The Poe Estate by Polly Shulman

The Poe Estate by Polly Shulman  256 pages

Sukie's been lonely since the death of her big sister, Kitty - but Kitty's ghost is still with her. At first that was comforting, but now Kitty's terrifying anyone who gets too close. Things get even weirder when Sukie moves into her family's ancestral home, and an older, less familiar ghost challenges her to find a treasure. Her classmate, Cole, is also experiencing apparitions. Fortunately an antique broom's at hand to fly Sukie and Cole to the New York Circulating Material Repository's spooky Poe Annex. As they search for clues and untangle ancient secrets, they discover their histories intertwine and are as full of stories of love, revenge, and pirate hijinks as some of the most famous fiction.

The Grimm Legacy by Polly Shulman

 The Grimm Legacy  by Polly Shulman  325 pages

High school student Elizabeth is feeling lonely: her new stepmother is taking up most of her father's time and she just transferred to a new school where she doesn't have any friends. When her history teacher suggests that she get a job with the New York Circulating Material Repository, she looks forward to the new experience. The Repository is a lending library of objects - some ordinary and some possessing secret powers. Fascinated by the Grimm Collection and its magical menagerie of items taken straight out of Grimm's fairy tales, Elizabeth and her friends at the repository are entangled in a web of mystery as items and people begin to disappear! It's up to Elizabeth and her friends to solve the mystery and return the powerful artifacts to the collection.

The Wells Bequest-Polly Shulman

The Wells Bequest by Polly Shulman 260 pages

In this companion to The Grimm Legacy two teenagers use H.G. Wells famous time machine to race through time and stop a dangerous enemy.  The book starts with Leo meeting a tiny future him and unknown girl in his bedroom.  He sees her for the second time in a library that circulates many items but not very many books.  He gets a job there and gains an enemy which starts their quest to go back in time.