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Description
Just after twelve-year-old Emily and her family move to San Francisco, she teams up with new friend James to follow clues in an odd book they find, hoping to figure out its secrets before the men who attacked Emily's hero, publisher Garrison Griswold, solve the mystery or come after the friends.
Local notes
Series: Book Scavenger 1
Publication
New York: Square Fish
Pages
354
Awards
Nebraska Golden Sower Award (Nominee — 2018)
Young Hoosier Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2018)
Massachusetts Children's Book Award (Nominee — 2017)
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award (Nominee — 2018)
Triple Crown Awards (Nominee — 2017)
Georgia Children's Book Award (Finalist — Grades 4-8 — 2017)
Utah Beehive Book Award (Nominee — Children's Fiction — 2018)
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award (Nominee — Grades 6-8 — 2017)
Sasquatch Book Award (Nominee — 2018)
Nutmeg Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2018)
Mark Twain Readers Award (Nominee — 2018)
NCSLMA Battle of the Books (Middle School — 2018)
Black-Eyed Susan Book Award (Nominee — 2017)
Volunteer State Book Award (Nominee — Intermediate — 2018)
Maud Hart Lovelace Award (Nominee — 2019)
Rhode Island Middle School Book Award (Nominee — 2018)
Kansas NEA Reading Circle Recommended Book (Junior — 2016)
Los Angeles Public Library Best of the Year (Teen — 2015)
Tome Society It List (2017)
Great Texas Mosquito List (2017)
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best: Kids (Fiction for Older Readers — 2015)