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Adventure Stories
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Abrahams, Peter Robbie Forester and the Outlaws of Sherwood St. After getting a strange charm bracelet from a homeless woman, thirteen-year-old Robyn Forester and new friends join together to fight injustice in their Brooklyn, New York, neighborhood. Children's Fiction Book |
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Aguiar, Nadia The Lost Island of Tamarind When thirteen-year-old Maya's marine biologist parents are washed overboard in a storm, Maya, her younger brother Simon, and their baby sister Penny land their sailboat on a mysterious, uncharted island filled with danger. Teen Fiction Book |
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Bell, Hilari The Prophecy Prince Perryn is teased for loving books more than swords. But Perryn's books are his best weapons to stop the dragon that is destroying his kingdom–and his one hope of earning his father's respect. When he discovers a prophecy on how to kill the dragon, Perryn sets out to find the three things needed to make it come true -- a unicorn, a true bard, and a special sword. Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Birdseye, Tom Storm Mountain Thirteen-year-old Ty decides to climb Storm mountain, where his father and uncle, both famous mountain climbers, were killed on an expedition two years ago. Cat, his cousin, feels compelled to follow him, and they are both trapped in a storm on the mountain. Children's Fiction Book |
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Carroll, Michael Owen The Awakening It has been ten years since the great battle that wiped out all the superhumans. Whether they all died or simply lost their powers, only one thing is certain: they are gone. Or are they? Danny and Colin have recently begun changing. How can they explain Danny’s newfound ability to move at the speed of light, or Colin’s surprising strength? They can’t, but their parents—the lost generation of superhumans—can. They have been watching and waiting for these changes. So have others - and they will do anything to stop them. Children's Fiction Book |
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Casanova, Mary The Klipfish Code After the Germans bomb Norway in 1940, Merit and her little brother Lars are sent to Godoy Island to live with her aunt and grandfather. She quickly realizes that her grandfather is a coward -- he refuses to stand up to the Nazis, as they invade their island and take over their lives in every way. When Merit discovers something in the forest, she must decide whether to complete a dangerous mission for the resistance. Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Cody, Matthew The Dead Gentleman Eleven-year-old orphan Tommy Learner's world in 1900 New York City collides with that of twelve-year-old, modern-day Jezebel Lemon in the basement of her apartment building. There they must work together to use the portals between worlds to thwart the Dead Gentleman, a legendary villain whose last unconquered world is the planet Earth. Children's Fiction Book |
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Conly, Jane Leslie Murder Afloat In the 1870s, Benjamin Franklin Orville, a boy from a wealthy Baltimore family, is kidnapped and forced to work on an oyster dredger. As Benjamin struggles to survive, he comes to realize that the ship's captain has no qualms about murdering any crewman who fails to meet his demands. Children's Fiction Book |
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Couloumbis, Audrey War Games : a Novel Based On a True Story 1941. Greece. For 12-year-old Petros, World War II feels far away. When the Germans invade Greece, however, the war is suddenly impossibly close. Overnight, neighbors become enemies. People begin to keep secrets -- Petros's family most of all. Inspired by their Resistance fighter cousin, Petros and his older brother Zola must decide if they will use their boys' games to fight the Nazis. Children's Fiction Book |
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Eames, Brian The Dagger Quick Christopher "Kitto" Wheale, a clubfooted boy in seventeenth-century England, feels he is doomed to follow in the boring footsteps of his father as a barrel maker. When Captain William Quick arrives and claims to be his uncle, Kitto is pulled into a dangerous seafaring adventure with involving kidnapping, treasure and murder. Children's Fiction Book |
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Flanagan, John (John Anthony) The Outcasts Skandian outcasts Hal, Stig, and others do battle at sea against the Wolves and the Sharks, in the ultimate race across icy waters where not everyone thinks of the competition as play. Children's Fiction Book |
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Garretson, Dee Wildfire Run A relaxing retreat to Camp David turns deadly after a faraway earthquake sets off a chain of disastrous events. The president's twelve-year-old son, Luke, and his friends Theo and Callie are trapped within the compound, as wildfires rage around them. Children's Fiction Book |
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Gibbs, Stuart The Last Musketeer Greg Rich has just been catapulted back through time. One moment, his parents were selling their family heirlooms to Michel Dinicouer, a curator at the Louvre in Paris. The next thing Greg knows, he's in France in 1615. His parents have come along, too, only they've been captured by the King's Guard and thrown into La Mort, the world's most dangerous prison. Now, Greg has to rescue them... but how? Greg soon discovers that the three great warriors from Alexander Dumas's classic novel "The Three Musketeers" actually exist -- only they're teenagers and haven't met yet. Can Greg unite them and convince them to help him? Children's Fiction Book |
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Gutman, Dan Never Say Genius While on a cross-country trip with their parents, twins Coke and Pepsi battle a new kid genius villain. As they stop in places such as Hershey Park, Mustard Museum and the first McDonald's restaurant, it will take all of their decoding skills to solve the mysterious ciphers to defeat their new foe. Children's Fiction Book |
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Haven, Paul The Seven Keys of Balabad Unlike his news-reporter father and art-historian mother who find living in the ancient, war-torn country of Balabad endlessly interesting, twelve-year-old Oliver is homesick for New York City and feels very much out of his element. Then Balabad's sacred carpet is stolen, the culture minister disappears, and Oliver's friend Zee overhears his father talking about a secret brotherhood. When their friend Mr. Haji disappears, Oliver and Zee get caught up in a centuries-old mystery involving stolen artifacts and buried treasure. Children's Fiction Book |
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Hobbs, Will Take Me to the River When North Carolina fourteen-year-old Dylan Sands joins his fifteen-year-old cousin Rio in running the Rio Grande River, scorpions and dangerous waters are the least of his worries. They soon find themselves faced a hurricane named Dolly and a ruthless kidnapper who wants a ride down the Rio Grande. Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Hopkinson, Deborah Into the Firestorm : a Novel of San Francisco 1906 Days after arriving in San Francisco from Texas, eleven-year-old orphan Nicholas Dray tries to help his new neighbors survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and the fires that follow. Children's Fiction Book |
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Ibbotson, Eva The Ogre of Oglefort When the Hag of Dribble, an orphan boy, and a troll called Ulf are sent to rescue a princess from an ogre, it turns out to be far from the routine magical mission they expect. Children's Fiction Book |
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Jacobson, Jennifer Small as an Elephant Abandoned by his mother in an Acadia National Park campground, Jack tries to make his way back to Boston before anyone figures out what is going on, with only a small toy elephant for company. Children's Fiction Book Other formats available |
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Johnson-Shelton, Nils The Invisible Tower Twelve-year-old Artie Kingfisher learns that he is actually King Arthur brought back to life in the twenty-first century--and that the fate of the universe rests in his hands. Children's Fiction Book |
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