El Chupacabras

A Pack Divided: Survivors, The Gathering Darkness

The Lost Kingdom

Dragons in a Bag

Malcolm Under the Stars

Running Into Darkness (Passages to Adventure)

House of Secrets

I Was a Rat

The Twelve-Fingered Boy Trilogy

Fifteen-year-old fast-talking Shreve doesn’t mind juvie. He’s good at dealing contraband candy, and three meals a day is more than his drunk mother provided. In juvie, the rules never change and everyone is the same. In juvie, Shreve has life figured out.

So when he’s assigned a strangely silent and vulnerable new cellmate, Jack, Shreve takes the younger boy under his wing. But all Shreve’s plans and schemes unravel when he discovers Jack is different. For one thing, Jack has six fingers per hand. For another thing, he just might have superpowers.

Soon Jack has drawn the attention of the cellblock bullies as well as the mysterious and chilling Mr. Quincrux—who claims to be from the Department of Health and Human Services. But when Shreve feels Quincrux invade his mind and shuffle through his darkest memories, he knows Quincrux’s interest in Jack is far more sinister. Mr. Quincrux means to take Jack away. For what purposes, no one knows.

But Shreve has another plan: escape.

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El Chupacabras

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A Pack Divided: Survivors, The Gathering Darkness

Erin Hunter, 2015

The Lost Kingdom

Matthew J. Kirby, 2013

Dragons in a Bag

Zetta Elliott, 2018

Malcolm Under the Stars

Brian Lies, W.H. Beck, 2015

Running Into Darkness (Passages to Adventure)

Anne E. Schraff, 2002

House of Secrets

Greg Call, Chris Columbus, Ned Vizzini, 2013

I Was a Rat

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