Janelle Diller

• Jun-1996
• / Mystery
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Colorado 1896. Keziah Fursman hurries home alone after school. Hairless Henry Stokes, an oddball miner follows her and warns her that her father had better stop taking his gold. Her family does not understand the message. Some months later, the famil...

• Dec-2013
• / Mystery
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Welcome to Austria! Nine-year-old Brooke Mason has lived all her life on a ranch in the Colorado Rockies. Now she's headed to Austria with her mom. Brooke can't wait! They even get to stay in Schloss Mueller, an ancient Austrian castle. Even better? ...

• Mar-2014
• / Mystery
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Welcome to Austria! It’s raining so Brooke and Eva have nothing to do but play hide and seek in the castle’s attic. It’s just an ordinary game on an ordinary rainy afternoon. But then Brooke stumbles into a room everyone has forgotten for decad...

• Jun-2014
• / Mystery
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Welcome to Mexico! Izzy’s family sails into a quiet lagoon in Mexico and drops their anchor. Izzy can’t wait to explore the pretty little village, eat yummy tacos, and practice her Spanish. When she meets nine-year-old Patti, Izzy’s thrilled. N...

• Dec-2014
• / Mystery
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Welcome to Mexico! It's market day in Barra de Navidad. Izzy and Patti discover a beautiful glass dolphin that Izzy wants more than anything. Unfortun...

• Dec-2014
• / Political Thriller
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2016 Colorado Humanities for the Book Finalist  2016 Book Pipeline Competition Semifinalist. "[Ms. Diller created] a taut, well-paced narrative that not only meets the expectations of the genre, but comes across as stylistically sound."  20...

• Nov-2015
• / Mystery
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Welcome to Austria!  What could be more perfect than Christmas in Kitzbuhel? Brooke’s family arrives just in time for some great Austrian skiing during the day and the magical Christmas market in the evening. And it would be perfect except for...

• Oct-2016
• / Christian
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It’s the Depression and it’s rural Kansas. For good measure, nature decides to throw in a Dust Bowl. It’s not the life Cat Peters would have chosen, but the young Mennonite girl doesn’t have much say in it.Driven to the edge of bankruptcy by ...

• Apr-2017
• / Mystery
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Welcome to Australia! It’s hot. It’s windy. It’s dusty. It’s the Australian outback. Wendy Lee arrives from California. She’s lucky to meet Chloe Taylor, who invites Wendy to their sheep station. It sounds like fun except that someone is st...

• May-2018
• / Historical
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The world unravels. The U.S. enters the war, and families fall apart. Ben Peters disappears behind enemy lines, which sweeps the family into deep despair. Susan Schmidt is released from her sentence and spirals out of control as she tries to cli...

• Dec-2018
• / General Fiction
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Welcome to Australia!
Wendy, Chloe, and Jacko must unravel four spooky clues: an ancient letter, a rusty key, a missing box, and a curse. The kids race against time to solve the mystery before the clock strikes midnight.

2017 Literary Class...