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The reformed vampire support group

Fifteen-year-old vampire Nina has been stuck for fifty-one years in a boring support group for vampires, and nothing exciting has ever happened to them--until one of them is murdered and the others must try to solve the crime.

The true Prince

Newly apprenticed to Shakespeare's theater company, Richard and Kit are drawn into a series of crimes involving the members of Queen Elizabeth's court.

Scooby-Doo!

the camping caper
Scooby-Doo and Shaggy volunteer to collect firewood to avoid a scary story, but get lost in the woods.

Lunch lady and the picture day peril

When eccentric photographer Stefani DePino comes to Thompson Brook to take school pictures in the midst of an acne epidemic, Lunch Lady, Betty, and the Breakfast Bunch learn that Stefani is using them to break into the world of high fashion.

Boxcar children

A graphic novel adaptation of Gertrude Chandler Warner's story in which four orphaned children, afraid to go live with their grandfather, set up housekeeping in an abandoned boxcar.

The Hardy boys, undercover brothers

A graphic novel in which Frank and Joe Hardy, Callie, and Iola must recover the Ocean of Osyria, an art treasure taken from a Middle Eastern museum, in order to save their best friend, Chet, who has been accused of stealing it.

The case of the case of mistaken identity

Twelve-year-old Steve Brixton, a fan of Bailey Brothers detective novels, is mistaken for a real detective and must elude librarians, police, and the mysterious Mr. E as he seeks a missing quilt containing coded information.

Scooby-Doo! comic storybook

Scooby-Doo, Shaggy, and the gang investigate the mysterious happenings thought to be the work of a ghost when they visit Velma's Aunt Meg in Banning Junction for Halloween.

What really happened to Humpty?

(from the files of a hard-boiled detective)
Detective Joe Dumpty rushes to investigate the mysterious circumstances under which his older brother, Humpty, fell from a wall on his first day as captain of the new Neighborhood Watch program.

Grave peril

a novel of the Dresden files
Supernatural sleuth Harry Dresden, the only professional wizard in the Chicago area telephone book, finds himself with a major problem on his hands when something or someone decides to stir up the usually mild-mannnered ghosts that inhabit the spirit world.

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