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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.

Holy smoke

a Bones & the Duchess mystery
2004
Bones Fatzinger, a former police officer, teams up again with Verity Buscador, a clever twelve-year-old with Asperger's syndrome, to investigate a mysterious church fire.

Double or die

a James Bond adventure
2007
Teenage James Bond is on the case when a professor is kidnapped in a north London cemetery, and an encoded letter arrives which, once deciphered, leaves James with just forty-eight hours to rescue the captured scholar and save the world.

Canned

2008
Fergal Banfield, an eccentric lad who collects cans, is surprised to find some unexpected--and even alarming--things in a few of his treasures, and when he meets Charlotte, another collector, they begin an investigation that leads them into dangerous territory.

Whodunit?

detective stories
2007
A collection of sixteen short detective stories by writers such as Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and Dorothy L. Sayers.

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