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Eon: Dragoneye Reborn
by Alison Goodman
A young apprentice learns to wield the power of dragons and save the kingdom from destruction.
Also Known As: Two Pearls of Wisdom, Eon: Rise of the Dragoneye, and Eon (All the same book just published with different publishers) Swordplay, dragon magic–and a hero with a desperate secret ... (Goodreads)
Scat
by Carl Hiaasen
A mystery-adventure story set in the Florida Everglades, where a group of middle school students try to solve a crime and save endangered species.
Bestselling author and columnist Carl Hiaasen returns with another hysterical mystery for kids set in Florida's Everglades. Bunny Starch, the most feared biology teacher ever, is missing. She ... (Goodreads)
The Emerald Atlas
by John Stephens
Three siblings embark on a quest to discover their family history and save their kingdom.
Kate, Emma, and Michael are siblings shifted from one orphanage to another over their lifetimes. Kate, the eldest, remembers that, ten years ago on Christmas Eve, her mother had made her promise to ... (Wikipedia)
Ungifted
by Gordon Korman
A troublemaker accidentally gets sent to a school for gifted students and ends up changing the lives of everyone around him.
Donovan Curtis thinks he's ungifted. He's the ultimate prankster and trouble-maker. But one day, he goes too far in causing a commotion. He strikes a statue of Atlas with a stick, causing the globe ... (Wikipedia)
Lucky You
by Carl Hiaasen
A comedic adventure of a lottery winner who finds himself in a dangerous quest for justice.
Newspaper reporter Tom Krome is sent to the small Florida town of Grange to interview JoLayne Lucks, an African-American veterinary assistant who holds one of two winning tickets to the state lottery ... (Wikipedia)
The Serpent's Shadow
by Rick Riordan
A thrilling adventure of gods and monsters, as the main characters fight to save the world.
This book begins six months after the events of the preceding novel, when Carter Kane and Sadie Kane travel to the 51st nome, Dallas, with their initiates and meet J.D. Grissom, the leader of the ... (Wikipedia)
Winter
by Marissa Meyer
A young girl's battle to save her kingdom from the icy grip of a powerful queen.
Due to Princess Winter's refusal to use the Lunar gift, the ability to manipulate what others see and do, she has Lunar sickness, a state of mental illness that causes occasional hallucinations. ... (Wikipedia)
Nation
by Terry Pratchett
A story of courage and determination, as an island nation rebuilds its culture and identity after a devastating tsunami.
Alone on a desert island — everything and everyone he knows and loves has been washed away in a storm — Mau is the last surviving member of his nation. He’s completely alone — or so he thinks until ... (Goodreads)
The Raven Boys
by Maggie Stiefvater
Four friends on a supernatural quest to find a magical Welsh king.
The Raven Cycle follows the story of Blue Sargent, Richard Gansey III, Adam Parrish, Ronan Lynch, and Noah Czerny as they attempt to find the sleeping Welsh King Owain Glendower who is buried on the ... (Wikipedia)
The Red Pyramid
by Rick Riordan
Young siblings embark on a quest to save the world from a long forgotten evil.
The novel opens with Carter and his father Julius Kane visiting Carter's sister Sadie, who has lived with her maternal grandparents in London since the death of their mother, Ruby Kane . Julius, a ... (Wikipedia)
The Ruins of Gorlan
by John Flanagan
A young orphan's rise to become a heroic knight, defending the kingdom against an evil sorcerer.
Morgarath, the exiled lord of the bleak, barren Mountains of Rain and Night has been waiting fifteen years in his dark realm, carefully planning his revenge against the Kingdom of Araluen. His former ... (Wikipedia)
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
by Dusti Bowling
A girl born without arms moves to a new town, makes friends, and solves a mystery. A heartwarming tale of perseverance and friendship.
Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is she was born without them. And when her parents take a job running ... (Goodreads)
Inheritance
by Christopher Paolini
Epic fantasy adventure of a young man uncovering his destiny and the power of his inheritance.
The Varden attack the Empire city of Belatona. In the battle, Saphira, Eragon's dragon, is nearly killed by a Dauthdaert, a spear from the Dragon Wars that can bypass magical wards and kill dragons. ... (Wikipedia)
Ship Breaker
by Paolo Bacigalupi
In a post-apocalyptic world, a young scavenger discovers a valuable and dangerous secret that could change his life forever.
Nailer, a small-framed teenage boy, is scavenging through an old rusty ship for copper wire. As he crawls through the darkness looking for scavenge to make quota, he dreams of traveling through the ... (Wikipedia)
Cress
by Marissa Meyer
A girl's fight to reclaim her identity and save her kingdom from a tyrannical queen.
The novel begins with an introduction to Crescent "Cress" Moon Darnel, a sixteen-year-old girl living in a satellite in space that has been her prison for most of her life. She is contacted by ... (Wikipedia)
Gregor and the Marks of Secret
by Suzanne Collins
Gregor and his sister delve deeper into the Underland to uncover a dangerous secret.
The novel opens with Gregor 's little sister Lizzie preparing to go to camp , while Gregor and Boots head down to the Underland. Ripred introduces Gregor to the now-teenaged Pearlpelt so Gregor can ... (Wikipedia)
The Son of Neptune
by Rick Riordan
A demigod embarks on a quest to save the Roman camp from the forces of the evil Triumvirate.
Nine months after Percy Jackson 's defense of Mount Olympus in, The Last Olympian, , Percy finds himself alone and on the run from monsters in northern California without his memories. With the ... (Wikipedia)
Scarlet
by Marissa Meyer
A re-imagining of the classic story of Little Red Riding Hood set in a futuristic world.
Scarlet Benoit is a young girl living on her grandmother's farm in Rieux, France. Her grandmother has gone missing for many weeks and Scarlet is sure that she has been kidnapped rather than left on ... (Wikipedia)
Howl’s Moving Castle
by Diana Wynne Jones
A young woman embarks on an adventure to break a curse and reclaim her identity in a magical world.
18-year-old Sophie Hatter is the eldest of three sisters living in Market Chipping, a town in the magical kingdom of Ingary, where fairytale tropes are accepted ways of life, including that the ... (Wikipedia)
Linger
by Maggie Stiefvater
Adventure of werewolves and the humans who love them, exploring the power of fate and love.
Shiver begins against the backdrop of winter, with the character of Grace Brisbane at age 11, who has been pulled from her backyard tyre swing by a pack of wolves. Saved from their attack by a ... (Wikipedia)
The Cricket in Times Square
by George Selden
A friendship between a mouse, a cricket, and a cat in New York City.
The story is about a cricket from Connecticut named Chester who gets caught on a train for New York. After stumbling on the subway, Chester ends up in Times Square. Mario Bellini, who helps his ... (Wikipedia)
The Recruit
by Robert Muchamore
A young adult is recruited into a secret intelligence agency, tasked with protecting the nation.
The Recruit begins with eleven-year-old James Choke in his combined science class in his first term of secondary school, where he accidentally slashes classmate Samantha Jennings' face with a nail on ... (Wikipedia)
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
by Judi Barrett
A whimsical story of a town where food literally falls from the sky.
A grandfather reads a bedtime story, chronicling the lives of the citizens of an imaginary town called Chewandswallow, which is characterized by food raining from the sky. The sky provided the ... (Wikipedia)
The Thirteenth Tale
by Diane Setterfield
A mysterious storyteller reveals a dark family secret, transforming the lives of those around her.
Vida Winter, a famous novelist in England, has evaded journalists' questions about her past, refusing to answer their inquiries and spinning elaborate tales that they later discover to be false. Her ... (Wikipedia)
Neverwhere
by Neil Gaiman
A mysterious journey through a hidden realm of London, filled with danger and unexpected allies.
Neverwhere is the story of Richard Mayhew and his trials and tribulations in London. At the start of the story, he is a young businessman, recently moved from Scotland and with a normal life ahead. ... (Wikipedia)
Okay for Now
by Gary D. Schmidt
A young boy struggles to find his place in a new town, but with the help of a kind librarian and John James Audubon's illustrations, he discovers his own talents and strengths.
Douglas "Doug" Swieteck is a fourteen-year-old boy living somewhere on Long Island in 1968 during the Vietnam War . After Doug's dad is fired for mouthing off to his boss, the Swietecks move to the ... (Wikipedia)
Henry and Ribsy
by Beverly Cleary
A boy and his dog's humorous adventures, learning the importance of friendship and loyalty.
Like most of the Henry Huggins books, the incidents in this book follow an ongoing plot line. In this case, Henry wants to go on a salmon-fishing trip with his father. However, Ribsy has been causing ... (Wikipedia)
The One and Only Ivan
by Katherine Applegate
A gorilla named Ivan, who lives in a mall, finds hope and freedom through his art and the help of his friends.
The story is placed at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall by the Video Arcade. Ivan, the gorilla, has lived in captivity at the Big Top Mall for 9,855 days by his own tally. , He lives in his domain, and is ... (Wikipedia)
Streams of Silver
by R.A. Salvatore
Drizzt and his companions embark on a perilous journey to find the lost treasure of Mithril Hall.
Following the events of The Crystal Shard , Bruenor leads his friends Drizzt Do'Urden, the barbarian Wulfgar, and a surprisingly enthusiastic Regis, on a quest to reclaim Mithril Hall, the ancient ... (Wikipedia)
Exile
by R.A. Salvatore
Epic fantasy adventure of a lone warrior determined to restore justice and peace.
Drizzt spent some years in the Underdark, during which he was enslaved by mind flayers and then had to fight Zaknafein again, who had been made undead by Malice, thanks to Lolth's "greatest gift" ... (Wikipedia)
