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Going Places

Fran Hurcomb (author)

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers ISBN: 9781554690206

Twelve-year-old Jess and her friends have been playing hockey with the boys in Fort Desperation, Northwest Territories, since they were six years old. They'd like to start a girls' team in their community, but is tiny Fort Desperation ready for it? Somebody is trying to scare them off through acts of vandalism. Not only do Jess and her friends have to organize a team, find a coach and learn to play together, they have to unmask the Hockey Vandal. Can they do it before the Vandal destroys their team's hopes?

Dalen and Gole - Scandal in Port Angus

Mike Deas (author)

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers ISBN: 9781554698011

With seconds to the finish line, Dalen and Gole lead the distant world of Budap's annual Junior-Jet Race. Suddenly they are overtaken. Left behind in a cloud of mysterious purple exhaust, they realize something doesn't add up. Looking for clues, the two friends uncover a tunnel that leads them to Earth. They arrive in Port Angus, once a lively west coast fishing community. The fishing industry is dying, and Dalen and Gole find themselves embroiled in a sinister plot to steal fish and send them to Budap. Pursued by government agents and angry aliens, Dalen and Gole are in a race against time to save both their own distant world and the fishing community of Port Angus.

Dinosaurs on the Beach

Marilyn Helmer (author)

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers ISBN: 9781551434285

Josie is fascinated with the secrets of the prehistoric world. She and her grandfather, an amateur paleontologist, explore the beaches and cliffs near Stone Trees Cottage in Nova Scotia. Tiny bones have been discovered, but what are they from? As Josie searches for the answer, she is forced to cope with an accident and competition from an unpleasant neighbor. Time is of the essence, for she must find the answer before someone else does and before the tides and waves that exposed the secret wash it away forever.

High Wire

Melanie Jackson (author)

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers ISBN: 9781459802384

Zack Freedman has complete control and feels a sense of calm on the high wire. If only he could say the same about the rest of his life. His fellow youth circus performer and roommate, Cubby, hates him, and his aunt dumps a yappy, excitable dog on him. When a necklace is stolen during a circus performance and the victim of the theft threatens to shut down the circus, Zack is desperate to solve the mystery so he can keep his place on the wire.

Fast Slide

Melanie Jackson (author)

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers ISBN: 9781554693443

Clay would much rather work as a lifeguard at the beach than at Safari Splash, the new water park in town. He's certain the summer will drag along, despite his position at the Boa, the park's fastest slide. The summer job starts to get interesting when he learns that someone has been wandering the park in a lynx costume, scaring the staff. When forty thousand dollars is stolen from the till, and his friends are under suspicion for the theft, boring is starting to look good. But Clay is certain that the mask and the thefts are connected, and he's determined to solve the crime.

Bear Market

Michele Martin Bossley (author)

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers ISBN: 9781554692224

While volunteering at the local zoo, Robyn, Nick and Trevor learn that grizzly bears are being poached and their gall bladders removed for use in alternative medicine. Always ready to solve a mystery, the kids set out to find the poachers. Bear is not only big game, they learn, but big money to poachers. The stakes are high and the suspects many, as the kids head into their most dangerous adventure yet.

Fraud Squad

Michele Martin Bossley (author)

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers ISBN: 9781554691166

When Trevor, Nick and Robyn visit the Royal Tyrrell Museum, Robyn is inspired to raise funds for a dinosaur dig that will close soon if it doesn't find funding. The kids are caught up in another mystery when a chain of suspicious events, including the disappearance of important fossils and a fraudulent discovery at the dig, leads them to wonder what's going on. Is the new visiting scientist behind the fraud, or did Robyn's enthusiasm to save the dig lead her astray?

Cracked

Michele Martin Bossley (author)

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers ISBN: 9781551437040

Trevor, Nick and Robyn are ready to solve another mystery. When bobsledder Josh Gantz is accused of deliberately injuring a fellow competitor, he runs the risk of being thrown out of the sport -- right before the World Cup. Courtney Gantz asks Trevor, Nick and Robyn to help clear her brother's name. Can they find out who framed Josh? What is the meaning of the strange coded messages they keep finding around Olympic Park? Who eats orange bananas, anyway? The kids must unearth the clues in a race against time, before Josh's championship dreams end up on ice.

Bio-Pirate

Michele Martin Bossley (author)

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers ISBN: 9781551438979

Trevor, Robyn and Nick decide they have a mystery to solve when Trevor discovers a suspicious looking young man snooping around. They learn about missing research involving the use of carob beans to aid in cancer treatment-potentially valuable information. With a shady looking grad student, a bitter activist and an employee of a medical research firm to deal with, our amateur sleuths are faced with their greatest challenge yet.

Agent Angus

K.L. Denman (author)

Publisher: Orca Book Publishers ISBN: 9781459801059

Angus and his best buddy, Shahid, share a love of science and their robot, Gordon. But recently, the artistic Ella Eckles has had a peculiar effect on Angus. When a stink bomb at the school provides a chance for him to talk to her, he claims to share her interest in reading facial expressions and declares his ambition to become a crime-solving mentalist. He impresses Ella by identifying the stink bomber, but fails to mention he witnessed a scrawny kid setting off the bomb. When Ella's treasured sketchbook is stolen, she asks Angus to find the thief. Shahid thinks Angus should confess that he's not a mentalist, but Angus is certain he can learn to read people and recover Ella's sketchbook. He asks Shahid to help him investigate the suspects: Gaga Girl; the art teacher, Mr. Wilder; and finally, "scrawny kid." Equipped with rearview sunglasses and an informant who lurks in the washroom, the duo bungles their way through a series of encounters that alarm Shahid and provide Angus with some unfamiliar exercise.

The 75-Cent Son

Janice Greene (author)

Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing ISBN: 9781602919082

Humiliated by his father's constant criticism, a dyslexic young man proves his worth when a fire threatens to sink their ship.

The Mystery Quilt

Janet Lorimer (author)

Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing ISBN: 9781602919051

Rachel was desperate for a topic for her term paper for her least favorite class- history. But the impeding due date and her need to begin writing conflicts with her mother's plans for Rachel's 20th birthday.

Kula'i Street Knights

Janet Lorimer (author)

Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing ISBN: 9781602919044

Who are the strangers in Eddie Kahele's Honolulu neighborhood? The old people are calling them heroes. But Eddie suspects there's a lot more to the story.

The Experiment

Anne Schraff (author)

Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing ISBN: 9781602919037

Psychology professor Odin Fruder has had it. He designs a very special project for his most disruptive students.

Danger on Ice

Janet Lorimer (author)

Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing ISBN: 9781602919013

The police swore that the hulking serial killer was dead. Then Ken Hudson sees Leviathan standing right there in the doorway.

Black Widow Beauty

Anne Schraff (author)

Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing ISBN: 9781602919006

Monique Reed is a gorgeous girl, all right. Is it her fault that every guy she dates ends up having a freak accident.

Empty Eyes

Janet Lorimer (author)

Publisher: Saddleback Educational Publishing ISBN: 9781602919020

There's something odd about the attendants at the Painted Desert Resort. Brad can't shake the feeling that they never stop watching him.