by W.H. Beck
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012
When Malcolm (a smaller than average rat) arrives at crumbling McKenna School, he revels in the attention, the Poptart crumbs, and his new Comf-E-Cube. He also meets the Midnight Academy, a secret society of classroom pets that protects the students. There’s just one problem: it turns out that rats have a terrible reputation. Have you heard? They are sneaky, disloyal, dirty, and greedy! So when everyone assumes Malcolm is a mouse, he doesn’t exactly squeak up. Maybe once he proves himself in the Academy, he can admit his rattiness.
But Malcolm’s is not the only secret at McKenna. Why does fifth grade teacher Mr. Binney roam the halls after midnight? Who is stealing chemicals from the science room? And what exactly are those shrieks from the clock tower? Then Malcolm’s secret is exposed—just as an Academy member disappears. The Academy turns on Malcolm with suspicion. After all, rats can’t be trusted. And now, banished from the Academy, Malcolm must use all his rat traits to prove his innocence—and to learn what kind of rat he really is.
DOUBLE VISION
by F.T. Bradley
Harper Children's, 2012 (now available in paperback!)
ALEX RIDER meets THE DA VINCI CODE when a regular kid goes undercover in Paris...
Undercover spies, codes and ciphers, a secret painting with unimaginable powers . . . It's all in a day's work when you're one of the world's top kid agents.
But Linc Baker isn't a kid agent at all. He just happens to look exactly like one of them. And when this lookalike goes missing, Linc will have to impersonate him on a mission that plunges him into a world of intrigue, danger, and great pastries.
No pressure, right?
 DOUBLE VISION: CODE NAME 711
by F.T. Bradley
Harper Children's, 2013
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The supersecret government organization Pandora wants Linc to
go to Washington, D.C., to protect the first daughter and find George
Washington's legendary coat, rumored to make its wearer invincible. Pandora
needs to find it before a deadly CIA mole uses it in a plot against the
president.
Unfortunately for Linc, his look-alike agent nemesis, Ben
Green, is already on the case and making his life difficult. With the first
daughter's help, Linc will have to dig deep into the history of America's first
spies--the Culper Ring--to beat Ben at his own game and stop the mole before
it's too late.
NEARLY GONE
by Elle Cosimano
Kathy Dawson Books/Penguin, 2014 - New Release!!
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Bones meets Fringe in a big, dark, scary,
brilliantly-plotted urban thriller that will leave you guessing until the very
end.
Nearly
Boswell knows how to keep secrets. Living in a DC trailer park, she knows
better than to share anything that would make her a target with her classmates.
Like her mother's job as an exotic dancer, her obsession with the personal ads,
and especially the emotions she can taste when she brushes against someone's
skin. But when a serial killer goes on a killing spree and starts attacking
students, leaving cryptic ads in the newspaper that only Nearly can decipher,
she confides in the one person she shouldn't trust: the new guy at school—a
reformed bad boy working undercover for the police, doing surveillance. . . on
her.
Nearly might be the one
person who can put all the clues together, and if she doesn't figure it all out
soon—she'll be next.
BLIND SPOT
by Laura Ellen
Harcourt Children's Books, 2012 (available now in paperback!)
Sixteen year old Roswell Hart is used to missing things. With macular degeneration, an eye disease that robs her of central vision (and it seems, best friends too), Roz is constantly piecing together bits and pieces to make sense of her life. But she has always managed without help. When she finds she’s been placed in a special needs class, Roz begins a desperate attempt to prove she is 'normal'. Her attempts cause her to make some very wrong choices and be blind to everything going on around her. When her classmate Tricia Farni is found dead and Roz was the last person to see her alive, Roz must find what she missed that awful night. Problem is, she doesn’t remember.
THE RULES FOR DISAPPEARING
by Ashley Elston
Disney-Hyperion, 2013 (now available in paperback!)
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She’s been six
different people in six different places: Madeline in Ohio, Isabelle in
Missouri, Olivia in Kentucky . . . But now that she’s been transplanted
to rural Louisiana, she has decided that this fake identity will be her
last.
Witness Protection has taken nearly everything from her.
But for now, they’ve given her a new name, Megan Rose Jones, and a
horrible hair color. For the past eight months, Meg has begged her
father to answer one question: What on earth did he do – or see – that
landed them in this god-awful mess? Meg has just about had it with all
the Suits’ rules — and her dad’s silence. If he won’t help, it’s time
she got some answers for herself.
But Meg isn’t counting on Ethan
Landry, an adorable Louisiana farm boy who’s too smart for his own
good. He knows Meg is hiding something big. And it just might get both
of them killed. As they embark on a perilous journey to free her family
once and for all, Meg discovers that there’s only one rule that really
matters — survival.
THE RULES FOR BREAKING
by Ashley Elston
Disney-Hyperion, coming May 20, 2014!
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Anna Boyd almost lost her life to get what she wanted most in the world: freedom.
But
just when it seems that her family has finally escaped Witness
Protection, the illusion that Anna could resume a normal life comes
crashing down.
The deadly man Anna knows as Thomas is still on
the loose, and now he's using her as a pawn in a dangerous game with the
drug cartel determined to silence her forever. When Thomas and a
mysterious masked man capture not only Anna but also her fragile younger
sister and her boyfriend, Anna decides it's time to break all the
rules-even if it means teaming up with the lesser of two evils.
Anna
will do whatever it takes to protect the people she loves and win her
life back once and for all. But her true enemies are hidden in plain
sight. Before long, Anna will learn that putting her trust in anyone may
be the last mistake she ever makes.
FAKE ID
by Lamar Giles
HarperCollins Children's Books/Amistad, 2014 - new release!!
Nick Pearson is pretending to be someone he isn’t. Not high school pretending. Witness Protection pretending. And the #1 rule is “stay low-key”. But, when his sole friend Eli dies in the school’s journalism room under mysterious circumstances, and Nick stumbles upon the conspiracy Eli planned on exposing, staying low-key takes a backseat to staying alive.
Newspaper Nerd Eli had a secret, an in-the-works story codenamed “Whispertown”. And it’s got a lot of folks interested. Like corrupt cops, the town’s shady mayor, and certain high-ranking government officials. Teaming with Eli’s estranged (and gorgeous) sister, Nick sets out to unravel the mystery and still maintain his cover. He’ll have to use all the deviant skills he’s gained from his racketeering dad, assassin godfather, and their Serbian gangster boss to find the truth. However, each clue brings him closer to answers he may not want. Whispertown is bigger than he could have ever imagined, and in its shadow stands a killer…a killer Nick fears may be his own father.
SECRETS OF SHAKESPEARE'S GRAVE:
The Shakespeare Mysteries, Book I
by Deron Hicks
Houghton Mifflin, 2012 (now available in paperback!)
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Twelve-year-old Colophon Letterford has a
serious mystery on her hands. Her father
is the owner of an old and prestigious publishing house. Sinister forces, however, are plotting to
take her father’s business away from him.
Undaunted, Colophon comes up with a plan. If she can find a long-rumored family
treasure before Christmas Eve, she might be able to save the family business.
Will she discover the link between her family’s literary legacy and
Shakespeare’s tomb before it’s too late? Antique paintings, secret passages,
locked mausoleums, a four-hundred-year-old treasure, and a cast of quirky (and
some ignoble) characters all add up to a fun adventure. Readers will revel in a
whirlwind journey through literary time and space in real-world locales from
Mont St. Michel to Stratford-Upon-Avon to Central Park!
 TOWER OF THE FIVE ORDERS:
The Shakespeare Mysteries, Book II
by Deron Hicks
Houghton Mifflin, 2013 (now available in paperback!)
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Colophon Letterford’s life changed overnight when she uncovered Shakespeare’s lost manuscripts. Now the authenticity of those manuscripts is in question . . . and the centuries-old family publishing business is in danger. In this exciting mystery, thirteen-year-old Colophon travels from Oxford’s lofty Tower of the Five Orders to the dank depths of London’s sewers in her pursuit of truth and honor. But the stakes are high. Budding cryptologists, Shakespeare fans, and mystery lovers alike will revel in the twists and turns of this fascinating middle grade sequel to Secrets of Shakespeare’s Grave.
THE WIG IN THE WINDOW
by Kristen Kittscher
Harper Children's, 2013
Sophie Young and Grace Yang: best friends, seventh graders, spies. Equipped with walkie-talkies, binoculars, and candy, the girls sneak out for one of their midnight spy missions expecting a simple stakeout. But what starts as a game turns real when they peek in on Luna Vista’s notoriously bizarre middle school counselor, Dr. Charlotte Agford (a.k.a. Dr. Awkward).
Is there more to Dr. Agford than her tacky clothes and sugary falsetto? Sophie and Grace are convinced something sinister lurks below the surface…and they just might be right. Soon, they’re racing to outsmart the suspicious counselor — all while cracking secret codes, dodging a mysterious blue car, and keeping tabs on strangers with unibrows and Texas twangs.
But the strain of the investigation pushes the girls further apart. Even if Sophie and Grace uncover the truth about Agford in time, will their friendship survive?
PRETTY CROOKED
by Elisa Ludwig
Katherine Tegen/HarperCollins, 2012 (now available in paperback!)
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Things couldn't be better for 15 year-old Willa Fox: Her mom has just moved them to beautiful Paradise Valley, playground for the rich and powerful. Already Willa's been welcomed into the inner circle of her school's most exclusive clique and she's attracted the attentions of the superfine Aidan Murphy. But when Willa finds out that her new best friends are actually bullies, she decides she has to take a stand—even if it means taking the law into her own hands.
PRETTY SLY
(Pretty Crooked #2)
by Elisa Ludwig
Kathering Tegen/HarperCollins, 2014 - new release!!
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Willa Fox was told to stay out of trouble. In fact, it was an order from a very serious juvenile court judge.
However, that was before Willa found her house ransacked and a mysterious email from her mother telling Willa she had to leave Paradise Valley for a while and not to come looking for her. Willa knows her mom’s in danger and that no one at school will miss her after her recent sticky-fingered stunts with the Glitterati. So with the help of her pal Tre and with her degenerate crush Aidan as her wingman, Willa violates her probation and hits the California highway in search of her mom.
But when Willa and Aidan’s journey turns dangerously criminal and they wind up being the focus of a national manhunt, they realize it’s sometimes easier to escape the law than the truth—and that everything Willa thought she knew about her mom, and her life, was wrong.
 COIN HEIST
The
last place you’d expect to find a team of criminals is at a prestigious
Philadelphia prep school. But on a class trip to the U.S. Mint – which
prints a million new coins every 30 minutes – an overlooked security
flaw becomes far too tempting for a small group of students to ignore.
United
by dire circumstances, these unlikely allies – the nerd, the slacker,
the athlete, and the perfect student – band together to attempt the
impossible: rob the U.S. Mint. This diverse crew is forced to confront
their true beliefs about each other and themselves as they do the wrong
thing for the right reasons.
COIN HEIST is
a fun, suspenseful, and compelling thriller, told from the perspectives
of four teens with different motivations for pulling off the biggest
heist in recent history.
DEAD TO ME
by Mary McCoy
Disney-Hyperion, coming February 2015!
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Alice was twelve when her big sister, Annie, stormed out of the house
and disappeared into the streets of Los Angeles, abandoning a
promising acting career - and Alice. Three years later, Annie turns up
in MacArthur Park, beaten into a coma and carrying nothing but
a photograph with Alice's name and phone number scrawled on the back.
Alice
vows to find Annie's attacker, but to do that she'll have to retrace
her sister's steps. The investigation will lead her into a world of
tough-talking private eyes, psychopathic movie stars, and troubled
starlets - and onto the trail of Celeste, a young runaway who witnessed a
terrible crime. What Celeste knows could shut down a criminal syndicate
and put Annie's attacker behind bars. But only if Alice can find her
first.
TOKYO HEIST
by Diana Renn
Viking/Penguin, 2012 (now available in paperback!)
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Sixteen-year-old Violet loves reading manga and wearing scarves made from kimono fabric, so she’s thrilled that her father’s new painting commission means a summer trip to Japan. But what starts as an exotic vacation quickly turns sour when priceless sketches by van Gogh are stolen from her father’s client and held ransom for a painting by the artist. The problem is that nobody knows where this painting is hidden, and until they find it, all their lives are in danger.
Joined by her friend Reika, Violet searches for the missing van Gogh in a quest that takes her from the Seattle Art Museum to the yakuza-infested streets of Tokyo to a secluded inn in Kyoto. As the mystery deepens, Violet’s not sure whom she can trust. But she knows one thing: she has to find the painting and the criminals—before it’s too late.
LATITUDE ZERO
by Diana Renn
Viking/Penguin, coming July 3, 2014!
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“I have to run,” said Juan Carlos. “You will
call? Please? It is very important.”
“Yes. I will call. Definitely. At two.”
That’s what Tessa promises. But by two
o’clock, young Ecuadorian cycling superstar Juan
Carlos is dead, and Tessa, one of the last people ever to speak to him, is left
with nothing but questions. The media deems Juan Carlos’s death a tragic
accident at a charity bike ride, but Tessa, a teen television host and an
aspiring investigative journalist, knows that something more is going on. While
she grapples with her own grief and guilt, she is being stalked by spies with
an insidious connection to the dead cycling champion. Tessa’s pursuit of an
explanation for Juan Carlos’s untimely death leads her from the quiet New
England backwoods to bustling bike shops and ultimately to Ecuador, Juan
Carlos’s homeland. As the ride grows bumpy, Tessa no longer knows who is a
suspect and who is an ally. The only thing she knows for sure is that she must
uncover the truth of why Juan Carlos has died and race to find the real
villain—before the trail goes cold.
BRUISED
by Sarah Skilton
Amulet Books, March 2013
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