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The amusement park mystery

The Aldens search for carousel horses that have disappeared from an amusement park.

Mystery in the sand

A friendly writer with a metal detector, the mysterious inhabitants of a tower house, and the discovery of a locket in the sand are ingredients for the Aldens' latest mystery.

Zane's trace

Believing he has killed his grandfather, Zane Guesswind heads for his mother's Zanesville, Ohio, grave to kill himself, driving the 1969 Plymouth Barracuda his long-gone father left behind, and meeting along the way assorted characters who help him discover who he really is.

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.

Strange angels

Sixteen-year-old Dru Anderson travels from town to town with her father, who hunts "strange" creatures, but when he is turned into a zombie, Dru goes on the run with her friends Grave--freshly bitten by a werewolf--and Christophe--a half-human vampire hunter--to save herself.

Fruits basket

Kyo finishes telling Tohru about his role in the death of her mother, and the reasons why he had disappeared for so long and put so much blame onto Yuki, but he is unaware of Tohru's true feelings for him.

Hattie Big Sky

Sixteen-year-old Hattie Brooks inherits her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana in 1917 and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war in Europe.

The Sunset Gates

Heart hopes to evade Dunraven's men to order to reach the Sunset Gates, which seem to be the key to finding her family and saving the unicorns.

Dragon slippers

Orphaned after a fever epidemic, Creel befriends a dragon and unknowingly inherits an object that can either save or destroy her kingdom.

The journey home

Heart must free an old man from Lord Dunraven's castle so that he can help her find her family.

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