North of Nowhere
By Liz Kessler
229 pages

When Mia's vacation gets replaced by a trip to her Gran's house, she is miserable.  Not only do her grandparents live in a tiny out-of-the way seaside village without cell-phone reception or friends, but she has never gotten on well with her Gran.  Mia is even unhappier when she learns the reason for the emergency visit: Grandad has disappeared.  Escaping her grandmother's grief and her mother's anxiety by taking long walks on the beach with the dog, Mia makes some mysterious discoveries and soon she is keeping secrets, meeting strangers and having adventures of her own.

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another fast-reading mystery!

Grade 5