secrets

"Alan is very scary. He comes from a long line of very scary alligators. He says things like 'I'm big, scary Alan! Fear my razor-sharp teeth!' But all is not as it seems. Alan, you see, has a very BIG (not-so-scary) secret"--Back cover.

"It's the anniversary of daring Violet Parma's arrival in Eerie. But even after a year of searching, she still hasn't found her missing parents, and anxious Herbert Lemon has learned little else about why he washed up on the shore in a crate of lemons as a baby. What's more, the creators of the Anomalous Phenomena podcast have dropped anchor in town and are fishing around for secrets. Keeping ahead of the podcasters, Herbie and Violet set sail for the dangerous 'treasure island' where villain Sebastian Eels's twin sister mysteriously vanished years ago. Will they discover the heart of Eerie-on-Sea's mysteries, or will Herbie and Violet be the next to disappear?"--Provided by publisher.

"Artemisia (Sia) Martinez's mother was deported to Mexico by ICE and disappeared in the Sonoran Desert trying to make it back to her American family; Sia believes that she was as-good-as murdered by ICE and the sheriff in their small Arizona town on the edge of the national park, and wants revenge against him and his son, Jeremy--but her search for the truth will uncover many more secrets than she counted on"--Provided by publisher.

"Believing her new home to actually be alive, especially when her brother almost dies, Marigold and her new blended family won't be safe until she brings the truth to light once and for all"--OCLC.

"Brought to the flying city of Highgate when he was only five years old, orphan Milo Quick has never known another home. A massive armada has surrounded Highgate's crumbling armaments. Because behind locked doors . . . the once-great flying city protects a powerful secret, hidden away for centuries. One small airship, the Halcyon, has slipped through the ominous blockade on a mission to collect Milo--and the rich bounty on his head--before the fighting begins"--Provided by publisher.

For high school senior Nell and her friends, a vacation house on a private Florida island sounds like the makings of a dream spring break. But Nell brings secrets with her?secrets that fuse with the island's tragic history, trapping them all with a curse that surrounds the island in a toxic, vengeful mist and the surrounding waters with an unseen, devouring beast. Getting out alive means risking her friendships, her sanity, and even her own life. In order to save herself and her friends, Nell will have to face memories she'd rather leave behind, reveal the horrific truth behind the encounter that changed her life one year ago, and face the shadow that's haunted her since childhood. Easier said than done. But when Nell's friends reveal that they each brought secrets of their own, a solution even more dangerous than the curse begins to take shape.

"Red Kenny is on a road trip for spring break with five friends: her best friend and her older brother, his perfect girlfriend, Red's secret crush, a classmate--and a killer. When their RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere with no cell service, they soon realize this is no accident. They have been trapped by someone out there in the dark, someone who clearly wants one of them dead. With eight hours until dawn, the six friends must escape, or figure out which of them is the target. But is there a liar among them? Buried secrets will be forced to light and tensions inside the RV will reach deadly levels. Not all of them will survive the night"--Provided by publisher.

"Shh. . .Cookie and Broccoli's lips are sealed! Broccoli reveals the embarrassing nickname his grandma gave him as a baby, and Cookie laments that he's never had a nickname. . .or has he? Then the adorable duo set out to cure Broccoli's boredom, for which Talking Rock gives them a cryptic clue: the solution is the opposite of boredom. What could that be? And finally, Cookie confesses his fear of The Scary Forest near their school and Broccoli shares a surprising secret of his own"--Amazon.

After losing her parents in a mysterious attack, seventeen-year-old Estela suffers from survivor's guilt and is sent to live with her Aunt in their ancestral Spanish castle, where she uncovers family secrets and meets a supernatural, silver-eyed boy who claims he is trapped in the castle.

"For as long as Mera can remember, she and her sister, Darina, have feared the Beast who lurks in the castle above their village. On countless nights they have locked themselves inside their home while the Beast led his hounds on the Wild Hunt, preying on anything in his path. Now Darina has been kidnapped by the Beast, and only Mera can save her. But she soon finds that in the Beast's eerie, magic-haunted castle, nothing is quite what it seems--including her own sister. Here, Mera will discover the dark secrets that have bound her village to the Beast for so long. But in order to set them all free, she will have to face the most dangerous secret of all: the truth about herself"--Provided by publisher.