Dread nation by Ireland, Justina 

Paperback(HarperCollins, 2019)

BTSB #: 479917 Available

Dewey: FAges: 14-18   
AR: 6 UG RC: 5.6 9-12 Lexile: 870

Genres: Scary/Horror Stories Adventure Fiction

Subjects: Conspiracies - Fiction Zombies - Fiction African Americans - Fiction Horror fiction Baltimore (MD.) - Fiction

Summary: Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. In this new America, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Education Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. But there are also opportunities-and Jane is studying to become an Attendant, trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the wealthy.

Pet and the pendulum [Misadventures of Edgar & Allan Poe Volume: Book 3]by McAlpine, Gordon 

BTSB Prebound(Viking, 2015)

BTSB #: 617208 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.8 MG Lexile: 830

Genres: Family Life

Subjects: Poe, Edgar Allan,|d1809-1849 - Fiction Twins - Fiction Brothers - Fiction Revenge - Fiction Baltimore (Md.) - Fiction

Summary: Back in Baltimore, twelve-year-old identical twins Edgar and Allan think they have encountered the ghost of their great-great-great-great granduncle, Edgar Allan Poe, asking them to solve his murder--but really it is their arch-nemesis, Professor Perry, looking for revenge.

Renegade reporters by Weissman, Elissa Brent 

BTSB Prebound(Dial Books for Young Readers, 2021)

BTSB #: 931576 Available

Dewey: FAges: 8-12   


Genres: Humorous Fiction Family Life

Subjects: Journalism - Fiction Investigative reporting - Fiction Reporters and reporting - Fiction Educational technology - Fiction School stories Friendship - Fiction Baltimore (Md.) - Fiction

Summary: Sixth-graders Ashley and her best friend Maya were banished from the live "News at Nine" broadcast at John Dos Passos Elementary in Baltimore after an embarrassing incident in the previous year; at loose ends the pair, together with their classmate Brielle, decide to become investigative reporters with their own online broadcast: "The Underground News"--and soon they stumble upon a major story about an educational software company that is illegally tracking and selling student data.