missing persons

Jules Larsen takes an unusual apartment-sitting job at the Bartholomew, one of Manhattan's highest-profile and most mysterious buildings. Jules soon discovers that the building holds many secrets when a fellow housesitter disappears.

"The Testing finds 16-year-old Malencia Vale celebrating graduation day. Chosen as a possible leader of her post-war civilization, Cia travels to Tosu City, where romance awaits--along with nightmarish danger" -- from publisher's web site.

Seventeen-year-old Johnny is approached at his family's struggling shoe repair shop in a Miami, Florida, hotel by Alorian Princess Victoriana, who asks him to find her brother who was turned into a frog.

The first time his father disappeared, Tucker Feye had just turned thirteen. The Reverend Feye simply climbed on the roof to fix a shingle, let out a scream, and vanished, only to walk up the driveway an hour later, looking older and worn, with a strange girl named Lahlia in tow. In the months that followed, Tucker watched his father grow distant and his once loving mother slide into madness. But then both of his parents disappear.

Some of the most haunting tales are about people who have disappeared. A few of the missing eventually are found. Others are never seen again.

"Aidan disappeared for six days. Six agonizing days of searches and police and questions and constant vigils. Then, just as suddenly as he vanished, Aidan reappears. Where has he been? The story he tells is simply. . . impossible. But it's the story Aidan is sticking to. His brother, Lucas, wants to believe him. But Lucas is aware of what other people, including their parents, are saying: that Aidan is making it all up to disguise the fact that he ran away. When the kids in school hear Aidan's story, they taunt him. But still Aidan clings to his story. And as he becomes more of an outcast, Lucas becomes more and more concerned. Being on Aidan's side would mean believing in the impossible. But how can you believe in the impossible when everything and everybody is telling you not to?"--Amazon.

With gripping results, this companion novel to Undercover Latina returns to the high-stakes world of the Factory--an international organization of spies protecting people of color. Fifteen-year-old Amani Kendall?s biggest problem is being the only plus-size Black girl at a white private school?until her house burns down and her family is unexpectedly on the run. Suddenly, she?s reeling from the news that her formerly boring mom is being pursued by an ex-boyfriend turned stalker, and her scientist dad has gone MIA. At the same time, she has to navigate an underfunded school in the city, suffering the cultural whiplash of being surrounded by other Black students, including the cute boy who?s an old family friend. How much danger is their family really in, and how untraceable are they trying to be? Her mom offers only half-answers and roundabout lies, so Amani starts to investigate. But her sleuthing has unexpected consequences, uncovering secret family legacies that will change their lives forever. A revealing prequel to Undercover Latina for existing fans, Untraceable also serves as a thrilling introduction to the world of the Factory for readers encountering this fast-paced spy series for the first time.

At the turn of the twenty-first century, New York City twins Tai and Trey are approaching their sixteenth birthday and trying to respectively focus on their photography and classical music careers. Unfortunately, their magical abilities and their family's curse, which led to their mother's disappearance ten years ago, make it hard to be normal teens. When the twins discover they're being followed by nefarious villains and Tai discovers a clue to their mother's disappearance, the pair embark on a race to find her and to undo the curse before their magic-using enemies can stop them.

Bel, eighteen, has lived her life in the aftermath of her mother's mysterious disappearance sixteen years ago, when Bel was a toddler--and the only witness to what actually happened. Wishing everyone would accept her mother is probably dead and move on, Bel is horrified when her family agrees to film a true-crime documentary, and then shocked to her core when her mother returns alive during the filming. The cameras still rolling, Bel must figure out if her mother is lying about what really happened, why, and if her mother is dangerous.

Miriam Qui?ones goes to visit her parents in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, but things soon take a dangerous turn when someone starts damaging the vacation rentals her parents manage and Miriam receives a package from a stalker.