Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Cassidy Blake and her ghostly friend Jacob have survived the ghosts of Edinburgh and Paris, but New Orleans is a haunted city in a class by itself. That's the current stop for her parents' TV show, but there's something a lot scarier than ghosts here. The Emissary of Death is after Cassidy, and to defeat it she will need the help of the Society of the Black Cat, and she will also be faced with a terrible choice: lose one of her two friends--either...

Fourteen-year-old Camden Fisher arrives at a boarding school after a falling-out with her best friend, but Lethe Academy is a strange place, where students disappear suddenly, and as she searches for answers Camden begins to fear what she will find.

In an ultimate test of friendship, Olivia and Codman agree to their manic friend Bertucci's plan to to spend one last night with him--the night before their high school graduation--in a movie theater that has been closed permanently.

Twelve-year-old Suzy Swanson wades through her intense grief over the loss of her best friend by investigating the rare jellyfish she is convinced was responsible for her friend's death.

"Clark the Shark is super excited about the drawing contest. The winner gets Captain Suckermouth comics, signed by Captain Suckermouth! When Clark asks Joey Mackerel for help, his excitement gets the best of him and he doesn't listen to his friend. Joey is sad because his pet catfish died. Will Clark be able to truly listen and put his friend first? Clark the Shark has been embraced in the elementary school classroom and at home. Kids laugh at his...

Amy has just lost her best friend to breast cancer. Amy's husband (is not sorry the friend is out of the picture) is ready to start a family. But Amy is not. She's 29 and longing to escape her hometown of Phoenix. She's also hungry, because Amy's always hungry. She's on a "perpetual diet"! It's enough to make a person run away to, say, Paris. However, when Amy gets to France she is not only robbed, stalked, arrested, and almost kidnapped, she finds...

Seventeen-year-old Amelia has looked forward to her last summer before college working at the Meade Creamery, but when the owner of the local landmark passes away her nephew has big changes in mind.

From award-winning author Beth Vrabel comes a powerfully moving story about a magical friendship, coping with disability, and the pains of growing up and growing apart. Twelve-year-old Caleb is shorter, frailer, and more protected than most kids his age. That's because he has cystic fibrosis, a diagnosis meaning lungs that fill with mucus and a shortened lifespan. Caleb tries not to let his disorder define him, but it can be hard with an overprotective...

"When Violet, a high school senior, learns that an underground group has been carrying out murders on the order of their Charles Manson-like leader, she is pulled into a deadly hunt, where even her ability may not save her"--

"Zoe thought that being cut from her ballet program was the worst thing that could happen, but when her best friend Olivia is diagnosed with a life-threatening disease, Zoe quickly learns that not being able to dance is the least of her problems" --