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Uncivil acts

2005
Nancy Drew decides to investigate when it appears someone is trying to sabotage the town's already contentious reenactment of a Civil War battle.

A student's guide to Edgar Allan Poe

2006
Examines the life and career of American author Edgar Allan Poe, and features analyses of selected poems and stories.

The Never War

2003
Fourteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon and Spader from the planet Cloral journey back in time to 1937 New York City to uncover a plot by the evil Saint Dane.

The reality bug

2003
Fifteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon enters a virtual world to defeat the evil Saint Dane and finds himself tempted to leave the real world behind.

Code name Cassandra

2007
Jess Mastriani, hounded by the media and the government after a lightning strike leaves her with the psychic ability to find missing children, wants only to be left alone and tells everyone that she has lost her touch, but the chase begins once again when she gives in to a plea from the father of a missing girl to find his daughter.

The lost city of Faar

2003
Fourteen-year-old Bobby Pendragon, apprentice to his Uncle Press, a Traveler responsible for solving interdimensional conflict, tries to locate the legendary lost land of Faar which may hold the key to the survival of the water-covered territory of Cloral, which stands on the brink of war.

When lightning strikes

2001
Jessica finds herself in more trouble than usual when a walk through a thunderstorm leaves her with an amazing power that can be used for good or evil.

Don't scream

1996
When two new guys come to her school, Jess thinks things are really looking up, but she doesn't know their real identities or if she can trust them.

Gilda Joyce

the dead drop
2009
Almost-fifteen-year-old psychic investigator Gilda Joyce interns for the summer at the International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C., and solves a mystery involving national security.

The lab

2008
In a world dominated by an evil corporation, an organization called the Deck, in which the staff is named after suits such as Hearts and Diamonds, deals out justice while Six of Hearts, their best operative, does his work without killing anybody.

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