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Author
Series
Janie Johnson volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
No one ever really paid close attention to the faces of the missing children on the milk cartons. But as Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl with her hair in tight pigtails wearing a dress with a narrow white collar a three-year-old who had been kidnapped twelve years before from a shopping mall in New Jersey-she felt overcome with shock. She recognized that little girl-it was she. How could it possibly be true. Janie can't...
Author
Series
Bad guys (Aaron Blabey) volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A creature with tons of teeth and way too many butts is stealing the Bad Guys one by one.--
Author
Series
Starry River of the Sky volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Description
"Pinmei, a storyteller's granddaughter, must find the Luminous Stone that Lights the Night to rescue her grandmother, who has been kidnapped by the Tiger Emperor"--
Author
Series
His dark materials volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Accompanied by her daemon, Lyra Belacqua sets out to prevent her best friend and other kidnapped children from becoming the subject of gruesome experiments in the Far North.
Author
Series
Janie Johnson volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
The members of two families have their lives disrupted when a teenage girl who had been kidnapped twelve years earlier discovers that the people who raised her are not her biological parents. No one ever paid attention to the faces of missing children on milk cartons. But as Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the little girl who had been taken twelve years ago, she recognized that little girl--it was herself. The mystery of the kidnapping is unraveled,...
6) Kidnapped
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
In 1751 in Scotland, cheated out of his inheritance by a greedy uncle who has him kidnapped and put on a ship to the Carolinas, seventeen-year-old David Balfour escapes to the Highlands with the help of the Jacobite Alan Breck Stewart and there encounters further danger and intrigue as he attempts to clear his name and regain his property.
Author
Series
Janie Johnson volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
While still adjusting to the reality of having two families, her birth family and the family into which she was kidnapped as a small child, seventeen-year-old Janie makes a shocking discovery about her long-gone kidnapper.
Author
Series
Echo Falls mystery volume 2
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
©2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
An avid Sherlock Holmes fan, eighth grader Ingrid Levin-Hill is kidnapped while investigating mysterious happenings in her home town.
10) The roar
Author
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In an overpopulated world where all signs of nature have been obliterated and a wall has been erected to keep out plague-ridden animals, twelve-year-old Mika refuses to believe that his twin sister was killed after being abducted, and continues to search for her in spite of the dangers he faces in doing so.
Author
Series
Shamer Chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Dina, who recently inherited her mother's gift of perceiving secret shames through eye contact, is kidnapped and forced to shame enemies of the evil Valdracu, her fifteen-year-old brother Davin rides to her aid.
12) Artemis Fowl
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Children's New Books: September 2020 eBooks and eAudiobooks
Children's Read Alikes: Harry Potter
Children's Read Alikes: Percy Jackson
Summer 2023 Teen Volunteer Book Reviews!
Children's Read Alikes: Harry Potter
Children's Read Alikes: Percy Jackson
Summer 2023 Teen Volunteer Book Reviews!
Description
When twelve-year-old evil genius Artemis Fowl tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
Author
Series
Tales of the Frog Princess volume 8
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
While Princess Millie and her dragon fiance prepare for their wedding, the entire royal family of Greater Greensward teams up to find Millie's baby brother, who has been kidnapped and turned into a frog.
Author
Series
Fowl twins volume 2
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's New Books: October 2021 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Special Topics: New e-Books November 2021
Children's Special Topics: New e-Books November 2021
Formats
Description
Taking the Fowl jet without permission before it mysteriously explodes over Florida, the Fowl twins are placed under house arrest until Myles's questions about what really happened lead to an astonishing abduction.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade 2023
Children's Recommended: E-Books Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade 2023
Children's Recommended: E-Books Fiction for Middle Grades
Formats
Description
When Princess Marabel's twin brother, Marco, is kidnapped on their thirteenth birthday, Princess Marabel must defy expectations and prophecies, leave the castle for the first time, and face great danger to rescue him.
Author
Series
Janie Johnson volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
At college in New York City, Janie Johnson, aka Jennie Spring, seems to have successfully left behind her past as "The face on the milk carton," but soon she, her families, and friends are pursued by a true-crime writer who wants their help in telling her kidnapper's tale.
Author
Series
The tapestry volume 1
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Formats
Description
After glimpsing a hint of his destiny in a mysterious tapestry, twelve-year-old Max McDaniels becomes a student at Rowan Academy, where he trains in "mystics and combat" in preparation for war with an ancient enemy that has been kidnapping children like him.
18) The subtle knife
Author
Series
His dark materials volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
As the boundaries between worlds begin to dissolve, Lyra and her daemon help Will Parry in his search for his father and for a powerful, magical knife.
20) Windswept
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Years after her sisters venture Outside and vanish in a snow squall, thirteen-year-old Tag sets out to rescue the lost Youngers, accompanied by an unlikely crew--Boots, who can climb anything; Ant, who will eat anything; and Ren, who will say anything. Includes author's note.
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