missing children

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Rise of the jumbies

Suspicion falls on half-jumbie Corinee when local children from her Caribbean island home begin to disappear, and she is forced to go deep into the ocean to seek the help of a dangerous jumbie who rules the waves.

Girl in the blue coat

Hanneke lives in Amsterdam in 1943 in the midst of World War II. She juggles the dangers of secretly securing and selling goods on the black market with hiding her work from her parents while grieving the death of her boyfriend at the hands of the Nazis. But life becomes even more harrowing when a women convinces Hanneke to find a missing Jew she's been hiding in her home.

The Changelings

When eleven-year-old Izzy's sister, Hen, disappears into the woods near their new house, Izzy, aided by a band of outlaw Changelings, must seek her in the land of Faerie.

Cryer's Cross

Seventeen-year-old Kendall, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, lives with her parents on a potato farm in a tiny community in Montana, where two teenagers go missing within months of each other, with no explanation.

The London Eye mystery

When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel, the two siblings must work together--Ted with his brain that is "wired differently" and impatient Kat--to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim.

The right side

a novel
Half-blind, isolated, broken, and disillusioned, LeAnne Hogan used to be a rising military star in Afghanistan. Now a final blow comes in the form of the death of Marci, her hospital roommate. Compelled to find closure for her death, LeAnne travels to Marci's hometown only to find that Marci's eight-year-old daughter has vanished. Then LeAnne finds herself "adopted" by the town's dark, strong, inscrutable stray dog, and together woman and dog set out to find the missing child.

Chloe the kitten

Chloe, a Cobweb Kitten, is fluttering through Hawthorn Hedgerows in the enchanted realm of Misty Wood decorating cobwebs with dewdrops when she meets a baby mouse who is lost and afraid.

Falcon wild

"Thirteen-year-old Karma lives with her family at their raptor conservation center in Montana. When she has to take her beloved bird, Stark, the gyrfalcon she rescued, back to its owner, she's sorely disappointed. But things get worse when a car accident leaves her father and brother trapped. It's up to Karma--and a runaway boy named Cooper who ends up by her side--to survive the wilderness and find a way to rescue them"--.

Here lies Daniel Tate

A young runaway is welcomed into the arms of an affluent family after he takes on the identity of the family's missing son, Daniel, only to slowly realize that the family knows more about Daniel's disappearance than they are letting on.

Luke on the loose

A young boy's fascination with pigeons soon erupts into a full-blown chase around Central Park, across the Brooklyn Bridge, through a fancy restaurant, and into the sky.

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