Tanya Trafford
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Xander thinks the George Wickerman Hospital would be the perfect setting for Spirits and Specters, a role-playing game where players go on 'missions' to find evidence of paranormal activities. According to local legend, tuberculosis patients were used as test subjects in medical experiments that ended tragically, and their disfigured ghosts walk the hallways of this now-abandoned building. What better location to go ghost hunting? Even though they...
2) Heart sister
Author
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A teenage filmmaker tries to track down the recipients of his twin sister's organs in hopes that it will help his parents move on from the loss of their daughter."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Language
English
Description
"Ryan Hale, aka "Replay," is the most successful running back in his high school's history. With university scouts making him offers he can't refuse, his future seems set. The problem is, Ryan would much rather go to film school. But his dad doesn't want to hear it. His teammates sure don't. He can't afford the application fees anyway. But then a solution appears when Markus, a strange exchange student with outrageous stories about mobsters and hackers,...
4) Easy street
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In this high-interest novel for teen readers, Rob has mixed feelings about his brother, Adam, being released from prison."--
Three years ago Rob's brother, Adam, was sent to jail for his part in the death of a girl who overdosed at a rave. But now that he has been released, Rob hopes that things can go back to the way they used to be. He soon realizes this is impossible. His brother has changed, the times have changed, and Rob has changed. Adam...
5) Oh brother
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In this high-interest novel for middle readers, Lauren is worried what will happen when her new friends realize her brother is disabled."--
Moving to a new city and a new school is never easy. So Lauren is relieved when Callie, Treena and Maddy welcome her into their group. But then Lauren witnesses their reaction to a first grader in a wheelchair. That boy is her little brother, Will. But she's afraid that if she tells them, they may not want to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In this high-interest accessible novel for middle-grade readers, 14-year-old Blue Jasper must enter the enchanted Crosswood when his twin siblings are kidnapped by a Faerie king."--
Blue Jasper is on a hike with his younger siblings, twins Indigo and Violet. One moment the twins are right ahead of him, and the next they are gone. As Blue frantically searches for them, a strange woman appears claiming to be the Faerie Queen Olea of Nearwood and the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Theo is happy spending his summer searching the river for treasure. Even if he mostly just finds empty cans and fishing lures. But when he discovers a pocket watch in the waters beneath a bridge that's said to be haunted, he is sure his luck has changed. Theo soon learns that the pocket watch is linked to a local legend about a ghost and buried treasure. Theo is determined to solve this mystery and posts his progress online. Even after he receives...