House of the Scorpion
Nancy Farmer In a future where humans despise clones, Matt enjoys special status as the young clone of El Patrón, the 142-year-old leader of a corrupt drug empire nestled between Mexico and the United...
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Priscilla Cummings Brady loves life on the Chesapeake Bay with his friends J.T. and Digger. But developers and rich families are moving into the area, and while Brady befriends some of them, like the...
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Tuesdays at the Castle by Jessica Day George
Princess Celie’s favorite day of the week is Tuesday because that’s the day Castle Glower usually grows a new room or two, or a turret, or passage. Castle Glower’s favorite person is Princess Celie,...
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The Abernathy Boys
By L. J. JonesA fictionalized account of the adventurous 1909 journey of nine-year-old Bud Abernathy and his five-year-old brother, Temp, who traveled alone, mostly on horseback, from their home in...
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The Magician's Elephant
By Kate DiCamilloWhen ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he...
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The Maze of Bones
By Rick Riordan What would happen if you discovered that your family was one of the most powerful in human history? What if you were told that the source of the family's power was hidden around the...
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One Dog and His Boy
By Eva IbbotsonWhen lonely, ten-year-old Hal learns that his wealthy but neglectful parents only rented Fleck, the dog he always wanted, he and new friend Pippa take Fleck and four other dogs from the...
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Cannons at Dawn: The Second Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart
By Kristiana GregoryFrom the winter of 1779 until 1781, Abigail Stewart and her family follow the path of her father's Continental Army unit after their Valley Forge home burns down, enduring harsh...
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Cold Cereal
By Adam RexA boy who may be part changeling, twins involved in a bizarre secret experiment, and a clurichaun in a red tracksuit try to save the world from an evil cereal company whose ultimate goal is...
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The Death-Defying Pepper Roux
By Geraldine McCaughreanHaving been raised believing he will die before he reaches the age of fourteen, Pepper Roux runs away in an attempt to elude his fate, assumes other identities, and continues to...
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A Dog's Way Home
By Bobbie PyronAfter a car accident strands them at opposite ends of the Blue Ridge Parkway, eleven-year-old Abby and her beloved sheltie, Tam, overcome months filled with physical and emotional...
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Eruption
By Roland SmithChase and his friend Nicole Rossi attempt to rescue the Rossi Brothers' Circus--lions, tigers, elephants, and all--when a massive earthquake has struck, leading to the imminent eruption...
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The Gollywhopper Games
By Jody FeldmanGil Goodson competes against thousands of other children at extraordinary puzzles, stunts, and more in hopes of a fresh start for his family, which has been ostracized since his father...
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The Invention of Hugo Cabret: A Novel in words and pictures
By Brian SelznickWhen Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toy seller and his goddaughter, his undercover life and his...
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Savvy
By Ingrid LawThirteen is when a Beaumont's savvy hits--and with one brother who causes hurricanes and another who creates electricity, Mibs Beaumont is eager to see what she gets. But just before the...
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Whales on Stilts
By M.T. AndersonWhat sort of madman would unleash an army of stilt-walking, laser-beaming, thoroughly angry whales upon the world? Who cares! All that matters is that his dastardly plan be foiled....
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The Call
By Michael GrantA seemingly average twelve-year-old learns that he is destined to gather a team of similarly gifted children to try to save the world from a nameless evil, which is threatening to...
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Reckless
By Cornelia FunkeFor years, Jacob Reckless has been escaping to another world--a world behind the mirror, where witches haunt the forests and fairies and dwarfs roam. A world for treasure hunts and...
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Malice
By Chris Wooding"If you gather the right things and say the right words, you'll be taken to Malice, a world that exists inside a horrifying comic book. It's a world that few kids know about ... and...
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The Time Pirate: A Nick McIver Time Adventure
By Ted BellIt's 1940 and the Nazis are invading Nick's beloved home, the British Channel Islands. So Nick takes to the skies: He has discovered an old World War One fighter plane in an abandoned barn....
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