From The Mixed-up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler
Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 277
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: runaways, brothers and sisters, runaway children, siblings, newbery medal books, newbery medal, large type books, metropolitan museum of art, self-reliance, museums, new york (n.y.), children's audiobooks, missing persons [X], runaways - fiction, chinese language, metropolitan museum of art (new york, n.y.), domestic fiction
Inkheart
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life when an evil ruler named Capricorn, freed from the novel "Inkheart" years earlier, tries to force Mo to release an immortal monster from the story.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 214
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 780
subjects: books and reading, characters in literature, magic, bookbinding, authorship, italy, readers rule, characters and characteristics in literature, video recordings for the hearing impaired, good and evil, missing persons [X], fathers and daughters, time travel
Gregor The Overlander
Eleven-year-old Gregor and his two-year-old sister are pulled into a strange underground world populated by humans, giant spiders, bats, cockroaches, and rats, but his anxiety to find his way home is quelled when he finds a prophecy that foretells of his role in the Underland's future.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 77
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630
A Wrinkle In Time
Although he has been missing for several years and the entire town thinks her father has abandoned her family, Meg steadfastly believes the best and protects her younger brother, Charles Wallace, from the brunt of the rumors and taunting.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 488
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: space and time, science fiction, science fiction, brothers and sisters, extraterrestrial beings, friendship, compact discs, time travel, siblings, audiobooks, newbery medal, missing persons [X], gifted children, science fiction, aliens (fictional characters), large type books, large print books, life on other planets
The Runaway Dolls
Best friends Annabelle and Tiffany risk placing all of dollkind in danger when they run away while trying to prevent Tilly from being sent back to London before they can determine if she is Annabelle's long-lost baby sister.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 56
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
The True Meaning Of Smekday
In the chaotic turmoil that follows the Boov invasion of Earth, eleven-year-old Gratuity Tucci finds herself driving her mother's car to Florida, where all of the humans are being relocated, with her cat and a renegade extraterrestiral named J.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 49
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
subjects: human-alien encounters, alien abduction, missing persons [X], audiobooks, audiobooks, life on other planets, mother-daughter relationship, extraterrestrial beings, automobile travel, science fiction, humorous stories, humorous fiction, automobiles, humorous fiction
The Calder Game
When seventh-grader Calder Pillay disappears from a remote English village--along with an Alexander Calder sculpture to which he has felt strangely drawn--his friends Petra and Tommy fly from Chicago to help his father find him.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 98
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 830
subjects: calder, alexander, mobiles (sculpture), sculpture, missing persons [X], mystery and detective stories, england, mystery fiction, large type books, large print books, mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories
The Mysterious Benedict Society And The Perilous Journey
Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance, all graduates of the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened and members of the Benedict Society, embark on a scavenger hunt that turns into a desperate search for the missing Mr.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 83
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 890
The Nina, The Pinta, And The Vanishing Treasure
Amateur sleuth Alec and his sidekick Gina investigate when the Christopher Columbus exhibit disappears from the museum.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 10
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740
The Secret Of The Caves
Young detectives Frank and Joe Hardy, investigating the disappearance of a professor, encounter a hot-tempered hermit, and sabotage at the radar station and Honeycomb Caves.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 17
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
subjects: hardy boys (fictitious characters), college teachers, sabotage, mystery and detective stories, hardy boys (fictional characters), mystery fiction, missing persons [X], amnesia, detective and mystery fiction, detective and mystery stories
The Missing Chums
When the Hardy Boys set out to solve the mystery of their missing chums, they discover a gang hide-out in a cave on an island along the way.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670
subjects: mystery and detective stories, mystery fiction, hardy boys (fictitious characters), missing persons [X], hardy boys (fictional characters), kidnapping, friendship, detective and mystery fiction
Mystery Of The Desert Giant
Frank and Joe solve a mystery involving a missing man, an abandoned airplane and giants in the desert.
FIC
year: 1989
copies: 5
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700
Vanished!
Examines the mysterious disappearance of the world-famous woman pilot who was lost over the Pacific Ocean while on a historic round-the-world flight in 1937.
920
year: 1996
copies: 6
call number/section: 920
lexile: 650
Proof Positive
Andrew and Evie are determined to find their mother before the Company does.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 9
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 640
The Ruby Princess Runs Away
Roxanne does not feel she is ready to be crowned the Ruby Princess and assume the throne of the Red Mountains, but when she runs away she meets some friends who help her change her mind.
FIC
year: 1999
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 520