Rose Cooper

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

You can't block the dead! The first novel in the Dead Serious series, in which a middle school girl bridges the gap between the living and the dead with her phone. 

Annabel Craven hopes she'll fit in--maybe even be popular--at the Academy. She's worried she'll stay friendless and phoneless (it's true). But when she finds a mysterious phone in the woods near the cemetery, one of her problems is solved . . . and another one is just beginning.

Someone won't stop texting her. And that someone seems . . . dead. How is Annabel supposed to make friends when her phone keeps blowing up with messages from the afterlife? And what will happen if she doesn't text back?

Includes morbidly-cute black-and-white illustrations!

"Scary--but not too scary." --SLJ

"Good, ghostly fun." --Kirkus Reviews

I Text Dead People

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Kirby Larson

The Diary of Piper Davis

Desperately waiting to learn the fate of her soldier brother who was stationed aboard the Arizona during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Piper struggles with strict rationing and blackouts in her Seattle home before her pastor father moves the family to an internment camp with his Japanese-American congregants. 60,000 first printing.

The Fences Between Us

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Natasha Preston

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Somebody in the town of Rock Bay has posted a "share this post and your own deepest death fear" meme and it seems that everybody but Izzy has shared the creepy graphic; nobody knows who posted it, but soon people start dying, and it seems that the meme is part of a plot to extract revenge on the high school students of Rock Bay--Izzy is determined to investigate, but what she uncovers is her own worst nightmare.

The Fear

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Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

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Anya and the nightingale 

N. H. Senzai

Escaping from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan in the summer of 2001, eleven-year-old Fadi and his family immigrate to the San Francisco Bay Area, where Fadi schemes to return to the Pakistani refugee camp where his little sister was accidentally left behind.

Shooting Kabul

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Match me if you can 

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Charles Gilman

Our hero is 11-year-old Robert Arthur, and he's among the first students entering the brand new Lovecraft Middle School (LMS).

The town is abuzz over the extraordinary new facility and its many state-of-the-art features. Solar panels! Radiant floor heating! Wireless internet! Digital "smart-boards" in every classroom! LMS is truly the school of the future. Better still, it's a totally "green" building, constructed almost entirely of recycled materials.

But Robert soon discovers some strange mysteries. Rats in the lockers. A student goes missing. And he encounters an "old" section in the school library - a corridor full of worm-eaten, antiquated books. How did such a musty dusty room end up in a brand new school?

Even worse, Robert's new science professor is behaving really strangely - it will become clear over the course of the book that the professor has been consumed by some kind of demon/wraith/spirit, that it's transforming him into a monster from the inside-out.

Robert tries to unravel these mysteries with some help from his new friend Karina Ortiz - but soon she presents him with yet another conundrum- Why has he never seen Karina outside the walls of Lovecraft Middle School?

The answers to all of these riddles lie in the fact that LMS was constructed almost entirely of recycled materials--but these materials came from the abandoned Tillinghast mansion, a large ancestral home & hotbed of weirdo paranormal activity. After decades of unpaid taxes, violent episodes, and unexplained phenomena, the state government tore down the hospital but then essentially REBUILT the same materials into a new building.

And thus Lovecraft Middle School was born.

By the end of this first volume, Robert will vanquish Professor Gargoyle and learn the creepy origin story of LMS. But his troubles are just beginning. There's something odd about the lunch lady in the cafeteria...and report cards are getting mailed home next week!

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