RECOMMENDEDREADS JFICTION:ACTION/ADVENTURE
JBRAD, K
TheNightWar
Kimberly BrubakerBradley
During World War II, twelve-year old Miriam secretly spirits other Jewish people out of Nazi-occupied France after being separated from her family and forced into hiding.
JCONN, L
AnybodyHere Seen Frenchie?
LeslieConnor
Making friends has never come easily. When Frenchie, who is autistic, silently chose Aurora as his person back in third grade, she chose him back. One morning, Frenchie doesn't make it to his classroom. Aurora feels she's to blame.
JCHAN, A
The Legendary MoChan
A.Y. Chan
Modesty "Mo" Seto faces off against her nemesis in a movie audition. She uncovers a mysterious book and embarks on an adventure to rescue her missing father and discover hidden martial art secrets.
JCURR, L
Mysteryof LockedRooms
LindsayCurry
Sarah Greene wants nothing more from her seventh-grade year than to beat the hardest escape room left in her town with her best friends, West, and Hannah. But when a foreclosure notice shows up on Sarah's front door, everything changes.
AyaDeLeon Undercover Latina
Fourteen-year-old Andrea Hernandez-Baldoquin hails from a family of spies working for the factory, an international organization dedicated to protecting people of color.
JHIAA, C
CarlHiaasen Wrecker
Jones VIII calls himself Wrecker because his great-great-greatgreat-great-grandfather salvaged shipwrecks for a living. So is it destiny, irony, or just bad luck when Wrecker comes across a speedboat that has run hard aground on a sand flat?
JGERB, A
AlysonGerber TheLiars Society
Weatherby has a secret she'll risk everything to protect, one that could destroy her new life.
Germany is becoming more and more dangerous for Jewish families, but Max is determined to find a way back home, and back to his parents. He has a plan to return to Berlin. It merely involves accomplishing the impossible: becoming a British spy.
JLINC, B
BethLincoln ADictionary ofSoundrels
On the day they are born, every Swift child is brought before the sacred Family Dictionary. They are given a name, and a definition. A definition it is assumed they will grow up to match.
KeklaMagoon TheSecret Library
Eleven-year-old Dally's monotonous life takes an unexpected turn when she discovers a mysterious envelope containing a map to an ancient vault filled with books that serve as portals to different moments in time.
JewellParker Rhodes TreasureIsland: RunawayGold JRHOD, J
Three kids. One dog. And the island of Manhattan, laid out in an old treasure map.
TheJulesVerne Prophecy JSCHW, L
LarrySchwartz
When a mysterious book by the beloved writer Jules Verne falls into the hands of three unlikely friends, they begin a treasure hunt adventure through Paris.
JSUMN, J
JanetSummer Johnson FinalWord
Thirteen-year-old twins Hope and Gordon enter a spelling bee, only to find themselves in a cut-throat competition to uncover a fortune and dark secrets about the wealthy relations they have never known.
KristinO’Donnel Tubb
When her best friend Uncle Will dies, he leaves Chloe Alvarez his African grey parrot, Charlie. The parrot has a vast vocabulary, and soon Chloe hears her say something odd: It was murder, followed by homicide and cyanide.
ZombieSeason JWEIN, J
Justin Weinberger
You know the protocol. You've completed countless drills. Yet nothing can truly prepare you for what's coming. No one is ever ready for zombie season . . .