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1) Wait for me
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1945, Lorna risks everything for love when she begins to fall for Paul, the German POW sent to work on her father's farm.
2) Nessie quest
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Twelve-year-old Ru reluctantly joins her parents in Scotland for the summer, where she and new friends Dax and Hammy Beans search for the Loch Ness Monster.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Ever since her near-fatal drowning, Cassidy has been able to pull back the "Veil" that separates the living from the dead and see ghosts, not that she wants to, and she was really looking forward to a ghost-free summer at the beach; however her parents are going to start filming a TV series about the world's most haunted places, starting with Edinburgh with its graveyards, castles, and restless phantoms--and Cass and her personal ghost companion,...
5) Wild wings
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Callum becomes friends with Iona, a practically feral classmate who has discovered an osprey, thought to be gone from Scotland, on Callum's family farm, and they eventually share the secret with others, including Jeneba who encounters the same bird at her home in Gambia.
Author
Series
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this companion volume to "The Boggart", the invisible and mischievous spirit living in the Scottish Castle Keep sets out to help save Nessie the Loch Ness Monster, one of its few remaining cousins.
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When she discovers that her small Scottish town used to burn witches simply because they were different, a neurodivergent girl who sees and hears things others cannot refuses to let them be forgotten.
9) The boggart
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
After visiting the castle in Scotland which her family has inherited and returning home to Canada, twelve-year-old Emily finds that she has accidentally brought back with her a boggart, an invisible and mischievous spirit with a fondness for practical jokes.
10) Fire storm
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Children's Books
Language
English
Description
It's up to young Sherlock Holmes to discover why his friend has vanished, what power the sinister housekeeper Mrs. Egaltine holds over his aunt and uncle, and what dark secret is hidden under the streets of Edinburgh.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Alice Mistlethwaite persuades her boarding school friends, Jesse and Fergus, to set out on an off-the-grid adventure in which they face storms, illness, injury, and international jewel thieves.
13) Time sight
Author
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano books, Henry Holt and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
After a family emergency sends twelve-year-old Will and five-year-old Jamie to Scotland, a "magic eye" book takes them and their cousin Nan on a journey through their family's violent history.
Author
Series
Mad Wolf's daughter volume 2
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In 1210 Scotland, twelve-year-old Drest is on the run with a price on her head after rescuing her brothers and father, the Mad Wolf of the North, from captivity.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In 1940, during the Blitz, Katherine, Robbie and Amelie Bateson are sent north to a private school in Rookskill Castle in Scotland, a brooding place, haunted by dark magic from the past--but when some of their classmates disappear Katherine has to find out if the cause is hidden in the past or very much in the present.
Author
Series
Mad Wolf's daughter volume 1
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1210 Scotland, when invading knights capture 12-year-old Drest's father, the Mad Wolf of the North, and her beloved brothers who make up his fearsome war-band, she sets off to rescue them from the castle prison, taking along a wounded knight as her captive to trade for her family's freedom. -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Language
English
Description
"Learning is an adventure in Ms. Frogbottom's class, because she's got a magic map; one that takes her students all over the world to do battle with mythical monsters no one believes are real. All Ms. Frogbottom has to do is take out the map, tap a country and...off they go to a place somewhere far, far away. When Ms. Frogbottom's crew lands in Scotland, they come nose to nose with the legendary Loch Ness Monster!"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Everyone in this quiet lakeside community knows that Alva's father killed her mother, all those years ago. There wasn't enough proof to arrest him, though, and with no other family, Alva's been forced to live with her mother's murderer, doing her best to survive until she can earn enough money to run away. One of her chores is to monitor water levels in the loch--a task her father takes very seriously. It's a cold, lonely task, and a few times, Alva...
19) The haunting
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Description
Deep in the wilds of Scotland, land of ancient warrior kings and myths, there is a deep secret. The secret is a colony of beavers, a species that is craved for their fur pelts, but vilified for what humans consider to be the destruction of their land. No beaver has been spotted in Scotland or England for over five hundred years, until the young beaver, Dunwattle, is sighted! Dunwattle's flight is driven by the presence of a ghostly figure, a figure...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After a mysterious young wood carver with a horrifying secret arrives in her small Scottish town, Maddie gains his trust--and his heart--and seeks a way to save both him and her townspeople from an ancient evil.
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