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If you could see the sun

About the time her parents tell her they can no longer afford her tuition at a prestigious Beijing international boarding school, Chinese American Alice Sun realizes that she can turn invisible. With all of her hopes riding on getting a scholarship to a prestigious school, getting a good job, and lifting her family out of poverty, Alice decides to use her abilities for profit, by hiring herself out to her classmates. However, when the jobs get increasingly dangerous and morally questionable, she begins to wonder if the sacrifice is worth it.

Lock the doors

When Tom's family moves into a new home, he finds evidence of locks on the outside of his bedroom door and a message hidden under the wallpaper. The previous owners move in across the street and Tom strikes up a friendship with their daughter, Amy, to find out what happened in the house. He slowly begins to piece together the dark secret that Amy and her family are hiding, a secret they will do anything to keep hidden.

Lock the doors

When Tom's family moves into a new home, he finds evidence of locks on the outside of his bedroom door and a message hidden under the wallpaper. The previous owners move in across the street and Tom strikes up a friendship with their daughter, Amy, to find out what happened in the house. He slowly begins to piece together the dark secret that Amy and her family are hiding, a secret they will do anything to keep hidden.

Pasadena

When Jude's best friend is found dead in a California swimming pool, her family calls it an accident, her friends call it suicide, but Jude calls it murder, and the suspects are family and friends.

The Case of the Forgotten Mine

School is back in session, and for the seventh graders of Ravensburg Middle School, that can mean only one thing. Field Trip! For as long as anyone can remember, the seventh graders of Ravensburg have been traveling to the old mining town of Forgotten, West Virginia for a few days of outdoor education. But it appears this old town is hiding more than a few secrets. An as usual, it will be up to The Math Inspectors to try and uncover them. Will Stanley, Charlotte, Gertie, Felix, and Herman solve another baffling mystery? OR this time has their luck finally run out and will Forgotten's secrets be lost forever to history?.

Deep and dark and dangerous

While spending the summer with her aunt and cousin at the family's vacation home in Maine, thirteen-year-old Ali stumbles upon the secret to the childhood tragedy that her mother and aunt have been hiding for over thirty years.

The dirt diary

After her parents' divorce, eighth-grader Rachel Lee joins her mother's new housecleaning business, which has her scrubbing bathrooms in her more popular classmates' homes and learning useful secrets.

Coco

"Since before Miguel was born, his family has had one rule: NO MUSIC! But Miguel has a secret he wants to share with his great-grandmother Coco. He wants to be a musician! Will he follow the wishes of his family, or will he follow his heart?--Back cover.

Mrs. Barr has gone too far!

"After noticing that A.J. and his friends' geography knowledge could use some work, Mr. Cooper invites to class just the person to help. Globetrotter Mrs. Barr speaks seven languages and has visited nearly two hundred countries! But why does she carry a suitcase everywhere she goes? And why does she open a window whenever she walks into a room? Perhaps Mrs. Barr has something to hide!--Provided by publisher.

10 truths and a dare

"It's Senior Party Week, that magical in-between time after classes have ended but before graduation, chock-full of gimmicky theme parties, last-minute bonding, and family traditions. Olivia couldn't be more ready. But when the tiny hiccup of an unsigned off-campus P.E. form puts Olivia in danger of not graduating at all, she has one week to set things straight without tipping off her very big and very nosy extended family"--Provided by publisher.

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