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1) Dead ends
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When Dane, a bully, refuses to hit Billy D because he has Down Syndrome, Billy takes that as a sign of friendship and enlists Dane's help in solving riddles left in an atlas by his missing father, sending the pair on a risky adventure.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
As a slave in the Kipchak Khanate, Jinghua has lost everything: her home, her family, her freedom. She becomes an unlikely conspirator in the escape of Prince Khalaf and his father from their enemies across the vast Mongol Empire. Jinghua hatches a scheme to use the Kipchaks' exile to return home. Her feelings evolve into a hopeless love, as Khalaf seeks to restore his kingdom by forging a marriage alliance with Turandokht, the daughter of the Great...
4) Fear itself
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
As the new Keepers of the School, sixth-graders Ben and Jill must decipher a handful of clues written as maritime riddles to save their school from demolition by a greedy company.
Author
Series
Rowan of Rin volume 2
Language
English
Description
When an ancient evil threatens to devastate Rin, overcoming its people with a fatal sleeping sickness, young Rowan, with help from a tribe called the Travelers, must decipher a rhyming riddle in order to save the land and its inhabitants.
Author
Series
Lost Wonderland diaries volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"When Celia and Tyrus discover the four lost diaries of Charles Dodgson (a.k.a. Lewis Carroll), they are pulled into Wonderland and must solve riddles and puzzles to stop the Queen of Hearts from opening a door and taking over our world"--
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 9
Language
English
Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie deep into the sea, where they meet up with dolphins, sharks, and octopi as they search for the answer to an ancient riddle.
14) The last weave
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"With time running out as the twelve nights come to an end, Kay must puzzle out the riddles laid before her in this new land of Bithynia--and help restore the world to order--before her dad and sister are gone forever."--
18) Heads and tails
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Leveraging the natural and universal fascination that children have with animals, the book utilizes hints and recognition to build a sense of anticipation on each page, that is resolved on the following page when the identity of the animal is discovered.
Author
Series
Roman mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Flavia and her friends encounter the Roman admiral Pliny before making a journey to her uncle's farm near Mt. Vesuvius, where they try to solve a riddle, reunite a family, and get out of the path of a natural disaster.
Author
Series
Rowan of Rin volume 4
Language
English
Description
After a flying lizard carries off his little sister, Rowan of Rin and three companions are guided by a rhyming riddle on a journey to the land of their old enemy, the Zebak, in order to rescue her.
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