Jacqueline West
1) Long lost
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"Eleven-year-old Fiona has just read a book that doesn’t exist. When Fiona’s family moves to a new town to be closer to her older sister’s figure skating club—and far from Fiona’s close-knit group of friends—nobody seems to notice Fiona’s unhappiness. Alone and out of place, Fiona ventures to the town’s library, a rambling mansion donated by a long-dead heiress. And there she finds a gripping mystery novel about a small town, family...
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Collectors (Jacqueline West) volume 1
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Overlooked in class, a hearing-impaired boy who collects lost or discarded trinkets discovers a dangerous underground world full of stolen wishes and the people who collect them.
3) Last things
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"Anders Thorson, front man of his metal band, Last Things, is unusually gifted for a teenager, but strange things in the Minnesota woods near his hometown are threatening him. Thea, the new girl in town, says she's there to protect him, but is that the whole truth?"--Provided by publisher.
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Collectors volume 2
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"Eleven-year-old Van Markson embarks on a quest to rescue his best friend from a dangerous wish collector"--Provided by publisher.
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Collectors (Jacqueline West) volume 2
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Discover a secret society where wishes are stolen, and dreams have a price.
In the spellbinding sequel to New York Times–bestselling author Jacqueline West's The Collectors, eleven-year-old Van Markson embarks on a quest full of magic and adventure to rescue his best friend from a dangerous wish collector.
This contemporary fantasy is just right for fans of Trenton Lee Stewart's The Secret Keepers and Jonathan Auxier's The Night Gardener.
It's...
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Liar meets Romeo and Juliet in this Shakespeare-inspired young adult novel about trusting yourself when everyone is telling you your instincts are wrong. Jaye wakes up in the hospital, disoriented and beset by a slippery morphing of reality into something else. She repeatedly sees a boy who she feels like she knows-but that's impossible. Determined to get back to school and back to A Midsummer Night's Dream, in which she's starring, she lies to her...
7) Still Life
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Annabelle is gone for good, but something worse lurks just out of sight, preparing to strike. What Olive discovers on a field trip to the local art museum will create a chain of events that propel her to discoveries she may not wish to uncover, involving Morton's vanished parents and the very darkest roots of Aldous McMartin's creepy painted world. Olive must seek the full story of Elsewhere, and in so doing, face her own fears and limitations, and...
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Olive believes that nothing is as scary as starting junior high. When she falls through a hole in her backyard, though, she realizes two things may change that: One: the wicked Annabelle is back. Two: there's a secret underground that unlocks two of Elsewhere's biggest, most powerful and dangerous forces yet. But with her best friend about to move away, and her ally Morton rebelling, Olive isn't sure where to turn. Will she figure it out in time?...
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It's Halloween night when strangers come to Linden Street, when something dear to Olive goes missing. To what lengths will she go to get it back? Can she trust the strangers? Will she turn to a new and dangerous magic within the paintings of Elsewhere? Or will she put her faith in her own worst enemies to save the people and home she loves? Mystery and magic abound as Olive, the boys, and the cats uncover the true nature of the house on Linden Street....
10) The shadows
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Books of Elsewhere volume 1
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When eleven-year-old Olive and her distracted parents move into an old Victorian mansion, Olive finds herself ensnared in a dark plan involving some mysterious paintings, a trapped and angry nine-year-old boy, and three talking cats.
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"Deep in the dark forest, in a cottage that spins on birds’ legs behind a fence topped with human skulls, lives the Baba Yaga. A guardian of the water of life, she lives with her sisters and takes to the skies in a giant mortar and pestle, creating tempests as she goes. Those who come across the Baba Yaga may find help, or hinderance, or horror. She is wild, she is woman, she is witch—and these are her tales." --publisher's website