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Naomi Bowes lost her innocence the night she followed her father into the woods. In freeing the girl trapped in the root cellar, Naomi revealed the horrible extent of her father's crimes and made him infamous. Now a successful photographer living under the name Naomi Carson, she has found a place that calls to her, thousands of miles away from everything she's ever known. Naomi wants to embrace the solitude, but the residents of Sunrise Cove keep...
Author
Series
Descendants ; 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When King Triton's trident enters the Isle of the Lost, Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay devise a plan to find the magical object before Mal's wicked rival Uma can get her hands on it.
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Language
English
Description
"Everyone in the quiet Jersey Shore town of Silver Bay knows the story: on a Sunday evening in September 1991, Ramsey Miller threw a blowout block party, then murdered his beautiful wife and three-year-old daughter. But everyone is wrong. The daughter got away. Now she is nearly eighteen and tired of living in secrecy. Under the name Melanie Denison, she has spent the last fifteen years in small-town West Virginia as part of the Witness Protection...
4) Anti/Hero
Author
Publisher
DC Comics
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Piper Pájaro is strong and longs to be a superhero while Sloane MacBrute puts her smarts to use for her villainous grandfather, but when a mission to steal an experimental technological device brings the two 13-year-old girls face to face with each other, the device sparks and the two girls switch bodies."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Descendants ; 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay have received threatening messages demanding they return home. They have a sneaking suspicion that their villainous parents are behind the messages, and something Evie sees in her Magic Mirror confirms their fears. Although Maleficent's just a tiny lizard after her confrontation with Mal, could she have found a way to escape? Mal and her friends determine to sneak back to the Isle to get to the bottom of the mystery.
6) Deceptions
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Series
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English
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"Olivia Taylor Jones's life has exploded. She's discovered she is not only adopted, but her real parents are convicted serial killers. Fleeing the media frenzy, she took refuge in the oddly secluded town of Cainsville. She has since solved the town's mysteries and finds herself not only the target of its secretive elders but also her stalker ex-fiancé. Visions continue to haunt her: particularly a little blond girl in a green sundress who insists...
Author
Publisher
Madison Strempek
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Take a heartwarming journey with 10-year-old author, Madison Strempek, as she candidly depicts her life experience of life during her father's incarceration. Through her eyes, you will live the heartbreak of her life-changing news, discover how she survives with her embarrassing secret, and ultimately finds resolution and strength in understanding that everyone makes mistakes. It's truly a story of perseverance, forgiveness, and love. She skillfully...
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English
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By the age of nine, Diamond had lived in more than a dozen countries, on five continents, under six assumed identities. She didn't know that she was born into a family of outlaws fleeing from the highest international law enforcement agencies, a family with secrets that would eventually catch up to all of them. As her family began to unravel, she started to realize that her life itself might be a big con. With no way out and her identity burned so...
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"When seventeen-year-old Rainy comes home late one evening and finds her mother dead of a suicide, she has no reason to suspect that her death is directly tied to the fact that her father, the notorious Sam Cain, has escaped from prison and is coming for her because he is convinced that both Rainy and her mother know where the stolen money is hidden"--
10) Mal's spell book
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"For fans of Descendants, this spell book, which formerly belonged to Maleficent before she passed it on to Mal, is full of comments, notes, and inside jokes between Mal and the other villains' kids. Laugh and cry along with Mal, Evie, Jay and Carlos as they find their way in the world of Auradon Prep" --
11) Descendants 2
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Villain Kids are back in a high-stakes adventure that's badder than ever! When the pressure to be royally perfect becomes too much for Mal, she flees Auradon only to have Evie and the rest of the gang sneak onto the Isle to retrieve her. But there₂s a new, self-proclaimed queen of evil in town: Mal's archenemy Uma, daughter of Ursula. Together with her pirate crew, including Captain Hook's son Harry and Gaston's son Gil, Uma unleashes havoc...
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English
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"As a New Year begins in Bath, Ben Brace proposes to his long-term girlfriend, Caroline, the daughter of notorious crime baron Joe Irving, who is coming to the end of a prison sentence. The problem is that Ben's father, George, is the Deputy Chief Constable. A more uncomfortable set of in-laws would be hard to imagine. But mothers and sons are a formidable force: a wedding in the Abbey and reception in the Roman Baths are arranged before the career-obsessed...
13) Flesh and bone
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Some thirty years after Arlis witnesses his father murdering a family, he runs into Kay, who happens to be the family's baby who was spared. Kay and Arlis suspect nothing about each other, but when his father returns, old wounds are reopened.
14) Kajillionaire
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Two con artists have spent 26 years training their only daughter to swindle, scam, and steal at every turn. During a desperate and hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger into joining them, only to have their entire world turned upside down." --
15) Mal's diary
Author
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"What if you and your friends were forced to leave the place where you grew up and sent to a prep school where everyone hated your guts? What if your Mom was literally the most evil woman ever and expected you to help her destroy everybody there? What if you met someone kind of amazing...and it changed everything? Life isn't easy for Mal, but it's always exciting"--Page 4 of cover.
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English
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"What is it like to learn that your ordinary, loving father is a serial killer? In 2005, Kerri Rawson heard a knock on the door of her apartment. When she opened it, an FBI agent informed her that her father had been arrested for murdering ten people, including two children. It was then that she learned her father was the notorious serial killer known as BTK, a name he'd given himself that described the horrific way he committed his crimes: bind,...
17) Bronxwood
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
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The acclaimed author of TYRELL and KENDRA returns to PUSH to continue Tyrell's astonishing story.Tyrell's father is just out of jail, and Tyrell doesn't know how to deal with that. It's bad enough that his brother Troy is in foster care and that his mother is no help whatsoever. Now there's another thing up in his face, just when he's trying to settle down. Tyrell's father has plans of his own, and doesn't seem to care whether or not Tyrell wants...
18) Collision point
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Riordan Malone is more than a bodyguard. As an Elite Ops agent, he's ripped, raged, and ready to rumble--a true warrior, inside and out. But no war zone can compare to the battle in Rory's heart when he lays eyes on the only woman he's ever loved--and thought he had lost forever. As the daughter of a crime lord, Amara Resnova has endured the cruelty of her father's enemies--and has tried to escape that world ever since. Now, she must reach out to...
19) Colby roundup
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Colby agent Russell St. James knew the exact moment Olivia Westfield discovered she was the daughter of the infamous 'Princess Killer.' Ever since, being her bodyguard had become twice as hard. Each day, he shadowed her; each night, he held her through her tormenting nightmares. But was her father guilty? Her mother his accomplice? The answers lay deep in Olivia's memories, and the closer she got to the scene of the crime, the more she remembered....
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen years ago, Lilith Wade was arrested for the brutal murder of six women. After a death row conviction, media frenzy, and the release of an unauthorized biography, her thirty-year-old daughter Edie Beckett is just trying to survive out of the spotlight. She's a recovering alcoholic with a dead-end city job and an unhealthy codependent relationship with her brother. Edie also has a disturbing secret: a growing obsession with the families of...