Midnight Reynolds and the Phantom Circus

Midnight Reynolds and the Phantom Circus
Author: Catherine Holt
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2019-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0807551333

Twelve-year-old Midnight Reynolds is a middle-school student who works undercover for the Agency of Spectral Protection, helping ghosts cross over into the afterlife and saving her town from mishaps involving spectral energy. Now school's out for the summer, and Midnight and her best friend Tabitha just want to have fun. But their plans are interrupted when a mysterious traveling circus and a ghostly ringmaster come to town. As people start getting hurt, Midnight finds herself in the middle of her most deadly mission yet. Someone’s stealing spectral energy from the living! Can they be stopped before it’s too late?

Twelve Minutes to Midnight

Twelve Minutes to Midnight
Author: Christopher Edge
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2015-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0807581348

Penelope Tredwell is the feisty thirteen-year-old orphan heiress of Victorian Britain's bestselling magazine, the Penny Dreadful. Her spine-chilling tales—concealed under the pen name Montgomery Finch—are gripping the public. One day she receives a letter from the governor of the Bedlam madhouse requesting Finch's help to investigate the asylum's strange goings-on. Every night at precisely twelve minutes to midnight, the inmates all begin feverishly writing-incoherent ramblings that Penelope quickly realizes are frightening visions of the century to come. But what is causing this phenomenon? In the first book of this smart new series, Penelope is drawn into a thrilling mystery more terrifying than anything she could ever imagine!

Someone Was Watching

Someone Was Watching
Author: David Patneaude
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Total Pages: 161
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0807575402

1995-1996 South Dakota Prairie Pasque Award 1997-1998 Utah Children's Book Award 1995-1996 Texas Lone Star Reading List 1997-1998 Young Hoosier Book Award Master List (Indiana) 1995-1996 Nebraska Golden Sower Young Adult Award Runner-Up 1996 Sunshine State Young Reader's Award Master List (Florida) Runner-up for Rebecca Caudill Award (Illinois) Best of the Texas Lone Star Reading Lists When his baby sister disappears from the river near their summer home, eighth grader Chris fights the assumption that she has drowned and sets off on a journey to discover the truth. It's been three miserable months since 13-year-old Chris Barton lost his little sister, Molly. "Missing, presumed drowned" was what the paper said, and surely that is what everyone believes. After all, the Bartons had been picnicking by the river when Molly disappeared. One night, Chris views a video he made the day Molly was lost. There doesn't seem to be anything unusual here: a rest stop, lunch by the river, a hungry squirrel, a familiar ice cream van. But the video harbors an awful secret. In the middle of the night, Christ Barton wakes from fitful sleep—and begins a journey filled with fear, doubt, and impossible hopes.

The Black Crow Conspiracy

The Black Crow Conspiracy
Author: Christopher Edge
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2016-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0807507814

Penelope Tredwell, the pen behind bestselling author, Montgomery Flinch, is cursed with writer's block. She needs a sensational new story or her magazine, the Penny Dreadful, will go under. So when a mysterious letter arrives, confessing to the impossible crime of stealing the Crown Jewels just days before the King's coronation, Penelope thinks she has found a plot to enthrall her readers, until the police charge Montgomery Flinch with the theft of the jewels. Can Penelope solve the mystery, restore the jewels, rescue Monty, save the magazine, and keep the true identity of Montgomery Flinch a secret?

Pecos Bill

Pecos Bill
Author: James Cloyd Bowman
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2007
Genre: Folklore
ISBN: 1590172248

Relates some of the legends of Pecos Bill, from the moment he bounced out of his family's covered wagon to the day his long-lost brother appears and explains that Bill is not like the coyotes that have raised him.

Pip and the Wood Witch Curse

Pip and the Wood Witch Curse
Author: Chris Mould
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2012-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0807565490

Dark, scary, and magnificently illustrated, this is a new series not to be missed! The great walled city of Hangman's Hollow is at war with the forest outside. Into this war, one dreadful night, fate delivers a skinny, helpless boy. But maybe Pip isn't as helpless as he seems. Maybe he is the one who will defeat the wood witches and rescue the children of Hangman's Hollow.

Dog-Gone Danger

Dog-Gone Danger
Author: Linda Joy Singleton
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2018-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 080751389X

When Kelsey and her friends find an abandoned pug puppy, it looks like another case for the Curious Cat Spy Club. But shortly thereafter, Kelsey's mother goes missing—possibly in the line of duty as an Animal Control officer—and it's up to the CCSC to discover what happened. As they search for Kelsey's mom, they start to wonder if her disappearance is somehow linked to the puppy they found. The fifth book in the Curious Cat Spy Club series is filled with twists and turns and, of course, tons of animal adventures!

Midnight Reynolds and the Spectral Transformer

Midnight Reynolds and the Spectral Transformer
Author: Catherine Holt
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2017-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0807551279

When twelve year-old misfit Midnight Reynolds takes a job helping out eccentric Miss Appleby in the mansion down the street, she never imagined her work would involve battling ghosts. But as it turns out, Midnight and her new employer have quite a bit in common—they were both born on Halloween and have the power to see spirits of the dead. But when Midnight learns more about the history of her town, she starts to wonder if she's fighting on the right side.

Dreambender

Dreambender
Author: Ronald Kidd
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2016-03-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0807517275

Jeremy controls the dreams of City dwellers to keep the earth safe. But then he sees Callie dreaming of singing and begins to wonder if there is more to life than being safe. Everyone in the City is assigned a job by the choosers—keeper, catcher, computer. Callie Crawford is a computer. She works with numbers: putting them together, taking them apart. Her work is important, but sometimes she wants more. Jeremy Finn is a dreambender. His job is to adjust people's dreams. He and others like him quietly remove thoughts of music and art to keep the people in the City from becoming too focused on themselves and their own feelings rather than on the world. They need to keep the world safe from another Warming. But Jeremy thinks music is beautiful, and when he pops into a dream of Callie singing, he becomes fascinated with her. He begins to wonder if there is more to life than being safe. Defying his community and the role they have established for him, he sets off to find her in the real world. Together, they will challenge their world's expectations. But how far will they go to achieve their own dreams?

The Dragon Waking

The Dragon Waking
Author: Grayson Towler
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2016-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0807517054

Rose Gallagher loves having a friend who is a dragon. When a dragon war threatens to break out, Rose must find courage to help her friend recover the Harbinger before its too late. For 13-year old Rose, it feels like a dream come true to have a friend who can perform magic, change shape, and fly her away from the predictability of smalltown life. But secrets have a price, and the more Rose learns about the world of dragons, the more dangerous her life becomes. Helped only by her fantasy-obsessed friend and a local occult enthusiast, Rose soon finds herself risking her life to help Jade recover a mysterious fragment of a meteorite called the Harbinger which has the power to awaken countless dragons from their 65-million year slumber. But Jade isn't the only one who wants the Harbinger. The most powerful man in Las Vegas is actually another dragon who wants the stone to fulfill his own ambitions. The fragile bond between Rose and Jade is put to the test as they face this cunning enemy and his plot to replace humanity with the prehistoric civilization of dragons. As their battle unfolds over the neon-drenched skies of Las Vegas, Rose must face this overwhelming threat by drawing on the magic that humans possess—the power of friendship, compassion, and trust.