Ranger's Apprentice: The Lost Stories
John Flanagan
FIC RAN

In 1896, an archaeological dig unearths an ancient trunk containing manuscripts that confirm the existence of Araluen Rangers Will and Halt and tell of their first meeting and some of their previously unknown exploits. (NoveList)



Vanishing Acts
Phillip Margolin
Ami Margolin Rome
FIC MAR

In Portland, Oregon, between soccer games and beginning seventh grade, twelve-year-old Madison Kincaid and new classmate Jake try to track down her missing best friend, while also helping her attorney father solve a missing-persons case. (NoveList)

Written in Bone: Buried Lives of Jamestown and Colonial Maryland
Sally M. Walker

Reports on the work of forensic scientists who are excavating grave sites in James Fort, in Jamestown, Virginia, to understand who lived in the Chesapeake Bay area in the 1600s and 1700s; and uncovers the lives of a teenage boy, a ship's captain, a colonial officer, an African slave girl, and others. (TitleWave)