Showing posts with label Missing persons - Fiction. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Missing persons - Fiction. Show all posts

Wednesday, 3 August 2016

Beetle Boy

First edition
Summary: Darkus is miserable. His dad has disappeared, and now he is living next door to the most disgusting neighbours ever. A giant beetle called Baxter comes to his rescue. But can the two solve the mystery of his dad's disappearance, especially when links emerge to cruel Lucretia Cutter and her penchant for beetle jewellery? A coffee-mug mountain, home to a million insects, could provide the answer - if Darkus and Baxter are brave enough to find it

Wednesday, 27 July 2016

Thea Stilton and the ghost of the shipwreck

Summary: While five mice at Mouseford Academy are looking for their missing biology professor they dive to a haunted shipwreck off Whale Island to find a rare diamond that was lost when the ship sank

Thursday, 27 August 2015

Penelope Crumb follows her nose

Summary: Penelope Crumb has a brother so awful he must be an alien, a mum who draws body parts and a missing grandpa, nobody in the family has seen him since Penelope's father died. So Penelope and her friend Lizzie Maple set off across town to find Grandpa Felix, skipping school, taking trains and calling every F. Crumb in the phonebook. But what is Grandpa Felix doesn't want to be found

Monday, 10 August 2015

Thea Stilton and the missing myth

Reading level: Grade 4
Summary: While on vacation in Greece, the Thea Sisters make friends with a company of actors who are rehearsing for a play that's about to open. When an actress sprains her ankle, Colette ends up standing in for her. But right before the performance, the lead actor goes missing. Can the mouselets find him in time for the show to go on

Friday, 23 May 2014

The magician's elephant


Summary: When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchenne encounters a fortune-teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her

Monday, 23 July 2012

Thea Stilton and the Secret City

Summary: The Thea Sisters travel to the Andes Mountains in Peru to find a missing friend. Along the way, they stumble upon clues leading them to a hidden city. Can the Thea Sisters find their friend, and the treasure of the Secret City