Beil, Michael           The Red Blazer Girls:  The Ring of Rocamadour

Three school friends find themselves on a spooky scavenger hunt wrapped in

clues about religion, literature, and math, with a museum-quality treasure at its

end.

Birdsall, Jeanne         The Penderwicks

While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother.

Bode, N.E.         The Anybodies

After learning that she is not the biological daughter of boring Mr. and Mrs. Drudger, Fern embarks on magical adventures with her real father and finally finds a place that feels like home.

Broach, Elise      Shakespeare's Secret

A young girl tries to uncover the connections between a missing diamond, a mysterious neighbor, and a link to Shakespeare.

Byng, Georgia     Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism

Unlucky and unloved, Molly Moon lives in a dreary orphanage in a small English town. When Molly discovers a hidden talent for hypnotism, she hypnotizes her way to stardom in New York City

Clements, Andrew       The School Story

Twelve-year-old Natalie uses a pseudonym, and her best friend pretends to be an agent, in order to get Natalie's first novel published. To everyone's surprise, the book becomes a best seller.

Coombs, Kate        The Runaway Princess

Fifteen-year-old Princess Meg uses magic and her wits to rescue a baby dragon and escape the unwanted attentions of princes hoping to gain her hand in marriage through a contest arranged by her father, the king.

Dhami, Narinder               Bindi Babes

Three fun-loving Indian-British sisters rule the roost since their mom died.They've got a reputation at school for being the coolestbabes in town, and what they don't need is an itnerfering Auntie-ji from India cramping their style.

Dunmore, Helen          Ingo

          As they search for their missing father near their Cornwall home, Sapphy and

          her brother Conor realize their family is connected to the Mer people who live in the    

          underwater Kingdom of Ingo.

Forester, Victoria                 The Girl Who Could Fly

          When Piper McCloud reveals her ability to fly, she is quickly taken to a secret     

          government facility to be trained with other exceptional children. Piper soon realizes

          that something is very wrong and begins working with brilliant and wealthy Conrad

          to escape.

Funke, Cornelia     Inkheart

Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" ficional characters to life when one of the characters abducts them and tries to force her father into service.

Gaiman, Neil             Coraline

When Coraline steps through the locked door in her family's new flat, she finds a world which caters to her every whim. When she wants to leave, however, things rapidly change, and she must fight a battle of good and evil to save herself.

George, Jessica       Dragon Slippers

           Orphaned after a fever epidemic, Creel befriends a dragon and unknowingly inherits

           an object that can either save or destroy her kingdom

Holm, Jennifer             Turtle in Paradise

           In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida. Turtle discovers a startlingly different way of life amid boisterous cousins, Nana Philly, and a buried treasure and a hurricane. Laugh-out-loud adventures.

Ibbotson, Eva       The Star of Kazan

In pre-World War I Vienna, a young servant girl learns that she is actually an aristocrat whose true home is an ancient castle. There, Annika discovers that all is not as it seems in the lives of her newfound family.

Kelly, Jacqueline          The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate

          As 11-year-old Callie Tate explores the natural world around her in 1899 Texas, she

          develops a close relationship with her grandfather, navigates living with six brothers, 

          and comes up against just what it means to be a girl at the turn of the century.

Kimmel, Elizabeth Cody       Lily B. on the Brink of Cool

Lily attempts to turn around the most boring summer ever. And when she meets Karla, and her incredibly cool parents, her summer gets even better because she learns they are her relatives. But are they who they seem to be?

Kindl, Patrice           Goose Chase

Rather than marry a cruel king or a seemingly dim-witted prince, an enchanted goose girl endures imprisonment, capture by several ogresses, and other dangers before learning exactly who she is.

Landry, Derek               Skulguggery Pleasant

           When twelve-year-old Stephanie inherits her weird uncle's estate, she must join

           forces with Skulguggery Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to save the world from

           the Faceless Ones.

Law, Ingrid                               Savvy

          The adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her

           "savvy" - a magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is                injured in a terrible accident.

Margolis, Leslie                  Girl's Best Friend

          In Brooklyn, New York, twelve-year-old dog-walker Maggie, aided by her twin         

          brother Finn and best friend Lucy, investigates someone she believes is stealing pets.

Mass, Wendy                           11 Birthdays

          After celebrating their first nine same-day birthdays together, Amanda and Leo, having

           fallen out on their tenth and not speaking to each other for the last year, prepare to

           celebrate their eleventh birthday separately but peculiar things begin to happen as

           the day of their birthday begins to repeat itself over and over again.

McKay, Hilary           Saffy's Angel

When Saffy discovers that she is adopted, she sets out in search of all she remembers from her youth - a stone angel in a garden in Italy.

Mikaelsen, Ben    Stranded

Twelve-year-old Koby, who lost a foot in an accident, sees a chance to prove her self-reliance to her parents when she tries to rescue two stranded pilot whales near her home in the Florida Keyes

Pratchett, Terry          The Wee Free Men

A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue her baby brother and ward off a sinister invasion from Fairyland.

Primavera, Elise      The Secret Order of the Gumm Street Girls

In order to save the town of Sherbert, four girls with very little in common become involved with some people and events that seem to bear some resemblance to "The Wizard of Oz". A wildly inventive comic fantasy adventure.

Ryan, Pam Munoz       Paint the Wind

          After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her

           extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote

          Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild

           mare that her mother once rode.

Schlitz, Laura               A Drowned Maiden's Hair: a melodrama

           When orphaned Maud Flynn is adopted by the charming Miss Hyacinth and her

            sister, Maud is shocked to learn that she has been selected to help stage

            elaborate seances for the bereaved.

Shahan, Sherry      Death Mountain

While traveling to visit the mother she has not heard from in almost a year, Erin and another teenage girl become lost in the rugged Sierra Nevada mountains and must struggle for six days to survive.

Springer, Nancy     The Case of the Missing Marquess

Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, must travel to London in disguise to unravel the disappearance of her missing mother.

Stanley, Diane             The Silver Bowl       

From the age of seven when she became scullery maid in a castle, Molly has seen visions of the future which, years later, lead her and friend Tobias on an adventure to keep Alaric, the heir to the throne, safe from a curse.

Stead, Rebecca                   When You Reach Me

           A twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of

           mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy

           the laws of time and space.

Stone, Phoebe               The Romeo and Juliet Code

           During World War II, eleven-year-old Felicity is sent from London to Bottlebay, Maine

           to live with her grandmother, aunt, uncle and a reclusive boy who helps her decode

           mysterious letters that contain the truth about her missing parents.

Tanner, Lian                           Museum of Thieves

          Goldie, an impulsive and bold twelve-year-old, escapes the oppressive city of Jewel,

          where children are required to wear guardchains for their protection, and finds refuge

           in the extraordinary Museum of Dunt, an ever-shifting world where she discovers a

           useful talent for thievery and mysterious secrets that threaten her city and everyone

           she loves.

Tarshis, Lauren          Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree

           Emma-Jean is a lovable oddball who thinks she can use logic to solve the "messy"

           everyday problems of her seventh-grade peers. The more she gets involved, the

           messier her own life gets.

Taylor, Laini                               Blackbringer

           Magpie Windwitch, granddaughter of the West Wind, is the only faerie

           determinded to stand up against the ancient evil of the Blackbringer, who rises up to

           unmake the world.       

Ursu, Anne         The Shadow Thieves

After her cousin Zee arrives from England, 13-year-old Charlotte and he must set out to save humankind from denizens of the underworld, Nightmares, Death, Pain and a really nasty guy named Phil.

Van Draanen, Wendelin      Sammy Keyes Mystery series

Sammy Keyes is a spunky, feisty seventh-grader who lives with her grandmother in a seniors-only apartment complex. She and her friends solve mysteries as well as maneuver their way through the world of junior high.

Velmans, Hester           Isabel of the Whales

          While with her class on a whale-watching field trip, 11 year-old Isabel falls

           overboard----and she's shocked when the whales speak to her. They tell

          her she's a "Chosen One" who has the ability to turn from a human into a

          whale and back again.

Wood, Maryrose            The Mysterious Howling 

          Found running wild in the forest of Ashton Place, the Incorrigibles are no

          ordinary children. Luckily, Miss Penelope Lumley is no ordinary governess.

          Penelope embraces the challenge of her new position. But myseries abound

          at Ashton Place.   

Winterson, Jeanette                     Tanglewreck

           Eleven-year old Silver sets out to find the Timekeeper---a clock that controls

           time---and to protect it from falling into the hands of two people who want

           to use the device for their own nefarious ends.

Yee, Lisa                  Millicent Min, Girl Genius

            Millicent Min's fellow high school students hate her for setting the curve, and her

            fellow eleven-year-olds hate her for going to high school. Fortunately things start

            to look up when Millicent takes up volleyball and meets Emily.