Ocean State Libraries

When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance. --

"Thanks to a DNA test, Avery Grambs knows that she is not a Hawthorne by blood, but clues pile up hinting at a deeper connection to the family than she had ever imagined. Grayson and Jameson, the enigmatic and magnetic Hawthorne grandsons, continue to pull Avery in different directions. Tobias Hawthorne left his entire fortune to Avery, a virtual stranger, rather than to his own daughters or grandsons ... and there are those who will stop at nothing...

The reader follows Waldo as he hikes around the world and must try to find him in the illustrations of some of the crowded places he visits.

Simple, rhyming text encourages the reader to search the illustrations for animals and other items found on a farm.

When fifteen-year-old Frannie's father dies, only a mysterious jigsaw puzzle that he leaves behind can help her come to terms with his death.

"Simple text asks the readers a series of questions about the characters on each page, and the child must decipher the visual clues to find the answer." --

"Simple text asks the reader a series of questions about the characters on each page, and the child must find the visual clues that give the answer." --

Seventh-graders Sophie, Margaret, Rebecca, and Leigh Ann follow a trail of cryptic clues to locate a rare violin, catch the person sneaking into St. Veronica's School for late-night cleaning and redecorating, and outsmart a conniving classmate.

The simple text asks the reader a series of questions about the characters on each page, and the child must seek out the visual clues to answer.