The Dare Sisters: Shipwrecked

The Dare Sisters: Shipwrecked
Author: Jess Rinker
Publisher: Imprint
Total Pages: 217
Release: 2022-01-18
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 125021341X

The Goonies meets Book Scavenger in the second book of this middle grade duology about three sisters hunting for Blackbeard’s legendary treasure! Savannah Dare has taken up the mantle of treasure hunter, passed down by her grandfather—and she’s recruited her two sisters to join the crew! But it turns out there’s a reason Blackbeard’s treasure has been missing for centuries. Most of Savannah’s neighbors think it doesn’t even exist. But the sisters have a key—a literal, golden, jewel-encrusted key—and they’re determined to find what it unlocks with the help of clues and puzzles their grandfather left behind. Their voyage of discovery leads them to a trove of family secrets and betrayals, and soon Savannah has to ask herself what price she’s willing to pay in return for the ultimate prize. An Imprint Book

Dare Sisters: Shipwrecked

Dare Sisters: Shipwrecked
Author: Jessica M. Rinker
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Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022
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Savannah Dare has taken up the mantle of treasure hunter, passed to her by grandfather-and she's recruited her two sisters to join her crew! Their voyage of discovery leads them to a trove of family secrets and betrayals, and soon Savannah has to ask herself what price she's willing to pay in return for the ultimate prize.

The Dare Sisters

The Dare Sisters
Author: Jess Rinker
Publisher: Imprint
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2020-09-08
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250213398

The Goonies meets Book Scavenger when three sisters hunt for Blackbeard’s legendary treasure in this action-packed middle grade novel from Jess Rinker, The Dare Sisters. “The Dare sisters are hunting for treasure, but the real treasure is the story that unfolds in the pages of this book. It’s smart, funny and full of heart; I couldn’t put this rollicking adventure down.” —Kathi Appelt, author of The Underneath Savannah Dare has always wanted to be a pirate. She grew up on legends of Blackbeard from her grandfather—her best friend and fellow treasure hunter. But now he’s gone. Savannah and her sisters, Frances and Jolene are left to find Blackbeard’s lost loot on their own. It was their grandfather’s dream, and they can’t let him down. No one else in their small town on Ocracoke Island believes Blackbeard’s treasure is truly still out there . . . no one except their grandfather’s mysterious old business partner, who’s determined to find it himself. And when their family home is endangered, the Dare sisters realize finding Blackbeard’s treasure is their only hope! An Imprint Book

My Life with the Lincolns

My Life with the Lincolns
Author: Gayle Brandeis
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2010-03-16
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 142995941X

My dad used to be Abraham Lincoln. When I was six and learning to read, I saw his initials were A. B. E., Albert Baruch Edelman. ABE. That's when I knew. Mina Edelman believes that she and her family are the Lincolns reincarnated. Her main task for the next three months: to protect her father from assassination, her mother from insanity, and herself—Willie Lincoln incarnate—from death at age twelve. Apart from that, the summer of 1966 should be like any other. But Mina's dad begins taking Mina along to hear speeches by Martin Luther King, Jr in Chicago. And soon he brings the freedom movement to their own small town, with consequences for everyone, in Gayle Brandeis's My Life with the Lincolns.

Grady the Great

Grady the Great
Author: Judith Bernie Strommen
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2014-11-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1466885114

He could see the two of them, him and Mouse, at Universal Studios. having their picture taken with King Kong. He could see them at Disneyland, riding on a ride...their hair blown back in the wind. He could see them in Hollywood, walking past the homes of the stars. Swimming in the ocean. Grady the Great and the Mighty Mouse. A team again.

For Girls Only

For Girls Only
Author: Laura Dower
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2015-07-07
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1250089697

Hey, Girls! Wanna have some fun? Here is a collection of everything great about being a girl! Are you ready to give the best sleepover party ever? Or the best pedicure? Make fortune-tellers, friendship bracelets, and collages? You'll learn about the coolest women in history, sports, and science. The greatest chick flicks to watch with your girlfriends and the best girl songs for dancing. Plus, there's real-life advice: how to be a responsible baby-sitter, get a summer job, remember your locker combo, and . . . save the world (as only a girl could do). You go, girl!

The Hike to Home

The Hike to Home
Author: Jess Rinker
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-07-05
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1250812747

Twelve-year-old Lin and her two new friends brave the wilderness to find a castle, prove a local legend, and discover the true meaning of home home.

The Train Jumper

The Train Jumper
Author: Don Brown
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2014-06-24
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1466874368

OUT OF WORK AND OUT OF LUCK. In Don Brown's The Train Jumper Ed "Collie" Collier encounters hobos, misers, racists, and even some kindness while riding the rails during the Great Depression. Collie leaves home in search of his older brother, who has run off. Battling hunger, hostility, and wrathful weather, he meets an unlikely ally in a young drifter. They jump a freight train, joining thousands and thousands of young boys and men who try riding out the Great Depression by riding the rails.

Radiance

Radiance
Author: Alyson Noël
Publisher: Square Fish
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2010-08-31
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1429993901

Riley has crossed the bridge into the afterlife—a place called Here, where time is always Now. She has picked up life where she left off when she was alive, living with her parents and dog in a nice house in a nice neighborhood. When she's summoned before The Council, she learns that the afterlife isn't just an eternity of leisure. She's been assigned a job, Soul Catcher, and a teacher, Bodhi, a possibly cute, seemingly nerdy boy who's definitely hiding something. They return to earth together for Riley's first assignment, a Radiant Boy who's been haunting a castle in England for centuries. Many Soul Catchers have tried to get him to cross the bridge and failed. But all of that was before he met Riley . . . Radiance is the first book in the Riley Bloom series from bestselling author Alyson Noël.

No More Pumpkins

No More Pumpkins
Author: Peter Catalanotto
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2014-05-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1466870702

Emily is tired of pumpkins. At school she and her friend Vincetta Louise have been doing pumpkin math, pumpkin field trips, and pumpkin writing. Can't they just carve jack-o-lanterns? But even this ends up being an assignment: the kids have to make pumpkin self-portraits. Then something happens to Emily's jack-o-lantern, and her friendship with Vinni is tested. The two girls get past their quarrel—but will they ever want to see a pumpkin again?