friday, their secretly adopted dog, in an abandoned old hotel where they find several other stray dogs seeking shelter. They, along with three other local kids, begin caring for the strays....