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From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

2005
Two suburban children run away from their Connecticut home and go to New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, where their ingenuity enables them to live in luxury.

Al Capone does my shirts

2005
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.

Daemon Hall

2008
Famous horror story writer R. U. Tremblin comes to the town of Maplewood to hold a short story writing contest, offering the five finalists the chance to spend what turns out to be a terrifying--and deadly--night with him in a haunted house.

Beast

2005
Elaborates on the tale of "Beauty and the Beast, " told from the point of view of the beast and set in Persia.

Bound

2005
Young Xing Xing is bound to a life of hard work and servitude to her step-mother and step-sister until she happens to meet a prince at a festival.

Among the brave

a shadow children book
2004
In a society that allows families to have only two children, a group of third-borns tries to save themselves and others like them.

Son of the mob

2005
Seventeen-year-old Vince's life is constantly complicated by the fact that he is the son of a powerful Mafia boss, a relationship that threatens to destroy his romance with the daughter of an FBI agent.

The evolution of Calpurnia Tate

2010
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate learns about love from the older three of her six brothers and studies the natural world with her grandfather which leads to an important discovery.

November blues

2008
Shortly after her boyfriend Josh is killed in a pledging accident, November Nelson learns she is pregnant and fears she has no one to turn to, until she finds solace in the arms of Josh's cousin Jericho.

The extraordinary adventures of Alfred Kropp

2008
Through a series of dangerous and violent misadventures, teenage loser Alfred Kropp rescues King Arthur's legendary sword Excalibur from the forces of evil.

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