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We are wolves

2022
When the Russian Army marches into East Prussia at the end of World War II, the Wolf family flees, but Liesl, Otto, and their baby sister Mia are separated from their mother and they are forced to do dangerous things in order to survive.
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Revver the speedway squirrel

2021
Revver the squirrel is now an accepted part of the race team (more or less), but he still has a lot to learn, and when the team travels to the airport for a distant race, Revver wanders into the terminal looking for his friends, and gets lost.
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The unexplainable disappearance of Mars Patel

2021
"When Mars Patel's friend Aurora goes missing, he and the rest of his detention crew band together to find her. But a talent for practical jokes and avoiding their school's numerous surveillance cameras will only take the friends so far. Kids all over the world are going missing, and it soon becomes clear that that the disappearances have something to do with Pruitt Prep, the elite school created by tech billionaire Oliver Pruitt, who happens to be the most powerful man in the world, and Mar's idol"--Provided by publisher.

The wolves are watching

2022
The night little Madison disappears from her crib, Luce sees a pair of eyes-two points of gold deep in the forest behind her house-and feels certain they belong to a wolf. Her town, Picnic, Illinois, is the kind of place where everyone knows one another and no one locks their doors. It's not the kind of place where a toddler goes missing without a trace, where wolves lurk in the shadows. In town, people are quick to blame Madison's mom. But when Luce's English teacher shares an original script about the disappearance of another little girl in Picnic back in 1870, Luce begins to notice similarities that she can't ignore.

The incredible shrinking horror

2021
When the lead player disappears from a remote lake camp in Ontario, Canada, during the International TWIST puzzle competition, his fellow players, teens Lola Evans and Mateo Rivera, investigate. Includes notes about legendary monsters, discussion questions, and writing prompts.

Winterwood

2020
"Rumored to be a witch, Nora Walker attempts to uncover the truth about a boy she discovers in the woods who went missing weeks ago during a brutal winter storm, only to learn that he wasn't the only one to go missing all those weeks ago"--Provided by publisher.

Chaos on CatNet

2021
Steph and her mom settle in Minneapolis where Steph befriends Nell, whose mother and girlfriend are missing, and together with the help of ChesireCat they work to find Nell's missing loved ones and end up uncovering a nefarious AI hacking into social networks and chats to instigate paranoia and violence in the real world.

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The goldfish boy
2021
Emotionally crippled by his obsessive-compulsive disorder, teenager Matthew Corbin rarely leaves his room on a cul-de-sac in London, and he passes the day observing and writing down his neighbors doings from his window--but when a toddler staying next door disappears Matt is the key to solving a mystery and possibly saving a child's life . . . if he can manage to expose himself, and his secret guilt to the outside world.

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la jeunesse de James Bond
Set in the 1930s, a young James Bond has just started boarding school at Eton when a local boy is discovered missing. James teams up with the boy's cousin, Red, to investigate. The pair soon finds that the boy's disappearance is linked to a madman and his plans to rule the world.

The hideaway

Sick of watching his mother be abused by her boyfriend, thirteen-year-old Billy McKenna takes matters into his own hands and runs away from home. Taking refuge in an overgrown graveyard, Billy is helped by an older man who is cleaning up the cemetery. Meanwhile, as the police search for Billy, the neighborhood comes together to support Billy's mother.

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