The Great Greene Heist, by Varian Johnson.
Jackson Greene swears he's given up scheming. Then school bully Keith
Sinclair announces he's running for
Student Council president, against
Jackson's former friend Gaby de la Cruz. Gaby wants Jackson to stay out
of it — but he knows Keith has "connections" to the principal, which
could win him the presidency no matter the vote count.
So Jackson
assembles a crack team: Hashemi Larijani, tech genius. Victor Cho,
bankroll. Megan Feldman, science goddess. Charlie de la Cruz, reporter.
Together they devise a plan that will take down Keith, win Gaby's
respect, and make sure the election is done right. If they can pull it
off, it will be remembered as the school's greatest con ever — one
worthy of the name THE GREAT GREENE HEIST.
Children of the King, by Sonya Hartnett.
Internationally acclaimed author Sonya Hartnett tells a hauntingly
beautiful story set during World War II. Cecily and Jeremy have been
sent to live with their uncle Peregrine in the English countryside, safe
from the war, along with a young refugee named May. But when Cecily and
May find two mysterious boys hiding in the ruins of a nearby castle, an
extraordinary adventure begins.
Dreamwood, by Heather Mackey.
Lucy Darrington has no choice but to run away from boarding school. Her
father, an expert on the supernatural, has been away for
too long
while doing research in Saarthe, a remote territory in the Pacific
Northwest populated by towering redwoods, timber barons, and the Lupine
p
Determined to find her father (and possibly
save Saarthe), Lucy and her vexingly stubborn friend Pete follow
William Darrington's trail to the deadly woods on Devil's Thumb. As they
encounter Lupine princesses, giant sea serpents, and all manner of
terrifying creatures, Lucy hasn't reckoned that the dreamwood itself
might be the greatest threat of all.
eople. But upon arriving, she learns her father is missing: Rumor has
it he's gone in search of dreamwood, a rare tree with magical properties
that just might hold the cure for the blight that's ravaging the
forests of Saarthe.
Revenge of the Flower Girls, by Jennifer Ziegler.
One bride. Two boys. Three flower girls who won't forever hold their peace. What could go wrong with this wedding? Everything!
The
Brewster triplets,
Dawn, Darby, and Delaney, would usually spend their
summer eating ice cream, playing with their dog, and reading about the
US Presidents. But this year they're stuck planning their big sister
Lily's wedding. Lily used to date Alex, who was fun and nice and played
trivia games with the triplets, and no one's quite sure why they broke
up. Burton, Lily's groom-to-be, is not nice or fun, and he looks like an
armadillo.
The triplets can't stand to see Lily marry someone
who's completely wrong for her, so it's up to them to stop the wedding
before anyone says "I do!" The flower girls will stop at nothing to
delay Lily's big day, but will sprinklers, a photo slideshow, a muddy
dog, and some unexpected allies be enough to prevent their big sister -
and the whole Brewster family - from living unhappily ever after?
A Snicker of Magic, by Natalie Lloyd.
Midnight Gulch used to be a magical place, a town where people could
sing up thunderstorms and dance up sunflowers. But that was long ago,
before a curse drove the magic away. Twelve-year-old Felicity knows all
about things like that; her nomadic mother is cursed with a wandering
heart.
But when she arrives in Midnight Gulch, Felicity thinks her
luck's about to change. A "word collector," Felicity sees words
everywhere—-shining above strangers, tucked into church eves, and
tangled up her dog's floppy ears—-but Midnight Gulch is the first place
she's ever seen the word "home." And then there's Jonah, a mysterious,
spiky-haired do-gooder who shimmers with words Felicity's never seen
before, words that make Felicity's heart beat a little faster.
Felicity
wants to stay in Midnight Gulch more than anything, but first, she'll
need to figure out how to bring back the magic, breaking the spell
that's been cast over the town . . . and her mother's broken heart.
Under the Egg, by Laura Marx Fitzgerald.
When Theodora Tenpenny spills a bottle of rubbing alcohol on her late
grandfather's painting, she discovers what seems to be an old
Renaissance masterpiece underneath. That's great news for Theo, who's
struggling to hang onto her family's two-hundred-year-old townhouse and
support her unstable mother on her grandfather's legacy of $463. There's
just one problem: Theo's grandfather was a security guard at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art, and she worries the painting may be stolen.
With the help of some unusual new friends, Theo's search for answers
takes her all around Manhattan, and introduces her to a side of the
city—and her grandfather—that she never knew. To solve the mystery,
she'll have to abandon her hard-won self-reliance and build a community,
one serendipitous friendship at a time.
(All descriptions from OverDrive.)
