The Frankenstein Journals
This time fourteen-year-old J.D. is looking for the family of the contributor of his dad's large intestines, and the search leads him to Florida, and his "cousin" Gloria, bodyguard of the Vampire--but when she is wounded protecting J.
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year: 2016
copies: 18
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 590
subjects: frankenstein's monster (fictional character), frankenstein, victor (fictional character), orphans [X], human experimentation in medicine, life, scientists, bodyguards, monsters, vampires, florida, artificial life, adventure fiction, characters and characteristics in literature, characters in literature, new york (n.y.) [X], action and adventure fiction [X]
Audacity Jones Steals The Show
Audacity Jones and her best friend, Bimmy, are on their way to New York City, with Cypher, who is now a detective in the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, and their assignment involves Harry Houdini and the illusion he is planning--and it will take all of Audie's skills, and the help of her clever cat Min, to prevent the performance from being sabotaged.
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year: 2017
copies: 3
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: houdini, harry, magic tricks, orphans [X], cats, new york (n.y.) [X], action and adventure fiction [X]
Dactyl Hill Squad
It is the summer of 1863, and as the Civil War rages between dinosaur-mounted armies down south, and a tense New York City seems on the brink of exploding into riots, Magdalys Roca and the other children at the Colored Orphan Asylum are trying to survive; but when she receives a letter telling her that her brother Montez was wounded, Magdalys knows that somehow she must reach him--and just possibly her ability to communicate telepathically with dinosaurs may come in handy.
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year:
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: african americans, race relations, riots, dinosaurs, orphans [X], siblings, new york (n.y.) [X], alternative histories (fiction), action and adventure fiction [X]
The Solomon Stone
"Twelve-year-old Ruby doesn't know her last name. In fact, she doesn't know a lot of things, including what happened to her parents or why she was abandoned on this scrubby little island where she couch surfs through life.
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year: 2020
copies: 1
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: family secrets, orphans [X], extrasensory perception, hawaii, new york (n.y.) [X], detective and mystery fiction, action and adventure fiction [X]