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1) Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Author

Riggs, Ransom

Series

Miss Peregrine volume 1

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

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A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. And a strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes...

2) Surprise Island

Author

Warner, Gertrude Chandler

Series

Boxcar children volume 2

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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Summer vacation on an almost private island gives the Aldens a challenge. Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny used to live alone in a boxcar. Now they have a home with their grandfather and are spending the summer on their own private island. There is a mysterious stranger on the island with a secret--but that's not the only surprise in store for the Boxcar Children.

3) All the love on this island

Author

Davis, Natalie

Series

Disney princess

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

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In the spirit of Guess How Much I Love You, this book explores the love that runs deep between Moana and her grandmother. In this story Moana and her grandmother take turns comparing their love for one another to all the different things they can find on their island home of Motunui.

4) Samantha saves the day: a summer story

Author

Tripp, Valerie

Series

American girls collection. Samantha, 1904 volume 5
American girls collection. Samantha 1904 volume 5

Language

English

Description

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While spending the summer at Grandmary's home on Goose Lake, Samantha and the twins Agnes and Agatha decide to visit the island where Samantha's parents were drowned during a storm.

5) The darkdeep

Author

Condie, Allyson Braithwaite

Series

Darkdeep volume 1

Publisher

Bloomsbury Children's Books

Pub. Date

2018.

Language

English

Description

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Middle-schoolers Nico, Tyler, Ella, and Opal discover a hidden island in a forbidden cove that appears uninhabited, but something ancient has awakened knowing their wishes, dreams, and darkest secrets.--

6) Girls don't fly

Author

Chandler, Kristen

Publisher

Viking

Pub. Date

2011

Language

English

Description

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Myra, a high school senior, will do almost anything to win a contest and earn money for a study trip to the Galapagos Islands, which would mean getting away from her demanding family life in Utah and ex-boyfriend Erik, but Erik is set on winning the same contest.