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1) Wait for me
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
A farmer's daughter pursues a forbidden relationship with a German POW assigned to farmhand labor in 1945 Scotland, where their romance puts her home and his freedom at risk.
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Twelve-year-old Lizzie Chu has lived with her Wai Gong (grandfather) in Glasgow since her parents died when she was a baby. But Wai Gong has been acting different lately. He spends a lot of time talking to his Guan Yin statue--the Chinese goddess of compassion, kindness, and mercy--at his altar and seems to be becoming more forgetful. Even the shared passion he and Lizzie have for their favorite show, Strictly Come Dancing, seems to be trailing off....
Author
Series
Royals volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 22 cm
Description
An American girl goes to an exclusive Scottish boarding school where she becomes the roommate, best friend, and girlfriend of a royal princess.
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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,...
8) Wee Gillis
Author
Publisher
New York Review Children's Collection
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 26 cm.
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Description
Wee Gillis can not decide whether he wants to be a Highlander and stalk stags, like his father, or a Lowlander like his mother, and raise long-haired cows.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
431 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Told in multiple voices, fifteen-year-old Jamaican Louisa Adair uncovers an Enigma machine in the small Scottish village where she cares for an elderly German woman, and helps solve a puzzle that could turn the tide of World War II.
10) The water horse
Author
Publisher
Yearling Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
118 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
Description
In 1930, on the coast of Scotland, eight-year-old Kirstie finds a large egg which hatches into an unusual sea creature, and as he grows her family must decide what to do with him.
11) Wild wings
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
287 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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.
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Pub. Date
2022
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In the wilds of Scotland, a secret colony of beavers have been hiding in plain sight, safe from humans who crave their fur, until Dunwattle, a young beaver kit, exposes their hidden colony and faces a fate worse than death.
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...
Author
Series
Mad Wolf's daughter volume 2
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
275 pages : illustration ; 22 cm.
Description
After Drest manages to free her father, Sir Oswyn captures Faintree Castle and convinces the court that Drest has slain Lord Faintree, with a substantial reward for her capture, but Drest, knowing that Lord Faintree is alive, must find a way to restore him to his throne.
Author
Series
Mad Wolf's daughter volume 1
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
280 pages : map ; 22 cm
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"--
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"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!"--
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Series
Publisher
Aladdin Quix
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Miss Mallard is travelling to Scotland?s Duckinbill Castle for a family reunion. During the reading of a will, family members vanish one by one. Is the ghost of Count Kisscula behind the disappearances?
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 10
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
159 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 20 cm.
Description
"When the Thea Sisters' friend Bridget returns to Scotland for a family emergency, the five mice offer to help. And when Bridget goes missing, they have to rush to Scotland to find her! Along the way, the Thea Sisters encounter Celtic legends, cryptic messages, and hidden treasures on a trip that's full of surprises!"
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"Twelve-year-old Maisie is an artist. When she's in front of her sketchbook or apprenticing at Glenna's Portraits, the family-run art shop her grandmother started, the world makes sense. She doesn't think about Calum, her brother who mysteriously left home and cut ties with her family six years ago, or her parents' insistence that she 'broaden her horizons' and try something new--something that isn't art. But when Glenna's Portraits falls on hard...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
388 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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.
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On summer vacation in Scotland, the Thea sisters are intrigued by a tapestry that is really a treasure map supposedly leading to a hidden alabaster garden where an ancient treasure is buried, and the story of Aurora Beatrix Lane, an adventurous explorer mouse--and when the tapestry is stolen they set out to find the treasure using the explorer's diary as a guide.
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