Shadow Thieves
Anne Ursu After her cousin Zee arrives from England, thirteen-year-old Charlotte and he must set out to save humankind from denizens of the underworld, Nightmares, Death, Pain, and a really nasty guy...
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By by Ally CarterKat Bishop is your average fifteen-year-old…except she is also an extraordinary thief. Brought up in a family of con artists, she tries to leave that life behind and start anew. But...
View ArticleHalf World
By Hiromi Goto, Jillian TamakiWhen her mother is kidnapped, Melanie, the human daughter of parents from the Half World, a limbo between Earth and the afterlife, is forced to follow her missing mother...
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By anthony horowitzAfter the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.Reserve...
View ArticleThe Hunchback Assignments
By Arthur SladeIn Victorian London, fourteen-year-old Modo, a shape-changing hunchback, becomes a secret agent for the Permanent Association, which strives to protect the world from the evil...
View ArticleThe Lightning Thief
By Rick RiordanTwelve-year-old Percy Jackson learns he is a demigod, the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea. His mother sends him to a summer camp for demigods where he and his new...
View ArticleLockdown:Escape from Furnace
"Beneath heaven is hell. Beneath hell is furnace." That is the description by 14-year-old Alex of Furnace, a prison one mile below the surface of the earth. When you are sentenced to Furnace you are...
View ArticleThe King of Ithaka by Tracy Barrett
Telemachos, the son of Odysseus, must go in search of his father whom he has never met. In the book The King of Ithaka by Tracy Barrett, we join Telemachos on his journey. He was just a baby when his...
View ArticleThe Hunt for Red October
By Tom ClancyA deadly game of hide-and-seek played out in 18 days over 4000 miles of ocean. Red October is the Soviet Navy's newest ballistic missile submarine. When the whole crew decides to defect,...
View ArticleRicky Ricotta's Mighty Robot
By By Dav PilkyRicky Ricotta, a small mouse, saves a giant robot from his evil creator, Dr. Stinky, and in turn, the robot protects Ricky from the bullies at school and it saves the city from Dr....
View ArticleFramed by Gordon Korman
You met Griffin Bing and his friends in Swindle and followed their escapades in Zoobreak. Now Gordon Korman has brought the gang back in his latest inread more
View ArticleFor Freedom: The Story of a French Spy
Kimberly Bradley A teenager transforms from a schoolgirl to a spy in this true story of heroism in wartime. Suzanne David's everyday life is suddenly shattered in 1940 when a bomb drops on the main...
View ArticleHero
By by Mike LupicaFourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the President's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Zach must...
View ArticleIncarceron
Catherine Fisher Incarceron is a prison so vast that it contains not only cells, but also metal forests, dilapidated cities, and vast wilderness. Finn, a seventeen-year-old prisoner, has no memory of...
View ArticleTwo Princesses of Bamarre
Gail Carson Levine With her adventurous sister, Meryl, suffering from the the Grey death meek and timid Princess Addie sets out to find a cure. 9780060293154 Middle School Children's Fantasy
View ArticleAlabama Moon by Watt Key
Alabama Moon, by Watt Key, is a great adventure tale. The story starts with Moon on his own--completely on his own. His dad, who has just died, was a recluse who hid in the woods and had very little...
View ArticleThis Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein by Kenneth Oppel
Kenneth Oppel introduces us to young Victor Frankenstein in his new book, This Dark Endeavor: The Apprenticeship of Victor Frankenstein. Victor is sixteen years old and very curious about alchemy. He...
View ArticleFound (The Missing: Book 1) by Margaret Peterson Haddix
In Margaret Peterson Haddix’s Found, Jonah Skidmore feels like an ordinary thirteen-year-old boy. His family consists of a slightly annoying but smart younger sister named Katherine and a mom and dad...
View ArticleFreakling by Lana Krumwiede
In Taemon's world, the community of Deliverance, all activity and actions take place through the use of telekenesis.For example, no hands are needed when eating. One simply lifts the food into one's...
View ArticleHurrah for Astrid Lindgren!
pippi.jpgWhen Astrid Lindgren was a little girl, a friend read her stories about the giant, Bam-Bam, and the fairy, Viribunda. Astrid Lindgren loved these stories. Some part of the author never grew up...
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